I start to blogg.....earnestly??

It's a long wait to put up this blog..... or more serious things than usual sissy crap I admit to have put in previous one. Maybe it's the Democratic Indian syndrome that every Indian seems to have caught. After all what's most talked about now about India is it's tardiness in policy, bureaucracy .....to be precise we think all times and stop there. This affliction as always prompts me to stop things at the cerebral level.....never to put it into bytes here. The same with many of the people I know. Almost 70% of my peers talked, talked and talked either about starting out of their own, or even of moving on to better opportunities. But the turnover rate is an abysmal 0%. And this is to a population that I consider far superior to their peers across the world. The IIM Ahmedabad is by far the world's toughest school to get into. Yet many of the people I know are through to it. And almost all the young people I know are struggling on to get into the toughest league schools. They aspire to head the best in class corporations of tomorrow. But the aspirations are far less from what could have been. These best in class could easily create the next IBMs or Microsofts....right here and head it.....with a much lesser effort, though with a higher risk at stake.
But this phenomenon is not just one at the microscopic level. Our biggest competitor, the neighbour across the Himalayas, the 'Communist China' was slowed down by SARS in 2002. But the World's largest democracy, the Indian elephant trudges on afflicted by an even more serious 'democracy syndrome' in it's DNA. I happened to read the book 'Governance' by Arun Shourie ......it'll turn you aghast and at the same time make you laugh. How could serious things be bogged down for years in such trivial matters like if black, blue or some other colour should be used in official documents. Today the news screams of Left opposing the FDI, labour reforms and multitude of things, things which could propel us to OECD league. Down south, dowdy Mr Deve Gowda is busy spewing venom on people like Narayana Murthy and the many multinationals, courtesy of which the Bangalore has earned the sobriquet 'the Silicon Valley of the East'. And at centre is the Congress waiting for one excuse or the another to stall the nascent reforms. The chance of a era is being frittered away, the chance for India to propel back to the Numero Uno position it used to be in centuries ago. While the precious time is being spent on debating each and every move the red dragon races on just across our walls.
The land where once Krishna preached about the importance of action and that action is in itself contemplation......is turning a blind eye to very same principle. The next few years will see if a 21st Krishna rises among us and wakes us from the slumber of contemplation into a land of action. And lets see if my young friends just choose to settle down being just white collared workers or would they stand up to create destines by sowing seeds to multitudes of giant corporations.......Hope both of them wake up now.....including me....i am looking forward to more thoughts put to blogs.....