DAYALNATHAN - A THOUGHT PROVOKER

DAYAL NATHAN

A

THOUGHT PROVOKER

FROM THE THAMIRABARANI RIVER BANKS

Simple looking and dark. Boyish and extremely active. An IIT Engineer from Chennai, the MIT and Oxford put together in the Indian sub-continent. He has travelled widely in countries in continental Europe, America and Asia. He is very fluent in Tamil, Hindi and English. He deeply thinks and talks very analytically on subject matters. His views on empowering people with a view to achieve more in their job positions are worth putting in Platinum type-face. Obscure subjects like changing habits and customs and costumes of women in Europe, the Middle East and South and South East Asia and in China in tune with the time and international demands for changes in life styles due to World Wars then and the regional hegemonic wars now raging around us on which I took up debate oriented conversation have captivate me. His resoning for increased percentage of divorce in India and the importance of dating practiced in the West and the USA to select right partners is yet another subject matter for listening in deep interest to understand the merits and demerits of habits, customs and traditions prevailing in the East and the West including the USA.

"How to work without worrying more on the outcome of the result?"

--I asked him once.

His laconic answer was:

"Delegate responsibility and make sure you are accountable for failures in any area or part of the project you took up with your subordinates!"

I found substance in his simple talking. His understanding of people is based on their prowess to probe into knowing the truth of the matters coming into debate or questions. He talked to me about Steve Job of APPLE and NExT. He asked me to view Steve Jobs' Stanford University convocation address to new graduates as was shown in subtitles in YouTube. Made me listen to Steve Jobs a dozen times and insisted I should put Steve in front of those industrial middle management staff getting training under me in one among the leading plastic moulding group of companies in Chennai - Saro Group of Arun Plasto Mouders India Pvt. Ltd.

Dayalnathan has also given me ideas as to analyze each of the management trainees by probing into their mindset through their answers to find out the characters in them and hold it as the guideline to grade them.

It is highly captivating each time as he takes up topics with me for discussion. There comes Dale Carnegie on simple human relationships and influencing and making friends even from among those whom you "think" are negative in response to your esteemed views on subject matters dear to your feelings of utmost importance. Each time I expressed my displeasure on the madness Indians hold for a corporate gamble played as sport in cricket, conducted ritually by politically influential money launderers, he talked positively about "Cricket Gamble" as a means to offer the much needed job opportunities to thousands directly and dozens of thousands indirectly as each cricket gamble is played in the guise of its formats across India.

He unties the knot with his laconic words yet again for me to understand how true his statements were - given the pathetic side of the effect on the unemployment perspectives if not a "gamble" in cricket is not perceived by greedy business tycoons and corporate business barons in India!!! Instantly I found immense distaste creeping into my mind with his upsetting answer. But, what to do? We are 1.3bn people to share the resources generated in India. To generate such a huge resource, neither communism nor Gandhi-ism would be of any help. Dayalnathan says that India is the only most competitive country throbing within itself in excellence. Others like the US or Israel or Singapore are seeking and taking their share of the yearning Indian youth perfer to exercise to come out in excellence. Hence the Silicon Valley in the US and Serangoon and Orchard Road in Singapore are infested with Indians and Indians alone as expats. Not to speak of the "Falling Down London Bridge" over the Themes!

Dayalnathan says that India needs to exert a bit of negative reaction as well to some core and perenniel issues with regard to its inherent problems of politics, unemployment and efforts to sustain with self competence. I was bit shocked to hear that. When asked he said that if not, to achieve comprehensive progress in areas where a bit of foxy approach is expected to counteract the onslaught of economically influential powers from outside India, "those others" would run over us in the guise of their "grace" offered in investments to the economy of India. That is true given the off-shore business houses offered red carpets welcome by our State and Federal Governments. So, be it a gamble in cricket or a racing or chasing in Grand Prix, India should generate revenue with its one and only never detachable asset, ITS PEOPLE IN 1.3bn! What if the tiny Singapore boasts its 30mn population as its ASSET under its nearly 40 years of oligarchy, why India cannot convert its "asset" in its population to generate revenue and try to match the 4 "C"s Singpore possesses under Mr. Lee Kuan Yew? The Car, Condominium, Cash and Comfort?

I love Dayalnathan, my intellectual friend whose ancestry is from Valliyoor in Tirunelveli District, my home town in Tamil Nadu, India but I hate my inability to grasp some of his views deeply studded with thinking of Peter Drucker, Dale Carnegie, Amarthiya Sen, EV Ramasamy Periyaar, Nallaan Charkaravarthy Rajagopalaachaari and Ingersoll put together.

Dayalnathan is a bundle of provoking thoughts and ideas to move thinking minds to shed fear, shyness, incompetence and reluctance.

Dayalnathan is a tool for our youth power to come forward to enjoy sharing views to enlighten themselves in perspectives so far given little thought to put into practice.

I know wise men are born mostly in hamlets along famous river banks. Dayalnathan is no exception. He too is one among the breeds of the banks of River Thaamiravaaruni or the Porunai Nathi, the ancient most river embedded with tiney villages famous for unforgettable men and women to which Tirunelveli District is famoulsly known from Chicago in the US to Shinagawa in Japan. To name a few of them? Bharathiyaar, Bishop. GU Pope, Rev. Caldwell, Veerapaandiaya Kattabomman, VOC and many in my list.

I firmly believe 60 years hence, my friend, Dayalnathan would be in that list of the gift Tirunelveli gave to this world. No big talk this.