What you give is What you get

In software world we all have a terminology called what you see is what you get.
Some one also told me during my childhood days that what you give is what you get back in life.

Both of them never were more true when LalMasjid went on blaze on the other side of the border.
May be i was around 7-8 years when on a fine morning i read this incident called Operation Blue Star in Punjab and manipulative political establishments across the borders tried to induce further tension by using the incident as a step to insitgate sponsored terrorism.It took toll on probably on one of the greatest woman leaders ever to have born there after.
Probably i was around was 14-15 years old when again a terrorist organization down the country stood as reason to bring one of the charismatic Indian PM's and possibly the most forward thinking PM's we had till then to ashes. If it was mother once , it was son's term.
Few years rolled by and i saw news channesl flashing Kandahar. People made a joke that if Indian cricket team is kidnapped , what we need to give in ransom to get them back as we did to save human lives at the cost of a hard core terrorist.
If all this were perceived as probably Indian government's weakness and if these incidents never bothererd Uncle Sam , it was rightly so. There is a proverb in telugu which says you won't feel the pain , if it does not hit you.

Come 2007 , full circle , What Amritsar was with Operation Blue Star , Lal Masjid brought Operation Silence. I was really happy for once that what you give is what you get back. Though a peace loving human i never wished any human's blood getting spilt , am happy that now atleast some one across the border understands what it means to have a sponsored terrorism in place.

Let them repent for what they have done ,let the historians draw a parallel between Amritsar and lalmasjid. I do not want general to go down as what happened to Mrs. Gandhi, he needs to be there to write a foreword to the next generations about what it means to say that " What you give is What you get".

General ..All the best !~! its time if you apply and have same standards for every one around.

B'schools or Lalu ? (ofcourse Lalu)

Yes , i really wanted to write about this. Myeself being a IIM alumini as an executive MBA student , was really feeling surprised to see Lalu's magic turning around the railways. It was no less than a harvard case study to put it in the right perspective.

Well, i thought i must actually dig a bit deep to see if it had happened just like that or lalu has really got some thing in him. I think more than the techniques he used to bring railways cash registers laughing to the bank , it was his fodder scam that made me realize the brainy bihari leader. If he can simply fool the country around and get away with a 965 crores through a innovative scam , turning around raiways was not a big achievement as far as i was concerned. Look at what he took to do the scam "Fodder" that shows his brilliance.

The latest buzz is that he is wooing the retail biggies (yes all of them in the queue) to tap in the large godowns the railways own on a leased basis , barren and fertile railways lands for collobarative farming , even he is talking about setting up small to big market stores / malls at railway stations itself so that he can tap in the potential buyers who travel . Well , do you need to say anything else ..its a master stroke if it takes off as its planned.

How about some suggestions to laluji :

--There could be preferential ticketing in the railways depending on the date of booking akin airlines

--There could be a broad band service integrated into the train

--Have a mobile net cafe akin to pantry cars ,

--Mobile charging points in all the compartments ,

-- Wi-fi enabled compartments [ all these facilities need not be free , they can be charged as the user wants so that his ticket would reflect the same]

--Drinking water cans fixed in the compartments rather than just trying to sell rail brand water packets and bottles

--Digital timers / alarm services and digital station meter indicators when the journey in progress to guide the passengers

Am sure the days are changing and the people are open to being mature and pro-active..Laluji...take the railways to the next level.. we don't mind if you can do this and probably do another scam (if not fodder ...it could be cow dung which is of wide use in many a way to produce gas atleast:_)