Dubai - Pakistan & India. India should fund social projects in Pakistan.

This thought is of mine is not a very positive things but then truth if it seems to be then lets face it. After all many of reader will like it as well as not most of the human actions & thoughts are positive for fellow mens and society in general. Few days back I had read an article about how Keynes[father of modern economic] had predicted long back that working hours will keep reducing and reducing over time and at this time[21st century beginning] it should have been about 30 hours per week in Europe. He had put his arguments based on GDP growth and positive human ingenuity thinking and behavior. While the assumptions he had made to come to the conclusions seems to have been correct and achieved end result hasn't been achieved. I guess that negative thoughts and behaviors of human wasn't taken into account while making the forecast by Keynes.

Anyways this piece of blog is about living in peace and harmony and letting entrepreneurial instincts take over. Things that make the society better place to live over time. But all thing comes in pair so when we talk of these stuffs how can terrorism and associated stuff and under world be not discussed which are detrimental to society and bizes. Peace vs Terrorism & Entrepreneurship vs Under world.

India in year 2009 hasn't seen major terrorist activities. I hope remaining 20 days December will pass peacefully, if that doesn't happen it means my thoughts mentioned below are not correct. Let me tell you why??? Pakistan has been too pre-occupied with its own internal problems. They have been trying to deal with friend turned foes internally. As both friends are not able to come together to strike at the common beacon shining across Indians are thriving and turning around the dark 2008 into bright 2009 and 2010. I wont term India as their common enemy as India has remained focussed on mending it's own things instead of bombing what makes it [Infra]structure break and what makes it citizens/guests cry in pain. Forces on the other side think India as enemy as they cant shine like how their neighbor is of whom they think of one like them. So they cant see India moving away from the pack and start to shine bright. In fact to some extent even Chinese state has this mentality. they have prospered but still don't like to see their neighbor prospering. But I guess Chinese people are a fine lot and don't subscribe to such negative thoughts. But then China is not a democracy so Chinese state thought will take time to change when a new generation of leaders come in and current generation becomes too old to run the country.

Associated with these are D-world. With Dubai having been shaken[Dubai world debt fiasco] and Pakistan under fire from with in they as well are in dis-array. Newspaper articles shows that they have crossed their peak and are waning. After all the bis bosses had to start participating in O&T activities instead of heading the strategic units and M&A division.

Now let me put some data to support what I am telling. India had seen following cities under attack in 2008.

Mumbai - November

Guwhati - October

Dellhi - September

Ahmedabad - July

Jaipur - May

Even one towards end of 2007 in August in Hyderabad. Of course 2007 and before Indian society and bizes had done pretty well and Indian leaders were being magnanimous in accommodating Pakistan. So this had resulted in some prosperity. This lead to wealth creation and then of course funding the activities that we all saw manifesting itself as the terror on Indian in 2008.

So it makes sense for Indian bizes and society to keep diverting a part of money to keep Islamabad occupied in it's own soil and other places like Afghanistan. Keep funding humanitarian and other project for public interests and these negative forces will remain engaged and destroying them. They will let India succeed as they cant see Afghanistan rising at any costs. In their psyche they may have accepted India as something which is set to go up and would have given up on running after it even they have something more simple to bring down. On the same lines I guess like US India should start funding some projects of public interests in Pakistan as well.

Thoughts during transitions 2008 gives way to 2009

Was awake to catch some of the events that have been witnessed in Yr 2008 in TV. Though I didn't find anything such on any of the channels which are trying to capture and ponder upon all the events of yr 2008 in an hour special or something. In fact print and electronic media do a much better job in this regard. Ended up watching the fireworks across the globe with New Zealand[Auckland] starting and following it up were others nations from east to west. Aussies, Japaneese, Koreans, Chinese, Malaysians....and of course Singapore. I stay here so I would watch others tomorrow morning. So I thoughts of putting down thoughts which were criss-crossing my mind while watching the countdown. Very-very varied thoughts I guess !!!!

[1] SETI :- It's new year. Earth's completing one revolution around SUN. If there any other intelligent form of life other than humans on earth or anywhere in universe capable of obsering our planet, they would definitely be observing something unusual as entire Earth will be lit by firework serially which is directly opposite to Sun[mid night] when it's suppose to be darkest spot on the planet. May be they would think it's a cycle which this planet has started going thru recently and it's getting stronger and stronger every cycle. As in each subsequent years fireworks is a notch above the previous years. No other event is celebrated in the same spirit as arrival of new year on Gregorian Calendar !!!!

[2] Human tendency to ignore weak :- While the countdown they touched upon some of the biggest events to have happened last[I am 22 minutes into 2009 now :)]. They mentioned about loss of life because of Sinchuan earthquake in China which claimed so many lifes. In deed it was one of the most tragic event to happen in recent history to so much loss of human life and of course property. My thought immediately went to Burmeese Cyclone as the loss of life in Myanmar because of deadly cyclone was much more than loss of life in China. It deserved a mention unless and until loss of life for people of Myanmar doesn't count as much as loss of a life in China. I guess this imbalance is because of poor economic standing of MYANMAR !!!

There was mention of loss of life of a Singaporean in the Mumbai terrorist killings. It certainly was the biggest terrorist event of the year 2008. Thought that came to my mind is that Pakistan is doomed and it will cause a lot of pain to the unaware and innocent citizens of Pakistan as the state has become a hotbed and birth place of terrorism. I have remarkably observed that many of the predictions based on astrology have been true that print/electronic media publishes on the last day of the year. This time I read that by end of Yr 2009 Pakistan will become a failed state and will be on brink of collapse economically and socially leading to civil unrest. I suggest all innocent Pakistanis to spread the word and leave the country to save themselves from the incoming pain and tragedy. I think even moving to IRAQ and AFGANISTAN is a better option than staying on in Pakistan. God bless and save the innocent and punish the culprits.

[3] It's a FALSE world :- This thought came to me when mention of Mumbai terrorist incident leading to the death of lone Singaporean was mentioned. Singapore and the entire world is definitely standing in the side of INDIA in this event and watching the moves of Pakistan. Still the world at large doesn't say this. Most of the nations are trying to see their own benefits in the course of things. CHINA wants to establish itself by showing sidelining with PAKSITAN. AMERICA & UK wants to see that two birds are killed in one shot. Perpetrators of the terrorists acts gets punished but it's doesn't add any additional cost in terms of American life in the war raging in AFGANISTAN. SINGAPORE supports CHINA because of the economic clout that CHINA weilds but it makes a subdued noise during the tainted milk saga from Chinese exports. It knows that incidents unfolding in Mumbai does affect lives in SINGAPORE much.

In fact you would see this human nature being exhibited in almost every thing every where. It's all done with a facade using nice acronyms for these activities. Let's move to the work place. There is no co-relation with what is put on paper and what the truth is on ground. If this had not been the case world economy would have been in chaos. A year back all banks and FIs were reporting growth and profits and now they have gone bankrupt. Same risk management pratices which audited and found sound and working were declared to have failed and source of problem.

Another example from corporate world. What one writes in resume/bio-data, talks in interviews is vastly different from what he/she has been doing. You will know this if you ask a friend/colleague who has recently switched job and then he would tell you he tailored his resume as per job spec and answered what the interviewer wanted to hear.

Anyways...Enough of now... Wish you all a happy and prosperous 2009.