My New Year thoughts

New Year wishes from Mampra to all
Looking forward for a better year ahead.....better than all the years passed in our life
I wish you
1.An year of :-
· living together...
· sharing together with equity...
· patting the deserved instantly....
· trusting each other and being trustworthy
· supporting each other without expecting undue return
· helping each other in bringing up children and their formation
· doing exercises regularly and leading a reasonably healthy life
· respecting each other on their strength and helping to tide over their weakness…..sincerely
2.Without:-
· jealousy
· the fear of telling the truth when needed
· the fear of promoting others in public
· the fear of arguing for deserving others who promoted us
· ditching each other even with a whisper.....
· celebrating failures and set backs of others .....
· telling a lie or twisting the truth among us to win an argument.
· running away from the responsibility of correcting each other for the fear of being badged as a bad guy around
· having a stiff &lost feeling in genuinely congratulating others for their achievements
· hesitation in sharing the failure stories also along with success ones for the benefit of others.
· getting tired of genuinely involving to support people who have some areas
of improvement

Hope you agree with my new year thoughts.
I am writing this to ignite & reinforce this thoughts in me first and then to others.....
Once again wishing you a bright year ahead with a WIN-WIN relationship.
warm regards
Mampra

Where is “Adarsh’ for the Raja of corruption

I am wondering why the Indian Government should carry the minister in charge of corruption rrrr…I mean telecommunication? Even keeping him is a threat to DMK as the elections are around in TN.Is this Raja blackmailing the UPA and the DMK leaders.Are this people scared of this Raja of corruption? Is he a scapegoat or benami of somebody else more powerful?We tax paying citizens has the right to know.
Here comes the savior of our environment the intellectual Jayaram Ramesh.He was talking against the traditional graduation gown as he has completed all the graduation ceremonies.Now he is talking against SUVs as if he has just received his enlightenment.Being the minister belongs to Gandhiji’s party,he has no other option but to travel in our own Amby or Esteem and what is wrong in talking against SUVs and subsidy misuse,if he can get some applause from the so called think tanks.He seems to be not aware of the subsidy misuse by the affluent in the case of cooking gas.
Now the latest .. he want to demolish the Adarsh apartment.He came to know about this thirty plus floor apartment just yesterday and he want to shine in front of us demolishing it mercilessly following the footsteps of Kerala CM Mr.Achthanandan.Why this people enjoy demolitions rather than creating?.
Why can’t he acquire this and distribute it to the deserving Jawans and their family?
We have just seen the opposition shouting for resignation of Raja and Maharashtra CM,while they keep quiet about Karnataka and its horse trading.Contadiction again.
I feel sympathy for our honest Prime Minister for running the show with ministers like Raja & Jayaram
We ,the tax paying public have learned to live with this contradictions and we stopped taking the politicians utterances in its face value .Or in other words,we are helpless.

China-my next destination

I am visiting China again….Lat time,it was aimed at knowing the country for the first time and to participate in some exhibitions and trade shows which matters for my business….This time its for studying this emerging economy in their best University there and to hear from the horses mouth.
During my last visit, Iwas amazed by the diverse culture of this country.I travelled and stayed in Beijing, Weifang,Shanghai,Schenzhen , Guangzhou and of course,HongKong.The criss cross plane Journey was long and I was using every opportunity of travel to talk to people and to understand the country and its culture.
What is a culture? Is it characterized by art or literature? Does it include actions, feelings, or thoughts? Is it ideas, objectives, or ways? What about beliefs or values, or customs or tradition?According to me,culture is all of these. In everyday conversation, the word culture might refer to such fields as literature, art, or music; At the same time it is something more complex, a way of life.
A culture defines and sets something apart from everything else. It makes something unique and therefore meaningful, not only to itself but also to the diversity of the world.
For thousands of years, the Culture of China has attracted and moved many people from all over the world, being so unique and one-of-a-kind as well as elegant and inspiring. The Chinese Culture, a culture that has evolved for thousands and thousands of years, contains rare beauty and enchantment with history. It has drawn so much interest that it is integrating with other cultures. With such a long history and old-living civilization, the Culture of China offers much more than anything or anyone could possible receive. The Chinese Culture has shown that China has become what it is capable of becoming.
But, I found ,in my last experiment with China,that Shanghai and Hong Kong is totally stand out from the mainstream in culture and it is more of westernised.While you travel in underground metros in these places,you cannot see the passengers speaking each other and playing games in their electronic gadgets instead.Can we call it as a casuality of cultural invasion from west? May be.I am not sure.
I will be writing more on this after my second visit…..see you again
Mathew Mampra mampra@yahoo.com