My Reflections

Delhi Metro Accident Construction work is considered to be dangerous of all professions in the world. It is more dangerous in India because no proper safety regulation is in place. There is complete absence of safety culture at work places. Government’s callous attitude towards enforcement of safety regulations displays apathy towards its manual laborers in particular. Accidents and injuries are common scenes at work places cutting across sectors and industries in India. One can easily come across heart rending scenes at work places. The accidents at Delhi metro became breaking news only because it is a mega project of the country and government prides for its international standard. Indian tele-density is growing at the fastest pace in the world and we are proud of that growth. But look at the way towers are erected in India. Hapless workers erect 30 to 60 meter and higher towers without safety belt and protection from fall. These workers are forced to work at night without suffici...

Education only Solution for Muslims’ backwardness Since time immemorial mankind has witnessed a universal truth that the educated and technologically advanced class rules. The society which does not encourage its people to learn, perish. Greek, Egypt, Rome et al. vanished because of death of creativity in those societies. Great civilizations died its own death due to lack of education. The British Empire was established on the strong foundation of technological advancement. It remained superpower till its education was supreme. The US could impose its hegemony on the world because it has technological and economic excellence. Japan could match with US and European countries; the technology with quality is the mantra behind. The technological advancement, economic growth etc. is attained and sustained on quality education. Education, particularly higher education can be liberating force from prejudice, atrocities and discrimination etc. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, a great reformer of 19th cent...

We the NRIs A recently arrived Indian shared his suffering. He left his well paying job in Mumbai, India and joined a company in Saudi Arabia spending hefty sum on visa processing and consultancy charges. Now his Saudi employer had reduced his salary to half of that promised. He had no idea how he could go back and join his previous job in Mumbai. I suggested him to approach Indian embassy attaché in Dammam. One day a friend of mine called from Dubai and asked to help a victim under similar situation. I call these people victim of abject poverty, greed, and of course exploitative, merciless Saudi employers. I travelled a long way to reach the hapless boy of under 20. He had been employed by a company in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia as a crane operator. On arrival he was asked to do manual lifting of heavy items which he never did earlier. He refused to do so. His employer beat him up and sent him to Mazra'a. Mazra'a is date farm generally located outside cities. He was asked t...

Writing Writing is a powerful medium of expression. It conveys message to recipients most of the time in absence of writer. The beauty of written communication is that communication can be documented and can be referred to whenever needed. But written communication has some inherent difficulty with it. The writer writes a word or sentence as per his or her understanding of word or context. The social background, culture, mood etc. affect the interpretation. Writer and reader both add some individualism into it. Writer encodes his ideas or message in a package and the reader decodes it, sometimes correctly or sometimes not. The feedback which can be received readily in case of verbal communication is not possible in written media. Therefore, an effective conveyance of written media needs set of skills and knowledge. Effective writing needs a set of skills. One can’t write without clear knowledge and or information about subject matter. Good writing needs a good stock of vocabulary. A g...

This blog will be reflection of my ideas. I expect people to read it but it is more for myself. Here onward I will be blabbering, scribbling my coherent or incoherent, powerful or weak, interesting or boring imagination.