CHANGE

What is Change?

When I try to see what is lacking and work to fulfil it, its change.
When I dream of something and achieve it, its change.
When I leave an old habit and develop a new one, its change.
When I dedicate my self to fulfil a desire, a dream and a goal, its change.
When I walk out of the room filled with negative people, that's change.
When I attend conferences, meetings, workshops to develop my inner self that''s change.
When my vibes turn into positive, that's change.
When my anger gets nipped in the bud and I talk instead of arguing, that's change.
When I live outside my comfort zone and ruffle feathers with discomfort, instability and disappointment while walking towards change, am transforming.

That is when the change happens!

UNITY ?

Standing tall in metal and stone

Towering the Globe in glory I shine, 

Praised and lauded for sewing States

I look now into Nation so mine. 

Towers I see,I see asphalt and 

trodden and mowed down greens.

Giant rocks so Lilliput now--

I look into the march towards growth. 

I smile, I praise,I thank to Thee

for the transformations I stand to see

but, where have they, the un-sheltered gone?

I search for their placement and whine!

Beneath the towers and the stone

By the fading rivers and the farms

It pains to see em stripped to bone

baking under the heat from above n beneath

I see them pleading for a shower or alms 

bare and hungry, tanned and dry.

Oh! for the Nation that marches fast

This sight is so piercing, so aghast.

Seeking an answer standing tall

Flanked and clouded with questions many

n the light of a brighter Nation

I stand so tall, I stand so bowed and  heavy!

shayari

Koshish kiye apki tanhai ko lavzon m bayaan Karne ki...
Hum likhte rehgaye aur lavz neer banke behte Gaye.

Lost

We lost greenery,
We lost games there.
We lost meetings, 
We lost the shade.
We lost that smile
We lost that age,

File a case, file a suit.
Hire a lawyer and don the suit.
Walk with the cops in Khaki and boots.
Search for the lost age,
Search for that moment,
Search for that Smile
Search for that Shade.

Where would we find em?
Where O' where?
Not in the forests,
nor under the stair!
Not beneath the sheets,
Not beneath the grass
where sat the smiling age!

Lost in the Android were a million few.
When the moments sneaked
They smiled and waved and called
They jumped and rolled and did somersault
To grab your eyeballs so glued to the screen
Alas!
Tired and worn, they faded from view.

Neither the cops, nor the Lawyers
Could bring the moments back
Dipped and drowned into the tech
All let the moments go.
Virtual smiles and Virtual meets
Virtual became the age
All is just in a number of likes
That they perceive so real and great!

Alas for the childhood, Alas for the smiles
For they never shall be the same,
They never will be missed
By the generation so obsessively selfie'd...

Lead...er!

To be an administrator, other than qualification, one needs to poses certain qualities which can either be learnt by observations or by getting trained or both which happens in maximum. In my understanding, a leader is one who leads not a herd but a team.

To lead a herd is easy as there will never be a question asked, nor will there be a revolt brewing in the minds of those dormant yet alive live stocks which just desire to follow instructions. There is nothing great. A training to train the minds to just follow the instructions is enough. The rest of the work happens as per the conditioning theory. The leader in this case needs no flexibility as there will never be a challenge to address as grievous or stressful as may be expected from a team of talented members. 

To lead a Team, however, instructions wont be enough. There will be several issues to address, a lot to estimate, a few to keep in loop, a few to be kept happy, a lot to be trained, a great number of them to be reprimanded and then applauded as well (regular follow up for sure) 

If that is not the end, there will always be a number of those unpredictable emotions to be addressed which can come up anytime, from anyone, in any manner what so ever! 

As such, those who desire to lead, need to be one with an elastic mind and a brain like a sponge- ready to be stretched and ready to soak in anything and everything fed with. Not to forget, a quintessential element which saves a leader a lot of time and energy - being diplomatic yet straight forward.

Note: These are just a few points... the list is otherwise, endless. 

Main Shaayar to nahin...

I

Tareef b kya Karu uski jiski tareef Khuda na Kar paye

Tareef b kya Karu uski jiski tareef Khuda na Kar paye

Bas khoobsurat keh Sakta hu, isse jyaada lavz e aam kya keh paye

II

Kehte rahein kuch kuch kehte rahein
Raahein rahein ya na rahein
Rahenge raahi saath hamesha, bas yahi tum se kahein.

Quality: the name and fake of it.

Walk into any space any where in any part of the demography you live, hoarding after hoarding will greet you with a promise of quality in everything that can be sold. From tea to TV, everything. For the Indian market, the concepts of marketing are more Desi than what Kotler or for that matter any other marketing Guru can design and frame theories which the future managers can be fed with.

Every time a seller claims with confidence that the product is branded, he tries not only to push a product which is unheard of , he sells it to a costumer who unwillingly accepts the facts stated that its branded. Now who would challenge the facts stated? Who would whip out the so called encyclopedia from the pocket to google the brand name or for that matter the date of its establishment which they, with guts and glory,have been reflecting it to be of 19th century! Most important, who would want to be the butt of all those jokes and sarcasm which the seller would offer in return for all that smartness displayed?  Not us for sure.  

While there exists a very limited number of us who vouch for brands which are brands, there is a sizeable number which wants a brand, does not matter if it is a brand or not in the international markets! If the seller has said that its branded even if its sold on a dusty street with stink of a clogged underground drain and a pile of garbage at a stone's throw where the canines and the swines and the bovines alike search for their share of luck, it has to be genuine. It has to be of a quality! That is what the unorganised market has been doing- slicing off the profits from those who slog their brains off in the office, strategically set the targets for their sales force, pay millions to stars who seldom use the product they push and then, end up being a dummy product in the hands of those local manufacturers who callously glue the brand to their products which do not even confirm to the standards set. 

So what? 

Does it anyway matter? 

All that matters is  the fulfilment of the need at a price which the customer is ready to pay - the lowest for the best in brand. Teach and preach consumer awareness but when in the market, think about quality just by the assurance from the seller.