What will change on
having Nadella as CEO? Having an Indian as CEO how will it
benefit “India”-a panorama” ? How once the “Jewel of the crown” now the
southernmost in list of developing countries will going to be benefited?
Will it mark an era of availability of Tab or tablet PC to every student in India costing say
2000/- I would be happiest if they are available for Rs 2000/- More so
Exclusively made in India? By that I mean every single part is “Made in India”.
SO will Nadella at Top help the Made in India (the logo) reign supreme in
global arena?
If it will cost Rs
2000/- per student I will be able to donate to about ten students instantly!! in
my ancestral village (near Shobhan Temple, Kanpur) Is IT Ministry is listening
or they lent a ear to me? somewhere in
media, I read there are comparisons about the choice of Nadella or Steeve- over their hobbies- their choices of games/sport etc?? Is
all this required for a CEO?/
Once upon a time I was
having a false sense of proud feeling by knowing that maximum numbers of
Indians are in Silicon Valley. “Software” is ruled by NRIs. How did that
benefit India, my intent was in Hinterland of India.
Basic things changed.
I am at least able to speak to someone in my village just by Mobile!!
As a child we used to
write letters to our relatives there, They reached, if landed safely at his
doorstep- If the post man was of that area or having a kind heart. I had seen
the condition of surface mail at Kanpur Railway Station. Where there was a
secret way out of platform, which I used to get out of station quickly
without losing time just to catch the IITK bus.
Kids at village now
are most “Polluted” in their minds. Earlier the radio transistor was sole
instrument for their connection to the outside world. In fields I had seen how
they enjoyed the cricket match? Despite of the fact that there was no motorable
road to that village. we used to walk few kilometers through the fields to reach
that village. Often a bullock cart used to help us. Specially when my grandmother
accompanied us. She was daughter of that village. Earlier people living in that village on main road used to recognise us and lend us help in traveling/resting etc. Now days
boys or youngsters are busy watching videos/games in their handy devices
and who cares for us. Village
boys know about TITANIC and Pretty women and Katreena/ Munni etc.
Village areas have
store of PORN Videos promoting the foreign habits/ alien things in the indigenous
conservative orthodox vulnerable young minds- undermining the after effects of
this import of Impurity.
I was shocked one day
in May 2012, while traveling from IITK gate to Bithoor at around 7:30 in night. A
private bus was full to its capacity, still it was picking up the passengers-
at that stretch of road nobody wants to risk their life by being on road in dark. I found people from nearby villages returning to homes in the
bus. Who came to city for various purposes- Medical treatment- etc since there is
no big hospital in rural Kanpur area, everyone comes to Hallet(as we know it)
or the goal Chauraha, gutahia, awadhpuri, Rama or near motijheel area etc few had meeting with lawyers or hearing at courts (kachehri), few came for
purchasing essential goods –jewelery for daughter’s marriage, dahej (dowry), few
young from Kanpur University, coaching institutions, workers returning after
hectic day in office, Labour going back. But the back seats were reserved for
young WORKING FORCE. I was pushed backward in the bus. There to
my shock I saw people watching Porn Videos in their mobile, and as a mass
media, means two or three persons watched on same mobile screen.
Irony was these
belonged to most orthodox families of villages and they watch such things which
comes from most open society. Mostly there were oral ones followed by actual hard
core action. Those were traveling back from Rawatpur, Kalyanpur, IITK gate,
to narayanpurwa, ALIMCO, Mandhana, Chaubepur even to shivrajpur. it was a
surprise to me and unbelievable to me. This was the scene at the area where I spent
childhood in safety of IIT Kanpur campus walls—it was a walled city for me??
But the campus was most
connected place in those days. In 1984-1986 I came to know that people at Kanpur can communicate
with people in USA within few seconds using ERNET or some such name.
At IITK they log-on to their computers and send a message in some language and
they received reply in few seconds. Then I heard that some professors (I think,
prof Sadagopan!!!, if that is correct) log on to their computers at Bangalore
or some mysterious places while sitting at IIT Kanpur. All that sounded Mysterious
to my ears in those years (1980 to 1992). But outside that walled city not much
changed, the dark polluted nallah went on to meet the pure Ganges near Bithoor. Most of the children in nearby villages droped out. Pollution was on rise. Due to urbanisation, sanitation and safe disposal of waste took back seat. But with Indian(s) at top in several global companies/agencies, can we change the scene? CAN we make India proud to say "Make In India" Made in India- a global tag.
