The 90 min Session

In my office freshers join from generally all the major cities of India. These are 'campus' selected students and its from all major states of India.As the north India is covered by Pune center , here most are from states like MP, UP , CG , Punjab, Delhi , Bihar even WB and Assam.I already went many times to take the training of those batches for my subject (Automation Testing Tools). however this post is for this :

I sent mail to the academy head 3 weeks before and asked him weather its possible that i get (say 2 hours) to present 'social' service related topics , talk to them on their view and encourage them if possible to think more positive on these issues. And yes in 2 hours the answer was affirmative from manager. And in a CMM 5 level one of top 5 Indian IT company i got a licence to talk to freshers (whenever they join) about social issues and some simple solutions that i and company is involved in. And yes this would be a system now , means all those join as fresher here would have this 90 min session (either with me or some one of relevant area)

Last week 3 new batches joined and i was excited to talk to them and share my views.I took 3 sessions of about 90 min each with total of 114 (they are divided in 3 batches) freshers last week.And yes it was very positive.I am giving the main points that i shared and discussed with them.I got few very good mails from them also , i would put them in the comments section soon. It was 100 % kind of participation and many of them were really taking interest.

How i took the session :

1)Talking about their state , collage and other basic points. All start talking as soon as a good polite and smiling (yes i smile a lot in sessions) atmosphere is given to them. I observed that around 90 % of them were in same state of mind means all were smiling together and very serious together too.

2)To give a taste of serious thinking i tell them a story of 5 min.Here we go :
Its a play written by one of big Marathi writer....it goes like this :
A)One man is very tensed and moving here and there and soon one lady open a door and say 'boy' and close the door. Means the hero of play is born now.
B)The boys 5th class result is out and he is standing in front of his teacher. Boy failed and teacher give a powerful slap and say you are nothing. And tell him after that ' go to class 6 , i am promoting you'.
C)His class 12th (or 11th of old style) result is out. Passed in 3rd division. Head master is present there and tell him that he is just a waste of person.He is nothing and say many more of those things. Finally say that i am friend of your father , go to post office and meet some one there , one small job is open there, they will give you work.
D) After some years he got married.
E) The scene A again come for his child now.
F) One day some people talk about him. He was very good person. Never did any interference with any one in life. Just he did his work and was really good person. Oh god , he is passed away. And the scene of his final journey is displayed.End of play.
In the whole story the naayak 'hero' is not speaking/talking even a single word . The name of play is 'Mook-Nayak' (Dumb-Hero).

And friends we all are also similar.You me and all of us in India , we are mook-naayak and we do not react and talk of the things around us.Just no reaction.Why is this ??? What is the reason ?? Why ? Lets try to understand. Now all are frizzed and ultra serious , some felt really bad about themselves and start thinking.And the communication start again. I keep asking why why why....and they respond.

3) in the analysis of 'WHY MOOK NAAYAK'. Many points come out. All points like fear to start some thing , family pressure, professional insecurity , its not my work , why should i do this , its not affecting me and my family , one person can not change this , life is not having time for this , if i help some one else would take its profit , politics is present in all places and many many many reason behind this were discussed. So final conclusion was that :
People are not 'MOOK-NAAYAK', they react inside their mind/heart, but because of the above reason they do not 'REACT'.

4)Then i told OK fine. There are reasons behind why we do not react. Its really correct that reasons are there and the reasons are 'CORRECT' also. But if someone or i give you a solution in which none of the reason above is present then tell me , weather you would feel positive and would involve in that. Just think that there is no reason present of the above , and tell that what is your point of view in that case. What you feel as normal human (simple person) in that case. Just think like normal person.

All most all say YES they can do something at least if there are some 'solutions' present in which no problems are there.I told them about the story behind the blood donation and plantation drive in company(See my initial blog for those details). And told them about many other activities happening in company for this cause. I also told them to share their small experience of social work of their school , collage and others. They shared their experiences. And many had done a lot of good work in their collage and schools. And its was really good to see those good stories with such a good atmosphere.

5) Still we had 15 min with us and even if all most 90% of them talked and shared their view i do not know the any of the name. So we had introduction. Just tell me your name and the song that you like most :)
All were very involved , open and positive and told there names and songs too :) :) :)

Take care dear friends...see you in next fresher batch for those 90 mins again.