GANDHIGIRI EXPERIENCE

Of course, Gandhism or Gandhigiri as it is now better known works even if it does not have anything to do with values!! (Thanks to Munnabhai)

My experience with Gandhigiri relates to chaotic traffic and driving on Bangalore roads especially on the IT Corridor. I travel from my home near Brooke Fields to office in Nrupathunga road.  Driving on Airport-Whitefield Road means you are in the stream of white Indicas/Sumos/Qualis cars ferrying call center guys in a tearing hurry. Most drivers have absolutely no idea of lane discipline.

Now, suppose you are moving in the left stream of traffic and chugging at 10 kmph and find a parked car obstructing you then have to somehow get into the next right lane to move ahead and for this thrusting out your hand or signaling by indicator will definitely invite aggressive looks & honking from the driver behind.

The Gandhigiri trick, for taking a U Turn, I have now learnt from some clever cab drivers is to put on the indicator and at the same time stick out your hand but all the fingers have to be joined together facing the sky like how you would originate flying kiss from your lips! This is similar to the action some pedestrian would indicate to you that your mobike lights or on during daytime.  Now open and close your fingers. This signifies to the guy behind “Hey, please man please” in an imploring way and if need be reinforce the action with a quick reverse peek meek smile and note that guy would definitely allow you to enter the lane in front of him!!

The Gandhigiri trick also works when you have to take a U turn at a median gap but the opposite stream is continuously streaming past not giving you a chance. Seeing you waiting will also trigger a slow driver behind in the stream to accelerate just to get the pleasure of not allowing you!!  What you have to do is to keep inching forward and when you notice a slightly bigger gap just nudge forward sticking out your hand over the hood all the while with your fingers performing a double action of opening and closing. And when you finally make it just allow the guy to overtake you and flash a smile. In all probability he will smile back!!

 

Hi, got an interesting forward...dont know if its really true.

National anthem..u prob do not know this.

'Jana Gana Mana' - Just a thought for the National Anthem!
How well do you know about it?
I have always wondered who is the 'adhinayak' and 'bharat bhagya vidhata', whose praise we are singing. I thought might be Motherland India !
Our current National Anthem 'Jana Gana Mana' is sung throughout the country.
Did you know the following about our national anthem , I didn't.

To begin with, India 's national anthem, Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka, was written by Rabindranath Tagore in honour of King George V and the Queen of England when they visited India in 1919. To honour their visit.

 

Pandit Motilal Nehru had the five stanzas included, which are in praise of the King and Queen. (And most of us think it is in the praise of our great motherland!!!)

In the original Bengali verses only those provinces that were under British rule, i.e . Punjab , Sindh, Gujarat , Maratha etc we re mentioned. None of the princely states were recognized which are integral parts of India now Kashmir , Rajasthan, Andhra, Mysore or Kerala. Neither the Indian Ocean nor the Arabian Sea was included,(they were directly under Portuguese rule at that time.)
The Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka implies that King George V is the lord of the masses and Bharata Bhagya Vidhata is 'the bestower of good fortune'. Following is a translation of the five stanzas that glorify the King:
First stanza: (Indian) People wake up remembering your good name and ask for your blessings and they sing your glories. (Tava shubha naame jaage; tava shubha aashish maage, gaaye tava jaya gaatha)
Second stanza: Around your throne people of all religions come and give their love and anxiously wait to hear your kind words.
Third stanza: Praise to the King for being the charioteer, for leading the ancient travelers beyond misery.
Fourth stanza: Drowned in the deep ignorance and suffering, poverty-stricken, unconscious country? Waiting for the wink of your eye and your mother's (the Queen's) true protection.
Fifth stanza: In your compassionate plans, the sleeping Bharat ( India ) will wake up. We bow down to your feet O' Queen, and glory to Rajeshwara (the King).
This whole poem does not indicate any love for the Motherland but depicts a bleak picture. When you sing Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka, whom are you glorifying? Certainly not the Motherland.
Is it God? The poem does not indicate that.It is time now to understand the original purpose and the implication of this, rather than blindly sing as has been done the past fifty years.

Nehru chose the present national anthem as opposed to Vande Mataram because he thought that it would be easier for the band to play!!!

 

It was an absurd reason...

Wake up, it's high time! Shouldn't Vande Mataram be our National Anthem .
Come Join together to put Vande Mataram as our National Anthem.

Please dont break the chain lets see how many people are coming to know about it.

Be Indian Proud to be Indian.

 

Jai Hind

She stood up by staying seated

ROSA PARKS,  CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST (unwitting though)

 There are some people who are accidentally thrust into history books. Rosa Parks was one of them. A resident of Montgomery, Alabama, in the American south at a time when racial segregation rules applied in virtually all spheres of life, Parks made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus for White passengers. On December 1, 1955 she had boarded a bus in downtown Montgomery after work and sat in the seats reserved for Blacks. But when several White passengers boarded the bus and the White-only seats became full, the bus driver asked Parks and three other blacks to get up.
   Parks refused to comply and was arrested. She was charged with violating segregation laws and released on bail the same day. This would spark off what is now known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

 Rosa Parks would later write, “People always say that I did n’t give up my seat because I was tired but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

 The day of Parks’ trial marked the beginning of a boycott of buses for 382 days by the Black community. The case would eventually reach the US Supreme Court where the court outlawed racial segregation on buses. The boycott was also the launching pad for the best known black civil rights activist Martin Luther King.

 For her singular act of courage Parks was later dubbed (sic) the mother of the modern-day civil rights movement When she died in 2005, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice paid the ultimate tribute to Parks. If it weren't for Parks, Rice said, she would never have had the opportunity to become secretary of state.

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When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn’t work at zero gravity (ink won’t flow down to the writing surface). To solve this problem, it took them one decade and $12 million. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, underwater, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over 300 degrees C. And what did the Russians do… They used a pencil.

Case 2
One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soapbox, which happened in one of Japan’s biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soapbox that was empty. Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department. For some reason, one soapbox went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem.

Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch the entire soapboxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a big amount to do so.

But when an ordinary employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution. He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soapbox passed the fan, it not only blew the empty boxes out of the line but also cooled the surrounding area.

Moral: Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems. Always focus on solutions & not on problems. So the end of the day the thing that really matters is HOW ONE LOOKS  INTO THE PROBLEM  and resolve early.

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Decided to do something very different today -b'cos of Republic day- so instead of the daily  morning walk I headed towards the airport and joined a band of sweepers sweeping the airport road. Most of them were wearing radium coated reflective jerseys and i cajoled one meek fellow to part with it for sometime, of course for a price. I have'nt swept my home for as long as i can remember and here i was hanky tied over my face and in total anonymity  sweeping the road and learning the tricks of the trade by the minute from the band of sweepers. Since it was early morning & misty the flights had'nt landed as yet it was an easy job but......................................................................

1.  This is a job you have to do always bending down. A back breaking job no doubt!
2.  The litter on the road is awful--sticky bubble gum caked with mud -paan which does'nt come off easily--I saw some sweepers removing these firm implantations with their fingers!!
3. Easiest was sweeping the leaves from trees but then the heap of collected debris always had plastic cups/dung/pan parag pouches/cigarette butts/crushed bottles/discarded slippers/ & a whole host of a variety of discards.

Within minutes after  the flights landed in the airport the road was a race track with taxis speeding at breakneck speed to their destinations. Some of them opening their windows to fling their cigarettes or spit out paan (so early in the morning!!). Some of the cars were pretty close to my sweeping colleagues.  My heart goes out to those sweepers who toil to keep our city clean which gets dirty by the minute. 
 
Getting back home, I thought you should  know of this experience & maybe you will personally do what I did and mail your experience.