powered, empowered

India Today recently released the list of “power people”. This list comprising 50 names, tells us that of all the millions of people living in our country, these are the people who matter, or rather, matter most. Not to their families, or employees or communities alone, but to the whole nation! What these 50 people do daily, directly or indirectly affects our lives.
I tried to envisage what they must have felt in that instant when they saw their names on that list? A smug smile? Or a drive to work harder? Satisfaction? Or redoubled ambition? Or maybe they just don’t have the time to give it a damn! 

Well of course politicians wield d maximum power. But this list has people from various areas of the economy. Predictably, there is a huge presence of the entrepreneurial giants responsible for the meteoric rise of corporate India. Half the list comprises businessmen and industrialists. Ratan Tata gets the numero uno position, closely followed by the Ambani bros. in quick succession (u know which bro comes first!).The rest follow.

We also have media barons, re-iterating the cliché that ‘pen is mightier than sword’. Umm, Television media too is included, we have Mr. n Mrs. Pranoy Roy. And yeah we do have Shah Rukh Khan also, at no.6. and Aamir n others, portraying the power wielded by the entertainment industry in our celebrity-obsessed nation... then cricketers and all…

So well the power list… what makes these people stand where they are? (Apart from the fact that they don’t sit around and waste time writing blogs no one will read anyways! :p). They dared to dream, and also they put their backs into it and DID what they had to. Yeah, we all dream, but it’s the latter where most of us fail.

I’ve read so many such articles, stories n stuff which is supposed to be ‘so very inspirational’, but the fire frizzes out in a jiffy. So these days nothing inspires me anymore. Well, guess it’s time to stop observing and start doing. None of those ‘self-help’ books (there are loads lying partially-read on my shelf) are going to do you any good, until you do something about ur life.

So now stop reading useless blogs ( no, I’m not talking about mine!) and get going. Go and achieve all the glory that you know in your heart that u can achieve!.