Khaali haanth?

Bazaaron ke beech mein tujhe ashayein maarte dekha tha…

2 rupeyon ke liye tujhe minton jirah karte dekha tha..

mahine ke aakhir mein tujhe rashan ke khali dibbon mein subakte dekha tha..

tab meine yeah jaana tha ki khushiyon ka rang hara hota hai…

 

jab har saal nayi kitabein gudi hoti thi…

jab school dress nahin, bas saal badalte they…

jab sab motorcycle se mujh cycle sawar ko peeche chhod jaate they…

tab meine yeah jaana ki aakankshaon ka rang hara hota hai…

 

un aankhon mein kya tha yeah pata nahin per..baandh kar rahi leti thi…

kehte hain ki kuuch baatein boli nahin, aaknhon se kahi jaati hain…

per jab usse chamchamati car mein vida hote dekha to…

tab meine yeah jaana ki zubaan ka rang hara hota hai…

 

Kaun sa hara rang? kisne banaya? kis per lagaya?

mein asamanjas mein tha…

phir hazaar thokarein khakar naukri ki talassh mein,

mein yeah jaana ki rupayon ka rang hara hota hai…

 

sach kya hai? Aur jhhot kise kehte hain?

sahi galat mein farq kaun batlaayega?

kisko maane aur kisko nakaarein?

aakhirkaar es duniya mein…

bhagwaan ka rang hara hota hai..

 

phir meine es hare rang se hi pyar kiya..

raat ko din banaya aur din ko meine bech diya…

jab sabko meine hara ranga to..

naa sahi raha kuuch aur naa galat bacha…

 

Aaj jab mein sar se paav tak hare rang mein ranga khada hoon…

woh gaye kahan jinke liye mein es peeda ko bhog raha hoon…

Kyon chhod gaye mujhe beech dagar mein?

kya khoon ka rang bhi hara hota hai?

kyon bhool gaye woh us ‘mein’ ko jo unse hi bhara pada hai?

Aaj en viraaniyon mein tanha khada hoon mein…

tab jaana ki ‘Khali haanthon’ ka rang hara hota hai…..

My Work..

Enterprise Instant Messaging business is an area to look upon… there are biggies in the market, but then “It is our destiny to attempt the impossible, to accomplish great deeds regardless of fear….” 😀

Here’s my understanding of EIM market in India and a promotion + monetization plan for the same…

Enterprise Instant Messaging Market in India

what do I, a soon to be an MBA, does when getting bored in a class.. a sample…

“Sushupt se us sarp-dansh ko,

sooye se us vaajrapaat ko,

anibhigya se us ghor bhanvar ko,

mrityu-tulya si peedaaon ko,

se moorkh manushya, mat khel yahan….”

“Roosh devsh ke baandh phatenge,

vaedanaaon ki baadh aayegi,

jab jab krodh ka seersh uthega,

vasudha mit kar phir ban jaayegi.”

“Moorkh ho tum, swayam ka naash banate ho,

atkheli ki laalsa mein, “swayam” surp ko jagate ho,

Jaano… jaano ki yeah sheshnaag hai,

shaant nahin iska swabhaav hai,

soone do… soone do es maha sarp ko..

esme basta vasudha-vinaash hai.”

“Jab jab swayam ka sarp utha hai,

dharti ka shringaar hua hai.. rakt se,

aur nayi ek dhara bani hai,

raam raj se pare kahin.”

Now what do you call it?? i was not able to christen my writings.. leaving to to my readers… gemme a name, i’ll change the post to the best one i get.. 🙂

aakanshaon ki keemat

kuuch woh pal they,
jab mein spano ke shitij per khada,
apne armaano ko ubharte dekhta tha.
dobta tha, aur phir ubharta tha unke saath,
surya ki laalima mein nahata tha,
to kabhi sheetal chandni mein jhilmilata tha.

Khelta tha aoos ki boondon sa,
rail se race lagata tha,
aur khule, jagmagate asmaan ko dehk kar,
baahen parare, aagosh mein bar leta tha.

Aur ek yeah pal hai,
jab zindagi ki kash-ma-kash mein phansa mein,
maanje sa ulajh chuka hoon.
jis rimjhim ka sada intezaar karta tha,
aaj usi baarish se bachta phirta hoon.

kahin chhott si gayi hai zindagi,
kahin bhool aaya hoon mein apne aap ko.
aakanshaoon ka peecha karte karte,
khaboon ko haquiqat ka jama pehnate hue,
kahin chhod aaya hoon mein khushi ko.

per kya mein poora kar paya,
ya poora kar paunga un khaboon ko?
jo haasil hai, kya how khushi deta hai?
ya jiski aakansha hai, woh santosh layega?
kahan kho gaya hoon mein? kyon? kab? kaise?

help needed…

Elder brother of my friend Vidhyasagar, batchmate @ XLRI GMP has gone missing since 20 August 2009. His family and friends are trying hard to find him or any info about his whereabouts.

Mr. Anand Parkash (Vidhya’s brother, who is missing) last talked to his wife on 20th Aug, 2009 from his JOSHIYADA, Uttarkashi residence and he went missing after that.

here is the link to the facebook group created with sole purpose of spreading the news so that we can get as much information as possible. Please join the group and help us in locating him ASAP.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133213196563

Please help!!!  Any help, whether big or minuscal in volume/size, would also make a difference..

UD says…

We are in term 2.. fighting and learning the art of fighting from STM, HRM, MIS, Law, POM, OMMD and FM (it should be renamed as CF aka corporate finance.. my personal views)..

Prof. Uday Damodaran teaches us FM. His classes are truely amazing as you learn a new thing every second.. the effects are so widespread that people of my batch have started using terminology like  ‘NPV’ and ‘IRR’ in jokes!!! do not forget the ‘principle -agency problem’ angle (patent goes to Mayank) brought in the case discussion for STM(strategic mgmt).

I usually pick certain one liners of UD sir and I know, I am not the lone one doing that ..  you’ll find people scribbling in his classes, not constantly, but then @ regular intervals.. a sneak peek in those notebooks would reveal that along with fundas of CF, there lies the great one liners of UD sir.

I intend to share the same with others and thought of doing so by starting a series called ‘UD says’. Though continuation of same depends upon the consent of UD sir. To begin with…

“rate of return is ‘nothing’, it is the ‘scale’ that matters the most. Don’t put in the capital for faster returns, remember fish bait.. you didn’t came to invest for fish bait…”

“Think BIG …. Think NPV”

and somewhere deep down in my mind, a record started playing this ..

“Girte hain shahe savaar hi maidaan-e-jung mein…

Woh tifn kya girenge jo ghutno ke bal chalenge”

B&J vs Mount Auburn vs NPV, IRR vs Buckman

This is not a list of companies for comparative study, but just a glimpse of the list of cases we are already done with, in this week itself.. and the week is still left.. God.. with soo many HBS cases around, no wonder, soon HBS would be here @ Jamshedpur.

I don’t want to become one of those who end up as ;

“Chala tha case ki study karne…

Per khud hi ek case banke reh gaya..”

The world of second handlers

I had read about Steve Mallory, but now I know one.

Now I know, why Ayn Rand would have written Fountainhead. What would have caused her to create characters like Steve Mallory and Peter Keating. Years have passed since fountainhead was first published, but the world is still at the same juncture, has not even moved an inch. All the globalization and industrialization, digital age that we talk about is fake as their very existence is challenged by the stiff thinking patterns of society. Can a society really progress when the thinking of society never developed?

The world was always and will always be, a lair of second handlers. People, who can’t control their life, but are trying to collaborate with other similars to control life of others, to dictate terms and lifes of others. People who talk of ‘fate’ and the invisible hand of God, governing everything from markets to one’s life. People, to whom, innovation is just a ‘buzz’ word. Actually they don’t want to innovate. The world is a herd of monkeys, where they pull down and beat the monkey who is trying to climb high or is trying to evolve.

This is the world where people take pride in what they didn’t earn, but got by chance. They boost about the wealth they got by legacy and not of the money they’ve earned by hard work. They blabber about innovation, but strangle it in groups. Once in a while, if someone gets enlightened and tries to think, they kill his thinking. To me killing of thinking is more heinous crime then killing the person himself. They gang up, those pathetic second handlers, and create another Steve Mallory. But this world is san of any Howard Roark, who would come and rescue those Steve Mallorys. They’ll rot and rot, finally give up life or the straggle, becoming a second handler once again.

Economics, Howard Roark and Individualism

“My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.”

That’s Howard Roark. In-your-face guy. Take another one;

“I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom. To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

Its all about individualism and not capitalism. Through Howard Roark, Ayn Rand communicates the premise of individualism, the very right on an individual to safeguard his wealth and hard work from the ‘second-handlers’ of society. “men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision“, she describes her ideology in the perfect sense while enlisting the reason behind success of a man.

People tend to confuse individualism with capitalism, presuming it to be one extreme form of capitalism, wherein an individual works for himself and only himself. But then, capitalism doesn’t profess that ‘alone’. In his “Theory of moral sentiments“, Adam Smith identifies ‘sympathy’ and ‘benovolence’ towards society as one of the two driving forces behind man’s action, but doesn’t he counters his own statement when he says “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” ??

In his article titled “The troubled economics of Ayn Rand” (published in Liberty magazine, Jan’2001), Mark Skousen comments that Howard Roark denied the basic tenet of sound economics, the principle of consumer sovereignty, when he objected the Dean of the architectural school by saying “I don’t intend to build in order to serve or help anyone. I don’t intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build.”. As per Mark, this is in sync with the Say’s Law (“supply creates its own demand”) and is almost anti-social, and he sites the utilization or the possible purpose of creation of a baseball stadium, only when people come to watch baseball game(s) in it.  Did Howard Roark ever professed his inclination to work for the society or the greater good of the society? Thats the difference between the Free market theory proposed by Adam smith in “Wealth of Nations” and Individualism. Individualism is Individualism. You don’t work for others, but for you. People would come to you, to buy your goods or services, not because they ‘care’ for you, or are ‘benovalent’, but because they need it. They need it and you are offering them the best that they can afford. If not, you will never sell it to them as long as there exists people who can afford it, and you know that they exist, Capitalism has created them 🙂  The difference between riches and poors is a gift of capitalism and not individualism and its only getting wider.  Till the point I have diamonds of Superior quality and people know that I have diamonds of superior quality, they’ll approach me for it.

A vague, but practical example thats gels well. A very famous escort, known for her services, would attract clients who are ready to pay high fees, its not her who is approaching them, but is being approached by the clients. All she needs to do is to be approachable..

Individualism never professes ‘benovalence’ or  ‘care’ for society, but stresses upon the betterment of individual by virtue of his own actions. One must not depend upon others for his good, its his duty towards himself. In process of doing good for himself, if he creates a greater good for society, then its capitalism who can take credit of it, its not what individualism professes or claims…

Market positioning and Partnerships

I found this amazing video where Prof. Tom Byers, Standford Univ.  talks about the importance of partnership in positioning. He cites the famous ‘chasm’ theory of Geffory M Morre and expresses partnership as one of the mechanisms to cross the ‘chasm’.

Enjoi the video