~Dry Day~

26 Jan Remindes me of the shots of DoorDarshan visuals.As Jan,Feb,March were no Cable TV months ,DD1 was the sole feast for the eyes.It was like coming back from an Europe onsite.It is the best metaphor a software engineer can think of.

Dard Darshan buldozed tons of "Mera Bharat Mahan" and "Nirodh" clips and they would feed you those clips till you mix some mosquito repelent in your milk glass.

"Mera Bharat Mahan" clips never turned my eyes(read Desh Dhrohi), forget the ears.Though Nirodh ads were thing of interest for me till 2nd Standard.Then i met my friend Rohan,most sincere teacher i ever got,who explained Life Process-1 in detail which i was supposed to study in 9th Standard.

My Neighbour Sharma said "Ye dawai hoti hai.. bade logon ke liye.."

His younger brother who seemed to have detailed answer to this question said " kash mai bhi ye dawai kha pata.. chalo theek hai.."

For years, 26th January parade was my Brunch partner.Though i never enjoyed those parades but it was better option than doing some Exercise 4.5 of mensuration.

Parade Processions changed,Artillery changed,chief guests changed,Ambassadors changed.Some things remained the same.The Flag.So as the President.Waving,Saluting and delivering cooked Speech.My Civics book said The President has exemplary powers.Can reject a Parliament bill.Can overrule a death sentence.Temporary God they Say.

The first citizen comes to scene on 26th and fills 28th newspapers.And.. Also..aa..
Either Civics book is crazy or this DD-1,i thought.Whats the President for? Guy hired for 26th i guess.
The same old brunch.The same old parade.The same old speech.The same old DD-1.The same old me.

One fine 26th January ,escaping the maths exercise 5.3 ,i manhandled the brunch plate and called on my friend DD.
Something was new in the air.Even the gobhi paranthas were tasty that day.

Avul Pakir Jainulabedin was the President of Republic of India.No pasts success.No bhashans.No bhajans.No nothing.
The man knew about a vision.A vision to transform.a vision to rebuilt.A vision to reinvent.me,we,India.
No need to mention here the kind of academic and professional excellence he owns.

He during his term rejected two Lok Sabha bills.Gave right to information act.Gave words on Open Source Softwares.Yes you heard it write.I am neither a wall street worker nor into project release phase of my project.The man shared his views about Open source softwares.And So on and So forth.Above all he fed the young eyes of india to hold faith.Belief to be an organ of a developed nation one day.

Becoming a world leader is never easy.At least you cannot be one by providing cheap labour and IT services to superior and lazy world.Now i recall the Nirodh Ads, i thank God that people had never took them too seriously.. (though i did. :|) And made ready the huge force of more than a billion people who are ready to hug the superior world and absorb their ownership of this planet.And so are our 1,329,349,388 + Hia zio + jho chio + chao moa + ... .
The manufacturing industry of China gave them an upper hand.The guys have guts to sell condoms with holes in it and toilet seats with bee hives inside it.They are good at finding the voids inside the world market and filling
those with the cheap solutions.yes literally cheap.Then these solutions create more voids to home more cheap soltuions.The Truth is this Vicious circle is unignorable.C for China .C for Cheap.
This Cheap fillers are feeding their Stock market with Silver spoon.No doubts.They are great opportunists.

But they forgot to flex their minds while learning those tao-ko-wandos.(is spelling right?; their children,games,food sound same :| ).

Here we come.Bang!! We found a void inside the worlds best void finders.An average Indian like me might feel sluggish to rub off the milk moustache or to change underwear on Weekends;forget the Tae-ko-wandos(is the spelling right?).But when it comes to nerves flexibility.Bulls Eye!! We can learn Hebrew in 10 days.Civil engineers feel home at Infosys.Bollywood copies one more H-Flick. All these show our flexibilty to adapt to absorb to accept.Others' culture.Others' technology.Others' thoughts.

These BPOS and IT Muzdoors can gift India herds of young people who can buy the UCBs and NIKEs.No doubt.
But to be a Super Power,each young eye has to imbibe a vision to buy the world;not the Nikes.
And this can only be possible by channelizing the energies of this exploding janta.A visionary can do that.
Why not it be the President Of India?

So add one more to the President's TO DO list and Update your Civics books.
APJ was right on the target.But there is the law of democracy to derail anything good if it gains momentum.So it did it.Why.What.How. You all know.No point in discussing this fabric.
Epitome is.We need a leader who channelises the treasure we are holding.Who gives us a reason to live.A Dream to follow.A Faith to Imbibe.

If the leader of Billion People is used to salute army,read plastic scripts and host foreign junta.Make Rakhi Sawant One.She will take care of it in a better way.

Hope we get there soon.

And yes ..Sharma's brother is yet to taste that medicine. :|