Devilish Eyes

Devilish Eyes

A Better India A Better World

Reading The better India the better world and also trying to put the book thought in my words with few examples from my side. Its a good book and worth reading. This book is basically  is a collection of Mr Narayan murthy lectures at different places across the globe. It covers wide perspective form Politics to foreign trade to law and Of course technology

Few Good Points from the book

1.We have to recognize that public sector interest is not  public interest and interest of government is not the interest of the people

2.The biggest bane of our thousand year old enslavement is apathy.the main reason of our poverty is our unwillingness to take proactive action when solution is is standing right infront of us staring at our face

3.We have learned and mastered the skill of escaping from our responsibilities to solve our problem by blaming  our destiny

What to learn from west ?

4. Apathy in addressing the community matters has held us back from making progress which is otherwise within our reach. We do see and waste our time in analyzing the problems around us but never try to solve them .We behave as if the problem do not exist at all or as if they belong to some one else. In the West people  people approach societal problem proactively. reason??- we were ruled by foreigners for over a thousand years so we have always believed that public or societal issues belong to some foreign ruler and  we have no responsibility to solve them. We are so used to follow orders and hence a very very weak decision making capabilities.in Short in Aristotle words "We are what we repeatedly do" sounds so right.

eg:40 year old suggestion by irrigation expert to conquer the problem of drought and flood was to create a water grid consisting all the rivers from north and south.as of now no action being taken in that direction

5.Another important trait what we Indian can learn from west is accountability.In the west irrespective of your position you are held accountable for what you do where as in India the more important you are the less responsible you are

may be a little from their professionalism in dealing business

Corruption ?? is it really invincible

A positive example of how corruption can could be fought. Few years ago a minister of singaporean community was charged for corruption and was found guilty after primary investigation. He ran to PM asking if there was something what could be done to save his honor  but after getting a negative reply and understanding it very clearly that his career is actually over and he will be punished he came back and put a bullet in his head. Think how strong message was sent by this action?

This is where i end my first part will soon put the review for the other half of the book

Banker to the poor - review

The Story of man with a vision

Some body who was more worried about practical problems out there rather than just teaching economics ..and with a belief that universities should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher knowledge without sharing any of it knowledge...

Some body wanted to understand if banks are there to help poor or just to  make wealthy wealthier ??

   The story of a man who challenged almost every thing related to banking sector, be it credit scheme or the documentation process

Loved the way he questions the existing system , his sharp and to the point question about the very existence of banking rules and achieving such a grand success having zero banking experience is a credit in itself.

    Though the book is a little lengthy but its a nice read and people who have seen rural area problems will be able to connect to it in a better way . There are some real learning’s here that can be applied in the social lending arena. Grameen Bank has made $ 3.4 billion dollars in loans to 2.4 million people. Yes … that’s an average loan size of $1,400. This is an extraordinary figure, that normal banks would sneer at, as being unprofitable, and impossible to process at a profit.

                     I loved the first and second that is beginning and Experimental part Though i find the replicating that is part !V a little boring. Philosophy is another must read section. In short it was worth spending my sunday morning for this book ..  

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Scared Old Woman

Meet My new friend Mr "Chotu" :)

(the snap is taken at 12:43 am look at him how aaram se he is sleeping :))

Few months back i use to stay in a different lane where i saw him when he was very small. I use to give me biscuit and roti some time but then i got busy and then he also disappeared. As you know we software engineer  are too busy to care about such things i was almost following the same league and almost fotrgot my chotu. After almost 6 months when ha has also attained some hight suddenly he saw me and ran toward . I got really scared , i thought he is going to bite me as i couldn't recognize him but then he did. He came and Sat next to my feet just the way he use   to  .Now if i come late from office he gets Angry. he need to eat atleast one biscuit packet every day and he consider its his right to demand that from me .today i was a little late at office and came  back at around 11:45 

he was so angry and started barking at me .. just the way any body who is close to you and cares about you being not to home by 11:30  will do and i must admit i liked it .. he comes and sit in my room aaram se for an hour and then just go out to meet his Street friends.i enjoy his company as i too get this feeling that some body is sitting next to me .. 

ok  i need to go and finish my novel now have to give you all a good review comment about that..

The Village By The Sea

The Village by the sea
  Anita Desai :


In general all her are vivid and this is one more nice book in the series of
1.)Cry, The Peacock
2.)Fire On the Mountain
3.)Bye-Bye Black Bird
three  must read books
This Story mainly revolves around 
Hari 
His Father who is basically a drunkyard 
Her mother - who is anemic and growing weaker day by day 
her sister - Lila- who is very mature girl compare to her age  
and two more of hre younger sister 
and their beloved dog
There are few more characters which have positive role like Jaggu and Wrist watch maker uncle who gives Hari the best siksha that One must go on learning 
because any thing you learn will be useful here or there in a positive way 
This Story also explains in a very ballanced way the how poverty can impact the whole family life and how in small places even earning a small bread is so tough. there is another positive character b name "Biju" who is a little showoff guy 
but good at heart and so is D souza uncle family who help Hari family at bad time .. In short story is narrated in a very very positive sense and i loved the way she has very beautifully, through her story, given an apt solution for the problem. She makes us think that life is after all beautiful,and shouldn’t be wasted.
                                  i will put this book in  Kite runner and A thousand splendid Sun category and i really enjoyed my 3 hour read . Its  a slim book and out of print as of now.