News breaking and Heart breaking too: Delhi University Vice Chancellor quits over four year course row

The VC could not have been more insensitive to the cause of the students.

It’s either my way or highway ….well that’s no way sir!

You have decided to move on and not to let go your ego …..But then where will the students who secured admission under your master plan now go??

Their career has been derailed and jeopardized for no fault of them and here you have a moral responsibility to set the house in order re-set the old stream to shape before you lay down the august office and chair

Today, when you board an auto and for some reasons the auto has a break down, the guy does not leave you in the lurch; rather I have seen and experienced the auto man hailing another, explaining his situation and ensuring that you reach the destination as safely.

Well, there is nothing wrong in learning from that guy and taking those pains to set the 4 year course to track.

After all it is your baby ….Do you get me Dinesh Singh. 

Mohan’s musing: When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers –an old African proverb  

This driver sounded very upset and he had reasons to be. Today he is jobless

It was couple of months back…. He had an alternative job offer from another resident in the complex and when he approached his current employer, both the husband and wife got very upset and just to teach the poacher a lesson, they marginally increased the salary of their driver and net result. He stayed back,

However what really pissed him off was that in the next couple of weeks, they called him and in a routine manner signed him off giving their transfer as the reason. One could not be more empathetic to his current situation especially with a family of four dependents on him for their daily bread.

I was wondering  how different this incident is from the plight and fate of over  2,600 workers in Bengal whose future hangs in the balance as Ambassador Production has stopped  with the irrevocable decision of the management to close shop and move on

If we roll a few years back, Ratan Tata wanted to set up the Nano factory in the same state which could have been the ‘right time’ lateral opportunity for all these seasoned and well trained skilled workers and technicians. Most of them could   have hopped on to something new, better and more reassuring of future

However like the couple who held back the driver; the current CM, then the leader of Opposition was the greatest antagonist and tumbling block to the idea; to the extreme extent that one fine day TATAs decided out of disgust and frustration to bid TATA to Bengal ……the rest is history

The coin had been dropped…. leaving the poor victims to fate and state of frustration and fury. Here was an opportunity missed all for the vain sake to score a brownie political point.

Breaking Views: I call this the “Rudaali “of the fourth estate (with malice towards none and respect for all of them).

This was quite a funny ..........sorry ........not so funny conversation ….

IQ: What does it take to start a new news channel??

SR : If you can cover 3 rapes, 2 molestation and at least 1 sexual harassment case; preferably about  people who have political , corporate , social , sports , entertainment lineage...... you are already there .

IQ: But then there is already stiff competition in that space.

SR: Of course, you need to know how to be creative and innovative and present it differently for different audience.

IQ scooted the place showing a pair of heels

Yes, it’s just not funny indeed...... We all deserve to be treated better when we come home ….with some balanced news that makes sense rather than simply sensation …..And definitely not the overwhelming and engulfing gloom to the already tired body and mind.

The moot question here is: How can certain section of the society usurp upon itself the right to invade and outrage the privacy of an individual; especially when s/he/they are going through certain mental trauma and begging of private space to recover and bounce back.

I am not being insensitive here but raising an earnest poser over the ‘over drive’; even if the intent is laudable for argument sake. But then life is like that like it or not, we have to live with it; period.  

Legend: IQ = Innocent Questioner, SR: Seasoned Respondent 

Mohan’s musing: Why do we have such socially divisive, slicing and segmented sections in IPC?

Section: 354: assault or criminal force to WOMAN, with intent to outrage HER modesty

Section: 509: word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a WOMAN

Today especially in our urban society, the force and import of both these sections are equally applicable from either side of the gender table or who can deny it AND having this as a uni-directional infringement actually creates some misleading hierarchy of relative strength and weakness(sic)

In my corporate experience especially with the hospitality industry, I have heard and addressed complaint as much coming from the other side as it’s commonly projected and publicized from the other.

May be the sections need gender neutral correction in its enumeration. as “her or his- instead of her AND woman or man instead of woman.

This will give a level playing field in the society to protect and take to legal cognizance and recourse whenever such violation occurs.

“Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls” wrote Tagore ….well, here is an opportunity to take the cue and travel beyond such divisive definitions in the greater spirit of creating an inclusive society. 

Mohan’s musing: “AAJ CEO KUSH THO HUM BHI KUSH”…… Kya Baat hai Bhai

His was a reasonably small, street corner vegetable, fruits, groceries and multi-purpose shop located right across and opposite one of those huge – hi tech super bazar.

The competition just breathing on his shoulders and yet, at any time in the day you will find his shop overcrowded bubbling with people and doing roaring business

Yes, admittedly he delivered quality, at competitive price, with speedy service, through a agile and energetic team of boyz; besides his personal involvement with each and every customer were to me more clichés and no differentiation.

Somewhere, I was curious to get beyond and to demystify the real secret sauce of his resounding business success.

My luck, I met him at the nearby coffee joint and quickly grabbed the opportunity to warm up to him and let him speak up and spill the beans.

What he shared perhaps may become a best seller book.

He: Sir, I operate on a simple slogan called CEO

Me: CEO???

He: Yes, C- for Customer, E- for my Employees (my boys) and O-for my Owner (my seat. Every day as I open the shop I say it to myself “AAJ CEO KUSH THO HUM BHI KUSH “

Not waiting even for my response he scooted saying, its evening time, leaving me awestruck

WoW… I experienced the ecstasy of a new learning over an espresso coffee, even as I was  recovering from the pleasant shock that he is not the owner of the shop.

Mohan’s musing: It’s no more, “more the merrier” mindset…………a metaphorical sharing of views

The duel between the two ladies both vehemently arguing…returning from walk, I decided to indulge into inquiring….

I knew one of them; the regular in our street who sells flowers and I also knew that over a period of time she has sort of established a monopoly in the area and in the process controlling the price and the quality of supply in her own ways. I suspect that she has studied during her spare time Michael Porter’s “5 forces Model” – Sole seller, she set the sale price and of course no substitutes.

However this morning she had a new challenge in the form of a new entrant and possible rivalry that could change the dynamics - opening up of choice for the buyers and also in the process bringing in the bargaining power of the seller.

I left knowing well the seasoned lady will shoo the new entrant out and I moved on.

Flipping through the paper over coffee, I almost fell off the chair… the flower vendor like reactions from all the interest groups and quarters to the news item of the HRD ministry’s plan to set up one IIT and IIM in each state.

Driving to office, it was coming again and again on how the mindset of some people does not change; be it the unknown street corner flower vendor or the renowned    country’s intellectual centers.

Control the supply ….. Control the sale price…...systemically choke the competition……. The strategy is the same the dynamics are the same. Just the players are different.

“Where the knowledge is free” Tagore must be uncomfortably rolling in his grave today 

Breaking views: Don’t miss this hot debate tonight to be aired by all TV Channel @ 9 pm ……there may not be any repeat telecast; it’s reliably learnt

A gang of 10 guys spot a young lady walking alone late in the evening presumably on her way home from office. Realizing that the place was quite dark and with no people around the vicinity, the gang quickly seized the opportunity. 

Reaching out to her and reassuring her, they escorted her to safety.

It’s expected that a very special select expert panel will be discussing the psyche of this strange gang and their most mysterious behavior.

Meantime, a few NGOs have called for a CBI Inquiry into this incident as they sense and smell some foul play in the civic conduct of the fellow citizens

PS: How I wish the TRP hungry channels also present such positive side of the society, rather than repeatedly telecasting those rapes perpetuated here and there and now and then.