Its hectic, Its damn disgusting to stay late if I had to jot in my blog now at office on this subject with all these project delivery tensions, issues and stuff ! but I am here to vent out all the anger and aroused belligerence from the dribbling blood in my nerves on this much hyped protagonist and proclaimed next president of INDIA Mr.Narayana Murthy, The founder and chief mentor of Infosys.
After reading this news article on the Deccan herald this morning, I really felt mortified on why the people of India are striking a common tune to nominate a person, whom I think do not rightfully deserve the most revered and honored name " the First Person of India "
Do you think that Mr. Narayana Murthy depicts the fast rebelling, slowly emerging, brightly Shining, seriously growing INDIA, with an epaulet of an Indian flag on his shoulder where ever he go and portrays the true face of India, and his hair stand stiff on listening to our national anthem ? Well think again !
Your Highness Mr president Abdul Kalam, was in town on Sunday and Monday at the Mysore Infosys campus, and what greeted him at the stunning campus was not the mellifluous rendition of Rabindranath Tagore’s poem sung by humans, but the electronic version of crappy mis tuned version of notes which sounded more like some polyphonic ring tone than a National Anthem.
Reason? well, this is what the host himself has to connote,
"We had arranged for five people to sing the anthem. But then we canceled it as we have foreigners on board here. They should not be embarrassed while we sing the anthem," - Narayana Murthy.
Infosys said last year it had some 1,800 foreigners on its rolls. But there are no precise figures on how many foreigners were at the Infosys Mysore campus, which is designed to seat 6,400 students, yesterday. But it is on record that it had offered jobs to 126 students from 82 foreign universities last year.But still, Even if that figure of foreigners is ten times greater, does it mean Mr Murthy’s company is willing to slavishly mute his nation’s anthem for their sake?
The national anthem of the winning team and the national anthem of the two competing teams are played at all the Football games and other games like rugby etc even at the Olympics which is witnessed by global television audience, which is always foreign.If that is OK, why is it difficult for Infosys professionals who also happened to be foreigners to listen to a 52-second, five-stanza number? Or for their faculty to make them listen to it? I don't really understand what is the precise embarrassment that foreigners feel by listening to their host-country’s national anthem as was averred by Mr.Murthy. But, above all, coming to a foreign country, to a foreign city, to a foreign company is all about learning, appreciating, assimilating, understanding, and respecting that country’s, that city’s, that company’s culture.
If Infosys’ foreigners—all the 126 or whatever multiples of them—are not doing that, then they have missed a vital ingredient of their education and even more vital ingredient of their excursion I suppose.I don't think they might have neither objected to listen to our national anthem nor be embarrassed with it. Narayana Murthy is being spoken as the “fantastic” next President. Hopefully, the would be Rashtrapati will not have similar views on the National Anthem being sung in the presence of foreigners.
On the same Discussion which I had with my friends at office, I came to know that a local kannada news paper Praja Vani alleges that 90 per cent of the 5,000 employees who had assembled for the Kalam function yesterday at the Infosys campus didn’t know the lyrics of the national anthem by heart.I don't have any feeling to reveal, either to pity them or feel ashamed of them or what ever, Only thing I can do is to show these lyrics of JANA GANA MANA for those ignorant Infoscions. Let go what ever, hope India would be in better hands !
After reading this news article on the Deccan herald this morning, I really felt mortified on why the people of India are striking a common tune to nominate a person, whom I think do not rightfully deserve the most revered and honored name " the First Person of India "
Do you think that Mr. Narayana Murthy depicts the fast rebelling, slowly emerging, brightly Shining, seriously growing INDIA, with an epaulet of an Indian flag on his shoulder where ever he go and portrays the true face of India, and his hair stand stiff on listening to our national anthem ? Well think again !
Your Highness Mr president Abdul Kalam, was in town on Sunday and Monday at the Mysore Infosys campus, and what greeted him at the stunning campus was not the mellifluous rendition of Rabindranath Tagore’s poem sung by humans, but the electronic version of crappy mis tuned version of notes which sounded more like some polyphonic ring tone than a National Anthem.
Reason? well, this is what the host himself has to connote,
"We had arranged for five people to sing the anthem. But then we canceled it as we have foreigners on board here. They should not be embarrassed while we sing the anthem," - Narayana Murthy.
Infosys said last year it had some 1,800 foreigners on its rolls. But there are no precise figures on how many foreigners were at the Infosys Mysore campus, which is designed to seat 6,400 students, yesterday. But it is on record that it had offered jobs to 126 students from 82 foreign universities last year.But still, Even if that figure of foreigners is ten times greater, does it mean Mr Murthy’s company is willing to slavishly mute his nation’s anthem for their sake?
The national anthem of the winning team and the national anthem of the two competing teams are played at all the Football games and other games like rugby etc even at the Olympics which is witnessed by global television audience, which is always foreign.If that is OK, why is it difficult for Infosys professionals who also happened to be foreigners to listen to a 52-second, five-stanza number? Or for their faculty to make them listen to it? I don't really understand what is the precise embarrassment that foreigners feel by listening to their host-country’s national anthem as was averred by Mr.Murthy. But, above all, coming to a foreign country, to a foreign city, to a foreign company is all about learning, appreciating, assimilating, understanding, and respecting that country’s, that city’s, that company’s culture.
If Infosys’ foreigners—all the 126 or whatever multiples of them—are not doing that, then they have missed a vital ingredient of their education and even more vital ingredient of their excursion I suppose.I don't think they might have neither objected to listen to our national anthem nor be embarrassed with it. Narayana Murthy is being spoken as the “fantastic” next President. Hopefully, the would be Rashtrapati will not have similar views on the National Anthem being sung in the presence of foreigners.
On the same Discussion which I had with my friends at office, I came to know that a local kannada news paper Praja Vani alleges that 90 per cent of the 5,000 employees who had assembled for the Kalam function yesterday at the Infosys campus didn’t know the lyrics of the national anthem by heart.I don't have any feeling to reveal, either to pity them or feel ashamed of them or what ever, Only thing I can do is to show these lyrics of JANA GANA MANA for those ignorant Infoscions. Let go what ever, hope India would be in better hands !
I think its ok for CEO to feel bad about playing Anthem when 90% of its employees dont know the lyrics of it. It doesnt seem so big.
ReplyDeleteAnd in the present India, I think it is not anything more than a column filler for the newspaper. Do you think other TRUE Indians will stop buying Infy shares or will block Infy in their career list.
Nothing of that sort. So its perfectly ok when people are not so serious about any thing other than them.