Don't get carried away. Think - Simple Solutions!

Good morning, you’ve lost 130 strands of hair yesterday. You’ve eaten 1200 calories more than you can digest; forget about your weight-loss targets. Your attempt at singing at a party last night was the most embarrassing thing you could’ve attempted. You spent ₹750 more on an item you purchased yesterday. You could’ve bought it cheaper at X Y Z stores.
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Someone in your neighbourhood was robbed of his life savings.
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Your savings bank account is yielding lesser interest than what your father earned through fixed deposits. You could buy two movie tickets, two popcorns and two colas for ₹500 until last week. Today, you can buy only one each. Forget about a date. Enjoy movies alone.

Imagine being told such things about you and your personal life every morning. How would you feel? What would you do about it after being hammered like this day after day?

But that’s what we all see / read about our city and nation every morning in the news (paper or channel).
It is a proven scientific experiment that if you talk positively to a plant, it accelerates the plant’s growth and produce. Similarly, the plants die if you talk negatively to them.
We are humans. How can we handle so much cynicism being injected into our lives? Awareness is one thing but tabling issues without solutions is dishing out a half-baked pie. It is injurious to health.

In my corporate experience, whenever we setup a process, the first thing we worry about is reviewing and reporting to ensure success and getting back to track if at all we get lost mid-way. There are dashboards created for senior management levels to ensure all departments are working the way they are expected to and that all resources are optimally utilized. Managers have their reports to ensure process efficiency is maintained.

There lies an answer, a simple solution to all this reported mayhem.  The newspapers / news channels, instead of only reporting such depressing events, should focus on reviewing and reporting for the voters. The first page should present the daily dashboards vis-á-vis the targets that were set out. This could be done for all important portfolios including administrative, finance and local police.

e.g., what were the Top 5 promises during elections? What was the given deadline & budget? What is the status and at what cost? Once, the Top 5 are brought to a proper conclusion, move to the next 5 and so on...

Instead of telling the public, in the form of articles, let this be hammered as a dashboard with a rating mechanism on the “Public Servants”. These dashboards should be made mandatory in all newspapers, national and local; English and Vernacular. This is bound to put pressure on them to perform instead of putting pressure on the public to keep questioning them through different acts etc.

Today, there is no measuring mechanism. Each political party simply brags without validation.

We as a nation, I believe, waste a lot of time in writing rules and laws without knowing how to implement them. When we know historically, none of the laws are as effective as they are meant to be.

Yet again, the solutions are simple. Because of too much detailing, most of the times, we miss the goal.

In his campaign, President Obama said “Yes We CAN”

For us Indians, the slogan I can think of is “There’s nothing we CAN’T”!