A day which changes the rest to be followed .

           A pleasant morning as always she gets up early blinks at the morning sky with cuteness of a baby charming the dawn to show itself up a little later, so she could live her dreams for a few more moments. The nature gives in to her innocence and looks at her with a heavy sigh until she is done with creating her lovely world which she hopes it to be a reality some day. It  then  lets out its love for her through the warmth of its lovely golden rays of light which caresses her slowly and brings her to reality.
             She looks at her bedside clock and winks at the sky for loving her so much and quickly gets ready for her workout which she does religiously. The day was a simple one with no great things lined up for her, she never did anything very special but whatever she had planned for her she did it just for her and nobody else. All dressed up and set to make herself feel very good she sets out on a crowded road with people rushing to office in the loneliness of their big cars or on the difficulty of an  unsafe bike. Every time she saw a person with a worried look on their face she quickly checked the tag around their neck and thought what will happen to the pretty world which is turning into a machine making factory where just money and survival matters. She chose to ignore these complicated thoughts because she knows it is too big for her small brain which just wants everybody to stay happy.

            She too works for a machine making factory but wants to redo her life as soon as possible trying to find solace and happiness for the  moment. Walking down the road filled with busy people caught in deep conversations over a lifeless object  pressed to their ear she sees a man just like her looking around people for some answers. The man looks into her eyes and she instantly realizes some invisible link has been created. She simply followed the man and with apt attention saw him do things. He settled down at a coffee shop with a book which  she  figured out was Ayn Rand's Fountain Head. She chuckled to herself with a mysterious laugh thinking 'what  in the book interests this man which is full of crazy people doing crazy stuff'. He goes through the book like he has read it already once, just reading his favorite pages. She looks at him for a meaning as to why she was here. She cant help but observe his crisp white shirt and blue jeans, those tender fingers being run through pages,  all this while she could hear her heart beat very loud. She was obstinate to figure out why this man was speaking to her with his eyes and ignored  the possibility that this might change few things for her forever.

               She sat there looking at her watch and cherishing her melted ice cream, deep in thoughts. Her phone rings destructing her thoughts about the white shirt man, looks at the phone and silently gets back to sheepishly looking into his eyes for answers. The phone rings for the second time she ignores it again and gets back to her job,  mean time the waiter is puzzled as to why she would not answer her phone when she is all free. She was not free she was swept in by an unknown trance .
               Third time  it rings she cuts the call this time and shows up a feeling of irritation and looks back at the fountainhead guy. Lets out a big gasp as he is missing from his place and looses speech when she finds him right next to her .

 " Hello, Its a very pleasant day isn't it ? How are you doing ?" comes a chivalrous voice .
" Uhm, Im doing good " said a voice deep inside from her. She thanked the voice because she was all numb and looked pale .

" I was thinking if you wanted to borrow my book, I assumed you would want to read it " he said.
" No thank you. I have read it and never want to read it again, those crazy characters kind off disturb me and make no sense to me " She says .

With a huge smirk on his face he says " Will you join me over for a cup off coffee, I would love to know why you think the people in the book are crazy "

Her phone rings again, this time she needs to take it. She was ignoring this call for very long.

" Baby where are you ?" comes a voice .
" I am right here and will be there in a moment " she answers back and hangs up .

Collects her belongings, looks at him for the last time trying to feel the invisible connection, turns on her heel, calls for a  taxi and disappears  .

STPI

Software Technology Parks in India (STPI) which was  the future banyan tree for India's economic growth since 1992 has been scissored  off  in the plant stage before is grew into its usual self. The Budget 2011 is the reason .
In 1992 when India was in dire states with no foreign currency and  covenanted its gold to London to borrow foreign currency for its daily payments, It basked on the ongoing IT sector and introduced the smart STPI scheme which provided the IT industries with a 10 year Tax holiday( It means Foreign  IT companies can put up business in India for a small % of tax). This scheme acted in favor  of our economic growth and made us grow from Rs 2.75 crore then to a Rs 3,00,000 crore now without having to shell any amount. But now our new budget does not allow any Tax incentives for STPI.

    Thirty years back China too ran out of foreign currency. Then they introduced tax incentives on their strength "Manufacturing". Today the world can see Made in China label on many goods ranging from toys to electronic to anything you name. Its manufacturing sector has a turn over of around 2,500 billion dollars. In spite of  this massive growth it continues with its tax incentives. Soon China can extract extortionate prices for its goods because no other country can respond as quickly as China.Why does not India get ideas from China be it their ban in the Olympics games and a comeback to no.4 position or this case of becoming world no.1 in manufacturing. Especially when India is going on so strong in this sector .  

  So why did budget 2011 take this decision when India could have grown on this?
The larger IT companies have been turning into real estate grabbers taking advantage of the SEZ scheme. SMEs have been neglected as they do not have any support. As the larger companies had access to ministers and could easily make decisions in their favor.

These large IT companies found in easier to have their own SEZ and save taxes. Hence they wanted this scheme out and relayed totally on the acquired land.

NASSCOM works in the interest of large IT companies, it is not really concerned about the Small and Medium Enterprises.

Probably  these reasons has fueled the India against Corruption movement too.

  What Happens next to India ? 3 - 4 years from now the IT sector will continue to rise because of the speed at which it is prospering but in future India might loose to China and Philippines (already No.1 in BPO sector).
If this happens the prominent growth of India might get amputated. All the SMEs will withdraw from India this will certainly  result in job losses forget about creating new ones. Is India ready to take up such a challenge ? This decision is right or not, only time can tell but we can surely tell that growth cannot be expected at the rate at which it was earlier . 

My Life

At age 5:
       The glass of milk stares vindictively down to me. I wanted to get rid of it, but how do I do it right under my mothers nose ? My sister always gets to know when her glass gets refilled. The sink or the potted plants gave away the secrets everytime. Nobody pitied me I had to gulp it down.

Life taught me "There was no escape from Milk or Mother "

At age 10:
  " I want that toy now " I shouted at the top of my voice and left no stone unturned in showing the tricks and tantrums I could to get that toy. All the while my mother looked at me with those sharp eyes saying nothing.
I realized after a while when my throat parched that I had enough toys and was being unreasonable.

Life taught me "Unreasonable wants are never meant to be fulfilled "

At age 15 :
 I was a teen and had a rush of thoughts in my head. My friends made a movie plan and I wanted to go. But, I was skeptical about my parents letting me go. So, I whispered to my friend on phone  " Don't tell your parents about the movie I am not telling mine either ". " No "comes the spurt reply from the other end of the line and then "I never hide anything from my parents and I think so should you ".
 I did accordingly and my parents even dropped us to the theater and bought us tickets too.

Life taught me " Good Friends are like god sent and reasonable wants are always fulfilled"

At age 21:
    I was almost done with my  Engineering and wanted to pursue the Masters from USA (Due to the  mass phenomenon). My Father sat down for weeks to explain me that this is not what u have to do right now, you need to have a plan for everything. I dropped the idea and stayed back and then  Oracle came my way. I am more than happy because MBA is what I was born to do and time made me realize it.

Life taught me " To always listen and respect experienced people "


          I have a long way to go and wish to write about every mile stone I reach in life. I am sure many's life is more or less the same with different examples where in life teaches them how it has to be treated .