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The month of June was strange, just as life is.


Australia gets ready to honour Nelson Mandela, the icon of equality and anti-racism, and a few hooligans bring it contempt of the world by attacking harmless Indians on their shores. That their cricket team brings it further disgrace is another matter. And the fact that they are turning out to be sore losers as they walk out of the field that they dominated for so long – screaming, sulking, kicking-the-air, blaming everything and everyone but themselves – is a whole new story altogether. Quite unlike the ‘coloured’ grace that the West Indians displayed about a decade back.


Look at the contradictions closer home – Sania beats a much highly ranked player one day, and loses to an unheralded opponent the other; Saina brings glory by beating the third seed and winning her maiden Super Series title, and crashes out to an unknown the next; Indian cricket team can’t even reach the semi-finals of the tournament they won the last time around, blaming the IPL in the process, while the other teams think the IPL was the greatest thing to happen to help them peak at the right time; while criminals still run parts of the country, the Infosys honcho finds his way to the cabinet, signals that the Indian political system is attaining some degree of maturity in parts; the CPM wants to ban a right wing organisation, but not the apparently more dangerous left wing extremists.


There were knee jerk reactions too – while the move to do away with the Class X Board examinations is welcome, the 100 day deadline is not – such decisions with far reaching consequences need to be thought through in greater detail, and viable alternatives put in. Let’s not get rid of one monster and create another.
An interesting bit of data that catches the eye is that the tolerance level of Delhi and Mumbai to same sex relationships is much lower than the national average – so much for perceptions – one would have thought the opposite.


It’s time to break long held perceptions – Benifys added another client to its fold, adding strength to our belief that the HR Outsourcing model is here to stay, people just need to break away from mindsets that disallow a perfectly balanced approach to running their HR function. The day is not far away, we know it.
And finally, you can’t talk about the month of June 2009 without saying goodbye to the moonwalker. RIP, MJ – you made an impact. Planet Earth will remember you.


Have a great month ahead, and keep smiling…