From Birth Certificate to Death Certificate - Our Life is Infinitesimally Ephemeral and Unequivocally Inconsequential

Very typically speaking.

When we are born, our parents are issued a birth certificate.

When we die, our children are issued a death certificate.

But the above is, as mentioned earlier, very typically speaking.

Since death doesn't follow any rule.

We can experience death the very next moment that we take birth.

Our life is so simple that way.

It is the period between the date and time mentioned in our birth certificate and death certificate.

In the endless horizon of space and time, which have existed forever and will exist forever, our life is infinitesimally ephemeral and unequivocally inconsequential.

In terms of time, the span of our life, mathematically speaking, tends to zero.

In terms of space, the reach of our life also, mathematically speaking, tends to zero.

The lives of so-called rich and powerful people, mathematically speaking, tend to zero too.

So how do we glorify our lives?

How do claim we were born for doing something great?

And how do we assume our life is special and significant?

The answer to the three questions above is quite evident.

We are zero.

A big zero.

A very big ZERO indeed.

In the context of this cosmos, our birth and death is neither special not significant.

It would not have mattered at all had we not been born.

Indeed, it is true that the birth of a person (or any living being, for that matter) is a unique event in the cosmos.

It is unique since there was never anyone in the past who was exactly like that person and there will never be anyone who will be exactly like that person.

However, if a person is not born, it makes no difference to the cosmos.

In fact, even if no person or living being has even been there, it would have made no difference to the cosmos.

The cosmos is the only reality.

The cosmos is itself the supreme power.

How it came into being is a mystery.

How other things came into being, is easy to explain.

 

One Day (A Poem)

One day, what is there now will not be

One day, what is not there, may or may not be

One day, you will pass into eternity
One day, you will meet with infinity



One day, you will be all dusted and done
One day, you will be forever gone

One day, what looks real will turn into surreal
One day, what appears virtual will become real

One day, maybe, you will not be there to find me here
One day, I will also not be there, here or anywhere

One day, maybe, I will not be there to find you here
One day, you will also not be there, here or anywhere

One day, what all began will come to an end
One day, what all ended will begin again

The Biggest Corporate Curse - Genuinely Fake Leaders and their Stooges

Several organizations, especially where the founders become the MDs or CEOs, but undeservedly so, are afflicted by the biggest corporate curse that is there.

The curse of genuinely fake leaders and their stooges.

There is leadership. This is rare.

Then there is genuine leadership. This is rarest of rare.

And then there is fake leadership. This is common.

Finally, there is genuinely fake leadership. This is commonly common.

Genuinely fake leaders promote the unhealthy breeding of yes sir men, the stooges and then cultivate them causing immense damage to the cultural fabric of the organization.

What are the tell-tale signs of genuinely fake leadership being practiced brazenly and in a bizarre manner by the top man?

Here are a few:

• Extols the value of inclusion but sets up a gang of yes sir men
• Talks about diversity but installs yes sir culture
• Humiliates those who refuse to become his yes sir men
• Thinks of himself as a visionary but has pin-hole vision
• Carries a fragile but jumbo-sized ego
• Acts like a king but, at the core, is a big clown
• Protects his and his yes sir men's turf

The stooges are a specimen of the most obnoxious type.

And this is what they do:

• Lift the top man up high on a pedestal made of thin air
• Keep pumping the fragile but jumbo-sized ego of the top man
• Treat the top man as a king knowing well that he is a clown
• Act as "smart alec" in meetings with the top man
• Show that they are more important in the system than others
• Humiliate those who are competent

If you happen to work in such an organization, then you are doomed.

You will see the top man and his stooges do non-sensical things quite often.

Like the following:

• The top man asks his pet stooges to stay back after a meeting to discuss something important - "stooge1, stooge 2, stooge 3, can you stay back?"
• The top man humiliates professionally competent people by asking them to report into one of his stooges - "can you keep my stooge in the loop"
• The top man frowns upon others bringing up genuine issues by asking his stooges, "you all should discuss and see what should be done"

मौत कि ओर अग्रसर - The Poem of Death in Hindi with English Translation

The Poem of Death in Hindi

मौत कि ओर अग्रसर, 

है मनुष्य निरंतर |

मौत है जीवन की आखिरी सच्चाई,

चाहे कोई समझा, या किसी कि समझ न आई |

मौत के सामने हर कोई है एक जैसा,

जीवन में हो चाहे, कोई भी कैसा |

मौत कर रही है हम सबका इंतज़ार,

तुम गए इस बार, हो सकता है मैं चला जाऊं अगली बार |

मौत के हाथ में है वह तीर कमान,

जिससे ज़िन्दगी में लग जाता है एक पूर्ण विराम | 

मौत से मनुष्य बच नहीं सकता,

भले ही कोई कहे, "मैं नहीं डरता!

मौत आएगी एक दिन,

पर कब, यह कहना नामुमकिन |

मौत आ रही है धीरे-धीरे तुम्हारी तरफ,

और तुम रहे हो पल-पल मौत की ओर खिसक | 

मौत को अगर हम माने ज़िन्दगी की तरह,

तो ज़िन्दगी को मौत बनने में होगा नहीं कोई कलह |

मौत को कर लो स्वीकार,

इससे बचने का नहीं है किसी को अधिकार | 

मौत का वह पल, 

होता है ज़िन्दगी से अविरल |

मौत के आगे ज़िन्दगी नहीं, 

हम चले जाते हैं न जाने कहीं | 

मौत कि ओर अग्रसर,

है मनुष्य निरंतर |

English Translation follows:

मौत कि ओर अग्रसर, (towards their death)

है मनुष्य निरंतर | (all human beings constantly move)

मौत है जीवन की आखिरी सच्चाई, (death is the last truth of life) 

चाहे कोई समझा, या किसी कि समझ न आई | (whether someone understood, or did not)

मौत के सामने हर कोई है एक जैसा, (in front of death, everyone is equal)

जीवन में हो चाहे, कोई भी कैसा | (in life, whatever one may have been)

मौत कर रही है हम सबका इंतज़ार, (death awaits you)

तुम गए इस बार, हो सकता है मैं चला जाऊं अगली बार | (you went away this time, I could be the one who may go next)

मौत के हाथ में है वह तीर कमान, (death bears that bow and arrow)

जिससे ज़िन्दगी में लग जाता है एक पूर्ण विराम | (which has the power to put a full-stop to life) 

मौत से मनुष्य बच नहीं सकता, (human beings can't escape death)

भले ही कोई कहे, "मैं नहीं डरता! (even if someone says, "I am not scared of it")

मौत आएगी एक दिन, (death will visit you one day)

पर कब, यह कहना नामुमकिन | (but when, no one can be certain)

मौत आ रही है धीरे-धीरे तुम्हारी तरफ, (death is slowly moving towards you)

और तुम रहे हो पल-पल मौत की ओर खिसक | (and you too are moving towards it very second)

मौत को अगर हम माने ज़िन्दगी की तरह, (if we can think that death and life are same)

तो ज़िन्दगी को मौत बनने में होगा नहीं कोई कलह | (then, when life turns into death, there is no issue)

मौत को कर लो स्वीकार, (accept death)

इससे बचने का नहीं है किसी को अधिकार | (you don't have the right to escape it) 

मौत का वह पल, (the moment of death)

होता है ज़िन्दगी से अविरल | (is the continuation of life)

मौत के आगे ज़िन्दगी नहीं, (there is no life beyond death)

हम चले जाते हैं न जाने कहीं | (no one knows where we go)

मौत कि ओर अग्रसर, (towards their death)

है मनुष्य निरंतर | (all human beings constantly move)

The Ghadiyali Chomu Master and His Char Bandar-numa Chamchas

This is the story of the ghadiyali chomu master SV.

And his chomu harkatein.

And, also, of his char bandar-numa chamchas - KM, ST, PP, SR.

SV is short, stodgy and short-sighted.

His only achievement till date is that he has created and cultivated char bandar-numa chamchas.

And if you were to poke SV a little bit, he would howl and growl and say, "the char bandar-numa chamchas only matter to me, let others go to hell".

Despite the absurdity of the whole situation, the despicable chomu master SV continues with more of the same absurdities that make him even more despicable.

He is fond of or rather besieged of his own false image and hence indulges in showing off.

He would utter all the right keywords and do all the symbolic stuff to appear as a genuine and caring person.

However, on scratching the surface, the real object behind the false image comes out.

He is the opposite of all what one would consider as fair, transparent and genuine.

He talks of ethics and empowerment but does all kinds of absurd things like:

• Suggesting that you write falsehood in e-mails to customers and vendors
• Facts are misrepresented or blatantly modified in the name of negotiation
• Data and information are twisted maliciously to create fake impressions
• Dropping/parachuting a trainee into your team without discussing first with you.
• Competency and fitment aspect is bulldozed to the ground.
• The trainee has no background other than her connection with the chomu master.
• Indulging in initiatives only for symbolic reasons.
• Initiatives are started without wider consultation and stakeholder involvement
• The people with no real work are made to drive such initiatives to make them relevant
• Humiliating competent professionals through "chomu harkatein"
• You get emails like "copy my chamcha" or "as advised keep my chamcha in the loop"
• Activities in your area are assigned to a chamcha to disempower you

The companies that are managed by a chomu master also become chomu companies.

They are what one can call as a "chotu company" which will remain like that forever.

The reason is not hard to see.

The chomu master and his char bandar-numa chamchas want to retain complete control.

To hell with empowerment.

Chomu master is a con artist.

Employee empowerment is a good term to hear but means nothing in such organizations.

If you work in such a company, be ready to embrace absurdities.

You will be humiliated often.

Yes, that's right.

Humiliated and dis-empowered.

While you are going through all this non-sense, you must learn to enjoy all this from a distance too.

Keep laughing at the ghadiyali chomu master.

Keep laughing at the char bandar-numa chamchas.

Just keep laughing.

After all you are getting entertainment for free from the chomu master and his char bandar-numa chamchas.

Don't take them seriously at all.

Don't become serious yourself too.

Just keep laughing.

And laughing.

And laughing.