Visit to ur near kiryana shop is changing in a big way as I found out when I visited one today. The street was much more cleaner as was the shop. The hot baking oven is now air conditioned. All the stuff was stacked properly and there was baskets and space so that the customer can move around, see different varieties and choose what he wants. The arrogant "Nahi hai" has turned into polite " let me see". The dirty clothed employees are now better dressed and helpful.
All this is just due to the fact that there's a Big Bazaar, a big retail chain, is opening shortly in the market. The owner of the shop who has got this shop from fore fathers said the shop got the upliftment after decades but it was required otherwise he would have lost business to the big chain.
Though on one side the FDI in retail was stopped bcoz these kiryana shops will be closed, the other side of the coin is that the competition makes them improve things for consumer and also makes them stronger as they improve on services. It also benefits the customer as we get better services as well as prices.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
When is my Turn?
As I saw the dreaded pictures of another blast rocking Mumbai, in spite of all my positivity about India, I couldn’t stop thinking “WHEN IN MY TURN??” The reviews, comments, action points, condolences poured in from around the political front not only from with in India but also from outside India. Problem is they are exactly same to what we got after 26/11.
Government got into defending himself and opposition parties on to blaming the Govt. and making sure they can get some brownie points on this. TV channels got busy in showing some of the most gruesome and sentimental stories and we had numerous shows showing the spirit of Mumbai etc. and some experts made money and got some more publicity out of the whole thing.
Everyone missed the most important part of the story that ultimately its common man who gets injured, killed or handicapped. He who just wants to live a simple life of working hard, earning daily and living with his family. He who pays taxes, abides by law, gives vote to elect a Government which can’t even provide security to him. Whatever anyone says, at the end of it he is the one who gets shaken by these incidents.
As the incident happened I think about the traffic jam in Delhi or Gurgaon and the impressive malls/ markets/ offices. Are they safe? I think about the trains/ airplanes? As a common man of this country where is it that I can feel safe and secure? Infact the question to be asked is whether we as a common man of this country have any sense of security left in ourselves or we just keep living, waiting for the day to be slaughtered by either one of these terrorist attack or killed by our own police wala gunda or to be sucked by the corrupt politician? Waiting “When is my turn?”
Government got into defending himself and opposition parties on to blaming the Govt. and making sure they can get some brownie points on this. TV channels got busy in showing some of the most gruesome and sentimental stories and we had numerous shows showing the spirit of Mumbai etc. and some experts made money and got some more publicity out of the whole thing.
Everyone missed the most important part of the story that ultimately its common man who gets injured, killed or handicapped. He who just wants to live a simple life of working hard, earning daily and living with his family. He who pays taxes, abides by law, gives vote to elect a Government which can’t even provide security to him. Whatever anyone says, at the end of it he is the one who gets shaken by these incidents.
As the incident happened I think about the traffic jam in Delhi or Gurgaon and the impressive malls/ markets/ offices. Are they safe? I think about the trains/ airplanes? As a common man of this country where is it that I can feel safe and secure? Infact the question to be asked is whether we as a common man of this country have any sense of security left in ourselves or we just keep living, waiting for the day to be slaughtered by either one of these terrorist attack or killed by our own police wala gunda or to be sucked by the corrupt politician? Waiting “When is my turn?”
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