Adjudicated Parallels

 In all the humdrum around in bustling areas, people fail to notice many obviously overlooked things. One of them is the wrong notion of everything or everyone put in their thinking of elitism. The notion is that if a person is very talented, he need to fit in a greater walk of life or should not be a 'big fish in a small pond'. While this aspect of their thinking seems to be absolutely true, it is really not. I once was interviewed by a writing company and they asked me to send a sample article. They gave some silly reason and ruled out my writing altogether. Though I thought that the Company was good, I later found out that there was a dearth or lacking of ample work in it for all the employees. Interestingly, only an article would be written by an employee over a period of few months. The fact that if I was working there, it would be a struggle to make ends meet for a living made me thankful for the course of my career I chose. I learnt work from an editor and that helped me...

Malfeasance is prevalent in many top regions- be they developed nations or those that are labelled as developing. This can be corroborated by the fact that  Corruption Perceptions Index from Transparency International has many of these categorized nations. It is to be noted that India is ranked 79 in this index. This comes as  no surprise. Sometime back, I read about a newspaper report regarding a man who had the option of getting his lost college marks card redone, but through bribing the concerned authority. This gets more appalling as the person would forego a very important or somewhat coveted post in an organization. Instead of yielding to this situation, the man did not encourage this malfeasance. He waited for a long time and got his marks sheet in old age. Such is the grit of this man that he has no regrets. The fact that he lost an illustrious career because of this does not perturb him- come whatever may. The antidote for such bribery and brazenness is n...