Rajesh Akkineni’s blog

Yesterday Emami’s AMRI, today Regency Ceramics one thing is clear, there are limits to thinking about others too. One must first secure their position and then only think about other person. Otherwise the other person whom we are worried about may destroy us.

Government should protect industries, because they are what makes India a developing country. It is a very dangerous situation we are in now. Without protection to industries who will invest in the state? and how will state develop without investment?

And how little the coverage of this incident in the media? No one caring what happened to industries which closed due to such incidents.

Anyway, if I am in similar situation and have to protect my investment, I will not hesitate to make the extreme step which ever it may be. I will surly not forgive people who are trying to destroy me just because they are ignorant. Ignorance is an excuse. I will not leave, I will surly teach them what I wanted to tell, no matter what the way may be.

Last year we could hardly hear our TV sound between 9 to 10 Diwali day. We were pissed off and turned TV off. But this year, we could hardly tell that it is Diwali day at 10:30. It was complete silence at that time.

I am sure people have burnt < 50% of what they did last year. I am not sure what is the reason. Is it just that cost of crackers went high? or people getting wise?

Anyway I am happy, less sound pollution, and less money wasted.

If there is a question that I wanted to ask most to others and did not ask that is it. “DO YOU NEED A LIFT?”

On an average I get a chance to ask this question every day. But I almost never asked. I know that other person needs a lift. They know that I know(Assumption). I expect them to ask. They almost never ask. I think that they think that I wont give.

Whose responsibility is to break that loop? Do I have to wait until they ask?

When ever I was walking other than for the sake of walking, I always expected some one would ask that. But I know no one will ask. I hesitate to ask then for lift. I hope every one is thinking same.

Now lets think that I have changed, do you like some stranger in 30+ age stop by and ask “Do you need a lift?” what is the probability that you will agree? What if you are a Female(all ages)? What do you think about that person?

Please share your views… I have been thinking about it for very long time, I want to find a solution soon.

It happened many times. Many people said that I should stop thinking more and enjoy. Or stop doing some thing else that they thought I am doing and start enjoy life.

I don’t really know what they really mean by enjoyment. I define enjoyment as follows..

You have 5 to 10 times more money than what your present average is, and you still don’t change some thing that you are doing, then I say you are enjoying doing it.

For example, if your job is X and some one pays you 5 times your salary to do Y, but you still want to do X, then you enjoy doing it. That means while doing X you enjoy.

Simple is in’t it? Now fortunately for me, it is almost 90% of what I do. For some people it is going out on road. For some it is some thing else. For me, it is what I am doing already. I didn’t get much enjoyment when I saw Charminar for the first time(after 10 years in hyd). So each person gets enjoyment in different way.

So those people who keep suggesting that I should enjoy more, thank you for your concern, I really appreciate your intentions. But I am already enjoying my life.

There is an article in IBNLive Blog which asks an important question. What is corrupt act and what is not? Where should we draw the line.

Corruption is closely related to rules and transparency. You put a wrong rule and remove transparency, every one will do that corrupt act without even thinking. You create a system where it is impossible to do the right act, or doing right act takes lot of time or money, then people will go and doing it wrong way.

So the Govt should find all these places with the following properties.. and make it steps to address them carefully.

• No transparency of anything.
• Right way is 100 times difficult than way.
• Is it basic fundamental right?(passport, gas, ticket)
• More than 30% do it in wrong way.

If a country is less corrupt then it has the following things in place, and because of them the corruption is less.

• Judiciary is fast and laws are strict
• There is no need for any corrupt act for 90% of daily needs of a person.
• Transparency is very high.
• Govt does not involve in business.
• Police does not need to listen to Politician.

Out of all this only Transparency is enough to remove every thing. Make every act transparent. Now see who will pay bribes, or who will take.

I think I have known enough history to understand what humans did to each other over last 3000 years. Seen enough war movies to understand the feelings of people who are involved in killing or get killed.

From the beginning I have a doubt, why do we always blame the leadership for what a country and its people did to other country and its people? There are lot of instances in our 3000 years of history where a country attacked other country and killed people in other country without any regard to human life. There are instances when one race thinks they are supreme than others and started killing all other people(in millions).

In those cases, who is wrong? Country is nothing but people and who is running it. One person can not do anything to any other country. He/She has to do it through people.

People still exist, and if we think we have not changed, then those instances can occur again and again. If we think people have changed, I would like to see one real proof of it. I have not seen it yet.

How long it will take for one particular set of people start believing that they are superior race compared to others?

Even if you are a Prime Minister, or Chief Minister or even world class cricket player who ever you might me, you are slave to your stupid mind. The reason why I call it stupid is it acts in a way that can not be explained logically. And I am saying ‘stupid’ based on average of all of us.

Today is a good day. Today I could identify so many people whom we used to think great about acting like cowards.

In response to the death of the so called ‘Saibaba’ PM said the following..

• Country have lost a great person. He should be ideal for every one.

I really do not understand why he is great person. Even for some reason he is a great person, how can the prime minister expect him to be ideal for every one? Do PM expects every one to declare themself as gods? Do he expects every one to donate some money by collecting more from others in the name of god.

Like this I have seen so many comments in TV today. These TV channels became like Viruses. It is good Virus or Bad Virus, they just help you spread everywhere in very short time.

I am not saying against the so called ‘Saibaba’. I believe he must be a great person(if not good person). Otherwise it is impossible to have somany followers(Even if we know 99% of them are stupid).

I have seen somany great people becoming slaves of their stupid minds. It is essential to protect the health of our society, otherwise it will effect our future.

Finally I close with the following rant..

What ever you do, in the name of god, or in the name of other person, you are doing a sin. Please stop worshiping gods, or at least stop worshiping other people. There is no benefit of such worship on our society.

Many people have asked me this question and many are thinking to ask… So I want to summarize my opinion in this post.

By ‘Degree’ I mean a BTech, BE, MTech, MBA etc. These are 4 things that people think they will get by having a degree.

1. Job
2. Knowledge
3. Enjoyment
4. Degree itself

lets me explain each of these.

Job

People think that they will get job only when they have a degree. This is true for some people. But it is not true for all of them. There are jobs which does not require any Degree. There are jobs which are based on skill, and not based on written paper.

Knowledge

This is a myth. People think that they will get knowledge when they study a formal Degree. That is what they think when they start. But when they finished, they will think that they don’t know anything. I have talked so many people in atleast IT domain. They have finished MCAs, BTEch etc without any understanding of what they did and why they did. What they can learn from 6 months of JOB they can not learn in 4 years of BTech course.

There will be some 5% of people who may got some knowledge, and I am sure you are not one of them.

Enjoyment

There might be some truth here. Because most of the people whom I have taken interviews, did nothing for knowledge. So they should have really spent all their time in ‘Masthi’. So it is a good way to enjoy 4 years of you life without worrying anything about the outside world.

Degree Itself

I mean the paper that says you have a degree. There are so many people out there, who wants to do degree just because every one is doing. If people are doing what every one is doing, we should still be using stones to create fire. But world moves forward when you start thinking and make informed decisions.

When every one is doing some thing because all others are doing, then that society is going to die in near future.

Now let me explain why you should not do degree if you do not have one already.

• You are already reading my blog, so you are in good enough position to take proper decisions. If you are not well informed, then following others is good. But that is not the case here.
• People read just to pass exams. And do nothing for knowledge. So why to choose to write exam in first place.
• You can save lot of money(min 4 lakh) in 4 years. And for some people that is bigger than their total asset.
• You can get 4 years of upstart experience, which is again much bigger asset than anything else.
• You can mold your career in a proper direction from starting itself, which will make your life more happy.
• Doing a business is much more than doing a MBA. So go ahead and start a business if you want to do MBA.

Most of us think these three are related. Yes, religion and rituals are related. But are they related to culture. What is the definition of ‘Culture’?

According to dictionary the first definition is..

the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.

I am wondering why are they are not giving more than one Phone Number for a single SIM card?

From what I understand, your number is just what they have in backend. It is nothing to do with the communication between you and your cell phone tower.

So they can give multiple number and any call to any number will be redirected to same call phone. Is it not possible? Hey any tele-communication guys over here?

If it is already existing, then I think I would have had at least 3 numbers.

• One for family
• One for business
• One for social

Not only me, I think crores of people in this country will need more than one number. As of now they have to carry these many phones or buy Dual SIM phones.

Telephone operators can change more money for the existing resources they are giving. Just software change, and get some millions.