Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Bangalore

This is the best of the times to be in Bangalore. A place thronging with people; people- with dreams and aspirations, with passion, courage and hope to turn every of their dream into reality. A place where opportunities galore and possibilities appear infinite. A place where people are mostly in early to mid 20s, all trying to be as maverick as they can be, all trying to push themselves to their ultimate limit.

Meet them and in the BLINK of the moment what you experience is a strong undercurrent of restlessness, some unabated force.

Meet some of my seniors from college, who have quit their jobs only to follow their hearts and start their own ventures. Ventures which they can bring up and nurture just like their child, which can add value to the life of the people. Something which can narrow the difference between technology and people (this).

Then meet my gym instructor, who, born and brought up in the conditions where he had barely hand to mouth to live on. But now day and night, he lives with the dream to have his own gym. The way he amiable, energetic and relentlessly push people to go on, it is not very hard to see that he is definitely inching towards his dreams, every single day.

Also meet a friend of mine, for whom all the juggleries of technology have become a passe. Who goes to sleep everyday thinking -- all what I am doing might be very stimulating for my intellectual self, but what I am doing with it -- How I am helping the people who die of hunger everyday or who are left by their own folks? May be he will be able to answer all these questions for himself one day.May be not, but he thinks, which may be a good start, to say it to the least.

I may be sounding a lot gaga about the whole thing. May be I am seeing it all through the rose-coloured spectacles but somehow I can only experience the force which is unstoppable, invincible -- all pushing upwards.