Rule of Inaction

Our cities are giving so much indication of anarchy than any governance these days. Starting from reckless driving on the road and greedy auto-drivers, we have stinking lanes, dirty and neglected roads, illegal constructions, unchecked construction of temples anywhere and everywhere, thefts and murders of helpless people, people going on rampage and damaging public and private property, assaults on people by goons, gangwars and killings in the broad daylight and I don't know what else. And Bangalore seems to stand out as the perfect example for all these things. In some of these cases, things get noticed by the authorities only after enough people complain about it or a TV channel focuses the camera there and sometimes not even after that. In some other cases, say in the case of an illegal temple or construction, most people are scared to complain at all and if some of the braver ones go ahead and do it, they find the authorities scared too; scared of the mob so that they would give all sorts of excuses not to do anything about it unless probably a court gives an order or something. I mean, if people supposed to be in control of things behave like that, where should the common man get confidence from? I don't think anybody who gets any position of power, however small that may be, has any vision of doing his duty nowadays. All they want to do is making money. My only hope is that Rajnish Goel is different and will at least set some things right while he is the head of BBMP. Now it also reminds me that I need to go to their local office tomorrow to complain about a drainage nearby. They will direct me to BWSSB but they also have some work unfinished there.

Thanks to the brisk and massive construction work going on nearby, there is ample dust all around the place and however black I polish my shoes, by the time I reach office they look as if I haven't touched them for ages. When you stand in the lift, people invariably look at others' shoes and I wonder if I'm creating an impression of being the laziest person. Actually, I'm not even taking the dirty track around the lake anymore; one rainy day by sheer lack of choice, I landed at the backgate and found a world I had never seen before. Then I walk all the way to the other end along the pavement, giving a total bye to the lake which is not yet 'purified'. In the process, I even found that Samsung Lake had a name given to it by our forefathers. Seems at the right time because recently realized that Samsung had shifted base elsewhere!

Work is being quite hectic and we are all still waiting for the 20-odd 20-somethings to learn the functionality and give us some confidence.Very few have shown the inclination to learn the module and all that most want to do is work on java as if that is the ultimate 'job-satisfaction'! I don't even see the basic aptitude or sincerity in many! Boys are marginally better than girls may be because they don't have the distraction of going to the restroom thrice a day to deck themselves up. If only they had half the enthusiasm that they invest in facebook for work, all of us would've been a happier lot. As I can see, most have come here only for a foothold in the industry and will not stick around for long. I guess their generation is different after all and we should stop expecting engineers to be interested in banking the way we were and instead train commerce guys to use our software which is hardly a big deal.

I uploaded a couple of P's old and new photos on facebook yesterday and he's amused by the alacrity with which they have been liked, especially by some of his college friends who saw his face after ages.