Signs & Science of Growing Old.

I saw an advertisement of Beauty cream declaring “wrinkles, dark spot etc” as signs of ageing to sell their products. It makes me Question what about signs of growing old apart from looks. What can be the Signs of growing old? Here is my list of things which will help you decide if you have past your prime already. If you have than better to admit it & start behaving like grown ups. Teenage in his/her late twenties is just not cool.


You have past your youth prime if

1. Current Heartthrob of Bollywood/hollywood & Sports sensations are younger than you. (Read Ranbir Kapoor, Leo Messi, Megan Fox) (Google their Date of Birth, u will be surprised).
2. You watch movie in theater without passing comments on dialogues/acting.
3. You have made STD call from PCO at night/ sunday at half the price.
4. Your hairstyle has not changed since last 6 months.
5. You often insist & try to see things from others perspective.
6. You insist on paying bill yourself rather than forcing your friend to do the same.
7. You sometime refer to your kid brother/cousin as “Today’s generation”.
8. Luxury Cars attract you more than Fastest Bikes.
9. You are more concern about World Peace/economy than your friend’s problem.
10. Going GYM is not a Hobby but the work you are forced to do.
11. You feel uncomfortable wearing torn low waist jeans or don’t wear them at all.
12. You can watch TV without changing channel for 15 minutes.
13. Your fun is limited to weekend only.
14. You can watch “Food security debate” on NDTV or economy bulletin on BBC for 30 minutes.
15. You start wearing Branded watches (Tissot, TAG heuer, Rollex).
16. You start reading too many non-fictional books (Biographies, History, and Travel).
17. You don’t know the cheapest SMS plans or cheapest night call plans.
18. Your birthday wish to friend includes SMS or firm hands shake. (No physical violence)
19. You find “Success Quotes” motivational.
20. You do many things because “You should do it” & not because “you want to do it”.
21. Money doesn’t excite you that much anymore. You prefer respect/self esteem over money.
22. You don’t ride bike with 2 other friends sitting behind you.
23. Your best friend is someone who doesn’t even know your nickname.
24. You start behaving nicely to your neighbours & relatives.
25. You have many juniors at work (u start working, this itself is signs of growing Old in first place).
26. You had used floppy at some point of time in your life.
28. You have more nephews/nieces than cousins.
29. You can name 5 programs on DD.
30. You remember the 1992 world cup
31. You don’t find this blog boring & you agree on most of the above points.

Did you ask why this list have 31 points? let me help you, it is because my Roll No. in B.Tech was 31. This blog dedicated to my Roll No.

"Economy & Development" or Enviroment : Tough decision for World.

Almost everyone in my company & other organization with whom I interact by email, Use the Bottom line in email which says “Please don’t print this email unless you really need to”. This supposedly shows the concern sender have for environment. But apart from & probably more than environment, everyone is concern about Economy (recession & job market). Once in a while (Mostly when travelling from client meetings to office) when I have any discussion about economy, all of my colleagues support Capitalism, Free market & open economy. As they advocate these things are needs of the hour & very much necessary to pull Millions out of poverty in developing countries (Normally my European colleagues finger point towards me when they refer to Poor or developing country).


But today’s economy is driven by consumption & consumption alone. India & China have huge population (read consumers), that’s the exact reason why they are fast growing economies. More the consumption, faster the economy grows. Having said that, is not over-consumption bad, really bad for environment? It is indeed. So equation turns around to be “more consumption is better for economy & bad for environment”. If a developing nation have to choose what will it choose? Economy or environment?

Not being an expert in economy gives me luxury of questioning the very fundamentals of (open) economy. Once you are expert in a field you can’t afford to question the fundamentals of your field as you will fear making fool of yourself, if you did. There is something seriously wrong with open economy fundamentals. As a thump rule economy & environment can’t move forward together with current rules, Laws & Habits of world. We have reached a point where we can’t ignore any of them. In 17th, 18th century, when industrialisation of Europe was happening, Environment was not the issue. They make mess out of environment to became the develop nation. Now when developing nations need to so the same, it is not allowed. West has already caused enough harm to environment even our share (Quota) of harm has been done by them. Should we correct their mistake by not harming the environment anymore & hence stopping our development? Or we should first focus on development without bothering about environment. Either way there is something to lose. American’s per Capita carbon emission is 10 times more than India’s. Doesn’t it say enough what we should choose? Very basic rule of any civilised society says A have committed a crime, A should be punished not B. (A=Developed nations, B= Developing nations).

Atleast west not need to move from over-consumption. How many pair of RayBan shades are enough? How many Adidas, Nike, CAT are enough? Why we are Proved, encouraged to spend/consume more. When it is known that it is not good for harmony & balance with nature. It is one of the un-answered question in my head. Question are endless, answer are non-convincing. We can think, write what we feel but ultimately we will do whatever is expected of us (i.e. consume more).