Is Our Nation’s Pride For Sale..??

By watching news regularly from the past one month on my television screen, reading the national newspapers and discussing this topic on facebook, the only question which comes to my mind “is our nation’s pride for sale??”

Barely 45 days are left with our country to organize one of the world’s most prestigious games in Delhi. ie; “COMMON WEALTH GAMES” (CWG). And now “Brand India” is attached with these games. Organizing games at such biggish level will surely represent India to the world and its success may attract many global organizations to invest in our country. This can be understand more clearly with the past.. taking into account that how the “Beijing Olympics 2008” had helped China in increasing its GDP, it became the member of WTO and their was a flood of foreign investments, which is a record in itself. And we are very much aware that today China has left India behind in the race of superpower ( explained in my previous blog). The same was the case with Australia after the success of Sydney Olympics.

Now we all are very much clear that how much important is the success of the games for the development of our country. But the billion dollar question is :- Does the kind of preparations which our government is doing are sufficient ? Its very uncollectible to say that CWG is becoming a serious victim of corruption in the country. Corruption, which is one of the major hindrance in the development of the country is also destroying this Golden Opportunity.

The Central Vigilance Commission (cvc) has unearthed my document by which the multidimensional loot that is taking place has come into focus. Jawaharlal Nehru stadium had to be upgraded for the games at estimated cost of Rs. 580 crore. This renovation cost went upto Rs. 961 crore, which is almost double the estimated cost. The common wealth village if far from satisfaction. No one is allowed to take the camera view . each and every stadium tells the same story. Under the pressure of the politicians, now CVC has also put the official seal of disapproval regarding the loot in the games.

There is one another group of people who feels strongly that in the country where half the people live below the poverty line, the games are simply the unwanted luxury. Why it was necessary to spend 30,000 crores on the games? Why the estimated cost has jumped up to 17 times in the past 7 years? For tha inugral ceremony Rs 100 crore were kept aside which has now gone up to Rs. 375 crore.we will have the balloon touching Delhi’s sky which cost 80 crores. The gas will have to be imported from that balloon. Can we afford such luxury?

In my opinion, CWG has become a shameful blame game. Organizers have forgot what the were organizing. We seem to have lost the plot completely. I’ll not be shocked if their will be questions raised about our capability to host big international events. Who will pay for the loss? Organizers, who are right now busy in filling their pockets and at the time of enquiry, they will just pack up their bags. But the nation will have to find the answers to these uncomfortable questions. It will be BRAND INDIA which is going to suffer, not those organizers who flouted the rule book.

That’s why organizers must wake up now. We still left with one month to rectify the mistakes. After all if you are playing with our country prestige, then we are not going to leave you.

Are We Actually Living In Dual Personality??

What a great revolution IT has brought in our lives by introducing social networking on web. This is the best gift to all the youngistan people in the 21st century . Today we are surrounded by a large number of social network sites such as Facebook, Twitter, orkut…..and many more which have million of users who incorporate these sites into their daily lives, checking their profiles multiple times a day. one of the main reason for its popularity is that it is really for the people, bringing every kind of social group together in one place and letting them interact is really a big thing indeed.

These sites were introduced after 1997 and the popularity has increased in a exponential manner. By taking an example of the well known site Facebook, which was launched in February 2004 has 500 million active users till July 2010. and still counting.

Isn’t the figures sound amazing … !!

Though social networking proves to be advantageous in many contexts yet it has been emerged as reason for disaster of one’s own life. If we put some light on the darker side of this great invention… then we all will be shocked by analyzing its consequences.

if we put some light on the darker side of this great invention… then we all will be shocked by analyzing its consequences.

You must have heard of the term “Facebook Addiction,” “Internet Junkie” or “Net Junkie”? Any of these labels sound familiar? These unflattering labels are used to categorize an individual’s obsessive dependence with the Internet, more commonly known as Internet Addiction Disorder, or IAD. People suffering from such disease are being forced to portray themself as refined person with flawless quality, just to survive in the cyber world of materialism, glam and so called friendliness.

The extravagance of one’s personality during social networking leads to identity crisis. In this era of so hi-tech technology, I guess human beings have restricted themselves into four walled rooms and with one to many interactions through these sites. We are being fooled by ourselves with the varied personalities on the internet and off the internet.

Being plugged in means to pay a lot of attention to a lot of things at once, we can get overwhelming and stressful. It is as if the floodgates were opened and everyone jumped into one big pool trying to get seen and heard while at the same time trying to share and connect as much as possible. This is forcing us to spend time as much as possible on internet and cutoff our personal time to ourselves and our families.

This disposal of time versus the benefit of engagement needs to be balanced at some point otherwise we will create a culture where private time, thinking time, and contribution time are nearly gone. Sometimes we even use the words beyond humanism and humbleness, all to win the race in getting popular and famous.

Ofcourse no body knows you and nobody can see you…you may be very ugly looking but your presence of mind and sense of humor..all helps you getting good amount of followers..that what counts..!! Its just the matter of what you write no matter you may in real life be against of that fact. If people are appreciating your writing, you don’t have to think even once about whether its right or wrong..

This leads to death of your thoughts and your views.. It simply creates your mirror image which is exactly opposite to you.. And obviously more popular than you… But the real you is what matters who has lost deep beneath many shadows of this ruthless and selfish net world…!!