BMC’s new toy..

For some time now, the BMC — the god of small things (well, actually everything) in b’bay — has been saying that they are taking the cleaning up of b’bay very seriously … err.. something a lot of people are willing to contest — but i’m going off-track…

yesterday, i saw actual proof that the BMC is really trying to clean up b’bay… i saw this tiny little robot-like apparatus — which looked like it was a manned version of R2D2, cleaning the road, with rather fancy looking bristles — a big-brother u can say of the tile polisher that makes the horrible noise when the neighbours are “doing” their house yet another time…

very impressive i must say… though, wonder when the BMC will realise that the time to use this new toy is in the wee hours of the morning or late at nite, when not too many cars want to use the road…. definitely not at noon when your “toy” causes a massive traffic jam!!!!

Culturally shocked..!

I recently had the good fortune of seeing one of the most talked abt marathi theatrical productions around — “Marathi Bana”, literally meaning the Marathi tradition / culture/ way of life..

first, a little about the show.. tagged as a “70 mm marathi natak”, it is an “all-live” performance,  with a cast of around 125 performers.. who sing/ dance/ play musical instruments & spread awareness… yes, and all 125 do appear on stage simultaneously a number of times!   – dont ask how they fit on the stage!

masterminded by a certain Mr. ashok Hande, who has directed/ produced / compered and sung in the show, the show is an excellent compilation of the marathi traditions. And since music and dance form the intrinsic base of any tradition, this show essentially translates as a two and a half hr dance routine covering all possible marathi traditions — right from how the dance forms differ on the plateau, konkan and the hills … to a compilation of the most famous marathi festivals … to marriage celebrations …. to excerpts from the patriotric streak brought to the fore by the likes of Shivaji …

what strikes me most about the  show, in addition to the excellent way it captured all that happens around maharashtra, was the presentation … ther was not one dull moment in the whole of the duration of the show ….  the performers emoted effortlessly in all the myraid of situations … and the dances were live-wire to say the least.

the dancers must have changed costumes atleast 10 times  during the entire show — and no simple costumes too… most were the traditional nine-yard saris and dhotis… and not once during the entire time did the tempo of the song and dance routine reduce even fractionally… to give you an idea… consider dancing to foot tapping fast paced with matching choreographed moves… for about 50 songs.. almost back-to-back..!

and in the midst of this all, they even managed to put through to the audience social messages — right from discussing why tradition says married ladies should wear a bindi, and keep their hair long, to why women should breast-feed… and a fair bit of current affairs too … including the fact that anil kumble scored his test century (while the show was going on!)

at the end, the show did wat it promised… introduced the new generations to customs and traditions that have long been lost… buried somewhere under the liberalization and westernization of our world… not to mention the cross cultural influences from within India — it reminded people what being maharashtrian actually means.. and in not quite the way a certain political organisation has been doing for the past so many years… it reminded people to believe in what they are.. and be just that … and more importantly, bring to people the quintessential maharashtra.. the way it was long ago..

kudos mr.  Hande!

I’ve learnt…

kind suggestions from a certain Mr. Bala have prompted me to move this post to a whole new page… from where “life’s little instruction book III” my best selling guidebook will be developed….

thanks for the insight Bala …..

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when the rains cometh

its raining!!!!!!! not the mercy drizzles that had graced bbay for the past few weeks… the rain gods have actually smiled. and brought with them the rains bombay knows!!

its pouring.. its completely overcast… the horizon is lost in the haziness of the drops………. hmmmmmmmm!!

Godliness….! my god!

its strange … the more ppl study, the more important they think themselves to have become … maybe even learned… and the more degrees they have, their egos inflate by a proportionately increasing variable…

and god forbid if the degree they are in line to get to off late is an MBA!!

if my interaction with fellow classmates and other MBA students/ passouts has taught me one thing, it is that an MBA thinks he is God incarnate. he’s raised himself on a pedestal, from where he looks down on the remaining mortals… wats more, he even expects ppl around him to treat him like he’s God.

and this thought does not necessarily stem from a person who already has an MBA to his name, no sir! the attitude starts much earlier… right from the moment he steps into the portals of the very institution that is going to confer on him the degree.

its not rare to see or hear fellow would-be MBA’s crib that the job (referring to the internship) they do is “not an MBA’s job” — err.. wat are the company ppl asking them to do?? bring cups of coffee?? no.no.. they have to research, maybe analyse an industry, or study a new product, or develop some charts that would be used later by the company … as an intern, do u really expect the company to give u ground-breaking research-work as an assignment?? or maybe since u;re god incarnate yourself maybe the CEO shud hv vacated his cabin for ur hghness??!

my take::: every job, however mundane it seems (with the probable exception of getting coffee) essentially teaches you something… its upto you whether u want to learn what the job wants to teach.. or hanker after the more “glamorous” jobs and in the process over-look the insights ur present assignment is giving you. like they say… even huge well paying jobs start off with reallly horrible internships..!