Chota Cricket

It's not the World's most popular sport and it's not the regular came of cricket either. But for an Indian kid it's a game of emotions, a game in which no one was left out, a game in which even bad players were appreciated and allowed to know how it feels to be a sportsman. It's CHOTA CRICKET. 11 yards, no swinging of the arms, one tip one hand and No fast bowling please!! Rules which have no literature but just the great Indian tradition defining them. You remember every moment of the game played with your siblings in your back yard, every single ball that your Dad may have bowled to you. And Ya, those Indian kids who played such miserable cricket that they were never allowed to play and had to take options like football, basket ball etc. (Not being derogatory to any of these sports but in India kids who couldn't play cricket choose these sports) to redeem their self respect, also get a chance to see how the game is played. I am a slip disk patient but I can still play Chota Cricket. It is something that has sparked happiness in my life. A feeling that I can play some sport again and physically compete with people and teams and not be scared of any major repercussions is like living life again. And for this I am thankful to my friends, who did not ask me any questions. When they knew I couldn't bend and stop the ball initially they never asked me to do so. Some couldn’t bowl, some couldn't bat and in fact they still can't even then no questions asked. Because we believe that sport is not only made for the skilled but also for those who aspire to be a part of the game sitting besides the fence. In front of Block 29 every day without fail 24 boys play this game, accept each other with all our infirmities and enjoy as if there were no tomorrow. We play Chota Cricket-the game of friendship.

How funny It is to see two fat men jogging....

It was February 2009 I guess, when a friend of mine and I decided to go jogging and reduce the extra layer of cakes, ice creams, basundi's on our body. It was unanimously decided that the morning would be an impossibility and so mission impossible would be kicked off at evening time, till it became a habit. (Quite some time has passed till now and I must tell you it's still not become a habit). However this story does not concern how we lost weght or did not but is primarily focussed on how people react when they see two fat men trying to do what they should have done much earlier. For the record that friend of mine is Ams. Here it goes:
Our regular path was essentially from the way behind the hostel till sector 16. For readers who are unaware of how this path of ours is, this is a little road map. The total way can be divided into three parts starting with the sweat stinking crowded "sabzi mandi" to the "main road" where deaths and trucks are frequent visitors and finally to the more calm and gently populated human disgust of "sector 16". Since the time Ams and I started jogging, I have seen some of the world's most sad faces light up. Sitting in the dark, GNLU couples notice this event on a very frequent basis. We sometimes hear "Bahut Sahi aur Bhago moton" from people whose value in the human market would not even be a rupee. At our end, initially it started with disgust, anger and shame but eventually it was just a gradual wait till someone would come and pass a nasty smile. Its been six months now and this feeling has not dipped a bit as we aren't growing slimmer and they aren't getting better. The funniest are those good for nothing boys sitting besides trees who neither have eductation nor physical power nor any sex appeal to drive people towards them. We see a new bunch of them laughing at us everyday and wonder whatever happened to India's production capabilities that such great number fools have ended up making their existence felt. But however, I would not stop jogging because they are laughing. May be it is a way in which i can contribute to the society and make people happy. For this purpose I have decided on a category of people who laugh on us and I wish to please.
1. Badly beaten Husbands
2. Good For Nothing Boys
3. Good Looking girls who think we are making the effort and in a hope that one day they will tag along for jogging.
4.People who think fat men can't run.
5.Couples-and tell them that we will be jogging around so don't think the road can get lonely for long.
On a more serious note, fat people who feel ashamed of people laughing should understand that the shame can be the driving force, and more particularly, "Dude jab kha kha ke mote ho gaye tab sharam nahin aayai toh ab kyun"
Different things in the world are funny at different times but seeing two fat men jogging will be funny all the times.

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Enough is Enough

Television has been my source of entertainment right from the time i discovered that I have a vision. My vision still persists but sadly the entertainment value of TV doesn't. I somehow feel that the yester year serials like ALIF LAILA where the villain was focussed upon with the same expression for the entire episode were still better that what is shown on TV today. But my post is not concerned with how TV has deteriorated but rather it concerns the fast developing news world. More than entertainment channels we have news channels and in order to fill the gap, these channels play the amusement part as well. Hindi news channels have been deteriorating with their below standard performance augmenting day by day. Reports that begin like "AGAR AAPKO CHAIN SE SONA HAI TOH JAAG JAYIYE" etc do give us tickle when they are actually meant to be serious. With most crime reporters looking worse than criminals themselves, switching on that channel means loads and loads of laughter at things one needs to shed tears of fear and pity. Media through its news channels has blown thing out of proportion. For instance the AARUSHI MURDER case, I'm sure there would have been hundreds of girls who would have been murdered and under similar circumstances but non availability of quality news leads them to keep focusing on the same case. With so many episodes flashed I have stopped feeling for that murdered girl. News channels have gone beyond normal human tolerance levels. Evey new hour they create a new news making a drama scene of how the CBI would have questioned Rajesh Talwar etc. Thanks to them though that I have more blogging time and to my misfortune my favourite source of entertainment has been hijacked by people who had lost their senses ages ago.

They Never Get Old

I always thought that once they got over they wont live long. I guess I was wrong. If you are wondering what is that I'm referring as 'they', they are the moments of joy and glory one spends with his friends. My story is just about some school friends with whom we discuss the same childish jokes again and again and yet they don't lose their charm. After two long years I met an old friend today. He reminded me of how we wasted days and nights just roaming around and not studying and how we gobbled up food when we saw, how badly we ransacked the school canteen(Arif Bhai the canteen guy always used to ask us for balance). Those were days when we cared about nothing. Just us. We had to live lives our ways and that too king size. How Ashok got pushed out of the class in class VIII still generates quite a laughter among us. Every moment at school was a moment of fun and glory. I never thought after having been to college I would ever think of a school life I left behind me. But do want to go back to those days.
Its just a short message from me to my readers, if any, you may be very busy in life but if do wish or desire a stress buster school friends and their good old memories will keep you smiling.

‘Knowledge Chain Management: Driving Knowledge Economies in the Global Supply Market’

A supply chain is a network of facilities and distribution options that performs the functions of procurement of materials, transformation of these materials into intermediate and finished products, and the distribution of these finished products to customers. Can the ever expanding patent regime be brought within the strategic as well as lucrative confines of this system? How shall this patent supply chain be managed? Does it strictu sensu fall within the ambit of being a supply chain? Such intriguing questions can be clarified by the concept of Knowledge Chain Management. Knowledge Chain as the name suggests takes us a step closer to redefining the aspect of Knowledge Economy in a nation like India. In this regard it is thus pertinent to note that the Indian Patent System is still in its nascent stage and not as exhaustively worked upon like the U.S. patent laws. Why is our patent system slow? Simply because we aren’t familiar with the tricks of operating a patent monopoly. Our Patent and Trademark office is not as functional as its counterpart in the U.S. This is also because of the number of patents being excruciatingly low. To invigorate this process we need to create a supply chain of the knowledge of the Intellectual Property System in India and make it a working effective model. Like any supply chain the Knowledge chain has its stages of procurement to production and distribution. To comprehend the suggestion better we must lend a kind eye to a model in which the premiere institutions of technology (Indian Institute of Technology) take the responsibility of the conception of the idea and research on the patent, then once the patentable object is brought forth, the next step is to provide fool proof protection which shall be handled by the legal department (National Law Schools) and finally the commercial viability and marketability of the patent shall be managed by the management experts (Indian Institute of Management). This model essentially propagates twin concepts, one being the involvement of the young and fresh into the development of the Knowledge economy of the nation and the second being the effective bifurcation of work between the three organs so as to maintain adequate separation of powers and identification of proper concentration domain. By “proper concentration domain” I mean effective allocation of work. It is always better if the allocation of work or rather the division of labour is according to one’s area of expertise. The recent development in this area is a highlight. Setting up of IPR cells in various IIT’s is indeed move ahead in terms of developing the Knowledge Economy of the nation. A critical analysis of the existent supply chain system in relation to the said model presents Knowledge Chain as a novel facet of the supply chain system. Though patents are geographical in nature yet emerging concepts of cross-border implementation of patents promise to make them global and hence in the light of such events it is extremely crucial for us to market and preserve our indigenous goods as well as human ingenuity. The emerging corporate value of Knowledge Economy should be kept in mind while the suggested model is implemented first nationally and then globally. This write up thus attempts to integrate the idea of Supply Chain Management with Intellectual Property and create a Knowledge Economy for the nation and worldwide.