This blog entry just came out after listening to the new song of the movie “Singh is Kinng”…The lines were like “Ek colour ke 13 patte lekin sab mein bas ek king”
What is a Leader without his followers? What is a King without his pupils? What is a CAT 100% scorer without the other 1, 99,999 (Maybe more than that) people who couldn’t crack the same. Actually everyone is unique in this society but we all have a habit of demeaning the position of others; Talking about demeaning, I think of racism. It’s a very popular word among us Indians, according to us most of the people (outside the boundaries of our motherland) are totally racist, but it’s we who have perceptions about every culture in our multicultural society. Forget cultures think about colleges, courses, schools etc. How many times have we heard he is pass out of DPS, he must be good …no offence made to all DPSites but I find it funny because over the past 12 months in Global Business I learned not to have preconceived notions about any person in this multicultural society. I don’t know how being from a particular college or a course will mean I am worthless or worth my metal. Although this school of thought cannot be dismissed totally but it is flawed, It’s the newspapers which fuel the demand for MBA courses by posting only the Rs 1 Crore packages that are given to fresh graduates of a leading B School, but then why is everybody expected to earn that amount;
All the above random thoughts come to me over a piece of music which emphasizes the fact that u need to be a King in this society, Actually the thing is its not what u see yourself as, its how the society sees you as; So I try to make an image of mine in which I try to balance my own interests and also that of the societies, so there is confused positioning of my image. Actually at this point only branding can help for the unbranded people; so the best way is to join an IIM or an IIT so the image the society has of you changes and they have an aspirational value for you and they are willing to pay for you much more than what you are worth of. But joining such an institution may lead to increased expectations on your side and maybe having a higher view of yourself and hence demeaning other people leading to racism. So a prey of racism becomes a racist….
2 comments:
Agreement in principle with a differential quotient....though we say about image for the society we claim to underscore our own slefish interests....our lives are a bunch of compromises the one who knows all of his compromises is known as cynic and the one who has no knowledge about it is known as optimist.
sasanks comment ...d last line says it well. A person who is intelligent enough to see and understand the truth around him is labelled as mad, crazy, cynic, pessimist or one of the other adjectives. Because what he says and does very often does not comply with the so called norms of the environment.
Post a Comment