DesiReflections

प्यार का एहसास  तुम्हारी मुस्कराहट की रौशनी में  हमारे जीवन की ऊष्मा से  प्यार के स्पर्श से  कितने  तूफ़ान आये और चले गए  .  मेरे हर सपने में तुम ही होती हो  इसी से मुझे स्वर्गिक  अनुभूति मिलती है जैसे गहरे साये आते हैं मिट जाते हैं  मेरा प्यार रेत  की तरह हाथ से फिसल जाता है  .    निर्जन से किनारे पर  लहरों पर तुम्हारी तस्वीर बनते देखता हूँ  बीच पर रेत पर भी तुम्हारा चेहरा उभर आता है  .  तुम्हारी अनुभूति पाने के लिए  एक एक करके समुद्र की तरफ कंकड़ उछाल देता हूँ  रेत में बनाया हुआ महल  लहरों के  बहाव के साथ  मेरे देखते ही देखते बह  जाता है  .  लहरों के साथ  मिल कर रेत पर पड़े शंखों की ध्वनि  मुझे तुम्हारी आवाज का एहसास दिलाती है  तुम्हारी छवि कुछ इस तरह से  मेरी आत्मा में बस गयी है  .  इन दिनों हम तुम सात समंदर पार की दूरी पर हैं  महज सपनों में मिलत...

Yesterday,  I  got an opportunity to see Rajesh Jhala's Documentary 'Floating Lamp of the Shadow Valley'  at Alliance Francaise De Bombay which is a stark reality of Kashmir.  Jhala is a Kashmiri by birth and like thousands of other Kashmiri Pandits he was also compelled to leave valley after their houses were looted and burnt, old, young, children were butchered and murdered. Jhala stayed in Refugee Camp in Delhi for almost eight years undergone through lot of trauma , his own pain are reflected in the documentary on subtle level frame by frame. Arif''s life in Floating Lamp of the Shadow Valley Before seeing Jhala's documentary, I also saw Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider which is also on the backdrop of Kashmir and has a subtle overtone glorifying separatist movement without understanding the reality of region. One needs lot of courage to depict truth in the politically incorrect environment. Film runs on two different level, one - a narrative ...

Unilever and Proctor & Gamble are the two giants who dictate the entire FMCG market in Asia. They had a first real challenge in seventies in the washing powder segment from a Ahmedabad based entrepreneur Karsan Ghavri in such a way that these MNCs were compelled to redesign their market strategies in the washing powder segment, lowering prices and most importantly the diversifying the product range. Due to the internal push and pulls Patel’s Nirma could not sustain its growth and now become not so significant player. The second serious challenge came from an entrepreneur C K Ranganathan from South India, in early eighties. He started his company Cavinkare in 1983 in Shampoo segment with a seed capital of just Rs15000. The first years’ turnover was Rs. 5 lac . In the initial years the growth was slow. There is no look back for Ranganathan, his company diversified product range and become a strong force to reckon within India with annual turnover Rs 1200 Crore and now spreads its ...

Can you believe that a Municipal Commissioner can transform India's filthiest city , that too with 30 lac population , into the second most clean city of the country with in a span of 20 months, sounds impossible, but it was exactly done by S R Rao in Surat that too after 1994' worst epidemic Plague. An IAS officer of 1978 batch with no previous experience in running a municipality, S R Rao joined Surat as Commissioner in 1995, every body said nothing is possible due to draconian old laws, political pressures and interference, unwilling and corrupt officials, limited budget. For a month initially he spent his time just observing what was happening around him, held meetings, spoke to cross section of people, walked all around the city. This has helped him to identify core issues behind city's problems. Rather than attacking the symptoms of the problems, Rao drilled down to these core issues affecting the functioning. And he finally decided to transform the city by Admini...

Some time I wonder why western countries avoid taking any firm stand on terrorism grown on Pakistani soil though in private conversation they accept it as a stark reality. Former Indian High Commissioner in UK J Bhagwati wrote some time back that a senior British Official said in private conversation with him that 'if Pakistan knew Osama Bin Laden was hiding only few kilometre from Pakistan's Military Academy in Abbottabad then it is a rogue State and if it did not know Osama was living at this location for over five years than it is a failed state.' Despite such no nonsense observations and realisation in private, USA, UK and other Western Governments have never demanding of Pakistan in public. In contrast, West is on-off arming dissidents and bombing Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan's area bordering with Pakistan to stop covert and overt involvement with terrorism. Indian analysts are often exasperated and even apoplectic about why they perceive a wilful c...

पटाखों के शोर में  विद्युत की चकाचौंध में  पर्यावरण की बात करना  ज़रा अप्रासंगिक सा लगता है  पर मामला गंभीर है  अब वर्षा ऋतु में वारिश  जाड़ों में जाड़े नहीं आते   गर्मी के मौसम  में गर्मी का एहसास नहीं होता   अचानक ही कोई कैटरीना  या फिर कोई हुदहुद  हमारे विकास के सारे दावों को  एक ही क्षण में तोड़ देता है  तो फिर क्या करें, त्याग दें विकास के सारे सुख  अंधेरी कंदराओं में जा कर रहें  वही कंद  मूल फल खाएं  सभ्यता को जो क्रमिक विकास हुआ है  उसे नकार कर आदिम युग में पहुँच जाएँ  या फिर कोई बीच का रास्ता निकाल लें  विकास हो, विकास के फल सभी खाएं  लेकिन  पर्यावरण   पर नहीं  प्रकृति और विकास का संतुलन रहे  ज़रा मुश्किल लगता है असंभव नहीं  ऊर्जा और प्रकाश की जरूरतें  सूरज की तपिश, हवा की रफ़्तार से  पूरा करने की जुगत विठायें नदियां, सरोवर और सागर का दोहन करें पर प्रदूषित न करें  ...

Challenges of PR & Corporate Communication in Changing Time                                                                                                        - Pradeep Gupta Anurag Batra kickstarted the event Sachin Kalbag delivering Key Note Address      Exchange4media India is giving away PR and Corporate Communications Awards from last 4 years. Apart from giving awards they also do PR and Conference raising issues relating to PR and Corporate Communication. The event   held on October 17, 2014 at the Trident, BKC, Mumbai. The best in the industry were   honored for their outstanding work in the year gone by.   The theme of the conference was ‘PR 2015’ Are we ready?”. Lum...

This year's Man Booker Prize has gone to Richard Flanagan for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Richard was born in Tasmania and he is the third Australian to win this coveted literary award which entails $ 80,000. the novel is about an Australian surgeon who is held by Japanese in a POW camp and forced to work on the trans Thailand Burma Railway. 53 years old Flanagan is third Australian Author to win Booker following Thomas Keneally and Peter Carey. The Narrow Road to the Deep North title is based on 17th century Japanese Haiku by Basho. It is his sixth novel and partly based on a real-life character, the Australian surgeon Edward “Weary” Dunlop (1907–1993), Evans is the first of his family to get an education. He becomes a doctor and is successful with women. Life, it seems, is easy for him. Fate intervenes. He meets Ella, a girl intent on marriage. She proves a remarkable creation. Domesticity is balanced with some extraordinarily vivid descriptions of war ...

Technology in Film Production particularly in cinematography is improving very fast and it is very difficult to keep a pace until you have an opportunity to meet the world leaders in technology and see yourself using various gadgets and equipment yourself by having a touch and feel of equipments. Broadcast India Show  every year provide this rare opportunity . I had occasion to visit the Show and had an opportunity to see latest in Broadcast and Film, PRO Audio,  Video and Radio,  3D, Digital Cinema, IPTV, Mobile TV,  in the most futuristic shapes and forms were on display. World technology leaders like Panasonic, Adobe, Zeiss, AJA, Dragon 6K, Sony, AGIV, Yamaha, Chinese lighting leader Zhengzhou Generalink were at attendance to Indian media with  updated products and services. The drone technique has also adopted in photography, various size and shaped drones with convenient camera placement and comfortable mounting were displayed in the ...

Paul Krugman , a world renowned economic thought leader, has recently commented that the world economy appears to be stumbling and he says it is because of Righteousness. This is a very serious issue and the challenge before the world leaders. Letus talk about the reason and how it can be fixed up. The worst news is from Europe, but this time there is also clear slowdown in the emerging markets - and there is even warning sign in United States, despite creation of more jobs . Why does it keep happening, after all , the events that brought on the Great Recession- the housing bust, the banking crisis- took place a long time ago. Why can not we escape their legacy. A series of policy mistakes are responsible for this situation - austerity when economies need stimulus, paranoia about inflation when the real risks is deflation, and so on.But why do the governments keep making these mistakes year after year. The real answer is an excess of virtue, Righteousness is Killing the world...

In our country industry segment has always been dominated by family controlled businesses. In the early seventies, when the entry into private sector was controlled by multiple layers of filters, business families represented most of the private sector initiated new venture creation. For a variety of reasons, business families chose to or compelled to manage their business venture in certain ways. With a immature Stock Market and limited ownership outside the family, it was the responsibility of all the family members to take care of the health of their business. It is important to remember that in the seventies most of the private businesses were controlled by the family members of different business communities. Education and skills were considered secondary to own a business, only the non family employees used to be professionally qualified. In other words, business was an opportunity for the family members to engage themselves role of the professional employees was limite...