One size fits none - Part 1.5

Yet week after week the whole situation seemed hopeless. It was hopeless. There was no way he was going to get those shoes.

Till the day he got them. The story is now about how did he get those shoes, it was a journey, nay a pilgrimage to human heart.
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link of part 1:
 http://ninadthinks.blogspot.in/2014/02/one-size-fits-none-part-1.html

 Babu sat outside on the road that day and started playing his drums.

Tupp Tub. Tuppa tub

 "Greeting BABU" - Pujari (priest)
"Greetings" Babu

 "Pandurang will be kind" - pujari.(priest)

"What makes you say he isnt, (he) Vittal is kind, he is mauli - (mother)" spanned Babu.

"What I meant was things will improve" - Pujari

"Hmmm they will"

Tab tap tab tapp

"Why do you look so gloomy" - Pujari

"I am just tired sir, nothing wrong"

" If you need anything meet me in the evening"  Pujari

"sure"


Tab tap tab tapp. He was not going to meet him in the evening. It was hopeless.

At the same time in the same moment, Ravi Sharma lost everything. He was broke. He had just lost his job. He did not know how to go home broke and jobless and hence he ran away to nowhere.
Darkness

At this very moment Alka Gupta took a dip in the river Godavari. The river they said purified all sins. But was this true. Can all sins be washed away. Was it a sin in the first place.

Tera Campaign

 in tune of tere Naina...

Campaign ka chal ye
Executive ka haal ye
Har Monday ko Baldleye  sama
Tum jo express na karo ya phir issue avoid karo
Tham ke rukk jagoge tum waha ke waha

Sab se crucial hai campaign ka success
jispe depend hai hum sab ki icrement
Oh aise campaign tu yaadhi ton aaye

ho tera campaign tera campaign tera campaign re
mera campaign mera campaign mera campaign re

Aahat PESTAL chalat category ki
Execution pe saab hai hoshiyaar
chaahe kuch na bolu chaahe raaz na kolu
It depends on every element meri jaan

Deadline jo hai deadly se bhi bhayankar
use pura karna ka hi ye hai chakkar

Oh aise campaign tu yaadhi ton aaye

ho tera campaign tera campaign tera campaign re
mera campaign mera campaign mera campaign re

Tera Campaign, challenge badhaye
Tera Campaign, technology sikhaye







 

One size fits none. part 1

It was a bad month. The tourists were low and the city was almost deserted. Babu sat on his usual spot and he played his drums. No one was there but he played , tub tub tubb tub tubb tub . He was playing from his heart. He always played with his heart. He was blind since childhood and the drum was what he had grew up on. He played tub tub tubb tub tubb tub.

God was kind though. He usually earned enough to eat twice in a day and had a small place to stay. With food in the belly, anyone can love art. Blindness doesnt crippled art it increases it. It makes your ears sharper. It makes your tongue crisper and you can sense the core. Its when you are hungry. Thats when its tough to love art. Because hunger survives or makes to try survive. While art makes you grow.

Its not that Babu had no aspirations. He wanted to be a musician but somewhere down the line  "lack of vision " lead to lack of opportunity and in his small city where tourism was the major industry, he fell short.

Babu shoes had worn out a long time ago. He wanted to buy new shoes. But the peak season was still a long time ago away. The question was how is he going to buy new shoes.

He played his drum with sincerity, tub, tub, tubpa tub tub.

Yet week after week the whole situation seemed hopeless. It was hopeless. There was no way he was going to get those shoes.

Till the day he got them. The story is now about how did he get those shoes, it was a journey, nay a pilgrimage to human heart. 

Outside In - Window.

 

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To each his own
everyone craves for their zone

Each one craves for their window
to express, to define, to explore

Yet sometimes it happens
Abeit breifly that we lose more from it.

We are poorer with out the window,
but are rich enough to love it in our poverty

What good is a window when your stomach is groovling with hunger
Its a waste

Yet we crave
and we save

We are after all living to...
look out of the window.

Outside in.

Ninad it is time once again to begin.

India Watch - Read it and Ignore.

There are two distinct worlds out there.

One India which is growing and one which seems to be stuck somewhere in the past.

Recently a conversation with a highly educated person living in a metro made me aware of the fact that hypocrisy is the core on which we have build this nation.


We have grown.

Internet with mobile is making technology reach to the interiors. A teenager from Tirrutani is as much equipped to use an app as one in Thane. This is equality. This is a par ground.



We are more educated. We have more access to jobs, goods, loans than ever before.

We have diverse media.

We have youth. Lots of it and hence a lot of potential.



We are struck. 

Never before have we been so direction less. We dont have the trust in our leaders and most of us dont even know our leaders. We as a nation are running without a goal or that is what it seems.

We are divided - in regions, beliefs, ... and many more.

Now we are a globalized country and we are trying to adopt the best from the west and India.

We (youngsters) crave for instant results, gratifications but this task of building a nation is complex and perhaps a very long term process.

I am not saying every Indian should have a blue print of the building of the nation but every Indian should know what sort of building is being built in the first place.

The youth we have is wasted as without direction and a goal, we run our own lives and we build our own fortunes as per our luck talent and potential.

We are at cross roads now. Its for us to choose what we want. Its for us to unite and plan for the blueprint.

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Strategic Samosa - Watch out what you eat. - In 7 points

0.  Take action - Shoot and then steer the arrow.You will find the way as you work rather than pondering at the start on how to do it.

1. "Either you do it or you dont, there is no try". Yoda.

2. Consistently find ways to instill the sense of freedom to try new things, create value.

3. Define your goals. Harder they are, more fun it will be to achieve them.

4.Try a new approach. Goal remains same. Paths can change. Regularly.

5. Understand that ultimately what you do, will give you what you deserve. If you dont get it. Its feedback. Start over with a new path.

6. Be  kind to people around you. Call them. Help them if you can, but atleast be human with them. Smile as much as you can. Ultimately its people who matter.

7. Watch out what you eat.

Samosa - Unhealthy mostly but tasty. - Mental Samosa. Meet positive people. Think about all your strengths and how you can use them. If you think you can do the task. you will. if you think you cant. you wont. Its all in the mind.

People Watch - 4. Soft skills go for the kill.

When life gives you lemons and serves you a lemon cake.

This post and the posts which will follow are about some wonderful charismatic powerful people who in their own way make life better for  people around them. They have positively in them which enriches people around them. They are my peers my elders my young friends. 
So lets begin.

She was tidy in her dressing. Not pretty girl but attractive enough and she carried a strong person aura image around her. This was stark in contrast with her voice which was smooth yet soft. She was a few kilos heavy but that actually added to her personality.

Aarti is one of the few people anybody would like to have in their team. She is practical, result oriented and an excellent planner. But hey this post is not her linked in recommendation. Seriously isn't.

Aarti met me almost 8 years back. She was my colleague. But what made her memorable was the fact that she could connect with anybody and everybody on a same level. Or she made the person in front of her comfortable. It could be an office boy, a canteen wala, a client, a vendor, boss, company owner, basically anybody.

She spoke the language of the person next to her and naturally that helps to connect with people.

But the thing which made her stand out was her ability to actually finishing something on time.

I was unsure of something once and she said to me, " I have started it right, and you know that you will have to finish it, so just buckle up focus and finish it. Waiting, contemplating, awaiting wont take you anywhere."

She respected her work and people related to it but did not let that be the only focal point for her. She did listen to you even when you spoke something else. But she was not someone who listen to someone crib.

I remember an incident when a particularly bad client was being very stingy with money and actually wanted to do barter (which was not beneficial to our company at all). Aarti and I were in that meeting together and were pitching in for that business jointly. She politely refused the offer and as we walked away after the meeting she actually had a smile (a real one ) and she then she talked about the work in pipeline for the next day. It would have been apt for anyone to foul mouth that client for the jerk he had been. But for Aarti it was a small defeat (hiccup). 

She had flaws of course. Any body has. But the point here is she makes people around her comfortable, and I am sure people like her for that. 

The city of Mumbai ensures that you dont meet a person often. But isn't it great that when you do, you make the person you meet so comfortable in life that he/she will never forget the moment you spent with that person.

Aarti did that. Regularly.