Intuitions of my last life

At times out of curiosity,

I sit alone, all in melancholy,

I think for myself in this life,

what I was before I died the last time..

I must have been a lover,

who died for his fille's beauty,

and so even today,

I feel her humming around me..

I must have been a revolutionary,

one of those brave hearts with Bismalji,

that revolutionized the incident of Kakori,

and so even today I feel that blood with me..

I must have been a writer,

who used to scribe peace and love,

who wrote of memories and charm,

and of the peace in his lover's arm..

I must have been that brave man,

who fought against injustice forced upon a poor's earn,

and so even today I shed a tear,

when I see a poor man live with fear..

I am not so sure of who I was,

but I am sure I was not the one,

who bought a tear on an innocent's face,

because even today I live that way..

I have reincarnated that way,

the way I was in my last life..

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Entrepreneurship - Our Prime Minister's word

We all must have felt the royal feeling of being an Indian, when our Honourable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi Ji was delivering his speech at United Nations and Madisson Square. The use of Hindi language probably throve the spirit of patriotism in our hearts. While his entire speech was significant and very important, there were some points where were very important for those young hearts who wish to be an entrepreneur. He promoted skill development as a strong pillar for Make-India concept. As a part of his skill development initiative, he promised entrepreneurship development for those who would like to be one of those to provide jobs to the unemployed and disguised unemployed sector. He also promised about teaching of appropriate skills to the labour force that wouldn’t like to opt for entrepreneurship so that they become the best in their field. These words are very beneficial for young entrepreneurs of today. Young entrepreneurs who would get Government support will foresee a blooming future ahead. Shortage of skilled labour is a major complaint by most micro and small entrepreneurs. Modi Ji’s speech promises support and skilled labour for entrepreneurs. With these words Modi Ji has almost moulded the entrepreneurship scenario of India. Also, the new budget has provided Rs. 10,000 crore for skill development across India aiming to build up entrepreneurs from grass root level. There has also been a high amount sanctioned by the Government solely for the development of North-East. With such help from the Indian Government young entrepreneurs can obviously think to open doors for employment. Today when a major proportion of Assamese youth sits idle and complain of unemployment, these policies from the Government are aiming solely to develop employment.

                                                                                         

The new Government has cleared the five year old plan that was initiated when Modi Ji was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. The new skill development plan is known as National Employability through Apprenticeship Program (NETAP). NETAP is private public partnership project proposed by National Skills Development Corporation. The main aim is to increase effort on-the-job training and increase job by bringing into line workforce skills as per industry needs. NETAP is the first apprenticeship program in India. This program will build a link between skills and higher education. NETAP plans to enrol two lakh apprentices every year for next decade. All trainees would receive Certificates on course completion and shall also get academic credit.

With so many benefits for us from the centre, I hope that half a decade from now no Assamese youth shall complaint of unemployment.

This article was penned down for Guwahatian - An E-Magazine from Guwahati

All the world's a stage

The moment when I entered,

I saw you sit as one among the audience,

I did my part in the play,

I acted my best, All the world's a stage..

The moment when you were sad, or felt low,

I jumped around like a clown in the show,

I hid my tears behind the colors on my face,

For you I did my best, All the world's a stage..

My tears brought fruit, you smiled,

instead of me, you thanked the man sitting behind,

you held his had, went away forever without any praise,

My tears got no pay, All the world's a stage..

The rose of my heart was thrashed,

by thorns and pains of life,

I choose to disappear, away to loneliness,

I left the play, All the world's a stage..

When the pen becomes the sword

Is it the pen or the sword that starts a revolution?

Writing something is not just a mere arrangement of words that is grammatically correct. Writing means a medium to sway away the minds of the readers. Its upon the writers will and imagination, which way he would like to carry the minds of the readers. 

The example of a perfect write up is 'Sarfaroshi Ki Tammanna' (सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना) by Ram Prasad Bismil. His words then provoked the spirit of revolution among the young hearts.

If Bismil Sahab could lead the youth towards revolution and revenge, then why can't the modern writers of free India glorify the path to develop a better place for us to live? We can and we have to. The power of pen is unvanquishable. Social change is an urgent need and writers are the planners for it. Changing the world is a mutual responsibility and we must all act upon it. We must all pick up our pen and let our pen act as our sword. We must write out the concept of change for the readers. Writers are those person who has to see the dream of change with eyes open.

Entrepreneurship - Success beyond Struggle

This starts with a story of a man who hailed from a small village of Lower Assam, graduated from B. Baruah College, Guwahati during the early 80’s decade. He had lucrative options of numerous Government jobs that would have earned him a stable salary and reputation. Instead of enjoying about his success of graduation with flying colours he was in deep thoughts. He thought a lot, whether he should walk the same path that everyone did choose or he should try the road that was less chosen by. Finally his far sightedness showed him success in the second path and he chose the road not taken by all. Instead of knocking doors for jobs he chose to open the door for few jobs. He opened registered Rice & Wheat milling machine and named it after his grandmother whom he lost at a very tender age (M/s Pateshwari Rice Mills), the first of its kind in the entire are

a. His education helped him to gather information about the latest equipment’s then and he got them from Ambala. He created daily waged and monthly salaried jobs for many of the local youths as labours. They also gathered skills working with the milling instruments. While his friends were enjoying bank jobs and other government jobs, he also had to spend nights waking up monitoring the productivity during seasonal months. He thought of diversification. He wanted to open more doors for employment. He approached a local financer and got into the transport business. The first few initial months wasn’t any bed of roses for him, he had to work day and night wondering about consignments of loading and unloading. His hard work soon got paid and he got a few trucks. He could find happiness in his effort when he saw so many youths happily employed under his dream. Slowly he surrendered from the transport business and started as a small railway contractor in Guwahati. Today he controls business at two places – the rice mill at his native and small & medium level contracts at Guwahati. The man is Mr. Pradip Kumar Talukdar. I am lucky enough to be born to him as his only child.

My dad has been the biggest inspiration of entrepreneurship for me. His farsightedness has let him earn a livelihood for him as well as his employees and reputation. He has also been honoured with many social responsibilities and awards. He has been the President of his village school committee for nearly two decades and the secretary of Rangia Commercial Transport Committee for a decade.

Entrepreneurship is indeed a good step for today’s youth. Instead of running behind jobs it is better to create a few jobs. Even the new Government has declared huge money for entrepreneurship development. Being an entrepreneur is a matter of self-esteem and pride. All it needs is a dare factor. It needs the guts to look beyond the going trend. Even public and private banks today have made loan schemes easy for entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur needs some basic traits within himself. Those include the ability to think beyond obvious, farsightedness, the guts to withstand a loss, the plan for a better tomorrow, the stamina to work day and night, managerial skills, the mind-set to think big, the capacity for right investment and finally basic mathematics to count the money that he has earned. Entrepreneurship is a better option that inactivity.

The Story behind DOLLAR-RUPEE RATE

‘Indian Rupee falls’ or ‘Indian Rupee gets slightly high’ – these kind of headlines aren't new to anyone who reads news. Although it sounds complex, it isn’t really so. The basis of dollar-rupee exchange rates is quite simple. It is similar to the demand and supply of a simple commodity, say wheat. When there is more supply in the market, the price is low and when the demand is high the price increases.

The supply of dollars to Indian market can be categorized basically into three types – first, the Indian exporters who sell their products and services at International markets in lieu of dollars, second, the Indian immigrant workers abroad who repatriate money to their family back home and third, the foreign investors who invest in Indian institutions. Foreign tourists who visit India also contribute a small part of the huge dollar inflow. The factors that demand for dollars are just the mirror images vice-versa of the factors that contribute for its supply. The factors that stand for the demand of dollars are importers who spend dollars, individuals or companies repatriating home countries their earnings and Indian individuals investing in foreign stocks.

There are many reasons for the deficit in Indian rupees value as compared to dollar. There has been a huge trade deficit gap between our imports and exports. Our exporters are able to earn only a minute part of the dollar that importers need. The foreign investors who were flooding the stock exchange with billions of dollars have now started to divest their money because of financial crisis in their home market.

There are also numerous historic reasons for the depreciation of the rupee value as compared to dollar. Although unbelievable it’s a fact that during independence Indian rupee was at par to US Dollar. India had no foreign borrowings then. Indian Government’s decision to introduce finance welfare and development issues through the five years plans in 1951 led to the first borrowing. 1948-1966 faced fixed rate currency stage at 4.79 against a dollar. Two consecutive wars in 1962 and 1965 led India to a financial deficit and rupee value was marked at 7.57 against a dollar.  By 1985 the value dropped to 12 rupees against a dollar. In 1991 India faced payment crisis, high inflation and low growth. The rupee value against dollar was devalued to 17.9. In 1993, the rupee dollar rate determination was made free and left at market conditions. The exchange rate was left to be determined by the market but would be interfered by Reserve bank of India under extreme volatile cases.

Today rupee value has degraded even further. Indian currency has been gradually depreciating after 2008 economic crisis.