Sunday, February 3, 2013

Months of December and January have gone past us

 Months of December and January have gone past us

Months of December and January have gone past us and occasionally the temptation to write is as elusive as these one-and-a-half month. For the security of men, women and children, the best way forward is to begin from oneself. Why the urge to put faith in institutions that have been found to be lacking repeatedly. Course correction has to begin from our side rather waiting for others to set us free.
 
Kid going to school

When a kid begins to join school, the parents' perennial concern is would he or she be able to secure admission in primary school and senior secondary school. If govt. schools or semi govt schools don't figure in their menu of education experiment, it is more to do with the disposable income and disassociation with any thing that has not been a trendsetter. Private schools ably supported by their whims and fancies prod the parents to send their wards to them. Nursery schools and the exponential demands placed by them is the base at which aberrations begin to bloom. Had parents been cautious enough to consider that a wait for a reasonable period would be more conducive than conducively build their wards towards a high-charging private school, the course correction could at least have met with half success. This pattern is by and large true in tier 1 and tier 2 cities with more cities/towns willing to be besotted by this private charm.

Kid-turning-to-teen has an inescapable focus to score high marks and this sets the pace for private tuitions to mushroom. As this is coming about, the parents boast of job-hopping success they engineered in life and that is the be-all and end-all of their existence. This may be just an ounce of the working population but it has the ability to be replicated by those who have scaled that ladder or attempting to do the same. Once demands from the society for education, infrastructure and other not-that-visible sensations begin to erupt with no end to it, the order and outing, both become difficult to maintain.

Liberalisation like unguided missile

Liberalisation here has been like an unguided missile, not tamed and not corrected. When private sector had exposure to excuse itself from putting checks and balances to salary and beverages, the govt departments and those working there had to raise clamour for a raise that if not matching to private brouhaha could at least be in the kissing distance of the same. Govt. finances were stretched beyond imagination and equally unimaginative were the private concerns and their share of pomposity and profit. Result was roast of simplicity and all it could guarantee was a ghost of greed and glee. Glee was largely visible if any remuneration worked up to a stage of reality for services that hardly deserved such compensation. This became a repeated and unchecked anomaly that spread from sectors to centres that would have been sensitive till the other day.

Staff you employ

More than two decades of prized money and prized territory has been the inescapable fact and a cruise that can't be dearer is still very much possible. Consumption and the coercion to not put an end to the same is the first flaw. Migration happens because the consuming class in cities and towns does not regret in paying procrastinating payments for services that could have come for a quarter. Be it the household staff or the staff you employ in factories and companies, a bar on wages and salary should be the benchmark. If companies across board begin to start from wages that are enough for necessities then most would be in order to not pay tempting compensation. But here who is to define necessity and things leading to notoriety.
Let the work suffer for a while or find a viable option than pay to the people a compensation that can create upheaval in the market. If the employer and high end employees begin to cut back on their expectations and associations with high-end template, a beginning if not sizeable could be visible.Why clamour for everything private when your life is public enough to be shadowed by ills that define the set up. From schools to salaries, one should believe in the art of "wait and watch". Things done in a hurry leads to this societal upheaval and fury. If a member in a family does not get a job, wait for a while someone else in the family would get it rather settle for a job where you are told to dig in undesirable duties. Right from every private citizen to a public figure, the force of a feast should be dispelled by a proportion if not altogether and any celebration should be muted enough to not let others set it as a platform for clamour. Public services would be inefficient or overstretched and this by no means opens you to the thought of seeking everything that is private and possessively therapeutic.

Bring the consumption down, bring the clamour to a reasonable crown. Never seek the best for schools and salaries and never ever let endeavours/fields like cinema. sports and politics enter a mad territory of pace and cash. All adverts in print and electronic media on upcoming cinemas, sports encounters and political bouts should be curbed to a degree that the image of large and lust should be a history. Some may argue that greed is the tonic of life and there is no turning back. A greed contained and a life in a lane is possible if a beginning comes from our side.  If we are responsible to keep most of the desires that encircle us in a limited template  there won't be limits to the idea that life is.

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