Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Being Democratically Global

I was flabbergasted by the statement of Suresh Kalmadi the whole sole of the Indian Olympics Council abbreviated as IOC that ‘What good would the Asian games be for India?’ The result was that we lost the acknowledgement of being the host for the same. We had one chance just reaching the expertise in the globalized world and we lost it just because of some big mouthed stuff by some of the higher official. I wonder what kind of gap is to follow in the economy between India and China when China will host the next Olympics. A communist country like China is ready to except this globalized world and a democratic; secularist country like ours is still behaving conservative.
We still shout on the multinationals coming in India but never speak about overpowering them. I would just like to quote an example here. NIKE means victory; it also means a type of expensive sports shoes. In the minds of the anti-globalization movement NIKE stands for victory of a western footwear company over the poor and dispossessed. It is the symbol of unacceptable global triumph of global capital.
Often sold for many times more than the wages of the worker who makes them, NIKE shoes are hate objects more potent, in the eyes of the anti globalists, even more than the McDonalds hamburger. If you want to be trendy these days, you don’t wear NIKEs; you boycott them.
So I was interested to hear some not only praising NIKE sweatshops, but also claiming that NIKE is an example of a responsible business and that someone was the ruling communist party in Vietnam. Today Nike has around six times more workers in Vietnam than in U.S.
In truth the work looks tough and the conditions grim, if we compare Vietnamese factories with those in the west, but that’s not the comparison these workers make. They compare the work with NIKE with the way they lived before, on the way their parents and neighbours still work.
Ten years ago when a small factory of NIKE was established in Vietnam, the workers had to walk to their factories, often for many kilometers. After three years they could afford bicycles. Another three years down they could afford scooters. Today NIKE’s first workers could afford to buy even a car.
I would refer same as the case in India too. Why do we yell always for the multinationals? Why don’t we ourselves seek betterment? We are capable of producing a competitive market even while the western competitors march in. The thing to be thought about is why still we are the third world. Its time when we identify ourselves on this new accessible platform provided.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Apprehension unjust

To describe apprehension of greatest degree how would it be to spell the word EXAMINATION? Bulls Eye! Try to remember the last examination/combat u had. Have a look at ur hands. Have the hairs on ur hands eyed up from the roots having heard this word? Don’t worry it is not an extended version of any kind of what we spell as phobia. It is just an obvious expression I would say u have had.
I am an engineering student and a normal one who enjoys his college comes home and enjoys what he had at the college within his circle when he is not in their and lives happily within himself. College for me is just another amusement park where u pay thousands of bugs to cherish out the best moments of ur life, but just one sting spoils out this routine ‘THE EXAMINATION’.
A month before the examination, it all starts with the study of course to be studied. Then it comes on to the workstation where all things (studies) are to be done. Then the armory (i.e. the stationary including the books and guides we do have) is collected in the arsenal. The workstation is cleaned and as they say a study atmosphere is tried to be created within. Things are cleaned as if it is not a study place rather an automotive station where things may get disturbed if they aren’t cleaned and when this all is over we look up and see the calendar which alerts it as 20 more days to go.
This is the time we start up scheduling jobs, allotting techniques with which study is to be done chalk down the plans and then realize in doing so we have 10 more days to go. Hastily we shut aside the plans dump out the sophisticated books and pen down to the Indian writers and seek their help in achieving those crucial 35. In the papers we search for the questions which we can best do and have a go at them and once we attempt the amount of questions which are barely necessary to cross the Barbarian border we feel ‘Mission accomplished’.
I sometimes wonder why I am satisfied even when we do satisfactorily well by just mugging down things. What good this knowledge would this do to my technical skills but this all is obscured by time and I further again get involved in the easier life I am leading.