Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

In Sonepat, Haryana, thirty-five postgraduates — MBAs and engineers among them — once lined up to apply for two posts of peon. In Chhattisgarh, seventy-five thousand people applied for thirty peon vacancies; the embarrassed administration cancelled the recruitment altogether. When Uttar Pradesh Police advertised sixty-two messenger posts — a job whose formal requirement was Class 5 and the ability to ride a bicycle — the applicants included tens of thousands of graduates, thousands of postgraduates and, famously, thousands of PhD holders. And when the Railways opened about 63,000 Group D vacancies requiring a Class 10 pass, nearly two crore Indians applied — among them over four lakh B.Tech engineers and forty thousand with postgraduate engineering degrees. Somewhere in Uttar Pradesh, a science graduate spent four years working as a court peon "out of compulsion," rising before dawn to prepare for the SSC exam that might one day let his degree mean something. These are not ...

For good or bad, two important changes have occurred in my life in the last six months , with respect to change in base location of operation. First, I was transferred from Chicago to Philadelphia. After couple of months, I w as relocated from Philadelphia to India. Leaving the nagging pain of moving away from US , these two relocations are very important to me . Did I anticipated this at all, that my life would turn upside down in a span of few months despite having an additional year of visa validity to stay in US . I am preparing to get back to India probably next year but didn't see this happen too soon. But, very big but, these two relocations are very severe in implications which wouldn't have happened if not for the management at work . First, after staying for 3 years 10 months in Chicago, I was transferred. This is a big change in my life and by my life to outside world . Second, after staying for 4 years 1 month in US, I was relocated to India...