Change in the mindset!

(This is really a vast topic, but tried it to keep it as intact and precise to my ability)

Today, whenever we just scroll through current happenings may be through news paper, there are quite a few incidents reported for corruption, rapes, loots and gang wars , the way the various public sector operates-poor planning and implementation of initiatives-(bridges, dams, public properties), red tape politics in heavy percentage of any transactions espacailly while dealing with the government authority,the way sometimes police force is involved in the crime acts, bribes, Handling of varous problems by the leaders and lack of eagerness shown by people 'in power' on addressing the issues..... so on and so forth....now whats the impact of these in-activeness... some of which comes to mind straight away

Scarcity of basic needs of food and shelter, wastages of these valuable necessities ( just a practical example which i read in news paper-

leaking of water carrying pipelines wasting the vital water source in peak summers, stealing of the electricity power), in our large country at the same time , there would be people dying without water and due to water( flood), the list can go on and on and on...

So all in all- 'a imbalance in the demand and supply of the human needs'.

It creates a unhealthy social environment, wherein a common man gets disappointed, dejected and is forced to draw the conclusion that, its going to happen this way ONLY in our country....nothing is going to change. Due to this mind set, resulting in low moral values, the common man indulges into this bad environment , not working to his best potential summing up to low output in whatever, he is doing, subsequently contributing to the circle of problems cited in our society(some of the glimpses shared above)

OK, enough about the problem description since we are aware and into it ..so we know all about this!..Now what needs to be changed? Revamping of system? change in the government? Stricter law and order? Change in some policy?, but the point is, if something needs change its going to affect the common man, its for him, by him... who will be going to the center of change, hence I think we require change in our mindset....that needs change.....its all how we look at it....if we think nothing is going to change and thats how "System" will work.......it will remain as it is...........

We the people need to think that, today is the day and we are going to act on ethical values of truth , transparency, respect and compassion for each and every one around us. Thats what we learn in our upbringing isn't it?But no one follows them in real life, this is because no one see them implemented around us. However, its time when, these values needs to be re-instituted amongst everyone of us. This is a paradigm shift which will not happen overnight, but if every one thinks, optimistically and put in a conscious effort to rebuild these changes back, it would have a massive social-economic impact.

Here are some of the way which I think can be checked out in order to communicate and implement such a change-

1) A process in all the service, public sectors, government departments understanding their system , people problems-as to why they are getting involve in malpractice, possible solutions to the issues and motivating them and embedding the ethical values

2) Use of media-This I think is the main weapon to concur this problem. News paper( perhaps a column on front page everyday citing the importance of values and a every day example of how we can implement values daily), FM radio,Broadcasting on television show can have a massive impact due to its high penetration. TV shows conveying the messages, talks and outcome oriented debates, probably a reality show which will showcase how changing the mindset and inculcating the core values helped a community/area village/city, in short, benefit to the people.Since, people will be easily able to correlate this REAL change, it can transform the belief system of people community which will Change the thought process and eventually changing the day to day actions and decision based on the values. (I think this reality show can bring in a huge TRP-a business value as well :)

3) Highly motivated and philosophical gurus talking and conveying this message every where by conducting people gatherings..

4) Also, Once people start following, a system which can recognize the change in people and rewards for the same.

These are just some of the suggestions and would be just a start and believe me, these small changes are contentious which would contribute in unfolding a conducive environment for overall growth and remarkable difference for India in 21st century!!!!!!!!!!!..Don't you think so?

Entrepreneurship at the Grass root level

Mahatma Gandhi ji had given a guiding message some 50-60 years back for the development of our great country. Lets go to villages and develop them. When I look at this message again, I admire the the great vision the man had!

If you look at the current situation in India, we have 4 biggest metros, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkatta and Chennai. Pune, Hydrabad, Bangalaru, Ahmadabad and few more follow the suite of the second layer of big cities in India. If you observe, the first thing you can notice about these metros is its crowdedness. There is rush, big Qs for any thing and everywhere, rubber-necking traffic jams, life threatening accidents, all kinds of sound, air pollution, sky high prices of per Sq. feet of land, scarcity of basic human needs, mammoth population which creates tons of garbage!!..

Now, if we just turn a back and take a look at all these problems in urban areas created by population, you can easily make out, these are all outcomes of dense development in city areas. These big towns are no doubt the land of opportunities for earning bread and butter, but how much pressure these lands can handle. There is always a limit to the natural resources which are available in and around these cities as well, which are day in, day out excruciated to satisfy the needs of metros. The respective local governing body with their operational capability tries to fulfill the city needs,however after a certain extent the system begins to collapse. Then based on the available option, the government body search for short term solution on the overused resources such as power cuts, limited supply of water, one ways on heavy traffic roads etc.

Now why this happens? why people run to these places, are they happy travelling every day in jam packed local trains, Hrs of waiting in traffic, thousand people running behind a single job, irregular water supply , huge power cuts, do they like it? No, not at all. But even though people know the problems, they still run to big metros,why? If we try to nail down the reason behind this rush, the root cause is unemployment, limited or no earning opportunities for a good living at the place where the people belong to.

NO body likes to be grinded in metros, but when a people don't have much option for the source of income in their living place, quite logically they tend to look for the avenues which will offer them something which can bring in the buck, prosperity, something which will give them the economical independence that they aspire for. This results in shifting of huge crowd in cities looking for opportunity and eventually the over crowdedness, creating bottlenecks in metros. This constitute significant unbalance between rural and urban development as well.

In the middest of all the big towns are facing this big problem, what can be the probable solution for it? Analytically speaking, the straight solution would be to pay attention to rural development, which I believe have been put forward millions times before in various forums and people in power take various actions to accomplish rural betterment but we still have remarkable imbalance.

I think the solution would be- if we can make rural area to operate independently and intra dependently(mutually helping out each other) village and cities need, we are on the way of solving this complex problem.

One of the way of brining this to reality is through throwing more focus on entrepreneurship at the grass root level. This will boost the economy at the basis level. If employment is generated in the rural area, people have enough opportunities and can have their earnings that satisfies their daily needs as well as make a good living, then how many people would want to leave their comfort zone and to travel to other cities/ metros?

Few steps have already been taken by the government already in this direction, e.g. creation of institutes which will inculcate business abilities, supporting the new ventures financially, but more often we see these policies fail to reach out to the intended beneficiary places. On the other hand, most times, the common man is missing the right set of education and skill set, start up capital investment, lack of awareness, dependency on external conditions such as the whether. So in a nutshell most of the times is a disconnect between the supplier(government body) and the beneficiary.

So how to address this one? How to fine tune the the entrepreneurship habit in small towns and villages?

We have a massive youth empowered with variety of set of education, however due to the unbalanced development problem cited above, youth prefers his metro life, struggle to get a job amidst the crowd, and once he gets it, then adjust himself into the job routine and even though at times don't like their job routine, continue doing it.

Instead of that, If we, as youth educated youth, are open to take the challenge and offer willingness to utilize our potential to maximum by working on creating a condusive environment for establishing entrepreneurship at these various rural levels, then, we have a massive growth potential to unfold. If the educated people with the knowledge and huge I&T processing power focus on the aspect of building grass root entrepreneurship by working on options such as-

1) to guide the people from the rural background financially

2) to create awareness among the people about the business and the advantages of it

3) to provide assitance and advice to the existing business for future growth

4) to help in a startup business, as there are lot things which people are not aware of

5) to start something of our own at the grass root level

It all depends on how our city youth thinks, depends on their priority in life, how much time they are willing to spare. However if we, the young blood can proactively start contributing heavily, it would drastically improve the way our small villages, towns, cities operates, which still compromises of around 60% of the total population.

Our country has been blessed with lot of natural resource, variety of soil, weather condition, spread across, especially untapped in the rural areas. We need to explore appropriate use of this natural wealth from every part of the country, and blend educated youth to thrust the entrepreneurship in rural areas, it will bring in our larger proportion of our population in mainstream development subsequently towards dream path of balanced systematic development across the country.

One striking example is Anand in Gujart, it was a typical undeveloped village, but visionary leader Dr. Vargis Couriun who had came back from his high education US degree, created a large conglomerate Amul known popularly as milk/white revolution. Lijjat papad was a small business which started in-door with bear minimum inputs, now it has generated employment for more than 40,000 house hold ladies from the small outskirts. There are lots of similar inspiring examples, the point is not to get overwhelmed by the big examples but to understand ones area of strength, and take a positive step forward for building entrepreneurship at the grass root level to the best of our abilities. These small steps of proportionate growth will act as a propellant force in our country's pathway towards being self sustained, successful, developed nation!! Don't you think so??

शोध सुप्त गुणांचा!

काही दिवस तरी एकटे राहावे..!

गेले काही दिवस या विषयावर लिहेन म्हणत होतो.. माझे मत आहे कि माणसाने काही दिवस तरी एकटे राहावे, आपण बरेच काही शिकतो, आपला जीवना कडे पाहण्याच्या दृष्टीकोन बदलतो ..

आमचे छोटे.मध्यम वर्गीय कुटुंब ,.म्हणजे मी, आई ,वडील, आणि माझी धाकटी बहिण. लहानाचा मोठा झालो..ते पुण्यातच..त्यामुळे कधीही शिक्षणा निमित व नंतर नोकरी निमित्त घराबाहेर राहायचा प्रसंग कधी आलाच नाही.. शिक्षण झाल्यावर लवकरच एका माहिती तंत्रद्यान कंपनी मध्ये नोकरी लागली ..( मराठी मधमवर्गीय भाषेत..चिकटलो..). तेंव्हा कंपनी प्रशिक्षणा करिता.काही दिवस एका दुसर्या शहरात पाठवले होते..त्यामुळे तसे पहिला गेले तर ..या आधी काही महिने मी घर बाहेर राहिलो होतो..पण त्या दिवसात ..नुकताच..महाविद्यालय बाहेर पडलो असल्या मुळे तसा थोडा अल्लड पना होता..आणि..कंपनी ने राहण्या खाण्याच्या सगळ्या सुविधा यथायोग्य पुरवल्याअसल्या मुळे फारशी काही चिंता न्हवती. कंपनी चे ऑफिस पुण्यात असल्यामुळे, प्रशिक्षणा संपवून लवकरच मी परत परत पुण्या भूमी मध्ये दाखल.झालो. त्यानंतर पुढे ३-४ एक वर्षे पुण्यात कपनी च्या ऑफिस मधेच होतो. कामात तोच तोच पण येऊ लागला होता. मन काही तरी बदला ची मागणी करत होते आणि त्याच सुमारास माझा परदेश गमनाच्या योग आला. कामा निमित्त कंपनी ने परदेशी पाठवायचे ठरवले ..आणि..आम्ही पुन्हा एकदा ..आपली पुण्या नागरी सोडली..

ऐथे आल्यावर काही दिवस ..नवीन वातावरणाशी जुळून घेण्यात गेले. लवकरच.प्रत्यक्ष परीशितीशी सामना झाला..आम्ही कायम घरी राहत असल्यामुळे ..घरच्यांनी खूप लाडात वाढवलं..त्यमुळे कधी स्वपान्घरात जायचा प्रसंग खाण्या पलीकडे आला न्हवता. अहो मी कधी साधा एक कप चहा करून घाय्चों नाही,..न्हावे यायचा नाही, आपलं भूक लागेली कि सांगायचा अवकाश ....सगळा कस अगदी जागेवर मिळायचं..पण खरच..आणि ऐथे आल्यावर .भूक लागली कि ..आई कशी प्रेमाने ..तव्यावरची गरम गरम पोळी ताटात वाढायची, आईच्या हातची आपली आवडीची भाजी, माऊ शिरा, लुसलुशीत पुरण पोळी, चमचमीत पाव भाजी, सात्विक वरण भात आणि तूप... ..असे प्रसंग झ्र्रकन डोळ्या पुढून जात. काही ना करता आयते मिळाले कि तेंव्हा त्याची किंमंत कळत नाही, म्हणतात ना तेच खरे, ह्याची मला पहिल्या काही दिवसातच प्रकर्षाने जाणीव झाली. निघताना मी काही तरी तुडूक मुदुक स्वयंपाक करयचे नुस्के पाहून निघालो होतो...कणिक मळणे, दाल तांदुळाचा कूकर लावणे असली प्रत्याशिके झाली होती,.पण निघण्याच्या बाकी सगळ्या गडबडीत डोक्यात ते किती घुसले..ते परमेश्वरालाच ठावूक. नुसते..उ-TUBE पाहून ..किव्हा ..स्वयापाकावरील..पुस्तके, किव्हा संजीव कपूर चे कार्यक्रम पाहून स्वयंपाक येत काही, होत नाही. पाण्यात पडल्या शिवाय जसे पोहता येत नाही तसेच मी पण मुद्पक खाण्यात शिरून .. हळू हळू ..एक एक पदार्थ बनावयाचा प्रयत्न करू लागलो, शिकलो..आणि बनवू लागलो..पहिले काही प्रयोग भाज्या वर केले..( पता कोबी, घेवडा इ. इ. ) .बरोबर अनुभवी मित्र, फोने वरून आई, आणि नेट वरील माहिती ..यांच्या मदतीने ..स्वयंपाक शिकण्यास मदत झाली. आणि मी थोडा फार स्वयंपाक बनवू लागलो, अगदी..आमटी भात पोळी भाजी, असा चौव्रस... आपण काही नवीन वस्तू बनवतो , त्याची मजा, तो आनंद काही औरच असतो. आणि विशेषतः
स्वयंपाक हि अशी गोष्ट आहे ..कि जिथे आपल्या कष्टा नचे लगेच चीज होते आणि हो लेगेच ते चाखायला हि मिळते !

मनुष्य एकटे राहू लागला कि .अजून मला जाणवलेला एक बदल म्हणजे..आपण स्वावलंबी बनू लागतो....आपण जेंव्हा घरी असतो..तेंव्हा अनेक गोष्टींची आपल्याला पोच पण नसते ...पण घराबाहेर पडले..कि आपल्याला आपली स्वतःची सगळी सोय पहावी लागते....पुण्यात असताना..मी घरी संधाकली पोचल्यावर ..काय खावे ..ऐथून विचार सुरु करायचो..पण बाहेर असताना..सर्व गोष्टींचे नियोजन आधी पासून कार्याची सवय लालावे लागते..जर कुठली भाजी करायची असेल..तर त्या करिता लागणारे सामानाची व्यवस्था आधी पासून लावले लागते.. मी पूर्वी बरेचदा आमच्या कोपर्यावरच्या रस्त्यावरून वरून संधाकली उगाच फिरत असे..घरी आम्ही "सांगकामे" म्हणून प्रसिद्ध, 'बेकरी मधून ब्रेंड घेवून ये'..अशी आज्ञा मातोश्री कडून झाली ..कि आम्ही दुचाकी वरून शीळ घालत ..फक्त ब्रेंड आणणार,.बस काम संपले . त्याच्या शेजारीच भाजी वाल्या मावशी बसत, पण मला कधी..भाजी व्याल्या मावशीकडची भाजी ताजी दिसली नाही..कि घरी दुध संपले आहे कि नाही ह्याचा आम्ही कधी होशोब ठेवला नाही, पण ऐथे..मोठ्या माल मध्ये गेल्या वर ..बाजूची मुलगी जरी सुंदर दिसली..तरी ..आता आधी आम्ही..ताजी भाजी कुठली आहे..दुधाचे कॅन १ घ्यावा कि २. ह्या कडे लक्ष अधिक लक्ष दुउ लागलो. रूम वर कुठेले समान संपले आहे,.काय आणणे गरजेचे आहे..धुण्याचा साबण संपला आहे ..का?..या आठवड्यात कुठले कपडे इस्त्री करे लागणार आहे.,.या वेळेस कोणाचे पराठे खायला आणायचे, वीजबिल भरायची तारीख कधी, रूम ची सफाई कधी करायची, .अश्या सर्व गोष्टींची खबर कायम ठेउ लागलो . अश्या प्रसंगामधून घर सांभाळणे, त्याचे नियोजन, आणि व्यवस्थापन आपल्या घरात आपली आई बाबा घरात किती यथायोग्य करत असतात.ह्याचा साक्षात्कार होतो . मग आपणहि हळू हळू घरातील लागणाऱ्या सर्व बाबींचा, गोष्टीचा विचार करू लागतो, त्या प्रमाणे थोडे जवब्दारीने वागू लागतो ......आणि .....आपल्याला स्वतःलाच..थोडी समाज आल्यासारखे..वाटू लागते..त्याचे थोडे समाधान पण वाटते..पण या सगळ्या मागच्या मुल मुद्दा आहे..कि ..परीशितीशी जुळवून घेवून आपण स्वावलंबी होऊ लागतो,.योग्य आणि .आणि स्वताचे निर्णय स्वतः घेवू लागतो.. ..जरी काही प्रसंगी ते चुकले तरी त्यातून शिकण्यास मदतच होते..

अजून एक प्रकर्षाने जाणवली ती म्हणजे ,मनाचा आवाज ..आपण जेंव्हा आपल्या कुटुंब,..मित्र , आपल्या समाजात वावरत असतो....आपण एका कोशात गुंतातेलो असतो..एका दैनंदिन जीवनाचा पट्टा आपण चालवत असतो. मला अशी वाटते ..कि ..आपल्या मनात..खूप आत ..एक दडलेला आवाज असतो..पण दैनंदिन धकाधकीच्या जीवनामध्ये ..तो पुरा दडपला जातो..माझ्या मते आपले एक बाह्य मन असते..आणि एका अंतर मन असते ..बाह्य मन..कि ..ज्याच्यशी आपाला सतत सवांद चालू असतो....आणि जे अंतर्मन असते..जे सुप्त अवस्थेत असते. ह्या अन्न्तारिक मनात खूप प्रचंड ताकद असते..जर हे मन आपण जागृत करू शकलो..त्याचाशी सवांद साधू शकलो तर..भल्या भली मोठी कामे आपल्या कडून होऊ शकतात..कित्क्येक थोर माणसे हे सांगून गेली आहेत..कि मनाची अंतरी शक्ती खूप महत्वाची असते..आणि त्या जोरावर..आपण जग पादाक्रांत करू शकतो.....परंतु हे जे आंतरिक मन असते..ह्याच्या आपल्या धाक धाकीच्या जीवनात..सवांद साधायला सवड होत नाही...परंतु मला असे जाणवले कि जेंव्हा आपण असे दूर देशात आपण अपोक एकटे होऊन जातो...तेंव्हा .आपोआप ..आपले अंतरी मनाशी आपण सवांद साधू लागतो..ती उर्जा आपल्याला बल देते, मार्गदर्शन करते. कदाचीत..योग, कुंडलिनी..जप, तप, या सर्व साधने मध्ये ..मन एकाग्र..करून शांत करून, करतात ते हाच एकांत मिळवण्या साठी..कि ज्यात .न्हेवून..आपल्या आंतरिक मनाशी/शक्तीची ..सवांद साधण्याचा प्रयत्न केला जातो......एकटा राहिल्यामुळे मी ..अपसुख हा एकांत मिळायचा अनुभव मी घेतालाल आहे..मग अपोआप..जीवनाची कोडी आपोआप सुतू लागतात..आणि निखळ आनंद कशात हा केवळ बाहेरील जगात/ भौतिक सुखात नसून..तो आंतरिक मनाच्या समाधानावर आहे..हे पटू लागते.!

मी कधी जन्मात विचार केला न्हवता...कि मी घराबाहरे राहायला लयाला पासून काही महिनायचा आत छोले, मटार उसळ, शिरा, मिसळ,बिर्याणी , पोळ्या/पुरी ..आणि हो चहा .(जवळ पास अमृता तुल्य मध्ये मिलतो तसा ) बनवू शकेन..मला ऐथे माझे कौतुक करयचे नसून,.मला जाणवलेली गोष्ट म्हणजे....कि आपण नवीन नवीन गोष्टी .शोधाल्या पाहिजेत, शिकल्या पाहिजे ,.आणि त्या प्रय त न पूर्वक आत्मसात करायची धड पण अंगी बाण वाली पाहिजे..आपल्या प्रय्तेकाच्या अंगी अनेक सुप्त गुण असतात.परंतु आपण आपण एकाला चलो रे मार्ग पकडून बसतो. तसे ना करिता नवीन नवीन गोष्ठी..करयचा पर्यंत करून ..आपल्याला त्या जमत आहे का.,..आपल्या ला त्यात रस आहे का ..हे पडताळून पहिले पाहिजे आणि ती गोष्टा आत्मसात करायची धडपड सतत ठेवली पाहिजे .
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माणसाच्या आयुष्याला ..जीवन हि पाण्याची उपमा दिली आहे..पाणी एकाच ठिकाणेजमून राहिले तर .त्याचे गढूळ डबके होते..तसे होऊ ना देता पाण्याने ( पर्यायाने जीवनाने..) निखल झर्या सारखे सदैव वाहत राहावे...त्यातूनच आपल्यातला अजून काही "नवीन गुणाचा" आपल्याला "नवीन" शोध लागेल, नाही का?

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