Reflections

पुलं ह्यांचं एक लेख -  आणि मी  पुलं ह्यांचं एक लेख वाचताना माझ्या मनातही तेच विचार उगवले... लेखाचे नाव कारवार. लेख आहे   या पुलं ह्यांच्या गावा चा उल्लेख - खरं तर त्यांच्या आई च्या माहेर चं गांव.   ह्यात त्यांनी आपल्या लहानपणी च्या आठवणी सांगितल्या आहेत - खूपच सजीव चित्रण केलं त्या लेखात. कधी गाठोडं ह्या पुस्तका वर टिपण्णी लिहिली तर सविस्तर सांगेन.सध्या एवढंच पुरे. मुद्दा हा कि हे लेख वाचून माझ्या मनात पण विचार आ-   - माझं गाव. तिथवर तर ठीक   - पण ह्यापुढे विचार काही ये ना. कारण मला प्रश्न हा पडला - माझं गाव कुठलं? कोणच्या जागेला मी ह्या अधिकाराने म्हणू शकतो - हे गाव माझं? मनात काही उत्तर येच ना. शून्य. निल बटे सन्नाटा! माझा इतिहास   खरंतर मी पुष्कळ ठिकाणी राहिलो - पण ग्वाल्हेर ला सर्वात जास्त वेळ. त्या नंतर इंदौर. पण मनात दोन्ही जागांसाठी "हे माझं गांव" म्हणून विचार येत नाही. कारण कुत ठल्या हि जागांतून आठवणी - कमीत कमी चांगल्या आठवणी - जोडलेल्या नाही माझ्या मनात. कमीत कमी लहान्पण्याच्या तर अजिबात नाही. वाईट बातम्या पण नाही येत लक्ष्या...

आत्म्याच्या शोधात मला आज एक नवीन बोध झाला ... त्यावरून हा लेख तयार करीत आहे. आजचा बोध माझा   दुसरा किंव्हा तिसरा   बोध असणार ... पण आज जे घडलं त्याची तीव्रता खूप वेगळी होती ; आणी   त्याचे निष्कर्ष निर्निर्याला दिशेत निघाले; त्या निष्कर्षांचे तरंग अजूनही माझ्या मनात वावरत आहेत . इतक्या तासांनी सुद्धा तोच विचार मनात असल्यामुळे आपलं अनुभव एका लेखात मांडण्याची इच्छा जागृत झाली... ह्या अनुभव मागची एक पटकथा पण आहे - ती पूर्णपणे तर मांडता येणार नाही, कारण त्याचा वेळ अजून आलेला नाही; पण ती पटकथा   पण थोड्याफार शब्दात मांडतो आहे. कोणची वस्तू, कोचीपण गोष्टं किंव्हा तथ्य विना पटकथा च्या समजणे वा उमजणे कठीणच   असतं. पटकथा थोडक्यात सांगितलं तर एवढंच कि दरेक   प्रसंगाची एक वेळ असते.   असं समजा कि आजची वेळ तशीच. आजचा प्रसंग अनुभव, आत्मबोध - जे वाट्टेल ते म्हणा - माघील कितीक दिवसांचा निष्कर्ष असावा. आधीच्या लेखन मध्ये देखील मी सविस्तर आपल्या वाटेबद्दल नीटपणे मांडलं आहेतच; तरीपण सांगतो. माझी शोध सुरु   झाली १० वर्ष आधी - माझ्या वडिलांच्या चितेवरती...

In   the month a product of a company gets recalled due to performance issues in one country – it gets approval in another country. This statement is by itself more than enough to start a series of questions in your mind; starting with - how could it be so careless, or worse?   The same product, as per news reports, mind you. The deeper you go into the case, the more the questions that arise. Despite being aware of complaints, the said company went ahead with imports of that product. It gets even more murkier as you go into the case further. Be that as it may; my article is not about that case; so let me just be circumspect. Suffice it to state that the above is basis a real story, mint-fresh and of latest vintage. A current news – though you would not know it, as only one Newspaper has complete damning coverage in the 5 that I checked. 1 of these 5 was silent on this; 3 had incomplete coverage. A side-thought here – that last bit seems just bit too coincidental,...

Blockchain – the mysterious buzzword of the current times… let us now go just a bit deeper into this term, and place it in the proper perspective with respect to the modern Business World we all know so well. In the public understanding, this is a distributed ledger, in which an entry once made – cannot be altered. This simplistic definition is at the real core of the misunderstanding / debate around blockchain; it just doesn’t do justice to the term, creating a debate, at times even a passioned debate. This is why I went into reading about it – and picked up “ Blockchain: From Concept To Execution ” WHAT   IS BLOCKCHAIN In order that we understand & appreciate Blockchain and its implications, we need to first understand its salient features, or what makes Blockchain so different, and so special: 1.      It is simply a type of database which is running a distributed ledger system around the whole cloud of internet. 2.    ...

Crime Thrillers are perhaps the single most common genre in writing – thus, impressing the readers in this genre is perhaps the most difficult of all. And, in addition to the above, if you have an author who has not only managed to impress the reader, but also carve a niche for herself, then the pull of both this, the current book, as well as the forthcoming titles, becomes even more alluring. And this is exactly what the author of the current book, Ms Neena Brar, has managed to achieve in the pages of this book from her pen – Tied To Deceit… THE BOOK This is a murder mystery, with a twist; or – to be more accurate – with several twists, to be very precise. A lady receptionist gets killed at her home – a simple, seemingly, whodunit, isn’t it? Well, not quite. Apparently, this lady receptionist has an affair with the Lead Doctor. I know – still simple. And, the wife catches the good healer, our Doctor. Yup, still straightforward. Except for one detail – she doesn’t just...

The changing Indian Landscape is brought to the fore by the current book under review; a field of study – nay, an esoteric field of study that was hitherto, in my knowledge scope and awareness at least, a subject not paid any attention to in Indian Corporates. Thus, it was a complete surprise for me, and no less than an education, to read the ideas, cases and examples contained in this short book, simply titled : Work, Workers and Workplaces , by Parthajeet Sarma Given that this is a new field to me – though I have heard of it quite often, the impulse for me is to protest and reject the ideas it contains. Having said that, my experience simultaneously tells me that there is a strong case for the ideas this book contains, and that the average Indian Worker and Workplace can use more than a little improvement in many areas. Doing so will admittedly have a strong positive impact on productivity and morale both. THE BOOK So what is the book about? Here, I would rather yo...