Was going through NDTV website when I found this article on their homepage today:
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/showcolumns.aspx?id=COLEN20080042337
Really surprises me, how such views are allowed freely on a news site that is supposed to be neutral.

The author, though tries to show him a person with neutral views, can’t prevent himself from posting his own biased views. He supports Raj & MNS in opposing people from Bihar and UP working in Maharashtra. He says that UP and Bihar is not North India! Does anyone wants to hear that? He says that native people have every right to oppose migrants coming and working. He even tries to create a divide within the states of North India by stating that Punjab, Haryana etc are separate from UP and Bihar.

He and people like Raj forget that people from Punjab, Rajsthan and Gujrat and Maharashtra have always been in the helm of affairs in UP and Bihar and together they control most of the trade and business and no one is complaining. Why should one when this is One India – undivided and united!

Recently Bihar assembly asked to send Hon. Governor Mr. Gawai back as he belongs to Maharashtra in retaliation. This idea is not liked by people like Raj and the author. I fail to understand what they want. Do they want that people from UP and Bihar should be confined to their state and at the same time other people must have complete freedom in whatever they do in UP and Bihar.

I fear for the day when people from UP and Bihar start retaliating give the same treatment to all the people from other states like Maharashtra and Punjab. The day would be quite unfortunate as we can’t think of business and trade without Punjabi and Marwari community in UP and Bihar. At the same time, infrastructure will be crumbled if people from UP and Bihar come back and do not do any work in states like Punjab and Maharashtra. This is quite evident from the loss that the industry in Nasik is facing after migration of labours from UP and Bihar.

I believe that this is 100% correct that Honorary Supreme Court of India has called it balkanisation of India. It has started on a state level. Does he wants to bring this to city/town/village level now?

It seems that some people would never think or work in national interest … and to top that, they are in a position where they can command views of masses.

Please! keep off our minds and let us live in peace.

I had to struggle a lot for two years after completing my MCA to get a good opportunity. While working with a small time organisation at Noida, I’d do all kind of sundry jobs like creating a 10 page website for 3k, helping students in their final yr project for some money, working on small assignments for various organisations, even tried my own venture.

Finally my efforts paid off! Since doing all and sundry kind of work, I embraced myself with all the technology available, it helped me to get a good job in a good organization and here I am… now at a middle management level… churning out pages from my life.

Looking back, I feel it was good that I struggled a lot and equipped myself with various technologies, c0z I can see people at technical management level who are not technical at all and result in low morale of their team.

Now that I have accomplished what I desired for and I’m sure things will follow me, it’s time for me to ponder over life…

… and then there was this great IT bust. This coincided with the time we were supposed to go into the market and find a job.

The situation out there in the market was too grim. We had to struggle hard to even complete our last semester project. Everywhere we would go would be ready to provide any kind of certification, but not the project as there was no work available.

Imagine the situation when there is no work to do even if we work for free… then who would give us a job when we would want one?

It was only when I entered the domain that I knew how tough it was to get a job without a campus in IT. Looking around, I could find numerous people with all sorts of unsuccessful stories of how they jumped into IT and failed to make it and were struggling as a DTP operator or a data entry operator kind of job.

Further the years I learnt that the rate of people completing IGNOU’s MCA was mere 17 % and out of that also, only 30 % who completed in their first go, within 3 yrs.

I would say that I started to brace myself for the worst, knowing that there was no job out there when I would pass out after 3 yrs and I will have to struggle a lot.

Belonging to a far-off remote hamlet in Bihar where the entire population of the district was around 5 lakhs, it was just a chance that made me a Techie.

I remember when we were passing 10th, there was no other goal in mind other than how to get into and pass Intermediate/12th. Even after passing 12th, it was just like.. Oh! I’ve passed 12th with Mathematics so I should now try for Engineering or if with Science, then try for Medicals. No long term planning, no career councelling.. things could not have been worse.

Tried for Medicals and needless to say being unsuccessful ( I have to admit this, whatever be the reasons and circumstances), I opted for a graduation in Public Administration. Having done that from Hyderabad, I moved to Delhi for admission to Law in prestigious DU.

In DU, even after clearing the law entrance and having my name in merit list, I was denied admission, don’t know on what grounds! This was the last resort that I had in my life and I felt too miserable to return to my home. Then suddenly I happened to meet a friend who was working as a Data Entry Operator and advised me to go for IGNOU’s MCA, telling me that I can land in the job of a System Analyst paying somewhere around 15k per month! Not too bad in 1997 I suppose!

And the idea struck my mind. Having seen the computers only at railway reservation centres, that too only twice or thrice in my life, I never thought that I will make a career out of it. Fate.. destiny… whatever…. but I did joined IGNOU for a one year computer course, a pre-requisite for MCA.

After having a duel in the mind for so many years and after persuation from a dear friend, finally the techie has decided to write something. Quite unnatural huh? Techies are not supposed to write on human aspects of the things. They should be limited to the IT domain, comps, cameras, cell-phones, softwares?

This techie has decided to break all such barriers and speak. And when a techie speaks on something other than IT, he is doomed to falter! So will I, but I will continue -No matter whether you like it or not. But do let me know if you like my blog/posts.

Watch this space…