Jai Ho, Bhay Ho, Moditva and all that.

March, April & May 2009, probably the most important months in the year 2009,reason being 15th lok Sabha General Elections.This is the first time i voted in a national election and experience was quite confusing. Political parties are campaigning to their best and literally for their best.

The first thing that caught my attention was the debilitating Ideological Politics,i wonder whether it ever existed after the introduction of coalition system, in the wake of Opportunistic politics.Machiavellianism is a rife but all for personal gains.Its not that i am cynical about everyone involved with the Indian polity.Save few and your hand is full of all those Machiavellies.

Anyways, most prominent parties campaigning vigorously are Centrists' congress, with there 'jai ho', rightists' BJP playing ideal opposition with their "Bhay Ho" and the brand new Third Front led by Leftists, which i thing is an excellent impetus for the other parties to "keep their all options open".

Lets comes to congress first - Its a party led by the Mrs. Sonia Gandhi with Mr. Manmohan Singh as the prime ministerial candidate.Panab Mukherjee is one more name i would like to mention that is associated with the party. Mr. Singh and Mr. Mukherjee seem to be the most learned and cleanest personalities on the whole stage. Hence, acc. to me these are the most important names that are keeping party afloat inspite of not-so-good performance.

Talking about BJP - the party boasts of having the Iron Men like Mr. L.K Advani,Mr. Narendra Modi, 'true politicians' like Arun Jaitley. Atal Bihari Vajpayee is the name associated with the party who have got it most of the respect.

I would spare Third Front this time because i think it deserves a whole new space in my notes.

But Narendra Modi is the person that deserves more space than just his name per se. He is the person who gave birth to a whole new phenomenon called as "Moditva" which even outweighed the popularity of his party's ideology of 'Hindutva. A dynamic person credited for transforming Gujrat, not just economically, not just politically and not just socially, in span of mere 6 years.In 2007 Mr. Modi had a landslide Victory with a clean sweep and therefore people ensuring that Gujrat is truely flourishing under his leadership.He is also known for his fiery oratory skills which has helped him to have virtually every community in Gujrat on his side.Seeing the reaction of the people of Gujrat sometimes i think i should bow for that person.But there are some things that predominantly stops me from doing so.

The name has some grey shades attached to it too. Narendra Modi was accused that he was aware beforehand about the Gujrat 2002 communal riots which led to lynching and killing of hundreds and vagrancy of thousands. His reaction in the Karan Thapar's Devils' advocate left many mouths openand many minds boggling.(you can watch the video here - Devil's Avocate with Narendra Modi ).

I also said that he is known for his fiery orator ship but personally i cannot buy that point.Hate speeches cannot be termed as fiery oratorship(it is the only path that our respected politicians follow). Censuring or Blaming others can never form a rehtoric & this was the only thing,inspite of ignoring hard, made me ears.

Or is this the other way round? This is the only way to assuage people of India to vote for a party,by making them look at the shortcoming of the other party, from a different angle, about which they already know. This is the thing that has perplexed me for quite a time now and i am desperately looking the answer for the a question:

What is actually Moditva - the transformation of Gujrat to a Vibrant Gujrat or the highly radical and extreme attitude that have always led to destruction, be it in Fascism, Nazism, etc?

Love was in the air

Yes i know i am late but mera internet aaj hi thik hua.Even my laziness was not able to dissuade me from writing about this Valentines Day.There was something special about this V-day than any other.

Two colours ruled the day.
First, red in the form of roses presented as an expression of love and affection to our dear ones.
Second and the hottest colour of the Day or rather week was Pink. It was pink all around the country thanks to Pink Chaddi Campaign which cosequenly led to Pink Saaris and Pink Condoms Campaign.This time most of the youngistan was not only celebrating the day but also the win over certain hoodlums who call themselves the "Proctectionists of Indian Culture".

Muthailik and other RAM Sene members were drowned under odd 40,000 chaddis sent to them from all over the country.The entire story started at a pub at Banglore where Shri Ram Sene carried out that gruesome act.They beat the girls there wildly as according to them the girls goin to pubs were stains on Indian Culture.
Do they really know what Indian culture is all about?? They are talking this rubbish after beating "women" because of their, very wrongly cited , "indecency"(which acc. to them refers to Pub culture) and that so in the country of Khajuraho and Kamasutra.

They are talking of Hinduism and its protection but do those sickulars know that they arent even being humane...let alone religious.Couple of weeks ago we never heard about Mr.Pramod Muthalik, but now, he is a self proclaimed iconic moral watchdog.Just get themselves in public and gain publicity Ram Sene garbed as moral policemen.If people like Muthalik try to enforce their ethics and values on others, it's simply not democratic. It's against our fundamental right to freedom.

But this Valentines day which they vowed to make a nightmare but at the end of the day love won over the Saffron Brigade, save few instances .Youngistan was all pepped up about the day and celebrated it with more than just a smile & without any fear on their face.Moreover that thing that made this day more special was that there was more fervour among the people to refute the extremists.

SO the idea is if the country gets together and unite for a particular cause like this then each person of this country would be able to do what he/she wants until it is allowed by law.

SO cheers to liberalisation, Secularism and spirit of Youngistan...

My first GDPI

Well, Yes It was my first GD/PI round at any B-school...and it was at IMT.....
The day started off at good note but it was only to get worse.It took about 3 and half hours to reach the college at Ghaziabad which comprised of about 1.5 hours of toiling in traffic and 1 hour of movement in detours.Ahhh!! at last we were there albeit in the nick of time..

The first round i.e Group Discussion incepted at 2:30 pm and we were a group of 12 (fortunate enough as 4 students were absent).There was U shaped sitting arrangement and it was quite difficult to prevent my self from seeing at moderators.
We were given two topics to choose from which were:-

1.Retail Investors should be given Capital Protection.
2.Real learning at B-school happens outside the class room.

Obviously the choice of the majority was the second one.Time limit given was 8 minutes but GD continued for around 12-15 minutes with the reiteration of most of the points...There were two instances when the moderators interrupted because all of us wanted our things to be heared and as expected it was becoming a cliched "Fish Market"

As GD got over all of us were asked to summarize the GD one by one and after that we had to write on the same topic on a piece of paper in 5 minutes.

My Interview started in about 1 hour after GD.Panel comprised of 3 interviewers and i would refer to them as p1 p2 and p3.
P2 seemed to be most dangerous one to me as i entered the room and in end he would prove to be the same....Grrrrr....

Me : may i come in sir
panel : come in
P2 : Sit down Please
me: thank you sir (with a good smile on my face but the it seemed as if my heart is in its last race)

P2 : Tell me about yourself,Jatin, very briefly.
me: [started of with my name] blah blah blah...I like to pursue dance as my hobbie and it is..[interrupted]

p2 : wat type of dance do you do???
me : Sir generally, freestyle....[interrupted]

p1 : [here comes a first speed breaker to my heart beat]Until now i had heard freestyle in wrestling only[with question mark on his face].
me:Sir , its just that i dnt do a particular kind of dance as i didnt had any formal training i just try to learn from videos only...[stopped again]

p2 : [ Here comes the sarcasm]Ohh!! i got you you are talkin about the same dace like movin your body parts here and there, right?? and yes it seems you are born with this special talent , as you dance without any training ,we all ordinary people dnt have...Am i right???

me: [Here comes the clarification][ my feet were burning like hell and heart running like hell, Oh God plz save me]No sir its not that. Actually it is wat i try to practise and learn from the my peers and videos but i am lookin forward for a formal training?

P1 :in which dance form??
me: Sir, Jazz.

P2. As far as i know Jazz is a form of music.Wat are u talking about?
ME : [my mind and heart sinking] ....(I told wat is jazz dance)..

P2 : Ohh i am sorry my GK is quite limited i am fortunate that you are sitting in front of me....
{Errrr!! now how should i tell him that how unfortunate i am...OH god oh god help meeeee)

P2 : wat do u mean by "Strength Exercises"??[i mentioned it as my second hobbie]
me : Sir , it basically refers to Weight Training like full body exercises and all.

P2 : you have unique Terminologies...[one eye raised]Any ways that'll be all Jatin.
Then al the three wished me "ALL THE BEST" and i said "Thank You"..