Indian Elections 2009

The great Indian Election Festival has come to an end and UPA headed by Indian National Congress has emerged as the single largest coalition just a whisker short of the magic no. 272.

Its a good thing that my countrymen have voted for stability and a national party over petty issues of casteism and regionalism. Lalus, Mayawatis, Paswans, etc. of the country have bitten the dust.
Similar is the case with Left parties.
BJP though ignited the hopes of middle class with an alternative have themselves for blame for. Seems like they had lost their plot in between being too extreme on their nationalist policies and their support for communalism.
Not to forgot the fact that congress also is no Pavitra...1984 riots are still the burning issues(remember Jarnail Singh and Shoegate with PC)...
But Dr. Manmohan Singh has emerged as a clean and honest politician and BJP's strategy of converting this election on the lines of US presidential elections has sufered a big set back when Dr. Singh usually a soft person with few words launched a counter offensive against Mr. Advani for his alleged role in Kandhar, Jinnah's tomb mimics etc...

All in all, its a great opportunity for India to march ahead in these difficult times and we do needed a stable and strong Govt for the same.

Long gone should be the days when on every small policy issue, Left used to whip lashes on UPA.
Now they must reassess and its an existential issue for BJP. If they can't bring their act together and look for a generational change, I think they will lose this plot.
Modi cannot be the next harbinger of BJP. If they actually want to be Somebody in next elections, they should act fast.

For congress, though it looks promising with the youth brigade led by Rahul Gandhi ,the cause shouldn't be lost in the dynastic politics and filling their own coffers.

I would be disappointed if this young Rahul fail to deliver what he has promised.
Indians are expecting a lot from him.

In the end, it is a gradual change and people are understanding that developmental politics are there to stay. People are becoming increasingly aware of their rights. Sheila Dixit, Raman Singh, YSR, Nitish Kumar are just a few examples.

Hope to see a powerful India on foreign politics in coming time.We need to assert ourselves on that stage with so many neighbourbood problems boiling in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan.

Cheers and Congratulations India!!!
Proud to be an Indian...

A novel by a PECobian

Checked Tazzy's profile.
His friend of Meta , Harry has finally completed his novel http://iitbypass.blogspot.com

Will read it sometime...again the flame to write something substantial of my own has been ignited

experiences at NCR

I came to Gurgaon for my summer internship. I thought it to be a good break from the college life and Expected too much out of it.

Sadly none of that has happened.

Reducing a few inches, daily fitness regime to meeting all friends at NCR , reliving old times, spending quality times with family...what has happened?

I don't like the traffic. Seriously heavy traffic. people are driving bumper to bumper and its such hot out there.

Time, energy, petrol, temper everything you are losing & going for a toss.

More on it later...Seems like I might finally get a project here afterall...

Summers@GGN

Why do we need summer internship at an MBA school when we have so much of work experience?

This question always nagged me and I was not able to find/search the answer.

Till Mckinsey and BCG shortlists came and it was the first time I realized that I have arrived at an IIM.

It was a major booster and the preps which was a month long affair was a real eye opener.

I felt confident. Though inside I knew that it would be tough to get into the Firm, it showed me insights into things which I had read about only.

Taj dinners, pitches by consults, mentorship program...Whoa...it was some ride boy!

Marketing, consult, finance, general management, over hyped entrepreneurship, operations, I am still confused.

GE Commercial I would say might be a good thing. Working in a fin company and environment in this recession time gives you a totally different perspective about things in a finance company.

Who knows I might be a cunning banker or a PE guy cutting deals, doing M&As, under writings, etc.

Summers now I'm realizing is actually good,

For a single jobber like me I would say it helped me in seeing a different work environment. I now have some yard sticks after working in two Fortune 500 companies in the world.

Its also an experiment. Fin or not? I think at this time we can take this risk rather than later switching within a month for being a misfit in the environment.

You have time to actually do a lot of stuff.

I have read like anything in the past few days, not fiction work. News-political , business, art, technology etc and it is fun. It catapults your thinking to a different level.

Though I would say doing these things with a project at hand would be more fun , but then who says you get everything you want...

Kuch start

2009 will be a defining year for more than one reason.

 

 

First the General elections 2009.

There are 3 major coalitions this time around and who knows what will be the situation after the polls.

Indian politicians have reputations as Thali ke baigan.

 

The new govt will have many challenges of course. Most importantly how to face this global recession which has hit India touted as virtually non affected by crisis because of certain decoupling theories.

 

But as we see now as the days and events are unfolding that there is more to this recession that just financial system failure.

 

May be globalization.May be not. Past few years each country has become so much dependent on global events that it is impossible to be an island.

Global markets are run mostly by sentiments and with FII/FDI the biggest players in the capital markets the fall was imminent for Indian stock market as well.

 

We as a country has to see if we are resilient enough to bounce back and continue to the path to growth projected by some optimists at 9-10%.

 

India shining and for a moment I thought yes we have acheived something. Now no one can stop us from becoming the next world power.

 

I was wrong and so were the political & media pundits who were fooled by the NDA's surfacial and farce campaign.

Rosy pictures of India painted , the growth measured by the stock market thermometer and true bharat lost/hidden in the publicity blitz.

 

It led to BJP's fall & people understood the power of the common man.

 

Inclusive growth...We will see how this term became talked about in a later post.