I guess you must be all aware of Narayan Murthy’s resignation as chairman from the Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL). Narayan Murthy is the Chief Mentor of Infosys. This follows after Deve Goda, the ex-prime minister of India accused him of doing nothing in his tenure. Gowda has been accused of delaying some of Bangalore’s key infrastructure projects including the prestigious Mysore-Bangalore expressway. But going public against Narayan Murthy in the media is a bit too much. The whole country knows what he stands for.
Think about the relief the projects will bring to the city. And think about how the politicians gang up together to hold the interests of the public to ransom. This is very unfair to them especially when the politicians are elected representatives of the people. Are we Indians focusing too much on the means and not the end? I certainly think so. I run a forum and I have been successfully implementing some of my ideas to make the boards alive with activities. It’s very tough these days to grab the attention of the user especially when you’re running a forum. There was an interesting project where a fellow union member devised a toolbar in quick time and I liked it a lot. The advantages of having such a nifty tool were many but only to those who saw light at the end of the tunnel. I arranged for the toolbar to be offered for general usage by the union members which would enable them to visit the forums often. Between the development of the toolbar and the subsequent offer for download it took a mere 3 days and yet I have been accused by some of my fellow admins for not informing them about the activities. That some of them are off limits is another question.
The protocols notwithstanding, my only logic behind offering the toolbar was to do something good for the forums. Having said that I had in no way commissioned the member to make it for me. He was quite passionate about doing something for the forums and I just appreciated it. If protocols are to be followed then the admins also need to be present to take timely decisions. Unlike Mr. Gowda I hate to create impediments in the way of public interest and I hate those who attempt the same.
