Wednesday, March 14, 2012

क्यूँ रोकूँ मैं तुझे |


क्यूँ  रोकूँ  मैं  तुझे ...

तू  निर्मल  जल  समूह  धारा प्रचंड 
मदमस्त  बलखाती  लय  पर  सवार 
नदी  नाले  वन  सजीव  विजयी 
अपनी  धुन  में  मंत्रमुघ्द अलाप  
क्यूँ  रोकूँ  मैं  तुझे ....

तुझमे  कांति  नभ  छूने  की  
व्योम  के  ध्रुव  को  प्रकाशित   करने  की  
उर्जा  तुझमे  अनंत 
दृढ़ता  तुझमे   प्रचंड 
क्यूँ  रोकूँ  मैं  तुझे ....

तू  आत्मा  विश्वास  का  जीवंत  स्वरुप  
मनुष्य  की  प्रचुर  चेष्टा  का  प्रतीक 
तुझमे  बसी  गंगा  की  धार 
गिर  के  उठी  तू  बार  बार  
क्यूँ  रोकूँ  मैं  तुझे ...

तू  निरंतर  जीवन  का  अमित  सार 
प्रकृति  के  चिरंजीवी  का  स्वरुप  साकार |

कैसे रोकूँ  मैं  तुझे ....

PS :dedicated to a father on what he is feeling for his daughter's success and the comments of the society for her travel abroad

Saturday, March 10, 2012

IRCTC sucks !!!


A pathetic experience with the tatkal booking option of irctc.What were you thinking when you designed that stupid webpage , that it's for show and people wouldn't be using it for tatkal bookings or that the population of India is close to germany or france. Wake up , close to 2 lakhs are planning to book a train ticket in tatkal every day....

Being in India, you should know Indian realities. But including the railway ministry , the irctc folks either don't have technical understanding of India's needs or they are just as dumb.

Idiotic moves by Indian Railways

1. Tatkal window opens only 24 hrs before.
2. There are only 4 seats per train per class in Tatkal,
3. The site goes for a toss at 8:00 am.
4. The ajax field takes ages to load when required including server error 503
5. After all this if u r able to submit your request , a server error 200 throws up.
6. Finally at 8:30 if u r able to reach somewhere , a regret list is awaiting your request.

Guys, do us a favour , close the tatkal.

I don't know but it seems Railways has been trying to boost the Indian Airlines sector, for what else would explain the failure.

I do have face to face evidence working of the Indian railways while doing my development of corporate citizenship project in Pune. All we wanted was to estimate the feasibility of planting trees alongside railway tracks. However the department seemed to be too busy just running the trains and it seemed everything worked on jugaad.

There was a silver lining somewhere but the clouds around in Indian railways are very dark.....

I wish Laloo is back .. His being in railways improved the services and policies both for Indian railways and also for Bihar...

Regards,
Amrit

Thursday, March 8, 2012

SPJIMR : Will I miss you?

Most of the answers to the questions that I ask myself find a common answer "I don't know". Bloody hell, why don't I know the answers to most of my questions. Today I asked myself a simple question , will I miss SP Jain and again stumbled upon the same futile answer " I don't know". Seriously I am fed up of this monotonous student of life, i.e me , who does not have any answer for me. 

Ok, let's probe further, what's there to miss in a college besides the usual "it's natural to miss your college". Just because you have been with something or somewhere for the last 2 years , do you miss it . Do I miss all the couplet years of my life. No I don't, I don't even remember most of my life. 

So the point is , you miss the things you like the most. For example, i missed food and family when  i was in Germany. What is that in college that I liked that I shall miss.

Like #1 : I liked the classes. Yes, I liked them. Not all, but most of them were very interactive, if u want , you learnt a lot of new ideas and lots of good things about life. The classes on what management is or the story of a boy which I forgot in the Learning Management Class were exciting. Most of the subjects that I studied ,could be very well practically applied to any business scenario. I loved the learning.

Like #2 : I loved the night canteen. I am generally awake till 3/4 , so the night canteen was something which always helped me get the fuel.Moreover, you can always find people around there to have a little chit-chat, curse some assignments ....

Like # 3 : Optimistic, that  I am, I always believe in next time.However , if there is no next time, I would miss being with 101 E , specially some people with whom I had late night discussions and anything and everything.

Like #4 : I shall miss Moments like Anandwan and PG lab , which gave u a high !

I guess that's my short list. Let the college be over and let me see what actually shall I miss .....

The Broken Arrow!

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