What would shape India? I guess it would be set of aspirations.
Reading an article about the scene on emerging entrepreneurship in India got me wondering about the budding entrepreneurs. And on second thought, thought may be if individuals can learn something from it.
It was their aspirations that I found curious and funny. Funny because size mattered so much!
The aspirations were simple and numerical, and therefore clear cut. As in, a real estate developer wanted to be among the top 3 in the industry by 2013.
Even more clearer was that of an infrastructure company that wanted to be in the $10 billion dollar group.
A multiplex entrepreneur wanted to have a multiplex in every district of the country. I found this particularly interesting!
But, I am sure the one that would come closest to our heart would be an aspiration of an old businessman who wanted a one lakh rupee car!
And there would be many more aspirations tuned to these aspirations. (How many can be among the top three?)
And yes, we may want all of this. Homes, schools, roads, hospitals, multiplexes, cars etc.
But it also amazes me how these aspirations would shape our lives. And probably when we look into the mirror, we would see these aspirations.
4.7.09
4.1.09
My visit to the mumbai zoo
I recently visited the Mumbai zoo – also called Jijamata Udyan, wanting to see the different corners of the city. The last visit was some time when I was very small.
The zoo though having nice greenery as it’s also a botanical park, is nonetheless a very suffocating place. I felt. It won’t take much of empathizing to know what the animals in the zoo might feel.
Imagine a snake having to live in a place not bigger than our TV carton, but then that’s what zoo are all about. How about a duck having no water to paddle. There were so many instances like this.
I wondered at the large cages and now wonder who terrorizes whom. Animals looked quiet sad. And seeing them i remembered slavery. Have we not abolished slavery? So why keep these animals in such bondage. And then there were people making funny noises, some clicking photographs with an elephant in the background.
The zoo needs to be shut, and the animals need to be rehabilitated. Why do we need a zoo- for education, entertainment, tourism – all these arguments seem to be out of time. Regarding preservation, I’d say – please don’t use Mumbai to preserve animals in this fashion.
It'd be great if peacocks could dance, deer’s could run, ducks could paddle, monkeys could jump and elephants could walk freely, may be in the forest, and may be in a sanctuary. Fortunately we have a national park in Mumbai.
The zoo though having nice greenery as it’s also a botanical park, is nonetheless a very suffocating place. I felt. It won’t take much of empathizing to know what the animals in the zoo might feel.
Imagine a snake having to live in a place not bigger than our TV carton, but then that’s what zoo are all about. How about a duck having no water to paddle. There were so many instances like this.
I wondered at the large cages and now wonder who terrorizes whom. Animals looked quiet sad. And seeing them i remembered slavery. Have we not abolished slavery? So why keep these animals in such bondage. And then there were people making funny noises, some clicking photographs with an elephant in the background.
The zoo needs to be shut, and the animals need to be rehabilitated. Why do we need a zoo- for education, entertainment, tourism – all these arguments seem to be out of time. Regarding preservation, I’d say – please don’t use Mumbai to preserve animals in this fashion.
It'd be great if peacocks could dance, deer’s could run, ducks could paddle, monkeys could jump and elephants could walk freely, may be in the forest, and may be in a sanctuary. Fortunately we have a national park in Mumbai.
I hope, this is my last visit to the zoo, anywhere in the world!
29.9.08
The Beauty inside a BEST bus or The BEST bus democracy
Every-day in Mumbai, most of us on the move, takes the BEST bus.
We board the bus, sit, the conductor, often called master, comes to you so that you can take the ticket to your …….destination. This is great!
This is so obvious that we may just scoff at it being called ’great” but I find it very rare! You see – The conductor comes to you rather than you going to him (up till now it’s mostly done by men, so unfair!)
In which other Government Department does this happen? But the BEST bus – obviously a government department – is different!
I just wish that our democracy is like this. Where there is a bus to wherever we want to go. Where every bus has a conductor that comes and asks us, ‘Kuthe zaychsa aahai,” (where do you want to go?), we simply take a ticket and everything is fine.
So as I dream, I find the bus stopping at the stop I have to alight, the dream breaks halfway and I get down!
We board the bus, sit, the conductor, often called master, comes to you so that you can take the ticket to your …….destination. This is great!
This is so obvious that we may just scoff at it being called ’great” but I find it very rare! You see – The conductor comes to you rather than you going to him (up till now it’s mostly done by men, so unfair!)
In which other Government Department does this happen? But the BEST bus – obviously a government department – is different!
I just wish that our democracy is like this. Where there is a bus to wherever we want to go. Where every bus has a conductor that comes and asks us, ‘Kuthe zaychsa aahai,” (where do you want to go?), we simply take a ticket and everything is fine.
So as I dream, I find the bus stopping at the stop I have to alight, the dream breaks halfway and I get down!
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