Tweet up with Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor is a well known person and need no introduction, when I got to know about the tweet up I was very much surprised in first place as I have never heard of any minister meeting a group of social networking people through internet in an informal session. My impression of a minister was long speeches which only happen at rallies and election meetings. This man was however different from other politicians. I became a fan of Shashi Tharoor after the tweet up.

It was informal and he was not carrying any baggage of being a minister or other achievements of his, he was very much approachable and responding to all the questions positively. This tweet up has changed my impression of politicians.

I always  looked up to people like APJ Abdul Kalam and Dr.Manmohan Singh who made to the highest office in the nation. I would love to become a politician but sad that there is no definite way how you can enter politics and do the required to progress as a politician, if you choose it as a career. You can serve the society best when you are a decision maker. I hope we have more politicians like Mr.Shashi Tharoor who is educated and has a positive approach towards the society.

Lessons we learnt from Recession.

We have seen a new calamity called recession in the last few months, it did not give us a warning on our weather forecast nor we can estimate the damage done. People in all parts of the world were caught unaware and were left questioning what went wrong. What actually went wrong? Why did this downturn happen? There is an old saying in Telugu which I would translate ” One which rises rapidly would fall someday”. The inherent intent I guess is that one should grow with stability.

Once tsunami struck we all learnt lessons from it, we brought in systems which would give tsunami alerts and help us in protecting our selves and minimizing the losses. I guess recession was more dangerous than that, as we may not have any warning systems in place and there is no immediate way of protecting ouself. We however learnt lessons from recession also.

According to me recession was a result of the credit expenses done by citizens in a particular part of the world. This credit expenditure created a huge hollow hole in the finance circulation in the world. This hole had to be filled which was done by the income of other parts of the world, governments have to shell out huge stimulus packages to fill in this hole. Finally we were able to come out of this downfall. The one obvious lesson we learn from this is “We should only spend when we have enough to spend”. Spending on credit would personally effect an individual’s finances and when done is large scale would effect the global financial system. And “Always save for a rainyday”. I hope recession never occurs again.