Given any point in time it can be argued that a culture is at its cross road. There is always some change or transition going on. Same is the case with Indian culture. But no doubt thanks to technology and globalization the pace of change in the past two decades has been tremendous. This probably has made the generation gap stark.
Most of the youth in India have two personalities - one which works well at home and one that works well in their friend circle or age group. There are few who take the step forward and maintain the same stand both at home and outside. Though this appears tough in the beginning it saves lot of trouble later.
Its interesting to watch how things that appear cool in one circle is considered as taboo in another setting. Both the genders have their own list. Media is going a long way to help bridge this gap by showing the older generation the other side of the story. But I find it amusing when most of the older generation ignore it saying that happens only on the screen and how cruciating the movies have become.
Personally I explain in mild way to my parents and even grandparents that it is not the case and these things are for real. There is no point in living with such a generation gap, why not explain the change in views to older generation and make them a part of the change. Their advice and views gained through years of experience would help the transition much easier and less catastrophic and help an age old culture adapt and survive to the new change. After all there are people who find our old age culture fascinating compared to their new culture, then why not preserve the best of old times !
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Wallet Size
While the world of technology follow's Moore's law - , wallet is one area where the size first fell but is increasing now, with never ending list of plastic cards making way into our wallets. There has to be some integrated way to reduce this. May be a single chip which holds all the information, but that again leads to easy theft. Probably no plastic at all is the solution - may be a finger print reader which provides list of cards, that can be used and later asks for passcode for the chosen card. hmmm ... too technical yeah .. but the point is that it is high time to revolutionize the WALLET, after all technology is meant to simplify life not the other way round !
Friday, January 22, 2010
Office Id tags
One of the most used simple gadget now a days is the tag used to hang the office id cards. Some people sport it with full glory. Unfortunately from day 1 I got my ID and was forced to wear it around my neck I hated it.
I can come up with many reasons, foremost being it kind of took away the feeling of freedom - freedom to work creatively, efficiently and so many other things. Second it is really painful for the neck especially in sedentary jobs. Guys tuck the card into the shirt pocket that takes off the nagging feeling at the neck, how about ladies and all that hungamma making work place easier for them. As usual we take the brunt of it. Add to it the weight of access card, life becomes more painful.
Not to mention, I rarely wore the tag, just at the entrance I wear it and then it is either in my bag or my hand. Once I was adviced by HR to wear it, I told her the neck pain I get and hence I carry in my hand. She tried to argue saying that I might forget to take it in my hand but well I was confident I will not, its just habits. For example the more one uses the mobile phone to write down the grocery list, the more one loses the ability to process the information in memory.Experts advice to minimize gadget help and use our own brain's power more to improve brain capacity and retention.
Anyways coming back to our main subject of discussion the office tags. I have thought about it many times, when I wear it and when I see weary people coming out of office in the evening wearing the tags that bring their neck down even more. Always felt, why corporate doesn't see this, why don't they think of a solution to this. Its a small gesture which will go a long way to gain employee trust and satisfaction.
I have some ideas of my own and also researching on a viable alternative to the tags, also keeping in Indian conditions in mind where girls wear salwars and hence clipping tags is not easy. There still has to be a better design, researching on that. But at any cost I refuse to accept that this is the only viable way to maintain ID and security in an organization. My pirsuit to find a better and customised identity card display mechanism continues - something which makes the employee look and feel better than a 'Dog with a Tag' !
I can come up with many reasons, foremost being it kind of took away the feeling of freedom - freedom to work creatively, efficiently and so many other things. Second it is really painful for the neck especially in sedentary jobs. Guys tuck the card into the shirt pocket that takes off the nagging feeling at the neck, how about ladies and all that hungamma making work place easier for them. As usual we take the brunt of it. Add to it the weight of access card, life becomes more painful.
Not to mention, I rarely wore the tag, just at the entrance I wear it and then it is either in my bag or my hand. Once I was adviced by HR to wear it, I told her the neck pain I get and hence I carry in my hand. She tried to argue saying that I might forget to take it in my hand but well I was confident I will not, its just habits. For example the more one uses the mobile phone to write down the grocery list, the more one loses the ability to process the information in memory.Experts advice to minimize gadget help and use our own brain's power more to improve brain capacity and retention.
Anyways coming back to our main subject of discussion the office tags. I have thought about it many times, when I wear it and when I see weary people coming out of office in the evening wearing the tags that bring their neck down even more. Always felt, why corporate doesn't see this, why don't they think of a solution to this. Its a small gesture which will go a long way to gain employee trust and satisfaction.
I have some ideas of my own and also researching on a viable alternative to the tags, also keeping in Indian conditions in mind where girls wear salwars and hence clipping tags is not easy. There still has to be a better design, researching on that. But at any cost I refuse to accept that this is the only viable way to maintain ID and security in an organization. My pirsuit to find a better and customised identity card display mechanism continues - something which makes the employee look and feel better than a 'Dog with a Tag' !
Astounded with the power of time .....
Today I sat thinking that I have never blogged and that I should start a blog. Determined I searched for a blogsite. Landed upon this one and bingo ... I have a blog account here .. that is amazing and do I see two posts , oh yes I do and who wrote this. I read and re-read ofcourse its me, I am surprised I could capture spring in such a glory, perhaps its the magic of California - the beauty of the small village - 'Santa Clara' as the cab operator informed me hour before I reached this serene valley. Calmness was in the air, the mountains were vast, there was no need for any noise or description to feel their beauty and vigor.
Those were beautiful times and amazing things were done in those precious hours. I realize that upon seeing this blog account. One close friend of mine told me once when I was trying to convince him on the power of yoga that - in this fast moving world we don't need slowing down mechanisms like yoga rather rigorous exercise such as aerobics. No bias here, I love both of these but sometimes its amazing to realize that slowing down helps to face the rigour of life better. It gives an opportunity to view what we miss in our fast life because we never have the time for that.
May be the slow, calm pace of the valley filled me with new energy, energy to do things which I never did before and find it so difficult to do after too - and one of them happens to be blogging :).
Those were beautiful times and amazing things were done in those precious hours. I realize that upon seeing this blog account. One close friend of mine told me once when I was trying to convince him on the power of yoga that - in this fast moving world we don't need slowing down mechanisms like yoga rather rigorous exercise such as aerobics. No bias here, I love both of these but sometimes its amazing to realize that slowing down helps to face the rigour of life better. It gives an opportunity to view what we miss in our fast life because we never have the time for that.
May be the slow, calm pace of the valley filled me with new energy, energy to do things which I never did before and find it so difficult to do after too - and one of them happens to be blogging :).
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