Chitthi Aayi Hai.......

Today after so many days i got a chance to visit the post office. My roomie was supposed to pick up some kinda parcel from the post office. So we reached there at 10. It was in a kind of broken down building. I went there with a preconceived notion that it would be "sunsaan" as it was saturday morning. But what met my eyes upon reaching there was a pleasant suprise to the eyes. It was buzzing with activity. There were post-mans,sorters(if thats wat you call them),clerks. The whole atmosphere in the office brought a retro look to it. I felt i was back in the malgudi days where children would run after postman, when postmen were welcomed with open arms, when the song "chitthi aayi hai aayi hai" was a super-hit. There was the sound of a dot-matrix printer, sorters sorting all teh letters with a half a blink on it, the manager of that office meticuously noting down all the things and post-men taking their load for the day. It literally felt for some time that i had done a time travel and noone was able to see me. Their management i guess is still unmatched. There is never a delay nor any kind of address mismatch.   

As i stood ther witnessing all this i realized how things have changed nowadays. Our new post-men is the e-mail. There is noo excitement surrounding the postman. We only see them as time waste. We dont even say thank you let alone giving that guy something to eat or at the least water to drink. I do agree that e-mails are much more convenient but with the post office there is a human touch which cant be matched. And the feelings that can be felt or expresed in a handwritten letter can be never felt in an email. It just doesnt come out the same way. Lastly I do feel that with a decline in the use of post office somewhere down the line we have lost a bit of humanity and innocence tooo...... 

Feminism

What do we actually mean by feminism?? It refers to any movement, any actions taken towards the betterment of the position of women in our society. Women have always been looked down upon in our society whenever it came to matching the opposite sex. There always has been a notion that woman’s place is at home. 


In the early 1960s, a woman looking for a job would open her newspaper to find two lists of employment advertisements: one for men, and another for women. Not surprisingly, the jobs available to men were challenging positions with potential for advancement, while those available to women were typically low-paying and involved mundane clerical tasks. Regardless of their education or abilities, women were systematically excluded from opportunities in the workplace.

Though we have come a long way since the start of the feminist women we can’t still deny the fact that discrimination still exist In the Indian society. In today’s generation discrimination against women is subtle rather than blatant. Still there are sections in our society who do not allow women to express themselves. Women who have the desire to work and are very much capable of handling both personal and professional life are suppressed. Its considered a crime for women to work.

If we have to change this, women themselves have to change their thinking. They have to believe in themselves that they can match step to step with the opposite sex. They are the future. They need to believe that they can perform both roles with equal efficiency. Any working female can be considered as a feminist. The fact that she has taken a decision of supporting her family by taking up a job deserves a round of applause. Its true that women have to work much much more harder to achieve something on the professional front which a man can achieve with much more ease. So any women who defied all odds and fought for her rights deserves the greatest of respect.

Today as a direct result of many feminist movements and various fights for gender equality there has been an expansion in women’s job opportunities. Many women have attained positions of prestige. Even in India the growth of women in public or private sector jobs has been noticeable. Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kocchar, Kiran Bedi, Sonia Gandhi are some of the best examples to illustrate the same. A glaring statistic to back it up is that 11% of the chief executives are women. Clearly, the advancement of women within the workplace is among feminism’s many accomplishments, successes that include voting rights, economic independence and property rights for women, equal opportunities for education, and a greater awareness of rape and domestic violence.

So to all the females of India be proud of being a woman because you have the capability of doing things which we (men) can only dream of.

No More A Worry!!!!

Why did you play with my feelings?
You left my life reeling
I loved you, I cared for you
But then i came to know that all you care about is you
You let me go, you let me be
Though i never wanted to be
My mistake was i expected too much
Because i loved you so much
But being a friend you couldn't even fulfill this much..

You admit you took me for granted
You never  asked me what i wanted
I still stood there waiting for you
So stupid not realisingthat it was not you
You dont have to worry I will still be there for you
Hoping you would realise what yu have done too
The light is getting dim and you are nowhere insight
I no more have the power nor the will to fight
Now its too late for even a sorry
Good for you i am no more a worry......

Steve Jobs:His I-Way to heaven

Steve Jobs-role model,fighter,enterpreneur,genius.... These are just some of the adjectives that can be used to describe this i-conic man!!!!! Ya ya the 'i' was meant to be that way. Born on February 24th 1955 to a syrian father and an american mother, Jobs was slated to be adopted right after his birth to a couple who were lawyers. But a change in decision of the lawyers saw Jobs being adopted by a middle class couple-Paul and Clara Jobs.

Steve Jobs childhood was like a normal child. He grew up and later joined Reed college. Its Tuition fees ate most of his parents savings and after a few months Jobs felt that college was doing no good. So he decided to drop out of college. This proved to be his best decision in life. But life wasnt easy at first. Since he dropped out he had nowhere to stay. He slept on the floor of his friends dorm room, sold coke bottles for five cents and ate a fulfilling meal every sunday at the Hari-Krishna temple near-by. But one thing that worked in his favour was he could take up courses of his choice. He was not obliged to stick to a curriculum. At that time Reed college provided one of the best calligraphy classes in the country. Jobs took it up. Noone would ever imagine a harmless calligraphy class would revolutionise computers so much. That class which he took proved instrumental in Mcintosh(first computer by apple) having beautiful typo-graphies. As Jobs himself said-"you can never connect the dots looking forwards.... you can only connect it looing backwards!!!!" He implied we should learn to have faith in something,it could be anything-God,Karma!!!! At first things may look haphazard but in the end it will all make sense!!!

Steve Jobs started Apple along with Steve Wozniak at his garage. They designed their first computer-Mcintosh and it was a big hit!!!! In two years Apple went out to be a 2 billion company with more than 2000 employers. A new kid had arrived in the silicon valley. He revolutionized personal computers. But then he took a decision which he would regret forever in his life. He lured John Sculled from Pepsi to become Apple's CEO. At first they worked well in sync but then as Steve turned 30, he and Sculley had a fall-out regarding the future of Apple. The board of Directors sided with Sculley and Jobs was thrown out of the Company which he had started.

Steve Jobs was completely devastated by this. He felt he had let himself down. He even thought of running away. But one fine day a thought struck him, a thought which would change the rest of his life. He still loved what he did. According to him its quintessential that we must find that one thing which we love the most. He still loved wat he was doing so there was no use of running away!!!! After that he started a company named NeXT and Pixar. Pixar went on to make the first computer animation film-Toy Story!!! And both the companes made progress leaps and bounds!!!! And as fate would have it Apple went onto buy NeXT and Steve was back to wat he had found. Later on Pixar was bought by Disney and Jobs went out to become the biggest individual shareholder in Disney with a 7% share.
He went on to release the I-Pod,I-Phone and I-Pad while being the CEO of Apple all of which were pure work of genius.

But in 2004 Steve Jobs announced that he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At first the cancer looked incurable but after a close inspection it turned to be be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer which could be removed by surgery. All seemed well and Jobs was fine again. But it wasnt meant to be a fairy-tale. Jobs continously battled against cancer for seven years. He resigned as the CEO of Apple and went on a permnent leave. On October 5th,2011 he lost the battle against cancer. He died in his home. But his thoughts about dead were for all to admire. He never feared death. In fact according to him death was the single most beautiful creation by God. It cleared the old and made way for new. He said and i quote-"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me." 

His speech at the 2005 Stanford commencement is nothing short of a masterpiece. Whenever i feel the need to be inspired i hear it. I would advice you the same. He will always be remembered for the person he was- a good human being!!!!

                                                              R.I.P STEVE JOBS