What to do when chips are down.

It happens more often to all of us that even after putting so much of hard work we do not get the success which we deserve. Close to our heart we know that we did everything which was necessary for getting success in our working career but still that moment of glory eludes us. How we react to this type of situation, getting angry on little things, indulge in useless arguments, become abrasive in our approach, openly vocal & critical about the person or persons whom we found responsible for putting hindrance in our success. These are some of the very common reaction any normal person indulge in when he find after putting all the efforts , the so called success instead of falling in his lap falls into the lap of person occupying next table in your office & to whom you thought never worthy enough to embrace success. What to do, you just can ask for a boxing bout with the undesired recipient of success. You go on cursing the management, cursing the bloody system, cursing every creature who you think were even remotely responsible for your constant static stature. You start doubting about your capabilities, your self esteem getting lower day by day & instead of getting strength for fighting again you start loosing strength. By doing this you give ample opportunity to your adversaries in a platter to finger about your capabilities & which looks very obvious & visible to everybody, you further go down on the assessment ladder.
Things don’t look very rosy for you because at home too, your spouse makes hell of the effort to bring upon the normalcy but your mind is still in the office. Dear friend first of all we must understand the world always never work according to our plan. Some times things work in our favor, some time not. It’s not necessary that always the most competent person will get the name & fame, if this would have been true Lord Krishna would not have bothered to write shri Bhagvat Gita , The almighty knew that there will be unsuccessful but competent persons in kalyuga That they will need this holy book more than anything else to re enlighten them about there self respect & capability. How many of us have heard the name of Nicola Tesla, a very famous American Scientist of Serbian origin , he did no less experiments than Thomas Elva Edison but Edison is known by everybody but tesla is known to few electrical engineers who know him for his invention of electrical motor & tesla effect. The very first thing we should do when the chips are down to keep calm & compose. Talk to yourself for at least half an hour daily. Repeat time & time again to you silently that you are efficient, capable for achieving success. Believe me nobody can tarnish your self respect except you only. Analyze the situation on non emotional base, think again & again if you have made any mistake, if you find one try to rectify it. After giving careful thought still you feel that you have put every efforts which you were supposed to, just lie low, keep low profile for a while, wait for your turn, the wind will change the direction. What about the heartburn after all we are human beings, there will be pain & sorrows, never share it in office place, share it with child hood friend, college friend incase you still are in contact with them, They are the best buddy to share the pain. If you have spouse, talk to him or her, they are your pillar of strength. Never ever doubt your capabilities.

We all know about The great Indian king Prithvi raj chouhan, he defeated Muhammad Ghori thirteen times, forget for a second about Prithvi Raj, just think about ghori Getting defeated so many times what a humiliation, but what happen ultimately he was the winner. Think of the mental frame of a person, getting defeated so many times, think of the will power , logistics problem , motivational problem , getting motivate the army to fight for after getting umpteen number of times, your fate can not be worse than Mohammed Ghori, if he won it , you will win too.

Saumitra Yadav

Is India truly a Democratic Country ?

We the Indians are very proud of the fact that we are a democratic country. But when democracy is not understood in its right perspective what happens? In our country democracy means any body anywhere can stop the essential life line services just in the name of protest. Any body anywhere can destroy the government & private properties in the name of protest. Any motley groups of people in the name of certain ideology can kill innocent people. Any local goon with the help of muscle power & some assistance from local government can win the election & legitimize his illegal business. Are we a democratic country or are we not moving slowly to anarchy? The recent past violent protest by one community just to have secure more easy livelihood which in other terms known as Reservation brought one large portion of the nation to standstill. Properties worth billions were destroyed & no government machinery was in picture to stop it. Who will compensate the losses? Tomorrow some body else will rise & repeat the action. There is an parallel government in chattisgarh , Jharkhand, Bihar & some parts of Madhya Pradesh by Naxalites & government is simply sleeping over it. What can they do, Left parties are there allies. Some of the states & regional leader very proudly states, that only person belonging to that particular state will get a job there. What this statement means, are we trying to say that this particular state is not part of India?

The whole problem lies in the politics of convenience & absolute lack of statesmanship. Politician today are very short sighted & mean minded. I think we should move from multi party system to presidential system of government. The whole nation should elect a president who in turn will select his ministers from various field of society on there merit. This will stop the corruption prevailing due to horse trading in case of minority government. People should be able to elect there leader directly, not the party. The party system should be abolished. The president should divide India into four Zones for the purpose of Administration. North, South, East & west should be respective four zones. The president should have two internal security agencies which operates on pan India basis. One deals with the petty crimes like theft, robbery, rape & murder. The second agency deals with the bigger crimes like Terrorism, drug pedaling, cross border terrorism & internal security. With the elimination of multi party system we will be saving thousand of security personals, who are wasting there time in protecting these good for nothing politicians. The security agencies will be working in three shifts basis so they are not tired & overworked. The recruitment for securities agencies should be done on the basis of all India written test, followed by personal interviews & the final selection should be done on individual’s candidate back ground check. There should be school for policing which should conduct classes on law, personal management, psychology, personal combat & weapon training. There should be single pan national agency for controlling any department. Be it Police, Army, Transport, Railways, Aviation, Sports, Science & Technology. There should not be two agencies working on one area at loggerheads.

I am not in favor of controlling the freedom of mankind but there has to be some check & balances on the part of brilliant Indian scholar who at the cost Indian money gets the best education here but immediately start giving there brilliant ideas to other nations. If every Indian will start thinking like them, than who will take care of our country. Most of the people from this category complain that our country can not provide the ideal conditions for such brilliant minds to work. They actually are fooling themselves, who will change the conditions in our country, do some aliens from other planet will come & change it. It is we only who has to change it. If our forefathers would had thought in the same manner than we would have been still living as slave. But they are not hundred percent wrong, brilliant mind needs good logistic & moral support to create there brilliance in there respective areas. We have to create that atmosphere.

The biggest enemy of our nation is casteism. One day this will disintegrate our great nation. Reservation of any kind is a cancerous disease. There are two type of reservation, one which is propagated by the government in a legal way, which is transparent, the other one which is propagated by strong & powerful communities belonging to different strong castes. This is hidden reservation; this is more dangerous than the other one. In this case if some member of the particular community reaches on powerful positions in the government, they will slowly & methodically select people from there communities with there influence & put them in important positions. There will be a time when the respective department will run solely on the dictate of this particular community. The pattern remains same over the year’s only community’s change. Both the type of reservation should be eradicated from our society in complete manner but before that the nation should have a proper impartial social safety net for the people from poor & weaker section irrespective of there caste & creed.

Recent terrorist attack at Bombay has awakened the whole India like anything. See what poorly paid & the least motivated Indian citizen did for the nation for example The Police, the security forces & the elite commandos. Last but not the least the Bombay fireman showed exemplary courage by doing there job without having bullet proof jackets. They are not combat unit but they were performing there duty actually in the line of fire. How could we pay our debt to them? The government just does not like to increase there pay who actually saves the nation. What type of people we choose to govern us who give a damn about our security. I think the time has come for us to make a referendum to change the current political system. We must abolish state assemblies & state government. We should elect our national head directly. He in turn can select his Team. Why should we have MP’s & MLA’s when we have executive body to execute the job? Why should we spend crores of rupees to these incompetent nincompoops who are good for nothing?

We have to seriously think about it & act upon it. This party system has brought whole lot of corruption to our system. It is we who has to abolish the system.

I think the time has come that we also should do the soul searching. These politicians are coming from the same society to which we belong to. If we are given power we will also behave like them. Don’t we try to show off when we have any member of our family serving for police or government? Don’t we try to take advantage of the situation? I think we all have to change. Once we are changed then only we will have courage to change others. We must have courage to support those who are honest & upright. Just tell me how many honest & upright governments official gets support from us. I mean active support.

First we must not allow anybody to divide us on the line of cast, community & religion. The British did that to rule us & now the politicians are doing it to rule us. We must fight in unison & defeat them in there game.


Saumitra Yadav

disclaimer this is the personal view of saumitra yadav.

LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP

Leader or leadership is such a fabulous topic that umpteen numbers of articles has been written so far but it still stimulates & attracts so many of us to know the exact definition of the term leader. What is leadership?

Leadership is nothing but first visualizing a dream for a better future from the current present & then achieving it by motivating different spectrum of people using there individual strength into a cohesive force. Whenever there is a leader in the picture, you will find he is there for bringing change. It can be a change for values, society, and status or for a nation. His prime role is to bring change for the betterment of his followers. A successful leader is the one who creates confidence in each of his ward that there life will be change for better future. Leader’ vision becomes the goal for each of his follower. We can safely put the definition of a leader as “he is the one who visualizes the change for the betterment of society, group, community, organization or nation & sets the path & guide & motivate his followers to achieve the change. A leader is the one who can get the extra ordinary things done from ordinary people because he sees enormous potential in each one of individual & guide them to exploit there individuals unique qualities for a bigger common cause. Any example you take of prominent leaders in there respective fields, you will find that they were responsible for the change in there respective field. The most successful one creates a confidence in the mind of each of his ward that they all will be benefited by the change. .So what are the main contributing factors which makes a leader out of a person? Let’s jot it down below,

Leaders are dreamers

Leaders are visionaries

Leaders are truthful

Leaders have strong conviction

Leaders are great communicators

Leaders have strong sense of justice

Leaders have empathy

Let’s understand why all the above mentioned factors are important for making of a leader.

Leaders are dreamers

Leaders have to be dreamers. In there conscious mind they always dream about the betterment of society, community or nation, they always have a belief that tomorrow should be a better day for there ward. They always dream about a future for there followers.

Leaders are visionaries

Leaders always have a vision what exactly they want for there ward or there followers. They have the exact vision of there dreams about there community, organization or nation.

Leaders are truthful

Leaders are truthful about there thoughts, there beliefs, there vision, there approach & about themselves. God has given an unusual strength to each individual to differentiate between real & fake person. Any living person irrespective of his gender, cast, creed, status, knowledge & intelligence has this uncanny ability to distinguish a fake from a real person. They will follow the leader who is truthful to himself & to his people.

This is one of the most important qualities of a successful leader.

Leaders have strong conviction

Leaders have very strong conviction about the change or betterment which they want to bring for there followers. Whatever difficulties may come, this conviction is never shaken. This one quality in a leader propels him in forward direction against all odds & difficult times. This is one quality which gives him enormous strength to fight the social evils or any discrimination prevailing in the society.

Leaders are great communicators

All leaders are great communicators. In general we are confused by the term communication. By meaning communication we understand it as oration. Communication is not only oratory. The exact meaning of communication is passing on the message, information or feelings to other person successfully in any mode. Mahatma Gandhi was not as good orator as Nehru or for that matter Subhash Chandra Bose but he could communicate to each every Indian more than these two gentlemen at any given time. A leader communicates to his follower in so many modes, physical, psychological, verbal or in complete silence.

Leaders have strong sense of justice

A true leader has very strong sense of justice. In most of the cases this strong will power to oppose the injustice brings the leadership in a person. History tells us that in most of the cases the transformation from an ordinary person to a great leader takes place due to this one factor Strong sense of justice. The great revolutionary Chandra shekhar Ajad which was not his original name was caught by British police when he was ten years old. His crime, taking part in a swadeshi rally & praising the motherland. The inspector gives the punishment of ten lashes to child ajad. On every lash he will shout bharat mata ki jai, Mahatma Gandhi ki jai & we are independent. This is how he acquires the name Ajad. He never forget this injustice done to him & in later years become one of the fiercest enemy of British Empire. Gandhi ji could never forget the insult & the humiliation done to him on a train journey in South Africa when he was thrown out form first class compartment even when he was holding first class ticket. This one moment changes his life & the future of India.

Leaders have empathy

The great leaders have empathy as one of the strongest quality. They feel the sorrows & pain of there people as there own. They always put themselves on the same footing as there followers. As per the old story in Persia (Iran) , the great king Nowsherwan order the demolition of his fort wall when a poor lady comes & complains to him that his ministers has demolished her hutment as it was becoming a obstacle on the way of fort wall. The great king without wasting a single second orders the restoration of the hutment on exactly the same place of its origin. Mahatma Gandhi never wore full clothes as he felt when half of the population of India doesn’t have adequate clothes to wear how can he as a leader wear full clothes.

Dear friends these are some the important factors which are responsible for the making of a great leader.

contributed by

Saumitra Yadav