In the service of a nation

This post is in response to a status message on of my friends on the verge of passing out from college wrote about his future options and his contradicting desires.

My Friend, there is nothing that says that these ambitions cannot go together...

If u become an industrialist you can give employment to a large number of people which is also serving the nation.... if want to help India's defence industry then u can do set up a company that supplies materials to the Indian defence forces... there are many private companies that do the same in collaboration with DRDO...if u were luking more along the lines of something else like enviornment or edcucation then there are things there too... u can set up company that specialises in renewable energy or low cost methods of producing clean drinking water.....

It is an old and flawed logic that says that to have money you have lie, cheat and climb on the backs of ordinary man... that kind of backward thinking is something that held our country back nearly 40yrs after independence and resulted in what was known as the "license raj".If we had opened up our economy in the 70's like China did... then we would also be where China is today....It is only cos Dr.Manmaohan Singh and Narasimha Rao and all had the foresight to liberalise our economy that we have gotten where we are today.... tht is why almost everyone is assured of a job somewhere when they get out of college very much unlike the times of parents :)...

So in summation my dear friend making money is serving the country... Make as much money as you can and pay your taxes thats more than enough service.... If you want to do more then thats gud too but if u can be another ambani that is a lot bigger service than even dying for the country.

As someone wise once said " Dying for your country is a great sacrifice but living for your country is a even greater sacrifice"

Musings at 5:00 in the morning

As my life unfolds before and I see more and more both of myself and others and I am compelled to face reality, the reality that we are what we are... the leaders and the followers, the rebels and the traditionalist, the saint and the sinner all part of the same thread. Cause and effect so numerous, so intricate and so interwoven that it blends into the background giving us or to be precise those limited among us the illusion of choice. We have long since made the choices that we lie in, it is only a matter of living them now... but don't let causality fool you action is still important, it is important because it must be taken for the sake of tomorrow not because you chose it but because you are it.