Demonitization woes!!

People are right. Modi is matchless. That which Congress in her 50 years of rule couldn't achieve, Modi has done it -confessedly- single handedly. He has shattered the people's confidence of a republic and it's economy. In an attempt to make our wallets available for plunder by the corporate, he made the common man feel miserable. We had heard of the 2G scam, National Games scam even Coal-scam but this Demonitization takes the cake away. A decision taken almost solely by a man with questionable qualification has brought the nation itself to it's heels. Apart from the predicted 'benefits that we shall reap in the future' (which no one has been able to list so far), I wonder what the govt. had aimed while committing this 'monumental blunder'. I wonder what it's aimed at! Our honorable PM and his goons themselves seem to be not so sure. In the beginning it was terrorism, and then there was black money and it's digitization now. If digitization is really what it's intended purpose was, may be we should call it dehumanization. 

I have a strange feeling that this entire thing has something to do with FDI in retail markets stuff. In a country like India, where infrastructure is scarce, we are forcing (not just encouraging) the money transactions onto services that require very good internet connectivity. You see... in the matters like this, in a democracy, the motivation should be carrot.

What is wrong with this

1. The work culture : It is hopeless. Despite of the fact it is claimed to be open and all, it is oligarchic in nature. People think being obsequious is the only right way to sustain. This sort of thinking is so deep-rooted that you could find it at every level. Being an yes-man and having succeeded at managing a clout of yes-men of one's own is considered a leadership skill. The so called leads behave more like goons with their team-mates, and when confronted with their manager, they simply transform themselves into a band choir-girls and cheer-girls.
2. Everything is an afterthought : I had never encountered this sort of chaos in any of my previous projects (well of course here, it is hailed as dynamism). None of the important aspects of the product is is an integral part but the augmented ones. What happens most of the time is the code moving around the components -often changing it's shape and syntax.
3. Technology hell : It's not about knowing many technologies but about having expertise (even mediocre knowledge is fine) in the technology that counts. When people are forced (not encouraged) to pick up something new overnight and when they are not self-motivated, this is what happens. Add to that the we-don't-beleave-in-trainings strategy.
4. The planning : It wouldn't be an exaggeration if I were to say that the tech-stack choices made in here look more like fashion trends that had been followed than decisions backed by any analysis. Everybody thinks there is an architectural team of 3 here but in reality, there is one soi-distant genius with godlike arrogance who never reflects on his failures and instead calls them strategies (this is the same guy who is foolish enough think Amazon, Google & Face-book to suffer the same idiocy he himself has been studiously trying to pioneer) . No wonder, the kind of work that comes in changes quicker than a land slide and the total number of the components of this next to non-performant product keep on increasing.
5. The product : Any medium sized start-up could have come up with a product that is far better than this in just about four months. It has taken 3 years so far and yet these guys depend heavily on brand-value but not the product features when it comes to marketing the product.
6. The vendors : What one sees is the Orwellian situation of some people being treated more equally than others. And those people of more-equality behave more like damsels and demigods rather than mortals. While these guys should be given credit for brining in new thought processes, their coding standards are bojo-vian and their methods draconian. These guys are good at blinding with language strategy and good at covering up their mistakes with fancy talk (which is the privilege conferred to them by the soi-distant-genius guy himself).

పుస్తకాల పూనకం

ఈ సంవత్సరం బహుబాగున్నది. ఎలాంటి రిజల్యూషన్లూ లేకుండా మొదలుపెట్టినా మస్తున్నది భై.  ఇప్పటికే ఐదు తెలుగు పుస్తకాలు చదివేశాను. కంప్యూటర్ ఆన్ చేస్తే పనికొచ్చే పనికే చేస్తున్నాన్. నేర్చుకుంటున్నాన్. వీకెండ్లలో తిరిగేస్తున్నాం.  ఉదయాన్నే రెండింటికల్లా లేచేసి కారులో షికారుకెళుతున్నాం. I am having a great fun.