Then and now?

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Hope you guys are doing great.

The Spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze. And Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face.

-Sri Aurobindo Ghose

I was reading about the great Vijayanagara Empire yesterday, well I was amazed to learn how our kings were duty conscious and ensured the name of their provinces soared up in the sky. I was also amazed by the administrative techniques used by the great emperor Sri Krishnadevaraya.

If we correlate the above scenario with present day situation, I feel sometimes we all are repeating what our kings have done before, particularly their strategies that they have used to survive and confront their enemies.

The statue of Sri Krishna Devaraya at Penugonda.

There was an important paragraph which I came across, in which it says initially in the 1500A.D there was lot of friction between the Saluva dynasty of the Vijayanagara  empire and the Reddiars,  now popularly called as “Reddy”  they were like born enemies who were struggling for dominance in the Present state of Telangana. But there was a common enemy for both the Saluva dynasty and the Reddiars which was  the Bahmani Sultanate, who dominated the northern part of Karnataka and parts of Andhra.

As years passed the Tuluva dynasty came to power and, the great King Sri Krishnadevaraya came to power, and I observed one paradigm shift in his style of administration, that was,  mutual negations and strategy to solve the issues of his empire at a point the Reddiars’ and the emperor come into an agreement and overthrow the Bahmani sultans and gain control over trade and business on the east coast.

The story gets still more amazing when the daughter from a Reddy family was married to the monarch, creating a great rapport between the two clans and great unity  among the two kingdoms, as the Reddiars are the direct descendents of the Rashtrakutas.This propelled a  good co-ordination that protected both the parties from the Sultans of the North.

Coming back from the past to the current scenario I have seen many enemies uniting together to fight a single enemy, the easy example is we have seen many countries uniting together to win a war on the third country.

When you read about history of the world, I mean long ago may be in the period when the great empires of various kings existed in India and around the world  or the medieval people have used strategies which we use to achieve our goals.

So the simple truth with which I want to conclude is that, if frequencies of a person matches with the person next to him, their souls feel happy to interact with each other, I feel the world will move forward in the right direction if we implement this,  we can live in a more compassionate world which less people hating each other.

Thanks for your time have a great day and a week ahead.

Work cycle -1 :A case study.

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Hope you all are doing well.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

- Chanakya

Well the summer begins in Bangalore yes it is becoming more hot as the years come, we must all strive towards at least saving the nature which is left out.

Well our lives are moving in stages from many years, like our childhood, teenage, adulthood, old-age.

The prime time of our life is either our teenage or the adulthood; well I am not being biased that we cannot achieve anything in the old-age, but these facts area according to many surveys.

I want to explain a case study today, titled: The work cycle of a typical graduate in India.

To start which let us  take some assumptions, the subject or the sample if we may call so is just out of college and is a fresher looking out for a job irrespective of whether it is  private or a government job. Continuing on the case study

Phase one: selection

The sample either selects science or commerce as his stream of study.

Now if you imagine this as a flow chart if the selected stream is science then he mostly ends up as an engineer I am talking in a generic way and of course there are many streams in engineering the sample can select.

Option two the subject selects commerce, the most probable option he ends up as bachelor of commerce graduate, again I am being generic here.

Phase two: now what?

Well here we can see three possibilities 1 definitely a job hunt. 2 he writes an exam for a postgraduate course and enrols for a post graduate programme specializing in a subject or,

Phase 3 the job:

This is the most important stage in our corporate/work cycle; this stage can also be called as a learning phase.

Why it is named as the learning phase because it involves  lot of experiences and gives the person to understand the working of a company, what is work ?, the concept of time keeping, understanding actually how business works and so on?

Actually the work cycle can be stopped at that moment, but it is actually infinite and these three phases will keep happening with the difference that the sample will change from one organisation to another and will no longer be called a fresher.

Even I am a corporate professional my main motive why I chose to write about is that, I can see the concept of client servicing, over site project management, technical support, customer call centres have become such a huge business in India because the only conversation factor of the currency, which has made it possible to get labour so cheap that we have become a paradise for outsourcers.

Thinking about the pros and cons of this type of economy, I fell we have both the why I would give this a bouquet is that, it generates lot for foreign exchange to the country and exposes us to the advance technology followed in the silicon valley, you meet amazing people from all over the world and also build good networks.

Well there a several brick bats as well , I feel our graduations we get in colleges are becoming meaningless, It is just like a delegate pass which will enable you to wear your desired company’s badge, and you have a job!!!

The youth have stopped studying for knowledge, but rather attending colleges only to get placed in a good company, which I feel is seriously not the right perspective to treat knowledge.

I have also seen a new group dynamics which is called a traitor psychology, where a group of employees feel ashamed that they work for other countries.

Overall the work cycle in India is not balanced as the government jobs are very hard to find and the recruitment process is based on various reservations and quotas, which has made even more thought to get jobs.

We see our brainy crowd from IITs and IIMs are joining the biggest companies in the world like Google, Microsoft and so on, there I see a concern where India is losing its brain power.

I urge the government to make a system which makes the jobseeker feel amused and must imbibe the feeling him that this looks better than a private job.I also urge the brainy star kids to give back to our country as well, it may seem compulsive but I feel this concern now as there is too much of imbalance.

Hope I was at least able to analyse a bit today,  I will write more blogs on this topic as it needs to discussion, next time I will discuss how entrepreneurship is becoming a hit in the Indian Sub-continent and the importance of studying arts as a subject.

Thanks a lot for your time.