BYE BYE Mr.2014.... HELLO Mr.2015.

As the remaining few minutes of the year 2014 are racing into give way to 2015 , i am feeling nostalgic with the time. Hardly it matters to time. The year 2014 had been quite eventful and added a lot of memories in the chapter of life. The balance sheet of life has seen both the asset and liabilities getting squared. Yeah! Time is the best banker and  accountant. No banker or chartered accountant can ever match its error free accounting procedures. So, as Mr.2014 is all set to leave with his bag packed, we all are awake to bid him good bye and receive Mr.2015 with all zeal , excitement and warmth. May the year brings all excitement, good news, happiness, purpose, health, wealth and enlightment to man kind.

Ek shayari!!

ज़िंदा हूँ अपने जुनूँन और ज़िगर से ऐ जिंदगी 

उनकी तलाश जन्नत तक जरी रहेगी !! 

21 Days with special Adjectives

Classroom had become a thing of past! Until the 3 week training schedule at SBA Gurgaon and SBLC were announced. CLASSROOM ah the dreadful area then , now the only reserviour of the sweetest memories speaks of our old sweet days of childhood and flashes the "lost faces of Past". Leaving the nostelgia of past and inertia of working in branches/offices, We - i and Ajoy dropped in at SBA Gurgaon well in time on sunday only to find a grand resort type campus with all modern facilities. We were alloted room no 78 in krishna block. All residential blocks were named after great rivers of our India. It was the begining of an experience, unfelt then. Next morning after breakfast we gathered at auditorium . A video speech of our chairman madam was being played. We all heard her and her concerns on different aspects of making SBI the best bank and her worries on bad customer service. We mere meant to listen but we heard for sure!! We were then asked to disperse after a very touching prayer " itni shakti humein dena data, man ka biswas kamjor hona" It was rejuvenating.

With fresh spirit and new found energy we leaped out to find our class. Ours was taxila. Our co-ordinator was Shri Rajiv Saxena, AGM . He was a man of words. He had excellent command and his own personality was very appeasing. He led us to introduce among ourselves. We all spoke out our names and other credentials. We all were concerned about our turn. We were sparsely concerned in others. Then he led us to another round of intro. It was a different game. He asked us to introduce with our first name but sufficing it with an adjectives starting with the first letter of our name. Example. Radiant Rajive. And set the ball rolling. This was very connecting. We were soon able to recall each others name. It was like honouring the man inside and then connecting with all such selves. IT was not a revealation then. It took the whole 3 weeks of class, activities, role plays, responses,co ordination , cultural activities , games, dining together and ROAMING OUT to know that with each pair of hand i shaken , they were such a different and capable tools of great majicians. With all pairs of legs i strolled with , they had varied pace and stride . They had capacity to put the gaint leap of mankind.  Each face i glanced upon was more than an identity. It was yet another face of God, it was yet another face of a friend.



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Republic Day made the Days Re-Public!

 

  Today 26th Jan in India presents before us the reflection of what happened through the citizens living in 1950. They had lost their basic identity. They fought to regain what was lost from their fore-fathers not to the foreigners but much before that to their own illusions. Power with glory conserved and preserved for a few. India had lost its idea of India. Centuries passed. Men came and men went. They never felt the slavery. But nature never knows to maintain status quo. The idea of freedom that was again born but in west revived the memory of Old India. The imagination of freedom and self belief filled the nerves with power to stretch and minds controlled by intellects of responsible leadership  produced by wisdom of pure India led to a successful series of movements ending in emancipation from "the Other". Self was released. But this has to be purposeful. Freedom is meaningful if it can be creative, otherwise it will destruct. Self-rule or Swaraj was the way and always has been. The entire universe has huge power to be chaotic, but it or He self rule to present the platform for lives to exist. I thank to the idea of Swaraj. I thank for giving us the Republic day because the days after that became Re-Public.