My Vision...would u care to join in?

My colleagues and I attended a Global Prespective meet held by Ercission at the Golden Palms Village in Bangalore on Sept 4, 2005. It was awesome. We got to interact with people from all over the world like Brazil, UAE, Sweden, Japan, Malaysia, etc. One of them asked a question " What is your vision for India in the future?".
The question was indeed thought provoking. I wondered what should my vision be as a citizen of the country. As I reflected I figured out that didn't matter to me if it was India, China, Burma, or anyother country. I found myself developing a vision for the whole of human kind, A Global Village. I envisioned a future where there would be no political, trade and religious barriers. Governments are here to guide a nation and not to destroy it. Each nation should understand its Comparitive-Cost Advantage and produce offerings accordlingly, like India focusing on labour intensive activities and USA on capital intensive sectors. Each nation should essentially try to help one another. I see no difference between an Indian, American, Japnese, Vietnamese, and so on. We all belong to one race- the human race. Why do I need a passport to travel to another country. I should be given freedom to travel.
Religion is really and opium of the masses. Religion was made by man so that he can discipline himself. If we can discilpine ourselves without religion do we really need it? I strongly believe in faith and prayer. We dont need religion for that.
Self-belief and humility is my matra for a successful life.

I know this vision sounds too philosophical and ridiculously unattainable. But that's what visions are for.
Cheers!

Shody response to an unanswered woe!!!!

This is with reference to Karnataka's minister for industries and development Mr Sindhia's reply to the IT barons' boycott of the Bangalore IT fair. He said he's been asking 167 IT companies to give empolyment to the Kanadigas as well. This was his repsonse (which I think is shody and highly unbecoming of a responsible authoritative figure) to Banaglore's infrastructure woes.
My question to him is what about those non-kannadigas who've been paying taxes all this while to the Karnataka State? If one is going to bring about reservation in the private sector on the basis of caste, creed, and of being a localite, I think it's highly ridiculous, especially from the I&D Minister of a prominent state like Karnataka. If matters go further like this, then those of us who call ourselves Banagaloreans, and other non-Kanadigas (the ones who've made the state for what it is known today) will leave the province.
For all I care let the Kanadigas remain, rule and develope the state....

Quarter Life Crisis!!!

For the record...i've stolen the title from a fwd. What follows is my take on "1/4 life crisis".
I remember those days (back in 1999-2000) when me and my classmates (who are now supposed to me my 'best-friends'...we hardly keep in touch but they're still me best friends) used to bunk class and stay on campus...chill out under the sycamore and christmas trees around the college Kiosk...lazing around...gossiping and drinking coke, eating the infamous college egg-patties.....we had absoultely no aim in life...no goals...no ambitions...just wanted to enjoy our freedom and be rebelious. This continued for almost 3 years out of the 5 years in under-grad college.
Look at me today (5 years later), I've transformed myself into this geek who has nothin' better to do in life than read her management text books, watch CNBC, BBC, maybe a bit of Ch.V, and bury her head in the Harvard Business Review magazine (it's a good mag BTW) and other such magazines and papers.
How times change and so do we.
It's true "Change is the only permanent phenomenon".
I've seemed to have geared up for the corporate world (though am one with no work ex). I'm ready to take on any challenge that heads my way.
At times I wonder why my life is not a bed of roses, that's when I realise that if it were a bed of roses I wouldn't have grown so far and so strong.

Career...why is it so tough?

I'm at this juncture in my life where i've to decide what career to step into. I'm at the threshold of the corporate world and boy it does not look too good from here. Profs say, 'not to worry too much about the job u first take coz ur sure ur not gonna stick to it for long', but i personally believe that the first job u take would essentially determine your careeer path. What i'm trying to say is that if i'm going to enter sales then that's the area where i would be focusing my skills and training on. I hope its not going to be too tough for me to shift towards marketing later on. Frankly i'm still figuring out where i'm heading towards. Not too sure if i wanna do sales, marketing, PR, Corporate Communication, etc. I seem to fit into a gamuet of roles. That's not a good sign....is it?

Start-up

I've just started my own blog, so i dont expect anything productive to be posted right away till some brain wave actually hits me. So for those who read this could give me some tips on blogging.
Regards
Vinu