If...!!!

Its is said that "True poets are the one who liberate words from their mere definition & you feel as if the words are actually talking to you..If..by Rudyard Kipling is one such masterpiece..which makes the passing by moments to freeze and complels one to reflect back on his life....Definitley one of my favourite,which will leave you in awe of the possibilities & makes you feel strong...!!!


If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!


--Rudyard Kipling

DOES INDIA NEED ANOTHER NARASIMHA RAO.??

It was an mundane Thursday morning at Thane station today, where I was all set to catch my usual 9:04 local, fully armed with a copy of ET in my hand (a mark of a true MBA..!!) & determined to grab a window seat so that I cud comfortably complete an hour long journey to my Fort office. After getting my privileged seat, I somehow struggled to go through the paper flooded with news on fuel hike & how the Government is desperately trying to avoid itself from becoming a scapegoat, the bloodbath at BSE which I myself was witnessing yesterday afternoon while standing in front of BSE building next to my office. With crucial national issues like 123 nuke agreement hanging in air and a somewhat confused foreign policy approach towards China (especially over the North-East region issue) and the recent hike in fuel prices which came very late & cover merely 10% of loses, showing the clear intention of the government to limp for the next 12 months & live it to the next government to grapple with the issue; it somehow reminds me the black days of 1991 when India was facing the worst economic crisis since independence & was about to default in her international commitment to pay back the debts, the previous Government led by S Chandrasekhar had to pledge gold to pay the debts and inflation was going out of control. Mr Narasimha Rao (also referred to as Chanakya) was about to retire from politics when fate – in the tragic form of assassination of Rajiv Gandhi – made him the Prime Minister of India. Like an veteran warrior he could sense the enemy in the form of an catastrophic economic crisis approaching into and appointed a bureaucrat Dr Manmohan Singh as his Finance Minister. Even though he had an option to choose from an army of senior Congress leaders. But he selected a non politician at the crucial juncture of Indian history and it was this one tough choice that made all the difference. Rao shrewdly steered his minority government to give Singh all the political support he needed to push his reforms. The importance of which can now be understood from the fact that Dr Singh as Prime Minister now is struggling to push even small economic reforms as he is not getting enough political support and his own UPA allies & Left are all set with their guns targeted on him. Rao excelled on various fronts also as the Prime Minister. His Government was instrumental in bringing peace back in Punjab. In the defense front he made all the ground work to make India a nuclear power – even though credit of actual nuclear test went to his successor Atal Bihari Vajpayee (According to Vajpayee, when he became the PM in 1996 Rao handed him a piece of paper which simply stated 'Bomb is ready. You can go ahead.' (referring to a nuclear device) and asked that it should not be made public. Vajpayee revealed this only after Rao's death. Rao launched the Look East foreign policy, which brought India closer to ASEAN. He decided to maintain a distance from the Dalai Lama in order to avoid aggravating Beijing's suspicions and concerns, and made successful overtures to Teheran. The 'cultivate Iran' policy was pushed through vigorously by him. These policies paid rich dividends for India in March 1994, when Benazir Bhutto's efforts to have a resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir failed, with opposition by China and Iran. Its only bcoz of the economic liberalization(which Mr.Rao turned into reality) that today even a 12th pass can dare to dream of earning a 30k salary. All these thoughts forced me to close my eyes and think for a moment if any Leader in the current political scenario some avatar of Mr Rao who has the vision and the capability to take tough decisions when it mattered the most...Well only time will tell...!!!

With these thoughts racing through my mind... Just thought of sharing it with you people...!!

What do you ppl think abt it.????

With all that...this is ajay signing off..!!