India's long date with corruption

Growing up in India has made one thing clear about the country and its people. The failures of this great nation that I love is the failure of its common man. Contrary to beliefs espoused in various media pinning the blame, after every tragedy, either to politicians or bureaucracy; I believe the prime reason behind  the nation's chronic suffering is its vast majority of corrupt people.
It is unfortunate that I make this observation at a time when the nation is in the grips of unbound grief following the tragedy that struck the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Rampant proliferation of tour operators, hoteliers and other service providers colluded the carelessly orchestrated growth of tourism that found favor with the burgeoning mass who thronged the fragile ecology year after year to partake the annual pilgrimage. Sadly infrastructure and thoughtful tourism policy did not keep pace with the unregulated activity; with the net influence of each participant (operators, hoteliers, service providers, pilgrims and state government) having on the others producing an man made landscape disrespectful of the natural one. Commercialization, thus began without heeding to the cries of those who forewarned  catastrophic consequences; and commercialization couldn't have succeeded without winning the favor of the pilgrims (public), a good number of whom could have been repeat tourists who knew the geography but didn't care for it. Likewise every participant to the commercialization story have acted on their own personal interests to maximize benefits from the trade; to the point where genuine interests had become indistinguishable from exploitation of the terrain. And I cannot imagine that those involved were all illiterates or unaware of the dangers involved. I can only imagine us being powerless before greed.
The destruction is likely to be on air on prime time for sometime; however I'm not sure we're going to be able to fix accountability here either. It's after all a natural calamity.
The real way forward lies in cleansing the individuals conscious from corruption, and make way for education received to take firm root.

how I became something

This is my story of how I landed unemployment soon after I became the envy of people around me on nailing my first job with Amazon after letting go half a dozen opportunities and losing just as many before.
I quit my first job a couple of months back on the pretext of exploring a career in civil services. I'm currently in the fourth month, of my first bout, of unemployment reading and watching sitcoms intermittently. I decided to describe my actual motive behind giving away my job in hope that it would teach someone how to make a decision or, maybe, how not to! 
I must admit that I wasn't exactly happy with the terms of my contract- including but not limited to my role- as a recruiter. I was hired to work as a 'talent acquisition associate' with Amazon becoming, along with my friend, the first in the country to be hired on campus by Amazon into their recruitment team. Excited as I was, I was equally apprehensive about having to work on contract on the rolls of a third party with no clarity on the basis of absorption or the time lines, except vague assurances made during the pre-placement  talk by the GM of HR. The compensation too was well below what other firms offered.  I said whatever! and accepted the offer hoping to make the best out of it.
So I started working for Amazon. Before I go into the part where I disappoint with my observations, here's what I assumed about my job before signing up. I expected to work amongst the best people in the trade, who knew what they were doing and could any day help me out as I learned the trade, committed individuals working to their team's strengths to offer their best for the organization. I imagined systems to guide operations with men of integrity guarding them, avenues for growth and development.
So on my first day at work I found, to my rude shock, that while some recruiters could barely even speak English, only few even cared to. Nor did I understand how this was to happen at Amazon, a leader in the industry known for sky high hiring bar that only keeps climbing year after year. My initial observation and subsequent ones about the qualification of an average teammate made me think if I was hired for a job for which I didn't have to specialize. Sometimes it even made me think if I was only as good as the worst amongst them, if I was chosen to work as one among them; since I held no prior work experience I reasoned one will only have to be a little better than the worst already to be hired.
Simultaneously as I tried avoiding these questions trying to focus on the job at hand, I couldn't but make other observations like stagnant careers- which hadn't moved an inch in four years-, politics of favoritism, serious violations of established guidelines, dual standards in hiring- that explained the proliferation of mediocre hires hired to be subservient to individuals than be led by the principles of the organization-recruiters, arbitrary firing of employees who fell out of favor with the boss. And yes, the boss himself was another reason I saw no reason in continuing in the job, especially after it was becoming clear that he had the least intention to improve the condition of the team-whose morale by then was that of a bunch of convicts standing trial.
The team viewed as a panorama was people working to please their supervisors who in turn were doing the same to their bosses. This clearly was not what I'd signed up for. But most importantly it was an association built on false promises of career growth and development that I naively bought. So, it didn't make sense to me to cling on to a job for career's sake, which I doubted existed from the very beginning. I didn't like to get up to a workplace which I had come to openly dislike for most part. I decided I will not be wasting my time on something I didn't appreciate doing,  because time is too precious a gift to be thrown away like that into a uninspiring job. Something that became too clear after a few youtube videos on motivation and Sean Penn's "Into the wild".  That's how I got unemployed, that's my story of how I became something- 'something' yet to be ascertained!!!

the big sociosphere

The world is a big place with exotic distant destinations, expensive experiences, enviable millionaires, celebrities and fantastic ambitions and all things that keep us busy planning to be successful. The social network is always willing to publish our autobiographies, update by update, in real-time if we choose to. We may enter and exit from relationships freely as we log in and out of the old chat rooms leaving the relic of our savvy choices as a symbol of our class and liberal thought. The camera we hold is only to please our social fans with cute poses and has long ceased to be the device that captured memories worth cherishing much later. Instant admiration of an ever growing list of stranger-friends who know little more about us than we are sex deprived/psychic/rich/ostensible/stupid/reckless have become the most important almost over-night.
This is the world in the 2010s, here social networks means everything.
So what has it done to us?
We no longer truly miss loved ones because the moment we do we instantly beam our feelings, through satellites operated by tech giants, as tweets/message/call or worse video chat. Of course, only to realize later you were on drugs before satelliting the sentimental sham. Not detesting the fruits of technological progress that has helped fight anxiety caused by ignorance about a distant dwelling dear one, but just complaining about the annoying level of empowerment that keeps us perpetually disturbed with our memories engrossed in an artificially interested virtual social network, much like landing on the seeds while digging with all teeth into the pulp.
It's likely the reason why contemporary relationships are shorter and too frequent, than they were in earlier generations, if that's the case at all; perhaps our little brains need to miss a person to know it loves that, and where opportunity is denied to experience this crucial feeling we escape love itself. Might I say love escapes us!  Weather there's truth at all to this theory, it's important to sometimes miss people- not to rid them deliberately in a fair, that would be unfair to the theory- to trigger those special feelings that are otherwise never felt.
If it is only an obsession that's keeping you locked up with your virtual world, perhaps it might be able to combat it with another obsession. The obsession to live life to lees, where we run into life and newer experiences without feeling the obligation to report every little frame of it to our ever opinionated/flattery pals online. Hopefully we wouldn't have to change our relationship status back to being single again, and not mind about the millionaires, celebs, exotic destinations and our failures !!