Hey RAM!!!

This is a forward I received in my mail box today!!!
I do not know who has written it.
But its worth reading... :)

The Lord surveyed the Ram Setu and said "Hanuman, how diligently and
strenuously you and your vanara sena had built this bridge several
centuries back. It is remarkable that it has withstood the ravages of
the climatic and geographical changes over centuries. It is indeed an
amazing feat especially considering the fact that a bridge at Hyderabad
built by Gammon using latest technology collapsed the other day even
before they could stick the posters on its pillars."

Hanuman with all humility spoke "Jai Sri Ram, it is all because of your
grace. We just scribbled your name on the bricks and threw them in the
sea and they held. No steel from TISCO or cement from Ambuja or ACC was
ever used. But Lord, why rake up the old issue now."

Ram spoke "Well, Hanuman some people down there want to demolish the
bridge and construct a canal. The contract involves lot of money and lot
of money will be made. They will make money on demolition and make more
money on construction. "

Hanuman humbly bowed down and said "Why not we go down and present our case"

Ram said "Times have changed since we were down there. They will ask us
to submit age proof and we don't have either a birth certificate or
school leaving certificate. We traveled mainly on foot and some times in
bullock carts and so we don't have a driving license either. As far as
the address proof is concerned the fact that I was born at Ayodhya is
itself under litigation for over half a century, If I go in a
traditional attire with bow and arrow, the ordinary folks may recognize
me but Arjun Singh may take me to be some tribal and, at the most, offer
a seat at IIT under the reserved category. Also, a God
cannot walk in dressed in a three-piece suit and announce his arrival.
It would make even the devotees suspicious.

So it is dilemma so to say."

"I can vouch for you by saying that I personally built the bridge."
"My dear, Anjani putra, it will not work. They will ask you to produce
the lay-out plan, the project details, including financial outlay and
how the project cost was met and the completion certificate. Nothing is
accepted without documentary evidence in India. You may cough but unless
a doctor certifies it, you have no cough. A pensioner may present
himself personally but the authorities do not take it as proof. He has
to produce a life-certificate to prove that he is alive. It is that
complicated."

"Lord can't understand these historians. Over the years you have given
darshan once every hundred years to saints like Surdas, Tulsidas, Saint
Thyagaraja, Jayadeva, Bhadrachala Ramdas and even Sant Tukaram and still
they disbelieve your existence and say Ramayana is a myth. The only
option, I see, is to re-enact Ramayana on earth and set the government
records straight once for all."

Lord smiled "It isn't that easy today. Ravan is apprehensive that he may
look like a saint in front of Karunanidhi. I also spoke to his mama
Mareecha, who appeared as a golden deer to tempt Sita maiyya when I was
in the forest and he said that he won't take a chance of stepping on
earth as long as Salman Khan is around."

NEWS AHOY!!!!

Do you remember the days when we dint have so many news channels? We had the one and only one Doordarshan news. This was available in both Hindi and English. As for the international news, we had good old Pranoy Roy hosting "The world this week" on Fridays.

But now, I hate to even accidentally land on any news channel while surfing. Practically every news channel is dishing out some trash or the other. I somehow feel that these media personnel are so full of themselves these days, that they can go any length to get that coveted big story. One of the worst lines "You saw it first on ... TV". It doesn't matter what has happened, whether my neighbors cat  farted, whether its a natural calamity, whether its a terrorist attack, no matter what it is, the most important thing is, "You saw it first on ... TV". What's with these media folks???

This seems to be the case everywhere. For some stupid TRP ratings, the media streams painful images repeatedly. The case I am referring to being the tapes of the Virginia Tech student who went on that inhuman massacre. Then there was Anna Nicole Smiths death and the subsequent custody battle that her boyfriend was battling out against some lawyer for her child. One news channel was almost dedicated to covering her. For Gods sake, she was a drug addict and an adult movie actress. By providing her a non stop obituary, the media is doing nothing but glorifying her acts and her life!!! Is this right??? How does the impressionable teenage mind react to this kind of news? Is the media aware of the repercussions of its news hunt? Who cares, the TRP's and the increasing bottom lines due to the increase in advertising are more important.

 The media which is supposed to be the watch dog, has gradually become a monster out on hunt. Preying upon anything and everything which would give them something to talk about.

Another example, Adnan from Mumbai, the financial capital of India, was murdered by a bunch of idiotic guys. The reason, they had kidnapped him and asked for ransom, but due to incessant media coverage the kidnappers got scared, they killed Adnan. If the media had not been so ruthless in its coverage, maybe the Police could have got him back safe.

I wish the media regulates itself. There is no point in bringing a legislation to regulate the media.

STATE OF AFFAIRS!!!

The above dilbert comic strips conveying the exact state of affairs.

Aspirations

Individuals, once they join an organization have an ambition that they want to reach the top echelons of the organization they belong to. Well, yes, baring a few exceptions, who are content with what they do and do not want to rise into the upper echelons, the so called corridors of power. They are the blessed ones. Truth has dawned upon them, that in this game, the prince is but a pauper!!!

Most of us think that once we get the designation of a supervisor, we are all set to arrive in the big bad corporate world.

Just then, we hear a big bell DINGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We still report to another person, who happens to be our supervisor. Hence, the arrival of "The Person" into the arena gets delayed by some period. Thus begins the quest for ascent into the next level of the hierarchy. The concerned individual thinks that the moment he/she goes to the next level, this bigger, meaner, smarter individual would redefine the way things work. Uh oh, did we hear the big bell again???

The answer is yes. Unfortunately, more often than not, the individual meets another bigger, meaner, smarter person awaiting the new jackass!!!

For those who go on to the top positions of an organization, they end up being answerable to the share holders. One of these share holders could in fact be an employee of the same organization.

My take being that this cycle has no end!!! No body is truly king!!!!

Of course there are exceptions, royalty for that matter is such a parasitic institution.