Dawn of 21st Century.

The dawn of twenty first century was covered by clouds of economic melt down. The economy which was global and technology helped it to interconnect with each and every corner of the world. Well economy of the world isn’t the only thing that technology has brought together, every other field has been. Culture, agriculture, army, education and worst of all politics, all of them have been linked.

Being an engineer makes it a bit easier to understand the positives and negatives of a larger grid. But understanding is no guarantee that the calamity will not occur. This calamity came with a change in guard, the new CEO of the World Inc. CEO is a better word for ‘the leader’ in this capital driven economy. The CEO has some ‘even better’ board of directors with him, a dream team for devastation. Before we move on lets have a shallow idea of this new corporation called ‘World Inc’. It consists of three broad categories, first ones are the profit making (USA and part of Europe), second ones are non-profit making (ASIA excluding the central part and some sick parts of South Asia) and the third ones are the Charitable organization's (everything else in the form of land on the face of earth). So the CEO is commander in chief of the biggest of all the cats.

I’m not someone who waste’s a single second discussing someone else action. Now the consequence, well the biggest one for me is that I have enough of time after applying for more than 325 jobs that I ‘can’ enjoy blogging. Someone told me that a North American Master’s help. This is post-help era. Looking onto the world now, people were loosing jobs (the first one being Al-Gore, he mentioned this at the DNC’2008) and homes in USA, so was the scenes in countries like Philippines and even Vietnam. Soldiers and civilians were dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, so was the condition of India and Pakistan, even for USA. Europe, Asia and America were busy drafting stimulus plans for the ailing economy. Climate change was also not lagging behind. New (and young) graduates like me were spending more time on job search portals. But not everything was bad and not all the changes were negative.

It was for the first time in the history of the world that change of guard in one country was so emotionally and closely watched by the world. The first Afro-American was going to be the chief commander in USA and the new CEO of the World Inc. He bought with him tears of joy in the eyes of millions and a ray of hope for billions. (Although what he bequeathed was debatable). I could see on TV people dancing in Japan, Indonesia, Kenya and definitely USA. A new ray of hope for the young Iranian’s. Someone said on a popular American T.V. show that people are happy for two things; first one being that the new CEO is more affable and second one that the ‘COCKY’ old leaving office (Ex-CEO).

Also, people got more aware about there savings and investments. People gained economic terminology and information, words like foreclosure, investment banking, shares, S&P 500, Dow Jones, e.t.c are no more jargon's. People were more attentive at work (except professors, the extreme case of ‘twisted tail of a dog’). Oh! My God, how can I miss this one, Mr Uniform was also removed finally. Although it might bring a sign of relief for my neighbours but for us, Indians, the noise hasn’t gone down. Still I will count it as a positive, let’s be optimistic. Indians were still having lavish marriage parties, Chinese were a wonderful host at Beijing’2008, American super bowl had the same attraction and attention, and finally slum dog’s were making big (real big, million’s).