Experience

Someone asked me about experience. Wanted to try out something but the typical judgemental Indian nature wanted to pass the decision on my fate without even letting me have a go at it...
So what experience did I have??
Actually nothing .... Nothing that I'd ever experienced would be of use to me in whatever I wanted to try.
I couldn't justify that pulling dead bodies would prepare me better for pulling sacks of potatoes or food.
Digging trenches could never be of any use unless I was planning to make a living out of shoveling snow off the sidewalk.
Firing a gun would never be of any use because I couldn't hold one without firing it & the CIA wasn't too warm to recruiting me.
I really don't know if setting uniforms immaculately or spit shining shoes would be a job option at all.
I was useless - no useable experience at all. Written off for life!!!
But there was one thing I had - lessons from life ....
When I first killed someone - I learnt nothing was permanent in life. Your best plans could be laid waste by the movement of one finger.
When I ran through a hail of bullets & survived to brag about it but saw a fellow soldier die from a road accident in my arms, I learnt that you couldn't fight fate.
When I jumped without knowing what lay beneath, I learnt that if you don't jump you'll never know how easy it was.
Life taught me a new lesson at every step... Whether it was the resilience of my body, mind or spirit. It pitted me in all kinds of places from Siachen - the highest battlefield in the world to the dunes of the Thar desert. It made me serve under the widest spectrum of bosses each with a spectacular set of idiosyncrasies - very different from the others. It taught me to write articles, reports & assess as well as run behind terrorists & kill, if necessary.
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And here was this guy, who himself never had the guts to take the plunge himself & advertised the ribbed & dotted condom line of "Play Safe"... , passing judgements on what I had not even tried so far ....
Let me try atleast?? Give me a chance - one go at it?
Fate has kept the chance at bay once again .... I presume, for my good! But give up - I will not! I may be down but I'm not out... For the one thing that stuck on from years in olive was the fight in me. I may have lost this battle but the war is yet to be won & win I will !!!!

20 POINT AIR INDIA/ KINGFISHER REVIVAL PLAN

1.            Before take off/ in flt upgrades at nominal but effective cost.

2.            Last minute fares for normal class travel  –  like the tatkal service – start 5 – 6 hrs before the take off – avlb only online – no manual scope for hera-pheri.

3.            Downsize – shift manpower from flts to ground staff – especially into customer care.

4.            Reduce ground crew – make them effective, available & helpful.

5.            Prune down food on aircraft – too much in excess, too elaborate & not palatable for a normal person. Make food suit the sector of travel. Outsource it to local caterers in the port of embarkation. Ask crew/ mandate checks for actual consumption/ feedbacks.

6.            Take feedback from passengers. Incorporate prizes for effective feedbacks. Publicise.

7.            In flt entertainment – pay per view games/ movies. X Box consoles on hire basis in flight.

8.            Wi-fi on flts.

9.            Lucky draw/ gift tie ups. Tie up with portals like AHA/ Fashion.com etc.

10.          Publicise in flt sales – give a cut to flt crew for sales.

11.          Quantize performance – reduce/ restrict pay but include allces based on performance, sect, number of flts, number of complaints.

12.          Reach out to the public – advertise and ask for their participation.

13.          Care per person               -              introduce concept of amount of hospitality being showered on a passenger.

14.          Go social – Facebook/ Twitter/ Orkut.

15.          Better ground services – lounges/ ground support staff/ baggage staff.

16.          Improve baggage handling – introduce personalized baggage transfers post flight.

17.          Tie up with railways & cty cabs for end to end transportation.

18.          Tie up with hotels for destination accommodation.

19.          Introduce courier service through flights.

20.          Hire me as a consultant!!!!