R for Recession

It was not a matter of surprise when pinku a 5 year old kindergarten sang the ABCD song this way: “A for anger, B for bomb blast…..O for Osama, P for poverty and R for recession. Nobody will dare blame this child because he just said what he heard. Gone are those days when A was for Apple and R was for Rabbit. Pinku soon learned that today is very much different from yesterday as his father doesn’t take him out for a movie and his mom doesn’t buy him his favorite dairy milk chocolates. Every day he sees his father coming home donned in wrath, scolding his mom and talking words that were hard for him to digest. Pinku didn’t understand a word his father said, but understood that there existed a cruel monster and that the monsters name was ‘recession’. This monster is perhaps the most popular personality in the world today. He recently had a global tour and is substantiating his flair in every aspect of day today life. Might be everyone doesn't know him but everyone has felt his presence in some or the other way round. Let’s embrace this grand celebrity or mind you he will embrace us all.

"In economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country's gross domestic product(GDP) for at least two quarters. The usual dictionary definition is "a period of reduced economic activity", a business cycle contraction.” says Mr. Wikipedia. Whatever it is, the concern is how it is going to affect us and how are we going to face this daunting malady.
'isn't there any justice in this world ?’, is a question gushed by an electronics engineer who was dispatched from his dream company Honeywell and the heavier part being that he was a 9 pointer. What would you do when the best brains in your country chuckles and says ‘am unemployed’? Isn’t this enough for us to understand that this is not a joke and is a matter of serious concern. IT sector which provided the largest employment opportunities is now badly doomed to abyss which would mean that majority of the youth will be unemployed. Evolution turned monkey to man, well..recession might turn a man back to a monkey but the theory 'survival of the fittest' still holds and the coming years will witness the 'struggle for existence'(Charles darwin would be happy that his theories are being referred even in the year 2009 though in a totally different context).

So what’s next is the question everybody is asking and the painful fact is that nobody knows the answer for it." Dude, lets go for an MBA or an MS", is an obvious response from an impatient graduate. ‘if a blind man throws a stone somewhere in the Indian street it will hit either an engineer or a doctor’, someone said few years back; Lets not foresee a similar situation like that 4 years thence. Today people are extremely busy that they have very little time to think of themselves, understand their strength and work on their weakness. Best thing you can do is to do the job you love, follow your passion; after all “all are not born to be engineers”. In the present scenario where even the 5 year old pinku says ‘r for recession’, it’s time that we opt for a superior and passionate tomorrow.
-Manoj Kelath