It aint flat anymore, it’s punctured!!!

Most writing’s do not begin with a disclaimer, but this one should!!!

Cause, the domain of the conversation is high on cerebellum and intellect and it’s an area where great minds, with unmatched credibility, expertise, qualification and persona have commented upon, researched, advocated and agreed!!

I am no-one, I do not carry any profound qualifications, nor do I speak on the evidence of specimens gathered by doing any kind of a research or investigation. I lack SHAME, but let me be BRAVE, and speak purely on the grounds of my AUDACITY.

Ladies and gentlemen, please reverse your thoughts!! Men with big stature and esoteric greatness are not always right!!

THOMAS FRIEDMAN, got it all wrong, “This world aint what he believes it is”. Even if he d make some sense, it lacked in vision and longevity and ALAS, let me declare that his conclusions have served their momentary periods of existence.

The world isn’t flat today, in fact it is punctured!!

Albeit that trade is happening on the global front, the rich, prosperous and wealthy are secreting the pulp out of the less fortunate ones. And agreeably all this is possible today because we are all well connected; we needn’t be there in person and we v invented gadgets that almost substitute us!!

Friedman got the virtual connection all right but forgot to prolong the notion, foresee and visualize over it.

As things arguably stand today (or seem to at least stand in near future), there isn’t any country that is greater; there isn’t any economy stronger. The scales are almost even and only look to further balance out in the coming future. Yes, it’s a globalized market but over a period of time, it would reach stagnation. Trading beyond borders for profits would soon become a fallacy; indulging in Outsourcing would be termed as an executional sin, and leaders would have to go on expeditions & treasure hunts to work out a cost advantage business model.

The world and its dynamics are fast changing; hence you got to be ‘LUCKY’ than be ‘PRAGMATIC’ to make correct ‘PREDICTIONS’, you must be a believer in ‘FATE’ and ‘FORTUNE’ than to trust ‘INTELLECTUALS’ and their ‘analytical OPINIONS’ (Friedman was influenced by Nilekhani, blame him as well!!)

I work for an industry which operates in the world of virtuosity, driven by the Global Delivery Model across geographically spread markets in this supposedly flat world!! We have had our momentary pleasures and have savored the buoyant instances of our prosperity.
We have hailed the nilekhani’s and the friedman’s to have thought of something so marvelous and profitable, but now we have begun to feel the jitters, the floor slowly tearing apart and the roofs seem to be caving in. We see the graph’s sliding down, the utilization percentages drooping down and the resources being chopped out.

We sense the decline, the downfall, if not understand the magnitude of the annihilation!! We aren educated enough, aren overtly astute to discover a means to recover. We are helpless and in the process slowly begin to believe – Where we wrong – to have believed these men? Have their visions proven to be myopic? Isn’t it flat anymore?

How we wish we could have been born in the Columbus’s era!! Though his discovery was more of an accident, it at least had a sense of immortality associated to it. We couldn become leaders, we at least would have become prudent followers!!

We would have lived under the belief, that the world aint flat – it’s a globe and that one wouldn plummet down if at all you d reach the end (you wouldn’t in any case!!)

Someone please explain it to them (Thomas and Nandan), let sense prevail in their head –cause theirs are the one’s that matter!!!!

Christopher wasn from the Oxford, but for God’s sake he was right!!

The world shall remain a globe forever, your gadgets and intellect made it flat – albeit momentarily – Please move on, do not bask under the shadows of your short-lived glory.

It s not flat anymore now, It’s punctured!!