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इस हफ्ते में सूरज की तपिश ने लोगों को अपनी  गर्मी से परेशां कर रखा है ... जब सूरज मजबूत होता है तोह धरती और हमारे आस  की चीज़ों में एक  निजता से आ जाती है ... आपका अपना शरीर पसीने से लदबद हो जाता है  आपको एक irritation सी होने लगती है , जब आप मैनहट्टन के किसी गन्दी सड़क से गुजरते हैं  तो underground  नालें की बदबू आपकी नासिकायों का स्वागत करती है ... आज शाम मैं घुमने गया था .. सूरज की तपिश ने धरती को एक सौंधी सी खुसबू दी है    सड़क के किनारें चलते चलते बगल के बगीचे से ऐसी ही सौंधी सुगंध ने  मुझे  अपने बस में कर लिया .. मन करता था उसे खूब जोर जोर से अपने बदन  में  महसूस करू ....  शरीर तोः धरती की सुगंध को महसूस करने में डूबा था .. मन कहीं और चला गया था .. शायद अपने गाँव की तरफ जहाँ इतनी तपन तोः आम बात है .. और धरती की खुसबू , पसीने की बदबू .. नालियों की महक ... रोजाने के जीवन का हिस्सा है .... खैर में कहना तोः कुछ और चाहता था इस ब्लॉग में ... चलिए लिख ही देते हैं वोह दास्ताँ जोह मेरे जीवन का महत्वपूर्ण दिन था .....
४ जुलाई की बात है .. मैं अपने एक दोस्त के barbecue में आमंत्रित था ... सब कुछ ७ बजते बजते ख़तम सा हो गया था ... मेरे पास कैमरा था सोचा की शाम की सुनहली शमा को अपने कैमरा में कैद कर लूं ... campus पास ही था .. मोर्निंग साइड पार्क से चलते चलते अली से मुलाकात हो गयी.. करीब घंटें भर बातें करके .. अन्दर campus के तरफ आ गया ...कुछ तावीरें कैद की अपने कैमरे में .. फिर  ११० स्ट्रीट से नंबर १ ट्रेन  लेने के बदले   चलता रहा.. चलता रहा .. वोही पुराने neighborhood जहाँ में कभी रहता था .. १०३ स्ट्रीट के अस पास के pinkberry से एक मांगो आइसक्रीम ख़रीदा .. चलते चलते .. एक पोस्टर पर नज़र पड़ी .. लिखा था माँ amritanandmai  न्यू योर्क में दर्शन देने वाली है .. chattered mind  को एक और ठिकाना.. सोचा की मौके मिला तोः इन्हें भी देख लेते हैं .. समय नोट कर लिया .. जुलाई ६  साथ बजे ...

काम ख़तम करके मनीष पहुँच गया  ३११ manhattan प्लेस .. कहीं हज़ार लोग थे .. मुझे भी एक पिंक स्लिप मिला .. कुछ देर बैठने से पता चला की वोह दर्शन स्लिप है   जब अन्दर आया था तोः एक अलग दुनिया दिखी ...  संगीत .. दुकाने .. अम्मा के नाम एक बहुत  बड़ा बिज़नस empire  दिखा . साधारण से लोग दिखे जिन्हें मुक्ति की तलाश थी .. ऐसे भी दिखे जोह सिर्फ पार्टी करने आये थे ..

खैर वोह पिंक स्लिप एक खास था क्योंकि वोह .. अम्मा से  व्यकिगत रूप से मिलने का मौका .... कुछ अनुभवी लोगों से पुछा,, तो पता चला की प-३ ( ये मेरे स्लिप का नंबर था ) का नंबर २ बजे के अaस पास आयेगा  . Embracing  the world ( यह अम्मा के humanitrian  ओर्ग का नाम है ) कुछ volunteer  दूंढ रहे थे ..मुझे भीगे हुए  बर्तन सुखाने का काम  मिला .. जाकोब जवित्ज़ सेण्टर में उनकी रसोई थी .. मुझे वहां वान से ले जाया गया ..   १ बजते बजते में फिर से वापस आ गया था .. वोही अलग दुनिया में .. जहाँ अम्मा सबसे समन्यवय भाव से मिल रही थी ..

मेरा वक़्त ४.३० मिनट पर आया ... अम्मा ने मुझे  गोद में  भर लिया ..कानो में कुछ कहा ... मुझे ऐसा लगा की मेरे बरसों की तलाश पूरी हो गयी है .. यह तलाश तो  एक मृग तृष्णा .. की तरह है .. सेक्रेट तो  मेरे ही पास है .. गुरु तो उसकी  याद दिला देते है .. अम्मा ने फिर से वोह लौ जलाई है  .... गुरु तोह बहुत मुश्किल  से मिलते है.. अम्मा मिली है .. काम तोह मुझे ही करना है  ..जीवित शरीर गुरु तोह भाग्य से ही मिलता है ....आजतक विडियो.. TAPE , आवाज़ और शिष्यों  के माध्यम से     
गुरु से मिला हूँ .. गुरु  BRAHMA ! गुरु विष्णु .. तस्मै श्री गुरु नम: 

This is my remarks for Yves Morieux atrticle on what is compensation compensating for ..

Before I start my remarks, I would like to give you little background of myself. I have worked in Greenpeace India for three years . Work was fun at Greenpeace and those three years were my some of the best in 31 years of my life. Salary was not great but we were great team and didn't expect our compensation to rise so fast because we worked to protect our planet and lived less consumerist life. Anyways I moved on in my life , finished my MPA at Sciences Po and SIPA. Currently,I work here in New York at small private company which believes in making money while helping people in getting jobs. In short my current company is a for profit private company which works with New York City Government to reduce urban poverty through employment and other public policy issues.

All these debates/protests about compensation are symptoms of something more deeper and chronic problems of our time. Organizations find it easier to buy engagement of their leaders/staff through monetary compensation because understanding and tackling of the real issues of man's alienation to his/her work, takes totally different approach . Its easy to monetize and put everything in numbers but its so difficult to create organic and engaging system where people can feel connected and their work would be liberating factor of their existence.

People are motivated by different factors when they choose their job. Their decision to join particular job is outcome of their emotional,social,and financial needs. For example when I decided to join Greenpeace India, I was motivated by organization's capability to save environment and compensation didn't play significant role in my decision. People were engaged and motivated to work for something which they believe in ( again this motivation and engagement are dynamic processes and it keep changing, transforming ,evolving in due course of time). I enjoyed my work there because I felt connected to some bigger purpose, a thread (passion for environment,feeling of doing something good) which held everyone together in Greenpeace . We demonstrated this connection through our daily lives . For example we would use public transport/bicycles to come to our work, use less plastics and refrain from using air conditioners. All these personal choices combined with professional zeal to save environment brought lots of satisfaction in life at that time.

I identify at least three real issues at work place.

1.There is a myth among management that monetary rewards can solve the problems of disengaging employees. Companies consider monetary rewards as most powerful tool to buy employees engagement but human mind is very complicated and an employee can never be engaged just by seeing his pay raise. For example I get pay raise every year at my current company but happiness is very transitory because getting pay doesn't resolve my problems.

Cooperation- I wont call this as tool for enhancing productivity, I would rather phrase as a medium of connectivity(this connectivity is not about technology but its about their passion, and spirit which binds people together) Individuals can feel connected when they cooperate, because employees at work feel alienated and by cooperation they can relate themselves to something collective. For example in Greenpeace we had this feeling among all the 38 offices of the world that we are warriors and fighting for our mother earth. Off course that feeling has evaporated now in me but organizations can still create engaging work environment where people can feel connected .

Designing small and organic systems- Currently technology has transformed management into machine which does the same job as machine does ,i:e tracking performance and conducting meeting with charts and data. Technology has immense potential to transform modern management into a more living and organic unit. Modern organization should learn a lot from nature,for example there is lot of research going on how to design intelligent urban distribution system based on living organisms like leaf and trunk of trees ,which is considered as resilient distribution network (Refer to network theory )

Why to Join IIMC and Mass Com

The question that why one should join the world of the mass communication in today’s fast changing world is significant in multiple ways. This is so because in one hand the technological interventions into our day today activities have affected us in many ways. The Technological interventions have altered the focal views in terms of the perception to world outlook, secondly the fast changing nature of the technology has led a caprice into the nature of the jobs and the nature of the doing the job as never been and thus “there is nothing permanent” seems to be true in its present context.




So the question is when the world is changing so fast, how to chase the pace of this change, where to stand in the daily created unemployment, retrenchment, lock off and so on. The answer lies in the question “why Mass Communication?’



Whatever be the pace of the change, one can’t remain aloof of the society and its various dimensions though with the change. That implies more the changes, more the inquisitiveness to know the world and the society out side you and so more the demands of the communications. Thus the point is very clear , whatever way the change is going to come , the means of the communication is going to stand alone, and so your association with the mass communication can alone led you to stand in the period of the rapid social change.



There was a period that only the “Prasar Bharati”, “Doordarshan” and BBC was the only sources for air news, or the news papers with limited access was available, but today the finger nail with chips has the capacity to numerous information, what has remained constant is that the communication for your life to quench the thirst of intellectual side. Today we have the specialized channels for every target group, from old age home people to infant with Lactose in hand. Did you notice the changes that have erupted out of the jinn box? We have the MTV, Life style, Religious channels, 24X7 news on air, ZEE, Star and so on that list is becoming voluminous.
 
 
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Betrayal of a Dream and Why South Africa has lost the moral ground

Dalai Lama was denied visa to South Africa. South Africa wants to focus on World Cup football because participation of Dalai Lama into the Nobel Lauret's peace conference would distract the attention from Football to Tibet. What a great day for country who consider Nelson Mandela as their National Hero and Gandhi as their inspiration..

Shame on current political leadership of that country. Why I should bother, because as a child my memories were shaped by visit of Indian Cricket team to soil of South Africa and also how Nelson Mandela chose to visit India as First President of apartheid free South Africa . African National Congress has exploited the support from all freedom loving people and countries for many decades for its struggle against apartheid. Now the same ANC is siding in favor of China . Unfortunately most powerful country of the world. I think china will remain without democracy and voices of dissent wll keep getting murdered by the red army but unfortunately country like South Africa will have to pay the price of choosing wrong choices.

Argument is petty simple , diverse countries like India, South Africa can't afford to be suppressive in the long run. Could India chose to be authoritarian state , I dont think so, actually India didnt have option than choosing itself plural country. On the similar fashion I want to say couple of things here... First South Africa has betrayed the ideals of its national fathers. Its strange Father Tutu and Nelson Mandela both are alive and watching their government acting in favor of communist and anti democarcy regime of china. History has taught us that choices we make in present will decide the future. Examples are many . what could be best examples than all the failed state of SOUTH ASIA.For example Pakistan and Bengladesh decided to become Islamist state and that was the betrayel of of their historical existence. They betrayed the pluralism of Indian subcontinent and now result is quite obvious.
Similarly speaking ... today by refusing the visa of his holiness, South Africa has betrayed the ideals of non violence , democracy and human rights. I am afraid what the future will bring to this country. One needs to understand the historicity of Chinese regime and complexity of evolving societies of South Africa and many other diverse nations in the world .

Today October is 7

Today is october 7,people say i was born on this day. What a memory we all live in .the place where i was born people dont celebrate each other birthday.they are not even aware about such.my friends want to do something,i feel so embrassed but my subsconscious enjoys the moment of attention.
This morning martial said happy birthday,i guess thats the only real wish i will recieve for the day. So many friends at orkut wished me happy birthday,this is just orkut reminder and these folks dont want to miss out anything. Some of the wishes were quite sweet .for example of my old friend wished ,who would rarely write a word to me ....
Desire to get attention has run so deeper in my mind that i want my friends to remember my day on their own...this is such a unreasonable demand from them in this age of fleeting agenda,schedules and overall transistory lives...
We keep accumulating year after year without growing in a real sense of growth.

this morning while coming from grand central ,on my way to office i met about whom i think about all the time ...martial and me call her "the gal" ,she has a nickname for me Abu and i call her sugar mama ....
i find her so attractive and compatible..its just the timing.. She is taken by her ex boy friend. Everytime i am on loosing end ....feeling of loss and my self confidence get weak ... We work together ,and she says that she needs to keep our interaction at working level ...simple working associate ...
Life is big and love is bigger and stronger than us ...lets see what happens as we both spend our evenings separately and in its own intimacy.

When october

Oh ! I wrote this some time ago ....

Air is getting cold.sun is also getting weak.fall is around the corner,trees are still green.they are ready to shed their leaves and tolerate long spell of winter .
i am sitting near south seaport.somes tourists are busy in posing or taking pics on the backdrop of brookyln and manhatten skyline.murmuring of boat ,sound of traffic and occasionally tourist noises are feeling my ear. There is newly married asian couple. They are getting pics everywhere. What a dream occasion. Bride is very beautiful in her pink dress.lucky are those who fall in love and get married. I wanted to fall in everytime with people arround me but timing,person always come as a obstacle.long time ago i decided to experience love through other person and every time i found myslef rising in love with myself.what a strange destiny i have. Everytime i start liking someone, gal is on the cross roads, after some time when i start expressing myself,gal gets closer to their past boyfriend.they keep going deeper in love with their partners and i keep rising in love with myself. I think my life will remain "mahroom" of women love. My motherz is probably the only woman who loved me..... I find myself constantly disillussioned by woman. I guess i am one of those who needs to find woman in myself .
i started this search few years ago,had some success ,later got consumed with R and become poor again in those qualities. Last few years have been so occupying in survival and study that i didnt have time to devote myself into this pursuit of finding woman .
now i again i am in the pursuit of finding external woman first.few failures will silent my efforts and i would become extraordnarilly introvert. Sometimes i find this lack of love is ultimate tragedy of my being here,sometime i see this as opportunity to transform myself into a continuous search for growth. I dont know what future is holding for me ,one thing is sure i must keep rising in love amidst of all this whats going on arround me .
coming back to outside world ,which is so historic and difficult. Lehman brothers got bankrupt and barclay has got their midtown building ...today i had long discussion with S about worst times and premtive measures,,,it will be bad time ,,difficult time...This city has survived many hard times.... October is yet to come....