Work-life-balance.

In this fast-moving era there is semblance of work-life balance present in our life. Though we constantly point the index finger at the organization where we are working but, it’s a individual onus to maintain the balance. This work-life is a rat-race where everybody elbows other to make a progress, but it’s still possible to keep a balance between the two spheres: Work and Life.
First of all we, should ask one question to ourselves; “What is the aim of my life ?” I think very few of us would be able to answer the question accurately. But one thing is sure that most of us would agree at the point of leading a peaceful-happy-life and this answer easily unravels all our problems. We should look for our priorities in life and accordingly, we should trim out the secondary matters from the essential ones.
What we need most is : Sincerity, not seriousness. Life is not meant to be taken seriously as we are just a guest for few years on earth. There is no point of getting promotion, earning a hefty amount when we can’t spend a whole day with our family or when we don’t know who are our neighbors for last few years. We should be smart at managing our work and should earn as much as needed to maintain the curve on the face’ of our family members.
“Office is not our home”, keep this in mind. Many of us try to spend a long time in office because of free AC, tea, Coffee etc. But there are other responsibilities too. The smile on the face of our children or parents is costlier than the privileges availed in the office. So it’s more important to be effective and smart in managing our time in office.
Short trips with family or frequent dinner party at outside with family is capable of bridging the gap between our absence from many social occasions which we could not take because of robust work life.
Finally, it’s our desire or ego or self-content. I think if we curb our desire, ego or aspiration a little bit, we can gain a lot in return.
Think about it.

Balanced team is necessary but not always the sufficient condition for winning a cricket match.

It is said that cricket is a team game i.e. it’s a game which can be won by the coordinated movement/action of 11 players or where each team member contributes almost evenly. But this theory doesn’t hold true always. More we shift our focus from Test cricket to ODI or IPL, more we see the disobedience of this Universal theory.

Today, when selectors of any team sit down to figure out an 11 member team they always seek for All-rounder instead of a specialist but in reality this team-effort not always translated into triumph.

It’s true that you have to have a balanced team to win a match or before you come to the arena. But how many times we have noticed that a team has won because of equal contribution of all the team members. Rather, in 60 pct cases, we see that someone has to give an outstanding performance i.e. most of the occasion we find that a century or a 4/5 wicket haul has lead to the victory of that team.

On the contrary if a team has a terrific batsman or a bowler and rest of the team members are under average performers the chances of winning of the team is very low since the one and only Mr. Match-winner may not always click.

So as per my opinion, the heroic theory of cricket is that a team should have a balanced strength but when it’s come about victory it needs an explosion or an outstanding performance of an individual..

Imbalanced Compromise

Compromise; This word has been a cliché in our daily life. Though it’s dictionary meaning is “To arrive at a settlement by making concessions”, it’s corrupted from its original meaning.

It’s very rare where we find both the sides are getting benefited by leaving some ground for other. According to me Compromise is something between two parties in order to set some curves straight by curbing one party’s interest i.e. the equation is not arithmetic like  1 + 1 = 2 rather, I believe, it’s binary  0 + 1 = 1 .

We found its application in every sphere of life or in each step of life. From leaving some standing-space in bus or train for a co-passenger, accommodating one’s personal hrs for few more work-files requested (late night) by boss, watching ‘SAAS-BAHU’ leaving high-voltage India-Pakistan match for maintaining the “status quo” in home, to holding back one’s desires/likes/feeling to keep happy or to save other’s trivial interest. So, from morning to night, we are very habituated with this term. Does it always pay ? Does it really make other realize that his comport zone has come at the expense of someone else’s.

It’s not so easy to bracket  Compromise either as good or bad rather it’s a relative term. If the  purpose is noble the Compromise is good otherwise is bad. Let’s take three examples.

On a fine Sunday morning you plan for a short trip to nearby place and you arrange accordingly but on the same day you hear from your mom that your mother want you to take her to the doctor. Will you curtail  the trip for sake of your  mother interest ?

On a public holiday, you plan to watch a movie with your wife but your wife want you to take her to your mother-in-law ? Will you prefer to give priority to your wife’s desire ?

Being a pragmatic, most of use lie in many occasion but then comes horrible Compromises. You grow an impression that there is no harm (of a habitual lie of yourself) at all and you use this means even for a inconsequential cause. Does this Compromise with truth is justified ?

The answer of the 1^st situation is a big YES since it’s undoubtedly for a real cause where you don’t have any other choice. But the answer for the 3^rd situation is a strictly NO unless there is no other alternative or unless it’s noble cause. The 2^nd scenario is very familiar to us and the answer is very dubious.  We speculate what to do. If you are a peace loving  man, you will Compromise with your wife but many people may not. But if it happens frequently and Compromise grows from small to bigger occasion and consequently it may put a stain on the relationship.

Even, we find one sided compromise

So Compromise is good up to certain level or when it calls for righteous ground but it’s detrimental or unproductive when your heart doesn’t  support you.

Foster Your Imagination Power; Go as you like

Prologue 

Every people is poised to become a writer. It's only he who let his imagination power to flow and nurture it with great care become a potential writer. Every one of us has a story to tell in his life. So let's just give a try and put as many lines as you can to continue this story which I have started.

Rule: There is one and only rule in this story writing that DON'T DRAW A CONCLUSION OR CLOSURE TO THE STORY  AND LEAVE THE STORY WITH A CONJUNCTION LIKE: 'AND', 'BUT', 'THEN' etc..

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 Here goes the first few lines from Haridas:

It was Friday night around 10:10 PM. I was returning home on the last Train from Rupsanipur .

As it was a chilled winter night the whole train was almost empty. I took an empty compartment and sat beside the window. Though it was very cold night I pulled up the shutter of the window and let the cold wind to flow over my face. I was feeling much better after such a long and hectic day and ……….

23rd January gets less importance than Frienship day, 1st January or any other speacial day.

Are we really civilized, are our social values evaporating from our life day-by-day, are our national heroes or idols loosing value? May be we are educated or hold few degrees but our education does not capable enough to enlighten us or it’s not the true education which can raise the inner divinity existing within us from our birth.

How many of us remember the 23rd January? The day is on the verge of ending, but I haven’t got a single SMS on my mobile. Had it been a Friendship day or 1st January or 15th February, my mobile would have been inundated with SMS(s). How can the 23rd January be less important than a Friendship or Lovers day or any other special day? 
 
With technology or science, we are not really progressing rather we are advancing step by step towards the point of no return.

23rd January should be declared as National Holiday

If 2^nd October is a National holiday, why not 23^rd January? Why such discrimination? Why our history book has only a half-page passage on Netaji where as a one-and-half page passage on Mahatma Gandhi? Netaji and Gandhiji both were equally responsible to usher in the freedom in our country though any comparison is futile between these two freedom fighter.  

I guess it’s our political dynasty that has drawn this line of discrimination. But, I wonder, why Nataji’s own formation Forward Block is mum on this issue. But I believe better late than never. So the onus should be on Aam Admi of India. 

                                                                    ---  JAI HIND

Strategic overhaul in education system..

Enough is enough. Stop experimenting with our education system and stop treating us as the subject of scientific experiment.

Why our country, especially Westbengal is lagging in educational sector? Why can’t we put a need based educational system in place? Do we really need history, geography in class IX or X ? Why not we ramify the stream from class IX or X?

In the age of globalization, we talk about GDP, market economy etc. Are we really progressing or it’s just a semblance of progress? I guess there is segregated boom in our country. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer? We are fighting for a seat in UNSC but I think we are not worthy of it? We need a real overhaul in our system. But 1^st we need a strategic revamp in our education system to buttress our backbone. English should be our 1^st language, Hindi 2^nd and the regional language will figure 3^rd place in the language group.