We seem to have stepped on some youthful toes with some of our posts of late. Excerpted here are comments, making an orchestrated point, in response to posts on varied topics. I've put them together here to give you a perspective on their case against the retired who wouldn't keep quiet.
I see nothing wrong when people retire and come to Mysore to spend the rest of their lives. But the problem arises when they get restless and become vocal about non-problems and non-issues. -Thandava
Many who are hurling platitudes and arguing…...are precisely the wrong people to provide comments. Perhaps, they have had their best innings in life played, and can now sit back and pontificate. Perhaps their sons or daughters are well settled in West - Thandava (again)
I have been reading the blog columns and replies in this site…..Most of the folks who reply seem to be buddies of GVK -all retired men joining in unison to get their lines out! Sounds like ' Mysore is really for the retired'!!! - Om Prakash.
The Mysore IT Forum is a group of "Working Professionals" together for the sake of networking to enhance their business, they are not a "Reception Committee" for IT investments in Mysore. Apart. they have priorities first in their office and not a group of "Retired" persons, who are back in Mysore and talking just about everything just to kill time and to keep themselves engaged. - Shankar Prasad.
Blog item like 'Mysore IT Forum: Where was it when Germans were here?' makes one agree with Mr Prasad's observation '.... a group of "Retired" persons, who are back in Mysore and talking just about everything..." Probably no one in Mysore would have noticed/ read about the arrival and leaving of these German visitors except some one with a plenty of time on hand and twidling the thumb.... I rest my case. - Thandava (and again)
Comments are free. Let’s have it coming, folks. Till such time this site is up and running.
A friend of mine mentioned about Mysore blogs a month ago in Bangalore when we were chatting about our school days in Mysore. I logged into this site today, and this blog item caught my attention. I spent a few minutes trawling the site and noticed that of late the issues tend to be frivolous and light and the same bunch of people seem to chime in time and time again. I am inclined to agree with the rest of the observations here.
Let us assume that a person working for L & T for a seven figure resigns his job and volunteers to work with the City. His new job is to help the city to improve water supply for which he does not get any remuneration. On the other hand he is also expected to pay for his travels and other expenses. In this new activity, this L & T former executive is expected to put more hours.
Please tell me is this person a retired person?
Let us assume there are some techies who are earning also 7 figure salary writing a routine computer program. They get a lot of free time to spend at Planet Earth, dining out every day, taking trips to exotic places, driving fancy cars etc. These are definitely working people and not at all retired. They are also very busy people all the time trying to figure out how to spend the money they have earned. I am not suggesting all techies are like that. This is not a value judgement. Nor am I trying to convey all retired people are like the L & T employee.
When you compare these set of individuals are we justified in critcal of retired folks if they are critical, noisy etc?
Oxford dictionary says about the word 'retired' : 'Having given up business or office because of age'. The key word here is 'age'. In India the count down starts normally when a person crosses the mid 50 threshold. Some one with an age well below the above threshold , say 40 is not considered as 'retired' even he/she leaves a job voluntarily-he/she is made voluntarily redundant by choice.
About 'techies' getting 7 figure salary by writing a 'routine program'. If it is a 'routine program' it carries out 'routing activities', and as such one can find software library to pull out such a program. No one is paid 7 figure salary to do just that. This is simply a non-argument.
Oxford dictionary says about the word 'retired' : 'Having given up business or office because of age'. The key word here is 'age'. In India the count down starts normally when a person crosses the mid 50 threshold. Some one with an age well below the above threshold , say 40 is not considered as 'retired' eventhough he/she leaves a job voluntarily. Then he/she is made voluntarily redundant by choice.
About 'techies' getting 7 figure salary by writing a 'routine program'. If it is a 'routine program' it carries out routine tasks, and as such one can find software library to pull out such a program. No one is paid 7 figure salary to do just that. This is simply a non-argument.
As Thanadava alludes a 'routine program' need not be written afresh but is already a part of a system software/operating system.
His usage of the word' techie' is either unfortunate or downright insulting to some one who creates software. Perhaps he thinks that any one who is not in oil or gas business lacks creative gray cells. Strange thinking!! A 'techie's' program my save Mr Shenoy's life if he were to be ill and goes for diagnosis of the illness which these days involve computers.
Anyway, the term 'retired' is used in connection with old age in the world of work. Any other connotation is simply absurd.
The language in some of these posts seem to suggest that this thandava and gang are the same folk who spammed this site in recent past. I dont think their condescending rants need to be taken seriously.
Mr BKH ( or whoever you are hiding behind these initials).
What you are saying is an accusation without a shred of proof, and you should know that it amounts to a slander. Accusing a group of people who have contributed (you may not like their arguments, but they are arguments nevertheless) as spammers and the offence you imply as a result is serious indeed. We wish we knew who you are in real life so that this slander can be tested in a court.
The gang appears to be the same. They still write rubbish about individuals and people who are making efforts in Mysore. Thandava and his cronies including a Bharadwaj, as you can see from trawling various posts have stayed behind and slandered people inlcuding bloggers on this site. Thandava names people and slanders them like he has done with some of the bloggers. Thandava is also hiding behind a fake name, if he casts aspersions on a person with initials, what about him? My take (apologies Krishnan) is that to let some of these people keep making their negative comments all the time. They don't have a life and thats why they do it. I have seen the works done by MGP and Dr. Shenoy, these other guys have done nothing. Neverheardof a Thandava or any other person that have posted silly comments in any newspaper in Mysore or have been credited with doing anything worthwhile for the city like MGP and Dr. Shenoy has done.
Why do you spam this site by placing identical comments as replies to blog. Read my replies to you in another blog and should I ask you to name your contributions to Mysore which makes you so unique.
