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Kaju Khaoon (eat) ya Kishmish Syndrome?

I am trying to describe a very common human behaviour and impact of it on oneself and others. This is called Kaju Khaoon ya Kishmish Khaoon syndrome. Although they say life is made out of choices, but do we select those choices on time? Are these choices selected by planning or design? Scene 1 : Person is driving and he suddenly sees the road in front is dividing. In case he is daily commuter of the route or knows the route, will make the choice easily. Imagine someone on this road for the first time. Here is where the guy get's this syndrome - Kaju Khaoon ya Kishmish Khaoon. Our guy in this situation is totally confused ,and given the traffic in Delhi he can put other motorists in danger. He can also hurt himself in case he is not able to make the choice in time. Scene 2: Our friend is a working guy and is traveling on a road. He has a choice to either go home or stop for a snack break. He is not decided and suddently on seeing a good place makes a choice of stoppin...

Maya ke Park ?

Maya ji has been getting some "very beautiful" parks developed in Noida and Lucknow at a meagre cost of 2500 Cr ( estimate as per news). So what is the big issue ? Why are PIL filed against these parks ? Why is media so activ e on these news ? What is in these parks ? They have big statues of One of our known and respected lawmaker and of course some of UP CM. They also have lots of stone carved elephants, that happens to be the election symbol of BSP ( so what). Not sure what else is in there? I have been watching the Noida park being constructed from apprx last 2 years. The work continued at war footing.

Inetresting comment on Facebook - Managing tomorrow

One of my friends made an interesting comment on his status update on facebook - "Managing Tommorrow". This forced me to ask a question - Can somebody really manage tomorrow? I think that managing tomorrow and correcting yesterday ( future and past) is well beyond human capability. The only thing that we can do is manage today to have the better tommorrow. We can also ensure that the learnings' of the past are leveraged and the mistakes are not repeated. My self being from six sigma background have been a proponent of Cause and Effect. We have to manage the cause to have the desired effect. Effects can be cured (managed). Likewise our focus should be to manage today to have the desired tomorrow (future). PS - Managing- To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle