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| Apr 16, 2005 5:33 am |
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re: New Life. . . |
Govind Srinivasan
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Soeb,
Your doubts or apprehensions about the way WCFC is taking shape are quiet normal and definitely not out of focus.
My take is this.
1. Socialiasing by itself is not something we should abhor. In fact, CHENNAI badly requires a good lot of socialising. We require to do our best to make people from different walks of life see each other. There is a typical moving about of people in isolated circles, which is apparent in Chennai. WCFC can do its best to bridge the circles. If this requires socialialising, I say let's do that clearly and precisey and not on the sly. "Building relationships" between people is the one I think we should go about doing with a dogged pursuit and, of course, unobtrusively. Yes, we don't need to become "socialites" to make socialization enjoyable and purposeful.
2. There can certainly a camaraderie that WCFC can encourage assiduously, while keeping a strong-will to "make Chennai a better place to live in". Working together for a common cause need not mean that we should keep FUN aside. While we do one or other work to promote common cause, we can just enjoy the very work, a la the "play school" fun that the children enjoy.
3. In fact, with the increasing demands of life these days, socializing with a common cause can take care of time management. You socializise and at the same you work for common cause too.
4. We don't need to dilute anything. Enjoy the fun of knowing more people, as an individual, and do your best collectively for promoting common cause, which can "make Chennai a better place to live in".
The demands of life today are so nerve-racking that you seldom find time to satiate the dictates of your mind. There are so many clubs, channels, hubs and what not, which offers one or other opportunity to meet people. They may different formats to offer this opportunity. WCFC can have its own grammar to make its USP manifest. Nothing wrong in it.
We don't need to abhor or woo numbers. We have to make our presence felt. We should think that a person, who can prove to be a maverick, can always be available outside the confines of WCFC. We should reach 100 people to find out one maverick. And we require quiet a few mavericks and not just one. BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS need not be an end-game, but just a means to "make Chennai a better place to live in".
Even much earlier, I said that we should follow "SINGAPORE DEMOCRACY". You have fun in Singapore in plenty, but it gets regulated most unobtrusively. Limits are drawn anywhere and in any civilized assembly of people, virtually and in real time. I think this a basic requisite in any circle of people.
Having said these, I still say that we require a whistle-blower like you, so that we know that somebody will blow the whistle to caution WCFC and not allow it to become a circus-show. We will enjoy Circus but will not end up as a Circus Group.
Govind SrinivasanPrivate Reply to Govind Srinivasan (new win) |
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