Impact of Globalization on Indian Villages

International trade has registered manifold increase (3-4 times or more) as a proportion to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) compared to eighties. Two decades earlier, restrictions were in force on foreign trade, exports, imports, foreign direct investment, technology transfer etc. to protect Indian economy for self reliance. Globalization is believed to affect most the earnings and the living standards of people in the urban areas. NGO's and several organizations are studying the impact of globalization on value system and employment. People describe its impact in relation to literacy, skills, growth and development mostly on urban life but its effect on rural livelihood that impacts more than 60 percent of Indian population is seldom discussed.

In Indian villages, people still live in houses made of mud barring houses of few rich and progressive farmers. Houses constructed for people in the name of "Indira Awaas Yojna" are poorly designed and offer limited accommodation. These houses are in no way better than the houses in which poor villagers are already residing. Dwelling units made in the name of "Indira Awaas" are so small that a family of three to four people can not live comfortably in these houses. This appears sheer wastage of public money in the name of subsidy for helping poor people.
 An amount of INR 45000 was allocated for single unit earlier that has been recently increased to INR 70000. Even this amount is meager for construction of a house at prevailing building material and labor costs. The worst thing about the Indira Aawas is the location of these houses as land for construction of such houses is usually government owned land and it is mostly far away from the villages. People in villages prefer to stay in clusters and large spaced houses. They can stay in muddy houses but they can not stay in clumsy and one or two room houses. They may reside in open space but not in space constrained houses. Occupation of such houses has been taken by the people but majority of occupants are still staying in their mot houses. Farming communities are yet untouched from the wind of globalization.

Moreover few of the problems which have been introduced by globalization at a rural scale are:

a) Rural Population still increases whereas total cultivable land availability remains unchanged.  Therefore, the average per household land availability continues to decrease. Moreover, the existing inheritance system and demographic accidents result in a continually increasing intra-village economic differentiation. Each child has the right to inherit the same share of their parental property. This and the number of heirs in previous generations thus determines the present socio-economic status of South Indian villagers. Since among previous generations there were only few families with only one heir there is now an increasing economic differentiation among villagers.  The few large landowners usually purchase more land from those whose land no more provides even for their subsistence. Thus the number of Landless villagers who depend on their income from work as agricultural labourer increases. The lot of the increasing numbers of poor villagers is made even worse by the increasing mechanisation the few large landowners introduce which reduces the demand for agricultural labour.

b)  Profitability of cultivating different crops has hardly increased: As the cost of crop inputs has risen more than the crop prices farmers receive, their net earnings have hardly increased. Farmers also complain about the growing shortage of village labourers and the resulting rising daily wage rate .

c) Changing crop prices: The falling price of sugar on the world markets in 2008 and the declining sugarcane prices this caused had a devastating effect on villages where sugarcane was the major cash crop. Many farmers went bankrupt and committed suicide. This and mechanisation led to a decrease in the demand for village farm labourers, whose poverty increased. Moreover, it made urban migration a survival strategy for increasing numbers of poor villagers. As there is still insufficient urban demand for the growing numbers of unskilled rural/urban migrants they swelled the urban slums which in turn led to increasing urban violence and crime. Even when crop prices increased on the World Markets farmers still complained that their conditions continued to get worse because the middlemen who sold the crops on the world market did not pass on to the producers the higher world market prices and moreover the costs of farm inputs also increased.

d) Farming lost its attraction: Most South Indian rural parents want their children to obtain a University Degree. A survey I conducted in 2011 among 15 year old village school children asking them what they would like to be doing 10 years hence indicated that only four out of 154 youngsters wanted to be farming in their villages while the rest all wanted to become certificated professionals.

e) World Food Shortages: The world shortage of rice was responsible for the doubling of paddy resale prices within India and resulted in decreasing levels of living particularly among the landless rural poor.

But, as we know every coin has two sides there are numerous advantages of Globalization on the rural scale or the Indian Village.The impact of globalization has been felt by the Indian rural market as much as the urban counterpart.Hence, we can see that today changes are taking place rapidly in all walks of life and rural areas are no exception to this. Improved infrastructure facilities, economic liberalization, renewed emphasis on agribusiness and small industries, fast changing agricultural technology, scope for commercialization of agriculture, greater budgetary provision for rural people are few reasons to mention. Moreover, various socio-cultural,psychological and political aspects of rural life are also changing. The farmers in the Indian village now have access to the advanced equipments for agriculture, which leads them to better yeilds and inturn it helps the economy of the country. Globalization also provides better exposure to the argricultural produces and ensures the farmers that they get the correct value for the produces, as the market due to globalization has gone competitive and more of buyers are there making the market even more diverse.

In the end I would like to say that the implications of globalisation for a national economy are many. Globalisation has intensified interdependence and competition between economies in the world market. This is reflected in Interdependence in regard to trading in goods and services and in movement of capital. As a result domestic economic developments are not determined entirely by domestic policies and market conditions. Rather, they are influenced by both domestic and international policies and economic conditions. It is thus clear that a globalising economy, while formulating and evaluating its domestic policy cannot afford to ignore the possible actions and reactions of policies and developments in the rest of the world. This constrained the policy option available to the government which implies loss of policy autonomy to some extent, in decision-making at the national level.

Role of Science and Technology to Empower Youth

Science and technology have always been leading aspect of life. It serves as the solution to the skepticism of mind. Nowadays in all the known fields’ technology and science is embedded in form of advanced equipment and modern methodologies. In present scenario even we couldn't imagine our jobs without technology,  as all the data which were earlier kept as record in racks of registers are now been transformed in databases , even balance sheets and accounts are maintained in Microsoft Excel. So the point here I want to make is that if we can’t imagine things without science and technology how can youth be kept away from this, being one generation ahead of us.

Youth are the future of the nation and for their empowerment, technological sync is must. They should be educated with the science and technology as a part of their elementary education so that by the time they grow up they have a fair understanding of technologies. It is very important that develop an inquisitive mind so that they can question the happenings and act aptly, this kind of thinking is empowered by combined role of science and technology.

 Science and Technology plays pivotal role in shaping up their life and career and this in turn will benefit our nation. As in near future youth will take over the reins of the country, by that time they should have knowledge of science and technology stocked in their arsenal so that they are ready for any kind of challenge and they could work for the advancements of the country.

 So to conclude I would like to say that, science and technology are the sheer roots of youth, indirectly are the roots of nations’ development and advancement.

Women | The Mitochondria of Nation

The topic of the post might seem confusing, let me start with explaining 'Mitochondria' . Have you ever heard of this word? Think for a moment....

Yes of course, you must have studied about this in the elementary biology classes back in 6th grade or so. 'Mitochondria' is a organelle found in the cell , they are responsible for converting glucose into the form of energy which our body can use (that is ATP). These organelles are better known as the 'Powerhouse of the Cell' or 'Cellular Power Plants'.  

So , until now you would have definitely figured out what does 'Mitochondria' refers in the topic, it depicts the Women as the Powerhouse or Power Plant of the Nation. 

So proceeding with the discussion after getting the perception of the topic-- Everyone needs to understand role of women in all the domains. Even after 67 years of independence of India , majority of women have not been able to  free themselves from the dogmatic ideologies of the society. As our nation, India is on track to be a developed nation, as an obligatory measure  it must ensure development of  women simultaneously as, women are the integral part of the total population of the nation.

On the contrary, in current scenario,  there still prevails the discrimination based on sex . Still male children are more facilitated than the female children, providing better opportunities for males. The women in the rural areas( which contains the most of the female population ) are not treated equally, they have no or less say in the family affairs. Mentality of society is under influence of male chauvinism.Women are treated as an entity, and is assumed to be heartless and emotionless being meant to do all the household jobs without complaining. Women are restricted to their homes and they are taught right from their childhood that their ultimate goal of life is to overtake all the household responsibilities after marriage, and so they have to get trained from their childhood killing all other passions.

Looking at the brighter side, if we obliterate the above situation momentarily ( which is hard ) very few women who choose a harder path of fighting the odds and pursue their passions , become successful (no doubt) and excel in their respective domains. For instance, Hon'ble Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil is currently President of India, Sania Nehwal an Indian Badminton Player is the first person ever to win a medal in Badminton in Olympics, and many more. Women have proved that when given a chance, they prove their mettle and that is plausible. It is well known Russian Proverb --
                                           "Women can do everything; men can do the rest."
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

Rudimentary measures have been taken by Government to reform awful condition of women, but they have to understand , that these measures help small number of women who have already crossed the primary hurdle , but what about the majority of women who are not able to clear the primary hurdle due to several reasons like-- lack of resources, family refusal for studies, etc. So what I suggest is that Government should focus more on the families which have a girl child , educate them regarding the development of women and also support them financially  to facilitate the cause.

So I will end on the note that every person irrespective of their sex , is entitled to exercise their Fundamental Rights as mentioned in Constitution Of India. If anybody tries to deprive a woman of her rights he is doing a crime. As a matter of fact that women excel in all the fields they set their foot, suppose if the majority of women does then our nation could reach to new heights.This could be compared to a engine running on coal, and suddenly fuel is replaced with gasoline, which takes the train to new highs. So, indeed women are the powerhouse of the Nation.

Please put in your thoughts and concerns in the comments below.
Cheers.!!

Google Search | The Guardian Angel

Google  has become integral part of all the working professionals , as it is the ultimate solution to all the questions whatever may be the field , subject . It is basically the solution bank to all the questions which people have around the world.

Google is the most used search engine , among the other dozens of search engines available. Google makes life easy as you find all the possible links to the question keyed in . Frankly speaking to search on google is an art , not everyone can find desired results , as you should be really very sure what keywords should find the required content, as Google takes each of the word keyed in the search as the keys to search for and then it runs the search and drives the pages which have maximum number of keyword matches.

For the people who are in software development field, google acts as a boon for them. By profession I am also an Software Developer , Google really serves well in the crunch time , or just for casual searching. Be it preparation of Seminar , making of a Project, or preparation of a presentation. Even you could find several explanations for the technical questions you might come across . You could really anything in the technical field , as there are several online forums for various technologies , which have tags so that they be visible in searches made on Google.

 Google makes you aware of things which might be completely alien , and at some point of time you need to know about that alien object. One of my experiences, when I joined the company my lead assigned me a technology called 'SERVOY' , and I really didn't have idea if such a platform exist basically never heard of , so after the assignment of the technology I did a Google search and at least got that basic idea as what we can do on this platform .

Google Search in true terms is the saviour for people of all the age group , starting from small kids who may use it to search photos for their science projects ,or the professional people-- be it at work or be it for show timings of the shows in the city .Even  old people could use google for remedies of the diseases , or could be for casual reading or for reading news and lots more .

What a day for writing about the Google Search , today is the 15th Anniversary of Google (Might have noticed the doodle and the little game there .. ) .In order to help people search in a productive manner and to attain the closest match to the queries keyed in the Google Search , you can go through the courses offered on Power Searching by Google

I really want to thank Google for being my side always when  I needed any solution . Please do post you experience I will be more than happy to know them.
Cheers...!!

Being Amongst the Crowd or An Individual?

 
   The people in world could be categorized , as an individual or as  a someone among the 7 billion people in the world. The people be an individual , or be amongst the crowd , completely based on traits . I am not demarcating this on the basis of degree of greatness of a person , or popularity or any other aspects which are not common to all the people in the world , I am simply demarcating on the basis of their mentality and decisiveness .

To start with : What is a crowd ? 
Crowd is basically a group of individuals which do not have their personal identity ( but a collective identification as a general mob ) or are a bit shy taking lead or stand in a cause , and they all have a common thinking that someone takes a stand in their group, hiding themselves behind each other. Being a part of crowd person's individuality subside, and even it deprives the individual of his power of expression  have fear or hesitation , that what will other think of their doing , will it be appreciated or condemned .

What is an Individual?
Individual is a person who weighs each and every situation reasonably and act accordingly surpassing all the reasons which might withdraw his decision. The reasons here is not change of mind , reasons are being influenced by what others might think , how would others react ,or will anyone support or not etc. But an individual being does not care about the noise (Reasons stated earlier ) in the environment he/she just goes on. An Individual always have an edge over the crowd because the wonderful gift which comes in blessing as a disguise is high level of confidence. In today's scenario one thing which is a direct  requirement for all the jobs be it any field is confidence. In other words confidence is the currency in the industry one person belongs to , because interviewers are looking for the level of confidence which is in the candidate. It is rightly said by a noted Physician, Bernard M. Baruch that ----

                                        “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter,and those who matter don't mind.” 

It is frequently said that there are consequences and latter effects of a thing,as a Crowd(or mob) there comes mob mentality as the consequence(as human in a rational being , and humans constitute mob-- though the catch is that they don't think that rationally) , this is basically the collective decision of group of people. This kind of mentality can be seen among the herd and cattle where all of them do a common thing,like walking in group one after the other ,etc.   An instance which would give a better perception-- Everyone would have heard about the communal riots , what happens in it one person turns outlaw and huge crowd of people simply follow because of witty talks of single person without giving it a second thought,  and unknowingly they become part of the anti-social activity. See how does this mentality has a magnification effect starting with a one outlaw person, it raised the whole crowd of outlaws.

Now, lets see another less intense or rather general instance , I can bet that everyone must have  seen a place where it is written that 'No Spitting Here' and to much surprise that particular place is stained all over with spits. 
What do you think people can't see or they just feel happy breaking code of conduct?
 Here  mob mentality plays its part , suppose a person when sees the sign of 'No Spitting Here' ,notices the spits all over, looking that ,his confidence soars up to spit ,thinking that already the place is dirty let me add to the attributes , instead he could obviously not clean it but at least could have refrained form spitting.


It does not takes much to be a face in the crowd and take rightful decisions , but in turn it acts as a foundation to individuality, which in its true essence, is responsible for molding a human into a person who is master of his intellect.

So think wisely which group are you into , as your decision could be crucial. Do post your views/suggestions as I would love to hear from you about the topic, as views vary from person to person .
Cheers!! 

Poverty,Poverty,Poverty ... Is this what hindering growth of our Nation!!

   Poverty , when we hear this word many of us give it a thought (that's really great!!) but next thing which they do is just let it go having reason , that we are not poor ,we don't need to think about them etc. etc. As we all are rational beings and we have solid reasons to not to give  thought to grave problem of poverty.

    Million Dollar question is , IS POVERTY HAMPERING THE GROWTH OF NATION??
Truthfully if I say not really because the poor people right now do not constitute the growth of  nation, as they are already out of the race . These people are not even capable of managing their basic needs or if they do somehow it is merely marginal , after a whole day's toil. That is really disheartening , everyday when they get off their homes they really don't know that they would be even able to get enough resources to curb hunger of their family.

  The poor people have become really become hopeless , waiting for a helping hand . Do they deserve this ?
Don't they have any right to contribute to progress of Nation ?  A really sorry sight which I eye-witnessed- Early morning I was at a Railway Station waiting for train to arrive , I bought a cup of tea from a nearby stall and what I noticed was that there was a poor man searching the dustbin attached to the stall curiously but at an interval of  5-10 mins the stall owner scolded him off like a cattle , but the poor guy repeatedly came back .After two or three such encounters he finally set at some distance . Then what I saw was distressful sight that he was fishing for the discarded teabags in the dustbin and he was squeezing that into a cup to get him a cup of morning tea . Seeing that I could not take another sip from my cup , I gave mine to him as well as a packet of biscuit which brought a little smile on his face , which brought down the my guilt marginally.

  I am not suggesting that you start making donations to them or tipping the beggars , no not at  all that will introduce a new shortcut for the poor people for begging.What I learned was that , giving a cup of tea and a packet of biscuit to him , brought him a smile . See the point which I want to make is that they should have their share of  subsidies and aids , which could get some content and some sense of being cared.      

   We hear of things like prices of the general commodities increasing day by day , but the question is that - Are the wages of the poor people rising too? Answer is simply no , the challenge of earning their basic urges is going up by leaps and bounds and they are helpless.Who is going to help them , Me,You or the Government, answer is tough isn't?
 
    We hear of the Government policies and rural development programs , wherein Government sanction huge sum of money for supporting one or other problems like houses for poor, food at subsidized rates ,etc. But one thing to catch is , Are the people at grass root level really getting the money invested upon them , forget about getting do they even know that Government is taking steps to curb their helplessness.
 
   Are these really benefitting the targeted people ?  No , the money or the resources are no doubt flowing from the government treasury , but it has to undergo lots of levels of executives and systems .The layers should be completely porous to let the resources seep, ironically what poor receives are the drops of resources and with such limited resources only limited things can be done , which are still insufficient.But the real concern is that , instead of porous intermediate layers of administration they turn  act semi-porous .
 Why so ? Don't they want upliftment of poor ?

How come the enormous resources turn meagre ?

That is a really controversial point which has a different conclusion for different people so that's a little food for thought for you, feel free to put the comments and suggestions in the box below.

If the poor people are not taken care off, they are already out of league to enhance the growth of nation as they also constitute the growth as a whole , because development of nation means development from the grass root level .

Are the Smartphones really 'SMART' ?

 Today having a Smartphone is a more of a style statement. The comparisons are made with the size of the screens which they have on their phones .The small and stylish phones have now grown into Phablets and even the tablets which are enormously large are coming with calling facility. People have really gone crazy for the smartphones but along with this another trait which gets cultivated along is the obsession or rather addiction to their devices.  

 People nowadays do two things majorly, one that they perform there daily jobs and the second the pastime which they mostly pass on using they so called 'smartphones'. Well day by day the size of the smartphones are getting increased and so is the craze to own one . Things which are aiding the cause is the huge smartphone market which has a policy of selling as much units as possible, and even the price ranges are for people of all the classes. Now as  these smartphones are available to all groups of people this has fueled the craze , and have led them on to a path of being virtual socialization.

The term 'Virtual Socialization' which I have used here refers to endless social messaging apps , and among the social messaging giants are Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp , etc.   which provide you with amazing power to connect to people (who are in your "Friend List ") virtually with no physical connection , simply OTA (Over The Air ) at your convenience.

 Smartphone user have an edge to this amazing technique , as they can always be logged into their social app accounts and can access anywhere ,anytime it is just the internet pack which they need (which is readily available these days cultivating the cause) and you are good to go.

But the truth is  ,   Is it worth it ?
To overlook the real  available social circle which is powered by real communication than digging deep into your beloved smartphone in order to keep the virtual web around you intact. Moreover  people have grown an habit of searching things online pointlessly just to prove the superiority on others or for just mere fun.

There are even radiation threats on prolonged usage of the smartphones, as in order to make phones smart lots of sensors and receivers are embedded in the smartphones , as we can see that there is lot of competition in the market amongst the different brands the companies tend to use the cheap components which are a emitter of radiations. These radiations could be really very harmful , completely hampering health of the carrier.

People have to think that there is lot more than a phone, rather they should look around and find  things which could be of better good, there is more they can do than keying in the messages and Face-booking as it is said.People have nowadays hobby of  browsing apps in their smartphones and killing their precious time but they need to think harder that virtual socialization is just making virtual connections , which will enable you to believe that you have a vast connection of friends. There might be a case that a person might have over 100 Facebook friends, 50 twitter followers , but in reality he might be struggling to get a one good friend. This is possibly because through social networking sites you might have an edge of making as many friends through sending a friend request but when it comes down to talk in person it could be real hard, but these things are to be understood by each person . Let us leave that topic as its wayward from the title .

People have really stopped observing their surroundings and events happening in their vicinity , because they are busy focussing in their smartphones. People have stopped observing the weather and started asking to 'Siri' and 'Google Now' -- '' How's the weather Like?". People have stopped exploring their surroundings and started finding in the maps  in their phones. People have started texting the smilies without literally exclaiming their emotions , and many more . There are more funny comparisons but the list may just go on. People try to find each and everything in their phone ,  as they spend in them heavily so of course will expect returns and phones in turn don't discourage their hopes providing all kind of virtual solutions and expectations to the user.

I might sound like I totally condemn the usage of smartphone but fellas I do have a smartphone but the thing which is clear in my mind is that it is just another small gadget in my daily life which I use only when it is required ,not using it for a time pass or just a hobby and wasting my precious time in fondling the apps in my phone.


Smartphone ,Yes has an edge over other phones , when we utilize it for daily needs its good but when requirement turns into addiction , then is the time when it hampers the smartness of an individual .

Bullies of the corporate world!!!!!

Actually  if anyone would think about their past lives - schooling days, college days.....  There  is a prominent appearance of a unwanted person known as BULLIES
  Someone might have been a bully who would have acted as a roadblock. But as we move onto a corporate world then we think those hard times given by the bullies have gone. But,  heads up  its really sad to see the same bullies in the corporate world too.

   Do you think people at higher posts  have become meaner  and are sunk in there pride??

Well it seems that  these people become bully because they have been bullied in the beginning  of their career by their seniors and later when they are in a respectable position  they desire to bring the same wrath upon the new comers.

Because of this unwelcoming nature of the senior workers, newbies have a hard time to blend in the office culture and also could not provide their cent percent in the task allotted to them.  Mostly they have fear if a thing is done wrongly once then all the blame is put upon them without giving a thought to the mental stress , will he be able to bear the blame or just perish under the blame and get exposed to the sarcasm .  People at the high post just to clear their hands of the blame they plant the blame on the immediate junior and then he does to the other  level and so the chain of imposition of blame continues down the hierarchy.

So it's not a person but the whole chain of bullies being followed. But If the people at good position so called bosses,  team leads,  group leader somebody  takes the stand and does not bully the new comers, then he will definitely  give space for new people who think in a progressive  way. This will help  in reducing the bully concept from the system. If the mangers, team leads understand the error and impose the blame on not only on the member at the lowest level but he should impose it in the team completely so that  whole team of people are held responsible.

Yes someone might say that what will happen if one manager or lead does that but news flash, this small stand will help the juniors or the new comers prosper and would enhance the office environment.

So this is my view stating the problems but others might have a different opinion. I might have offended some people sorry for that, but someone needs to come forward  for this.