More than 3000 Years in just 3 Hours!

Yep. It happened!

I always used to wonder whenever I happen to contemplate about the possibility as well as the workability of a “Time Machine”. Though its existence seems to be fictitious and its invention in the offing to be a pipe dream, nobody could be exceptional from its amazement!

Yesterday, we were literally amused with that amazement. Yep. A great gentleman took everyone of us for a diachronic voyage in a very short span on the World Trade. The discussion was almost like an experience of a Time machine for us! Of course, he is none other than our beloved Academic Dean Arka Sir. He is indeed a human completely coded with multitudes of knowledge throughout!

It is quite a natural thing that whenever he takes a lecture, we used to get inculcated ourselves with tons of “Gyan” with no limitations to fun. That session was expectedly not an exception.

Let me articulate our experience of a Time machine on this discussion. It has started rolling back millenniums behind!

From the mapping of entire globe on the board, he has started his discussion about the origin of Europe and Africa few thousand years ago B.C. He has discoursed about what was actually happening by means of trade at various centuries and who were dominating the world at every point of time. He mentioned about the transitions over a few hundred years A.C. over the trade and economy and detailed about the inceptions of various ancient prominent civilizations like Mesopotamia, Harappa ,Indus and their rise and decline in the early centuries of first millennium. He has then shifted in elaborating on gradual global trading boom of the world and how various inventions facilitated in the holistic worldly development from 1000 A.C. Discovery of many American and Asian countries tardily started widening the globe and the scope of its trade as well over few later centuries.

Few more centuries passed on. From late sixteen hundreds, he has explained how colonialism came to picture and its existence led to dacoity worldwide. It was the time when the flourish was completely inclined towards only certain geographies like GBR, Italy, Greece, Egypt and a few in Middle East. Also, colonialism had its key role in the growth and blossoming of various national economies post eighteen hundreds. He accented the importance of developments in transport and communication in the history of trading.

Eventually, the trading journey came to nineties. Effects of world wars in the trading arena have been discussed and how United States wisely groomed at that point of time. Later on, he has mentioned the causes of economic freedoms of significant developing nations like China, India with their aftermaths. He has finally come to 2000 A.D and enunciated the role of currencies in the trade and the recent entry of EUROs in the trading market. He has also put light on the Indian trade graph headed at Mumbai and consequential anticipations. The periodic shift of world trade centre throughout this historical voyage made us to get into deeper rumination in predicting its future pitch. And, it was 2012! He has disclosed the ambiguity and anticipation in the upcoming centuries about the proclivity of economy and trade.

Finally, the time machine landed us on the current IST from millenniums behind. Such an intense and interesting discussion finally came to an end with few Q&A; from us. We were completely out of the world and conscience throughout the journey of this discussion of almost three hours. We got a far better lucidity in our existing knowledge about the worldly trading game.

Arka sir! You simply Rock. Awaiting many more such “Gyan” sessions from you in the offing!

Economic Impacts of Global Warming!!

An intrinsic calamity called Global warming is increasingly becoming viral across the world through multiple means. This natural global peril has been supposedly expected to end up in a severe glooming to the earth in the offing. No much solid preventive measures are taken against this serious phenomenon anywhere. The prevalence of this geographical climatic variance also menaces the variance in the economic climate of the globe to a greater extent. This clearly depicts the direct relationship between these two contemporary consequences.

      The awareness of this issue is debile across the borders since people are still skeptic in understanding the grievous factoid behind. They hardly empathize that terrible increase in the average temperature of the earth’s surface from the recent past would end up in extraordinary economic disorder in the near future. Also, no large scale studies have been unleashed to emphasize the importance of this realization among the countries and the common inhabitants. Some scary statistics have been emerging by certain scientists in the recent years from various countries and many global scientific brains are still working in determining the actual consequences hidden behind this deathly earthly happening.

      Though the economic life of the world is relying upon multiple concerns of the sphere, the substantial neurons for survival are generated by agriculture which is indeed the anchor of economic ramification. The global warming has indirect harms to the agriculture by gradually depreciating the arable lands and thereby overall food productivity rate would end up in belittling throughout in the offing. Due to uneven extreme climatic changes, the food production would be the severe victim throughout. There will be a direct impact on timber and other value added wooden production due to slowdown in the growth of the trees. The sequent consequence is obviously the fall in the global exporting and importing of related market.

     Scientists also keep stating that further increase in the global temperature would cause the excessive melting of ice blocks in the Polar Regions which would result in the terrible increase of earth’s water level. Consequently, the coastal regions would undergo complete diminution and catastrophe of people over there would likely to happen. Also, marine lives would be descending to a greater extent which would end up in the decline of fishing economy. On the other hand, certain other regions of the world would become completely dry and water scarcity would reach its peak. Again, this would terribly affect the livelihood of the people with severe aftermaths. Similar other effects in almost all possible means to engender abysmal impacts on all businesses and investments across the globe in all fields. These economic impacts would reverberate throughout the world.

     Economists are getting into serious contemplations on this issue and landing up in foreseeing jeopardizing effects to occur in the offing. They believe that this drastic change in the global temperature will push the global GDP to fall down. They would indirectly cause harm in the growth of global infrastructures. Energy and retail sectors would happen to fall in vain. There are also possibilities of lack in the potential of human resources across the world owing to their poor health and unexpected catastrophes. Similar related disasters in all means will circuitously affect the global banking and financial flow in heaps of sectors. All these effects would result in huge joblessness globally. In fact, developing countries are more vulnerable to these imminent extreme conditions than their developed counterparts due to serial trickling in their growth rate. Preemptive measures are mandatorily needed to stay safer from the upcoming global disorder.

     This threatening global situation could even have the possibility to devastate future economy and the entire forthcoming generation as well. So, people should never ever consider it as a partisan issue by imbibing politics in it. With the help of United Nations, all countries should work together in formulating the plans and strategies so as to minimize these impacts of climatic disorders in affecting the economic clouds. Certain efficacious initiatives like SEZ, insanitary restrictive industries in infrastructural arena should be excessively encouraged globally to minimize the cosmic effects.

Need of the hour is to reframe the economy holistically by sticking to the principles of the ecology. All humans on earth are now supposedly cornered to agnize the effects of this environmental perturbation over financial conglomerate.  If no call is admitted even in this high time, serious economic hitherto would buttress to its superlative shape. Also, it is a potential fuss across the continents which should again be treated like any other deathly dire epidemic disease of earth and collective contribution should be alarmed to forgo the imminent historical economic recession.  

Go Green in ecology and Get Sanity in Economy!

~~Behind the Mask~~

     "Economic Reform" is the recent mask wore by UPA as a part of their political game to deviate the attention of people from making sense of the economic deterioration. If you look behind the mask, the face of UPA is still dirty. I perceive that these political chameleons coin the irrelevant initiatives which are not at all synonymous to what they actually mean and in fact, they are trying to mobilize the contemporary Indian economy from worse to worst phase ever. After numerous agitations and controversies, this sarcastic mask of useless reforms comprises some senseless naive policies like intrusion of FDI in multi-brand retail, LPG cap limit and diesel price hike. Though these policies seem like elegant measures of the Government if you see from a bird eye view, intensely, they all need exhaustive implementation which is ultimately the impossible expectation from their side. Then what is the need in introducing these so called reforms? I am completely clueless why the person who is solely responsible for the economic freedom of the country is today keen on these baseless reforms!

     "FDI" which could apparently be tagged as "Firewall Destructive Infusion" of the huge Indian Retail fortress. Yes, hopefully it would demolish the Indian retail firewall if the policy is introduced with no strict legal regulations. But, we could ponder about this contentious issue in two complementary angles. 

     Positive contemplation is that we could get huge capital investments entering into our economic cloud which could enhance the fund flow in the national financial hierarchy and would result in the slight increase in GDP and thereby slight fall in inflation rate. Boom in retail sector would create many naive jobs throughout the business line and also the consumers would enjoy quality products with compressed pricing. 

     Negative contemplation leads to the drastic decline of middle level retail sectors like Kirana stores which in turn would result in joblessness. Ambiguity would be consistent in the survival of the farmers in the offing due to foreign intervention in the supply chain.

     From the complete study of the functionality of FDI driven retail sector in various Asian countries like China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines etc, we could conclude that the probability of holistic lucre is far better in latter case (discarding FDI) than the former one. In case of approving the latter one, many legal restrictions should be strictly incorporated which is quite impossible with our current spineless bureaucracy. Statistically, for every 1500 jobs created by foreign giants like Wallmart, there would be a loss of 4000 jobs in the middle level which sounds completely superfluous. Coming to quality of products, we could place our hope on the current competitive Indian retail behemoths like future group, Reliance, Aditya Birla Group who would bring down the pricing scale of products nominally with better quality.  Besides, mark my words that the huge capital via this gateway of FDI would take a new corruptive avatar in the near future which would probably triumph all those renowned Forbes, 2G, commonwealth and Coalgate scams of the century. So, no matter who opposes the policy, UPA would welcome it with red carpet bothering no diatribe.

     Apropos the consistent fluctuation on crude oil prices on the global floor, Indian Government has made it a habitual practice of dumping all the subsidies to their bigger figures so as to make the hikes on fuel prices as periodical customs. Aam Aadhmi get used with this "persistent overloading & dumping" and he has learnt to least  bother the hikes and cornered to adapt to conservative life.  This new cap limit in LPG is again a hard hit on his rear head to alarm him that UPA is still ruling his country. 

     The stringent objective behind the Government policies is to magnify the gap between the upper and the lower middle class which would engender serious discriminatory consequences in the offing. So, no point in incorporating this diesel hike and LPG cap policies which would again kindle agitation among the people which would diminish in due course. On the other hand,   only modicum monetary generation would be possible out of these pointless initiatives. 

     If you contemplate from productive angle, these policies stand nowhere in the profitable accomplishment. But still, UPA is cornered to wear this mask to safeguard their baseless Rajneethi with resultant partitions which would end up in nothing. Even the shuffling of their allies make the party bit more complex. Seemingly, they are moving out of their tactic track of political game in garnering their vote banks. That doesn't make the NDA as the better replacement for UPA folks at any cost. End of the day, people are the bees to be eaten!

     Eventually, I wanna state that these reforms are undoubtedly welfare measures for the country's economic paralysis, provided implemented by considering the future consequences which is hardly possible! Anyways, it is already late. Pan is on heat! Let us lit the candle of hope as usual!  

Again, I would like to rephrase what I used to feel, "It is high time for Revolution!". 

Quest of Young India!

Just now finished reading the recent novel by one of the renowned best selling authors Mr. CB! (Chetan Bhagat) Yep, the book was "What young India Wants?". From the prior list of books of this fictitious writer, we could anticipate tons of renditions from the title of the book he has tagged. 

"May be the Young India is quite interested in Gadgets, Cricket, Bollywood, Boozing, chaps or gorgeous ladies, Play station or stuffs like that! So, what we should do to incorporate deviation in the contemporary track of youth to make them productive!" 

This was my anticipation before flipping the first page. Usually, I never used to look at the back cover of CB's book where he used to depict the glimpse of the theme which would dilute my interest in reading further. But, my forethought was completely wrong which I have realized while flipping the first few pages itself. 

     Introspectively, he has attached a letter prior beginning the novel by describing his life story via various impediments from the sediments of our country so as to justify himself for penning this book. From his intense promotional letter, I got to know that this novel would completely disappoint those CB freaks who would anticipate fictions in it. But still, I flipped with the hope that it would be informative throughout. And, yes, it was! More than expected! 

     CB has intricately discussed about three major criteria of the country namely, Our Society, Politics and the Youth of today. His perspectives might not be wholly agreed by everyone including me but the propensity towards all the issues he has depicted was intense and resourceful. 

     He has portrayed many hindrances in our society from all the roots of our tradition to the ongoing issues and their severe resultants in the offing. Also, he has depicted about the political disorders of the country and predicted their effects in deteriorating our national growth in all means. 

     To fix all those vivid issues, India has the greatest potential being young. Yep, the median age of Indian population is 25 and almost 70% of the population is below 35 years of age. CB says, that we need to make use of this phase of generation change to find the solutions for all the social and political paralyses. We should inculcate the youth crowd starting from the re-framing of entire education system in the country which is sick for the past few decades. Reservation system should be precisely defined which has been functioning in the senseless scope all these years. He has also suggested his own ideas to solve certain sensible national issues like FDI, Kashmir dispute etc., which seem quite efficient enough to implement. 

     In a broader view, he wants India which is statistically young to kindle a revolution in the country to burn out all the existing and imminent perturbations to grow at a faster pace in the global stage. Though his objectives of the book are quintessential for the current national scenario, his narration seems to be quite vague and he partially lacks the motivating energy to the readers. But still, it is worth of reading and would has possibilities to wake up the young crowd since most of his readers are youths. 

     Final fictional story was quite impressive enough to fortify his perspectives and suggestions to the countrymen. Way to go CB! Please pen your fictions with motives and messages inscribed in your imminent write ups. It would really matter a lot to your young fan crowd. 

     According to me, "Change is something which would never happen in India" is a kind of long standing superstitious thought which could be eliminated from the minds of whammy people of the country by a social cause called "Revolution".  Hence, this book is indeed the best counsel for the quest of Young India. It would at least make the sluggish youths to think for a while amid their tons of useless commitments. Hoping for the revolution soon in our motherland which is what the young India really wants!  

FYI - Though I am not a die hard fan of CB, he is one who inspires me a lot not only in writing but also in multiple walks of life. His speech at Symbiosis still remains as the mantra of my life. Despite various comments and opinions of critics on him, I personally believe, he is deserved to be where he is today! Love you man :) 

A Chota Cup of Philosophy!

Beauty is Truth, truth beauty,'-that is all                        

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

                                - John Keats     

Above lines were inscribed by John Keats on his popular poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” which went viral and inspirational on the minds of people throughout the centuries. Tons of interpretations and reviews were done by many literary geeks on the line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”, but still the precise understanding seems to be ambiguous. I have gone through multiple explanations by literary intellectuals and had many discussions with great people all through my life and got my own rendition for those lines of such a greatest gentleman of the literary era. 

    These lines basically emphasize on the identities of “Truth” and “Beauty” of human life. According to the author, the real beauty lies only if anything is holistically true. Also, falsehood cannot deserve to be beautiful. This philosophical saying holds good in almost all walks of life in all means. The crux behind this philosophy is that only true things could be manifested as beauties and mere external beautiful appearance is not ample to shroud the ugliness composed inside. Let me bring out my perception towards this life centric philosophy.

 

        According to me, life is all about impressions. The more you do it, the more you are deserved to stay live. My inner self has discovered this mantra from all my bitter and better experiences of my life so far. If you contemplate much in ascertaining the source for the impression, you would  end up in obfuscation. The reason for the obfuscation is whether "Beauty" brings out the impression or the "Truth" does it. But in an intense interpretation, "Truth" and "Beauty" are synonymous to bring up the impression. Let me depict my justification more.

Science is the universal axiomatic mean of rationalising our perceptions. So, let me follow up the glimpse of science in my vindication.

 

     Before getting into a scientific narration, let me first disclose the definition of “Attitude” in my own thesaurus. Attitude is just like a mental spectacle through which we see the existing things in the world. So, everything depends on one’s attitude which literally adds the sense to all the perceptions of a human. Hence, attitude plays an essential role in framing an impression on the existing things.

 

     According to the scientific norms, human attitude is based on two means. First one is physiological and the next one is psychological. Physiology in this sense corresponds to the perception with physical orientation on the existing things and psychology refers to the mental orientation on them. If you are a kind of person with physiological attitude, the external delicious appearances would impress you more by obscuring the unrevealed realistic attributes of the entity. Sometimes, you would be in fact least bothered about the falsehood behind the beauty. On the other hand, if you are a person who prioritizes the mental perception in interpreting things, you would be impressed only by getting to know the entity with better intense lucidity in its extent of veracity. So, your actual evaluation becomes completely composed only if your contemplation about the things encompasses both the orientations of the things together. Hence, the evaluation of any entity is complete only by validating the truth and the beauty as well.

 

     Now, from the above elaboration, I could say that only true things could be beautiful. Also, things would be beautiful only if they are intensely genuine.

 

     Hence, my justification is almost inclined towards the understanding drawn from Keats’ golden lines.  So, always stick to beauty in all means which is eventually tailed towards the “truth” in all walks of life! 

It Happens!

     There are certain personalities in the world for whom there are certain things which always stay forbidden  in life despite their intentions! Tons of tremendous histories and stories might be behind this fact!

     I am one among those personalities for whom the most infamous place of imagination called "Library" never happened to be favourable criterion till my recent history. From my schooling spans to my work-life, I never ever happened to stay more than a while in such a devious place unless I had a purpose of meeting someone over there. Library was an unreachable place in my life just like mobile phone network inside an elevator. Also, incidentally, reading books has become the deadliest habit in my life about which my perception always keep debating with my practice. Unfortunately, I have been immunised to make use of Library cards everywhere wherever I happen to get.

     Cluelessly, my new journey of post graduation has brought the hugest possible transformation in my life by adding up a contradictory and controversial responsibility in my kart. Yes! I am surprised and modest in holding the post of "Library Representative" at Vanguard Business School. I have taken the charge of the responsibility over the place of books over here! It Happens! 

Any ways, life is more interesting being uncertain and unpredictable! 

                                 

     Fortunately or unfortunately, I am around tons of books here! All are indeed  invaluable treasures! Fragrance of these collections would supposedly corner me in flipping some of the pages. 

With the hope that my worth phase of life begins in such a pious ambience, I will move on! 

Again, it will be the prime responsibility of this place rather than mine to make me NERDY! Hopefully ;)

     

I Wanna Be a Stupid!

“Who are you?”  It was a question thrown to us by a seeming simple gentleman on the session on “Life skills” in the induction week of my new b-school life. Indifferent answers stroke everyone’s mind in the class that we intended to disclose our name.  Few did it. Few got into scientific streaming and answered “I am a human”, “Human being”, “Animal”, “Animal with sixth sense” and some moved deeper and responded “Homo sapiens”, “Mammal” and finally everyone ended clueless as he went on negating our answers!

Before answering his query, he requested all those people who are mentally below the age of 18 to walk out of the class! 

Later he stated, “This is what science and society taught you all these years. But still I wanna ask ‘who are you?’ “. We stayed with our emptied minds to listen to him. Then he revealed what we supposed to say, “You are INSIGNIFICANT! Yes, you are! Also, you are nothing in this world. You have nothing and no one with you. You are unfortunately cornered to be ALONE here!”

We were completely perplexed on his statement about us. He started with his justification.

                     

“You might think that you have many people around you. May be your spouse, parents, may be your girl or boy friend, your friends, siblings or whoever in whatever entities of love. But still, they are meaningless when you start contemplating from the perspective of reality. Yes, this is a factoid! World is extremely huge and survival of human species is something beyond the existence. Your existence is INFINITE! Because, you are existing over the hugest denominator possible and your evolution has the greatest influence in you rather than yourself. “, he recited.

There was more than a pin drop silence in the class. Everyone got into their bewildered thinking about themselves and ended up with empty solutions. And, we kept heeding to him.

He justified with a math sticking to it. Yes. Anything with the denominator of infinity becomes infinite again! Our existence below the infinite existences of earth makes us infinite! So, he rationalized his justification and very first time I made sense to the philosophical application of Math to our life! None of my math teachers from kindergarten has taught me how to apply it when it comes to life. 

He also stated, “Even after interpreting this untold and unfelt truth, if you want someone to guide or motivate, you are none other than a STUPID!  Yes, you are! His diatribe kindled our unrevealed realization around us all these years.

He also said that to survive in this life of insignificance, you need to make yourself SELF MOTIVATED.  No one is there to disclose our pathway to move on. Everything is ours and we are everything for ourselves. Just have to learn to live and survive alone. Nothing is persistent and permanent as well. He said these add-ons together comprise our maturity level. He also stated that he respects each and everyone's maturity and he believes in it.   

It was indeed a painless psychological slap to almost all of us. His inert philosophy had frozen our thoughts for a while and stuffed the lacuna in our undiscovered intelligence. He went on stating many mysterious things throughout the session which were more than philosophical means to follow on.

He described the complete global evolution beyond spirituality and ended up in tagging that only two natured entities exist in the world. They either stick to dacoity or prostitution and he came up with his own solid justifications for them!

To be unfeigned, we were completely in a different world throughout the session. He might seem simple but he is such a down to earth superlative gentleman composed with intense DNAs.

Yes sir! We were seriously stupid until your session which was an eye-opener to almost all of us.

And, I cordially wanna be a STUPID if someone like you motivates me!

Let me be another Ekalavya to get to learn intense stuffs from you without your knowledge in this new journey of my life! 

The personality about whom I was describing was Rishiraj Dasgupta sir! One of the esteemed faculties of Vanguard Business School!