Amdocs in Israeli company & its base in India was setup some 4 years ago. Magarapatta city in Pune was chosen as the dream location & it is indeed a place really worth. It has all reasons to be a hailed as posh area in the developing city of Pune. Pls visit: www.magarapattacity.com to have an idea of the serenity, beauty & poshness of the place, which I actually wanted to convey myself, but due to poor power of expression, I hope you would excuse me pls.
Well the first 2 weeks in Amdocs here was a lean period & it was all free time for me to either engage in doing with the joining formalities or being a member of the ubiquities technical training courses, necessary to equipp me for the project in pipeline. Well I enjoyed a good time there, with fixed time schedules of work hours, 9 AM to 6 PM sharp & nothing extra, plus it was a calm environment here, with no hundreds of mails on daily basis in my outlook, & the most soothing thing, no phone calls for getting the work which I am supposed to do. I needed this break. Really.
I am still to settle here, for the projects are still to arrive sometimes in the month of Feb, & till then my boss assured me of a good time & asked me to make merriment. I thought he was being modest. Well I feel the mental peace was the need of the hour, after having a previous record of strenuous work culture & timings, before I can make myself ready for another plunge into the river of corporate life without knowing the depth.
I have put up with my old colleague Punit Singla in Vimanagar, & to tell you what, yesterday we shifted into a new flat nearby. Majestic residential house it is, fully furnished & in very good condition. Its a new building adorned with all basics & decoratives. When we enetred, we thought this is really going to make our life cool & easy. But then the very next moment, the elderly neighbour walked in & asked to excuse. He instantly quoted: "You guys are bachelors; & bachelors are not allowed in this society; be it girls or boys"!
Oh God, why didnt you make us all bachelors married in an instant? The uncle kept on with his views & rules in the society & he did actually served us an ultimatum that either we should get this sorted out with the landlord & move to some other place, or else, he would advise the security to disallow us from entering the society. Frankly, all through the time when the resptected elder citizen was lecturing us, my mind was occupied in search of a solution to the normal mentality of the society towards the bachelors.
The bachelor plight is by far too overlooked an issue & much ignored by the society. I am not against anybody; but the mentality of society. Yesterday I felt dejected, rather bethroted by similar concept of untouchables. No denying the fact, some bachelors do create hullaboo, & may disturb the peace of society, but I felt based on the grounds of some immature acts of some persons, the same rule should not be generalised to a particular section of the society. After all, society is made up of all classes of people & not the other way round. Different criterias could be made applicable to different classes, but you cannot play with the fundamental rights of classes.
The utter helplessness & indifference to the plight of bachelors was an alarming point tickling in mind constantly. Just understand the plight of a bachelor guy or gal, far from his hometown & family being treated in a way like 'outsider' or may be even thought of to further extremes as being terrorists. While I understand the justification & seriousess about this concept; but this should not be acheived at cost of completely denying the rights of a particular section & treating them with vulnerable thoughts. I felt that is incorrect if the complete young generation is treated in a way of suspicious attitude by the one society. & it is not completely that only such section of the society are wrong doers & others are all bathed in the ganges. If the young generation or the so called hapless bachelors are shown the way to nowhere, I doubt what the society must expect of bright future & still expect them to come ahead for the lead everytime & always.
Oops, I forgot my country is still a developing nation.
Cheering to non bachelors of the society
Bhola
Life goes on...
Bhola Prasad
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