This of late has become a major debating issue among employees, especially with those who want its “bureaucratic serenity” not to be disturbed. While the staff are expected to work by clearing files and help in solving the problems of people in the State, many whom are still wallowing in abject poverty, several of them these days seem to be practising their respective religions right in their work spot instead of their houses.
As there are no set rules and procedures touching upon this aspect, employees are tending to construct prayer halls within the premises.
A Christian prayer hall has come up behind the ‘L’ block where employees regularly go for prayers attended by a pastor, treating it as a church. A new multi-storeyed mosque is being constructed at a cost of Rs. 32 lakh adjacent to the ‘C’ block where the office of the Chief Minister is located. This is in addition to an existing mosque in the ‘D’ block. A temple is also already located in the heart of the premises near the dilapidated ‘G’ block.
The trend is disturbing to a large number of employees belonging to all religions. They want this “spiritualism” to be reflected in the work. Speaking to this correspondent on condition of anonymity, a senior employee lamented on Thursday “This is a work place and not a religious place. The government should take a policy decision on this aspect.”
Another employee expressed dismay that the newly sworn in ministers were entered their chambers by following ‘vaasthu’ and fixing ‘muhurthams’. All this is nothing more than humbug and ab exercise in pseudo secularism.
Work alone should be worship.
(Based on report in THE Hindu 30.5.2009)
Friday, May 29, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Election Results
The results are out. These could mean different things too different people in different states/situations. Some of them are:
1. Bad strategy by BJP. Instead of ensuring the defeat of its main rival Congress in places where other parties were strong, it contested elections there knowing fully well it will definitely lose and thus splitting anti-congress vote.
2. Vociferous projection of MMS as Prime Ministerial candidate of Congress paid off handsomely.
3. Hindutwa is a dead horse. Where people voted for BJP it was as an alternative to Congress and not for Hindutwa. I think there was no voting on communal lines.
4. Chiranjeevi ensured the success of Congress in AP. There appears to be a tacit understanding.
5. Telangana issue is rejected in AP and buried atleast for next 5 years.
6. Tails waggers given royal drubbing. See Pawar, Lalu, Paswan, Fellow Travellers, Mayavati, Jayalalita. Their chests were puffed up with self importance.Their true forms stand revealed as if the coroset has been removed.
7. Decent politicians like Nitish Kumar and Naveen Patnaik swept into reckoning. Good auger.
8. Congress and BJP should take the polity forward into a 2-party system which people are really craving for.
9. Was it a vote against building a Ram Mandir sometime in year 3009?
10. Was it a vote against pub culture in Karnataka? Moral policing up up.
11. Does conservative Rajasthan continue to punish Vasundhara for her public lip lock?
12. Is it a vote for family incorporated in Tamil Nadu?
13. Bengalis have solidly voted against modernisation and industries it appears.
14. In AP corruption, suicides, power cuts, etc were no big deal. PRP ensured that.
15. In TN, one friend of Prabhakaran is gloating while another has bitten the dust. What is the Pattern?
The dance of democracy is indeed colourful vibrant and satisfying. The real winner is Indian democracy. Nepal, Bangldesh, Pakistan, Mynamar could learn some lessons.
...ponder
1. Bad strategy by BJP. Instead of ensuring the defeat of its main rival Congress in places where other parties were strong, it contested elections there knowing fully well it will definitely lose and thus splitting anti-congress vote.
2. Vociferous projection of MMS as Prime Ministerial candidate of Congress paid off handsomely.
3. Hindutwa is a dead horse. Where people voted for BJP it was as an alternative to Congress and not for Hindutwa. I think there was no voting on communal lines.
4. Chiranjeevi ensured the success of Congress in AP. There appears to be a tacit understanding.
5. Telangana issue is rejected in AP and buried atleast for next 5 years.
6. Tails waggers given royal drubbing. See Pawar, Lalu, Paswan, Fellow Travellers, Mayavati, Jayalalita. Their chests were puffed up with self importance.Their true forms stand revealed as if the coroset has been removed.
7. Decent politicians like Nitish Kumar and Naveen Patnaik swept into reckoning. Good auger.
8. Congress and BJP should take the polity forward into a 2-party system which people are really craving for.
9. Was it a vote against building a Ram Mandir sometime in year 3009?
10. Was it a vote against pub culture in Karnataka? Moral policing up up.
11. Does conservative Rajasthan continue to punish Vasundhara for her public lip lock?
12. Is it a vote for family incorporated in Tamil Nadu?
13. Bengalis have solidly voted against modernisation and industries it appears.
14. In AP corruption, suicides, power cuts, etc were no big deal. PRP ensured that.
15. In TN, one friend of Prabhakaran is gloating while another has bitten the dust. What is the Pattern?
The dance of democracy is indeed colourful vibrant and satisfying. The real winner is Indian democracy. Nepal, Bangldesh, Pakistan, Mynamar could learn some lessons.
...ponder
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Social Etiqutte
Of all those behaviours that are encompassed as 'Soft Skills', social etiquette is most important because it is an unspoken communication giving away what a person is without need for opening his mouth. It makes a strong impression.
The way houses are built today. there is little privacy nay little protection from visual assaults from others. Same case with work places.
People may safely skirt the issue saying that social etiquette, table manners etc are for the elite and snobs. I beg to differ. I notice our rural folk have better habits and manners than the urbanites.
Picking nose, biting nails, cleaning eyes with bare hands, not washing hands with soap after using wash rooms are some of the obnoxious habits which do not need a finishing school to rectify. It should be inculcated by parents from childhood. It could be quite appalling for a person sensitve.
Another thing that makes me shudder is the tendency to borrow things. Cell phones, vehicles, shaving kits, hand kerchiefs, clothes to mixies, systems, and there is no end to the list. Hostel bullys do this with impunity and carry it further throughout their life.
Unless a person is brutally candid, it is very difficult to escape this assault.
Parents should be careful. Grooming should take place at home. If not, it is taught brutally outside.
Standding in a queue for one's turn, offering help to the needy, not embarassing others in any manner, not seeking to use others' things should come naturally.
My repeated abnoxious habits will turn a saint into devil and I will lose a friend.
...ponder
The way houses are built today. there is little privacy nay little protection from visual assaults from others. Same case with work places.
People may safely skirt the issue saying that social etiquette, table manners etc are for the elite and snobs. I beg to differ. I notice our rural folk have better habits and manners than the urbanites.
Picking nose, biting nails, cleaning eyes with bare hands, not washing hands with soap after using wash rooms are some of the obnoxious habits which do not need a finishing school to rectify. It should be inculcated by parents from childhood. It could be quite appalling for a person sensitve.
Another thing that makes me shudder is the tendency to borrow things. Cell phones, vehicles, shaving kits, hand kerchiefs, clothes to mixies, systems, and there is no end to the list. Hostel bullys do this with impunity and carry it further throughout their life.
Unless a person is brutally candid, it is very difficult to escape this assault.
Parents should be careful. Grooming should take place at home. If not, it is taught brutally outside.
Standding in a queue for one's turn, offering help to the needy, not embarassing others in any manner, not seeking to use others' things should come naturally.
My repeated abnoxious habits will turn a saint into devil and I will lose a friend.
...ponder
Monday, May 4, 2009
No It Never Happened
Bofors scam is a myth. It is a conspiracy initiated by Chitra Subramaniam and N.Ram and flayed and flayed by BJP. The 'Q' factor is raked up again and again only to malign the Italian Indian.
Sikh massacre never took place. It is an invention of the perverts to persecute Gandhian Congressmen like KHL Bhagat, Sajjan Kumar, Tytler, et. al. I dont know why our mild mannered sardarji makes occasional apologetic noises on this mythical subject. Sardarjis are supposed to be bold. He should dseclare boldly that as a sikh he is more authoratative on this piece of fiction.
For the likes of Kuldip Nayyar partition never took place. THere was no displacement of population. The almost 25% non muslim population did not get whittled down to about 5% in the so called Pakistan. Whole India can go to dogs but punjab should be one atleast in their imagination.
Sikhs of Pakistan are not paying Jijiya to keep their kesh. It is another creation of the media. Since the secularists can see through the truth they dont indulge in rabble rousing on this piece of misinformation in the media.
Fodder scam never happened. Important witnesses did not come under trains. Thousands of crores never siphoned. All vily propoganda.
The biggest lie is Emergency. Only trains ran on time. This has been coloured as Emergency. Courts did not rule that there is no right to life.
Supreme Court judges were not superceded.
India did not lose territories to China and Pakistan. Even if it lost, not a blade of grass grows there.
Rajiv Gandhi was never assassinated. You ask his widow's coalition partner.
Keep telling a lie thousand times - it will become the truth.
...ponder
Sikh massacre never took place. It is an invention of the perverts to persecute Gandhian Congressmen like KHL Bhagat, Sajjan Kumar, Tytler, et. al. I dont know why our mild mannered sardarji makes occasional apologetic noises on this mythical subject. Sardarjis are supposed to be bold. He should dseclare boldly that as a sikh he is more authoratative on this piece of fiction.
For the likes of Kuldip Nayyar partition never took place. THere was no displacement of population. The almost 25% non muslim population did not get whittled down to about 5% in the so called Pakistan. Whole India can go to dogs but punjab should be one atleast in their imagination.
Sikhs of Pakistan are not paying Jijiya to keep their kesh. It is another creation of the media. Since the secularists can see through the truth they dont indulge in rabble rousing on this piece of misinformation in the media.
Fodder scam never happened. Important witnesses did not come under trains. Thousands of crores never siphoned. All vily propoganda.
The biggest lie is Emergency. Only trains ran on time. This has been coloured as Emergency. Courts did not rule that there is no right to life.
Supreme Court judges were not superceded.
India did not lose territories to China and Pakistan. Even if it lost, not a blade of grass grows there.
Rajiv Gandhi was never assassinated. You ask his widow's coalition partner.
Keep telling a lie thousand times - it will become the truth.
...ponder
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