Role of big data behind evolution and devolution of technology

Data Science - A boon or bane?*

The use of personal data of individuals has played a vital role in emergence of new technology, this blog may help you to understand the big picture of how one's private & personal data has laid the foundation for new technology. We can understand the logic behind these technologies by knowing below aspects:

1. Source of Data
2. Conventional Centralized Governance & Trade
3. Decentralized Governance & Trade
4. Common factors ruling centralized and decentralized Governance/Trade

1. Source of Data:

Data is anything which servers as a piece of information. Data can be stored either in physical form or digitised form.

Q: What types of data are used?

A: Every type of data. Ex: what we like, what we dislike, what we do, when we do, where we do, how we do & how long it took. All these information adds on to data. There is no junk data or there is no information which is treated useless, as all the things matter here.

Q: How data is gathered?

A: There are many ways to get data, either you have given it away or its been taken away from you by following means:
a. Either people are knowingly or unknowingly submitting their data. They are either innocent or ignorant about their actions and its ill uses. Ex: Social Media
b. Data is taken from your consent via some terms and conditions you agreed upon just by clicking "I Agree" button over internet or in your cellphones
c. You have been cheated and guided to give away your data freely in return of something you have got like: Free WiFi or a free Hot-spot

d. Your ISP, Network provider, Apps, PDAs, OS, Software & Websites may be gathering your data and selling your data. They may be stealing it as well.

e. Even few government agencies and non government companies may be spying and monitoring what people do very intensely and deeply

f. We may be part of some free survey which had offered to give some bounties

g. While enrolling for UID/SSN, we have given all the data which is unique to us and we may have unknowingly shared these unique Ids or we are forcee to share these details (ex: purchase of new SIM, Banking, Vehicle Registration). Other case could be, personal data at a centralised trusted repository is compromised

h. There may be hell lot of ways you can think of getting once personal data. Say an example like: registering to e-mail, job portals, opening bank account/wallets, checking credit score for free, work place, e-cart, online trading etc. etc. etc.

Q: Who are behind the data?

A: In short: Government and Non-Government Agencies.

Rating agency, Internal & Foreign security and spying agencies, Carrier providers, Banks & Money marketing industries, Insurance & Health institutions, Pharma companies, IT companies, Search Providers & Social Networking, Media & Advertising agencies, E-commerce, Terrorists and Scientists, Universities and Research organizations, Social & Political agents so on..

Hope we are not in an assumption that, the more robust and automatic the process & technology, the life is much easier for humans. Ex: Manual unlocking the feature phone changes to PIN & pattern unlock in smartphone. PIN unlocking changes to pattern, pattern unlocking changes to finger print, the finger print unlocking changes to face and hopefully the face unlocking give place to iris based unlocking.

We agree to use these features and/or as we use these we are agreeing to device/software vendor to store/give these unique data which is whole and sole identity of the person. The amount of data in a SSN/UID card is probably lesser than what the smart PDAs we use.

Personal data like: Location access (via carrier or via GPS), bank account details, other passwords & PIN, fingerprint, face identity, photos of family, address, gender, DOB, height and weight, illness records and ebills, medicine details, favorite music, movies, hobbies, TAX IDs so on.. can be easily found in any of today's sophisticated smart PDAs.
The Govt. Organization which issued us the SSN/UID, DL, Passport & VISA, etc. Carrier we use, Work place, Hospital we visit, Schools, Universities, Banks and Insurance firms, Social Media and the internet all have access to one or the other forms of personal data either in Centralized or Decentralized way.

2. Conventional Centralized Governance & Trade:

There are two forms of carrying a transaction or trade or carrying out governance or laying out the policy or even in communication and networking, i.e., having a centralized power or an entity to monitor, govern, judge and guide the lower bodies/people and the other form is distributed or decentralized way of dealing.

Examples of centralized system of running the process & policy are like: Local Banks headed by Central Bank, Lower courts headed by Supreme court, having a Medical union or council for hospital, establishing Education council/union for taking care of education bodies like schools, colleges & universities, having employee council/work ministry to deal with norms related jobs and work and so on..

When we have a centralized system, if the top or lower bodies get into lobbying/malfunctioning and starts selling data or allowing to sell and use data without any stringent measure, then its obvious that our data is going to get leaked into any hand.

Ex: No country may have a stringent data protection act or right to privacy act and not barred individuals personal data getting exposed or ill used by companies. This is one of the reasons like we are still allowing some of the major search engines, some of the leading social media companies and few PDA/Software/Apps manufacturers/owners to constantly monitor, use once personal data as people have agreed the "T&C" when using the device/software/product. Even when the information is sold or exposed to public, we the people can't do anything much apart from doing a debate.

Why to worry about these data? Is it so vital? Hmm...Emerging technologies like Aartificial Intelligence(AI), Internet Of Things (IOT), Machine Learning (ML), Automation, Advanced Communication, Robotics, Image processing, Speed Synthesis solely dependent on Data. That's why there is a huge market and huge lobby for buying and selling any sort of data. Even centralized systems are actively or passively part of this trade. In the name of technology advancement we are still not worried about lost privacy but happy to use Smart phones, Laptops, Tablets, Smart TVs, Automated Music players, TV boxes, WiFi controlled home appliances.

Increased use of cameras, free WiFi and Hot-spots at public places may also be working for our data like what we browse, whom we call, what we eat, where we go, where do we stay, what's my expenses are?, where we do banking?, which credit/debit card I use? etc.. Just for few offers, coupons and discounts we eagerly sign up for more and more e-wallets/e-shopping sites & apps by providing some personal Ids or proof of address and agreeing to their "T&C".

Countries economy depends on many factors but one important thing is the working of banks and their stability, safety and economic status. Only developed and fast developing countries are only behind latest technology and which country has vast economy there only we see immediate boom or buzz about new trends in technologies and rest of the world follows or listens in most cases. Even these countries or a firm part of that country end up releasing free framework, free softwares or process to use and in some cases charges.

Any technology like IOT, AI, ML, etc needs some sort of connectivity & one main way to connect and communicate happens via internet/WiFi. We know anything and everything over internet is tracked. The servers and hub may be owned by you but it's issued and tracked by others too like ISP, Spying Agencies, Software and Device owners, Govt. Agencies, Cyber Department, VPN provider and may be hackers so on..

These data resides in the hand of central entity only but hierarchy may be different. If a new buzz on decentralised technology called "Block Chain" is heard, many firms hiring and started prototype as well but technically it's peer to peer network which can be applied to any domain not only banking. But why do any country, banks or politically wish to have distributed networking all of a sudden? Is it so fast? Is it so cheap? Is it so simple? Is it so secure?

Nah!.. If no, who has benift? Why some countries totally said no to crypto currency and few have literally no rules or laws?

3. Decentralized Governance & Trade:

Decentralised technology is also growing rapidly, this form of technology is non centralized, means not confined to one firm or one system as central entity but more peer to peer and much more encrypted with transparent user agreement and so on.. If so are we safe? Does this really doesn't need any data and are we secure? Is our transactions/trade over a decentralized system is secure and how about our data?

As said before, data is essential in any process say even in case of buying and selling a bit-coin over a distributed ledger network called "Block Chain"(BC), where there is absence of central entity and no lobbying can happen or no option of downfall can happen due to central agency's malfunctioning. Also this form is more private and other users in the system won't know who resides as peer, as the data is completely encrypted.

If there is any issue with centralized trade you can ask the centralized administrator and hold him responsible but if in case.. by chance of a breech happening in a distributed/non central entity whom you approach for?

If all can be tracked, then the founding father of using Distributed Ledger(DL) technology is still unseen? How countries with major economy allowed it as valid and useful, so it buzz in such an extent? Is it allowed in same way like gambling and betting?

You can't even predict what causes a crypto-currency to rise or fall, you can't know what is the source of this form of currency or what is the fate of it.. Its just a bigger risk but may be with a chance to get more benefit. Also users/traders in decentralized system is yet to face any sort of issue w.r.t hacking or loss of connection to one or few systems in network, handling corrupt records or handling damages to few ledger accounting in connected systems and non functional potential, ease of doing business, handling damage to peer system in network (which itself acts as ledger) is unseen. Issues of block chain is yet to be faced and if faced the impact is also as huge as it can be. System distributed over a network and widely in different geographical areas may have different hardware, different speed, different processing capabilities and speed of network do varies.

Migration from mainframe system to use java or other technology itself taking lot of years.. If so block chain.. hmm..

Even if any developed nation had put the concept of crypto currency via some invisible group/firm as a buzz and instigated a global experiment with their own frame work by using interested participants money joined themselves and if we are following them simply then the decentralised trade can end when in experiment ends or major participants quits. Make note in a peer to peer trade happening worldwide you can't guess the magnitude of trade or quality of participants in trade.

Usage of block chain may also be a form of data, participants interest in which form of crypto currency can also be a data. BTW legislation can bring in concepts of GDPR, privacy protection but still we need to use PDAs to do any trade and as we use these electronic devices, we are forced to agree to use cookies, save cookies and allow to track for complete usage of service by a site/app, hence it puts into same state as before. Concept of DL works well within small geography or small organisation with limited users but there may be issues on demographical usage

Beware: With an unpredictable rapid exponential growth in the value, there comes an unexpected downfall. Bullish and Bearish trends should be seen in any form of life or trade, it's not safe to get carried away by the boom in Crypto Currency! To understand the difference between hype and reality, we need to spend sometime in analysis and study but not to fall in conclusion seeing few patterns in a couple of years.

4. Common factors ruling centralized and decentralized networking/trade:

What are common factors or what is intersection part of centralized and decentralized system/trade?

1. Any country can run either on the basis of democracy or dictatorship, if the way we are ruled itself in both ways is centralized why and who will allow any decentralized system to grow without any benefit? If allowed to grow, then there is always an hidden agenda or a hidden control
2. Both forms of trade need electronic media and electronic instruments and electronic instruments needs a software and software to interact needs a carrier and ISP, most of PDAs have GPS, GPRS and these are again in the hands of Law makers and people who lobby for data and people who snatches the data from use via different ways
3. Government Agencies who monitors the process and frame law, Private Firms who needs data, Network Providers, Software Makers, Device manufacturers who has capability to capture data still works together in any form of distributed or non distributed network

Irrespective of the technology, when the instrument which monitors us, which rules us and which we can't stop using is around us and the market for data is huge and costs millions and billions, any marked can be tackled for social, economical, political reasons and privacy is almost dead due to this.

Any automation beyond certain limit is bane to people itself, as it causes ill health by making them lazy (TV, Washing Machine, Smart Phone, Internet) and again in other forms it loots people by faking them to be active (Smart Watch, Calories Tracker in Fit Bit). Over AI/ML/IOT makes people job less and people are fooled by job offers with advanced skills and good package for the development of new machines in the form of robots which replaces people and their skill.

"Over Automation is nothing but a Suicide"

"Immature complete IOT implementation, is massacre done on civilized society by civilized and educated people them-self"


-Warm Regards,

InfotainmentGuru

* - Note: This is a blog predicting the probable loopholes or links behind the emerging technology with the view point of common people by analyzing the social, political and economical benefits behind the data science. This is at any regard not connected to any country, organization or agency report but a material for self study with a different view point only. The author is no where responsible for any co-incidence with any region/society or trade w.r.t above analytics documented. This is not to be copied or modified and used in any format.

The Future of Manual Testing

Change in Technology and its impacts on Manual Testing:

The trend of IT is fast changing and technologies are emerging day by day in rapid phase, it's a general rule that if the trend is changing and if we need to survive in the IT, we should change and evolve along with market trend. "Go with the flow" as they say it but the most difficult thing for an employee is adapting to the change and learning new technology as it come either due to personal reason or for most of them its their current organization and project work culture, tight schedule which stops their evolution as an individual resource..

Now there seems threat to many of our career if you are just a plain "Java Developer" or a "Java Script Developer" or "VB Developer" or "Manual Tester" or "PHP/CSS Developer" or even for a plain 
"Project Lead/Test Lead/Team Lead/Manger" etc.. Now industry looks for a "Full Stack Developer", which means an employee can not only code front end but also for middle-ware, back-end which includes skills of Data Base design; can do build & deployment and has the ability to test and automate in a Continues Integration environment. In simple a resource should be multi talented in terms of technology he know and the skills he posses. An employee's career with a single skill or knows single technology/tool can be in greater disaster than those who have many skill set.

Today the most common buzz words are Big Data; Data Analytics; Machine Learning; Automation; IOT-Internet Of Things; Artificial Intelligence; Dev-Ops; Natural Language Processing; Automatic Programming; Robotics; Continuous Integration; Efficient Algorithms; Pattern Recognition; Voice Processing; Signal Processing; Speech Synthesis; Data Protection & Security; Networking and Telecommunication etc.. are we all up to this?! May not be "Yes" by 60-75% of people.. isn't it?
Programming languages/Tools are evolving, same language is progressing with newer versions with added features, so are we evolving either by learning newer versions of same language/tool or at least scaling our self with new language/tool?! May not be "Yes" by 60-70% of people.. isn't it?

It's not only a "Manual Tester/Testing" which has the threat but even other roles/position in IT too has threat as discussed before.. But why did I stressed on "Manual Testing"?! "Strange?!" No don't be.. I let you know why this has a greater threat when compared to other positions in IT.. At-least 35-40% of IT people are lazy to learn new things either they are not willing or they can't but somehow they are surviving till date in the organization, just see your own projects or organization structure is such that they hire moderate talent people for moderate price in order to get billing, especially in service based companies.. If so, think as a manual tester what skills you have, "Special Skill", I meant? is that a difficult skill to gain mastery? 'Yes', its special only to limited extent, like understanding the domain better than others but there is no much difficulty for other resources either in learning the tool you use or software that you runs or the process you follow or to get trained on the domain and testing aspects, just surfing the net and studying online materials can make non-testing person to crack manual testing job interview in some of the organizations.

Consider current situation, if you attend manual testing interview you can find nearly 20-40 people on an avg. facing the interview with you, just an appox. estimation. Also most of the service based company or even product based company doesn't like to pay too much for single resource instead they are showing more interest to buy couple or more fresh/non-experienced resource in the place of one moderately experienced resource who costs more. This applies even to development and design and other roles too.. Consider as we quoted before 35-40% lazy resource in each sector/role/domain/technology are facing threat for their role in future as they can't learn more advanced technology, but for their current skill of design/development if they get trained on lower complex and comparatively easy skills  like manual testing process/configuration management, knowing domain, some specific tools then they will be "appearing" more skilled than a manual tester with 7-8 years experience. Low skilled Designer/Coder migrating to Automation Designer stream can be seen in coming days.

Now the same job interview which you were facing with 20-40 people will slowly become 100-150 people by adding fresh/lower experienced resources who are willing to be taken-up by firm, plus say at-least 20% people who trained out of 35-40%(people from lazy sector) who were lower skilled in development/design and moving to testing. Adding to this huge number of people coming for single job opening the interview will be made tougher by adding complex puzzles, tricky coding competition or asking frame work design patterns or asking some basics of programming or skills of configuration management; leadership & domain knowledge. So, even on having a good IT experience and a sound knowledge in domain may not yield you a job as you are competing with more people who poses themselves as "known/learnt" personality. In short those leaders/designers/developers who can't excel in their stream will find a easy way to survive by switching their roles with easier training but for a test engineer at an avg. exp of 7-10 years it may be difficult to learn automation frame work, few programming language & learning automation tools and designing skills as you are training at an advanced level compared to what you were doing before and others (coders/designers) are finding easy to get trained on lower complex skill compared to what they were doing before.

So, whats the road map for a manual guy? Manual testing is a skill for sure and one who has a strong domain and hands on will definitely survive. Manual testing in banking and finance, insurance, some of the health care, networking & security, communication systems; hardware and embedded systems etc.. will have life in future too.. But it's essential to follow these basic tips which may help you on longer run to be on job even as technology changes:

• Switch jobs which matches your domain; if tool/technology gets old but as you have system knowledge you gets added advantage
• Don't switch or work on too many different domains; Understand a particular domain along with technology trend and move towards a couple of latest/ever green domains or technology. Don't be Jack of all trades but master of none..
• Learning is good, try learning programming language, SQL/DB skills; learn automation or a framework design which puts you on safer side
• Decide your long term goal and drive hard to move towards it at the earliest
• Don't stop doing basics just because you are in top position today, understand nothing is stable. ex: if you are PL/TL don't leave coding/testing/design/configuration do it yourself at least once a week or when you are free
• If you are a good speaker/orator and can communicate easily try doing leadership training
• If you are working on one tool try to learn similar tools available in market, try learning advanced version your current tool if possible or at least know what's new available in it compared to current and previous versions of same tool
• Even scale up the version of programming language you are using w.r.t to what is available, try learning similar languages if possible
• If you are a manual functional tester then learn configuration management, do certification in testing, move ahead and learn non-functional testing concept/process along with functional testing. If you are a non-functional manual tester then try learning functional part of testing/tools/process
• Know your strength and know the emerging market need, scale up to the need but don't sleep with self-satisfaction as its a kill pill in days to come
• Just because your job/role/designation is under threat don't stop teaching/training thinking that they may grow up the ladder pushing you down. Because who knows what you did to others may not just stop there but it comes back to you now or later. Teaching makes you confident and get to know what others perspective is, if other have valid question which you haven't thought of, then it gives you knowledge
• Don't just do your job/work/role/responsibility but love it a great deal; you earn/surviving because of it
• Think nothing comes easily in life, so if you are struggling ensure others won't struggle like you, your current hard work will ensure a better tomorrow; Remember: one who works more gains (knowledge) more;
• Knowledge and Experience is worth gold; Jolt it; Blog it; Write it; Transfer it; else it may get evaporated. We can't remember all the things all the time so even a learnt man needs a reference, even a scholars, teachers makes notes
• Do certifications, either domain based/tool based or technology based/role based
• Learn every day and if you are hard worker type, then try learning smart working techniques and if you are smart worker type most often then try being hard working so you prepare yourself for future;
• Stay focused; be calm and composed but ensure to learn to behave smart based on situational needs in IT; Occasionally learn delegating skills; demand higher roles even if you are at lower level and most importantly strike work life balance; invest time for your self learning and time for your family
• Future can be predicted but can't ensure it definitely will happen in the same way as predicted; Past is over you can't correct it but you can learn from it and try to be right from today; If you have a zeal to learn & share, foresightedness to gauge the changing trend and have the flexibility to adopt, then nothing can make you "Job-Less"

i-Quote:

Today's Trend: "The Nth moment of manual test cycle is the beginning for automation"

Future Trend (when we run behind automation): "The Nth moment of automation cycle will be the new scope for manual testing" -#PMH

"The repetition of manual efforts is the trigger point for automation & the deficiency of automation is the new trigger point for manual explorations" - #PMH

Wishing you loads of luck; Let all gets a good, safe, secure job; Let each one of us gets got name, fame and money;

Good wishes!

A blog by "Infotainment Guru" (#PMH)

Role of Software Tester

Test Engineer Roles and Responsibilities:

In an IT Industry there is a designated role for each employee based on what part he is about to play in software development life cycle, here is the list of Roles and Responsibilities of a Test Engineer or Independent Validation and Verification Engineer or Tester. Some of the Roles and Responsibilities are collectively done with non testing resources. Most of the Roles are common but there are slight difference from organization to organization or from project to project.

In an agile or in waterfall model responsibility and roles are same but the time of accomplishing the task or timing of start and end may vary. Here is an exhaustive list of Testing Resource duty to be carried out in an IT Industry based on my experience and knowledge, if you these traits then you will be able to fulfill the Roles and Responsibilities of a Tester, Test lead in any project or organization:

1. Understanding the requirement - Generally done with Development team in the presence of Business Analyst
2. Get the query clarification done either technical or functional - Prepare query tracker and get it answered from Developer or Architect, Test Manager, Business Analyst
3. Understanding the Test Plan and Test Strategy document available for the project - Test Plan and Test Strategy is prepared by test manager or test co-ordinator or test lead in discussion with Architect, Dev Project Lead and Project Manager, in some cases BA is included for review
4. Knowing different teams like Development Lead, Project/Module Lead, Project Manager, Test Manager, Onsite Co-ordinator, Off-shore team, Non-functional testing team, Configuration Management Team, Respective developer
5. Understanding basic Non Functional Requirements is added plus
6. Test Scenario preparation and getting it reviewed by Peers, Test Lead
7. Test Case design and Maintenance
8. Getting Test case Reviewed by Peers, Test Lead and BA- Business Analyst
9. Doing peer test case review
10. Requirement to Test Case Mapping - TL (Test Leads) do in some project and getting it reviewed
11. Defect Logging , Defect verification, Defect closure
12. Either TL or Tester generally do defect assigning task which is called as defect triage
13. Test Lead or Sr.Tester prepares defects list based on sevirity, priority, status based report
14. Test Execution and results capturing like logs, screen shots, request response, event/state transition details and attaching to each test case
15. Regression testing during each new build after new deployment
16. Smoke testing during start of test Execution
17. Sanity testing before starting function or non functional through testing
18. TL to publish Regression/Smoke/Sanity report and test execution report based on test status, maintenance different test suit for each phase of testing and also each level of testing should have different test suits (To verify at later stage what cases were tested at each phase and each level)
19. TL along with Testers prepare for internal/pre demo after testing is completed and met the exit criteria, get review from BA, PL, PM
20. Actual Demo with client or stake holders along with BA and Dev team
21. Backlog to be published and participate in retrospective or feedback (usually in agile)
22. Aid Automation and NFT-Non Functional Testing team by sharing relevent data, explaining scenarios to be considered (TL to play this role)
23. Once each build is tested, TL should ensure providing sign-off
24. TL or Sr. Tester to initiate DP-Defect prevention meeting at regular intervals with Technical, Functional, Architect and Leads
25. RCA to be done generally by TL and BA, PL, Architect
26. Maintenance and publishing DP and RCA outcome
27. Automation result publishing and NFT report publishing
28. Attending and doing active participation in weekly or daily status meeting
29. TL generally performs regular CPR(Check Point Review) Meeting with Test Manager, Project Manager
30. Frequent Test Data, Automation Result Review from Functional team
31. Additionally some of the Sr. Testers do white box testing before smoke testing
32. Aid development team during defect fixing, help to recreate issue in their environment or system, coordinate with them on the scenarios which had issue
33. For Test Automation lead, it's necessary to conduct Framework review meeting (DAR-Design Analysis Review) when designing or moving to New Framework or while doing major update to existing framework
34. Tester and TL should proactively do mentoring, knowledge sharing and give sessions and also involve or nominate themselves for new testing related training
35. TL and Sr.Tester should have basic knowledge of build and deployment
36. Tester, Sr. Tester, TL has to play equal role in maintenance and enhancement of testing artifacts , mapping documents, environment list publishing
37. Every tester should be aware of different testing levels like functional acceptance testing, quality assurance testing or customer acceptance testing, system testing
38. Testers had played a vital role in doing Impact Analysis which was missed if in case through the value chain of software life cycle by Functional and Development teams
39. Sr.Tester, TL do have a role during Gap Analysis
40. Tester , Sr. Tester, TL should know the estimation techinques based on complexity, impact considering overall time needed to complete test life cycle for that module
41. Testers should have basic knowledge on defect life cycle and also clear idea on severity , priority
42. Tester should demand and understand the major milestone set for testing and as a project overall, should be aware of goal of the project and time frame, they should know the testing life cycle in detail before starting any module. Tester should be aware of project methodology like it's Agile or Waterfall

This is a detailed checklist and some of which aren't sorted based on execution or delivery but it's worth to make note of these when you are going to an interview or when you update your CV or it helps when you are newly beginning your career in testing either as TL, IVV Engineer or as a Sr.Tester. Make note that, not all these activities are performed all the time in every project (organization) by a Tester.

#InfotainmentGuru blog by #PMH

Traditional Values in your Culture & Ritual

Why we should still follow our diminishing Tradition, Culture and Rituals in today's world?

Its been a trend in today's world that most of the people follow others style without knowing why they are doing it. People in East looks at West and those who are in West turns to East.. Slowly we are seeing steady change in things we wear, things we do, food we eat and things we follow. I think, its common now that we fall in love blindly with others way of living and we questions those practices laid by our ancestors. Its human nature that only few will see what they have rather than looking at what others have, hardly few will try to know why these practices were given by our ancestors and the essence of it.

I felt that" whatever we do or follow is 'OK' if we are in love with it but I wish to quote at-least follow your ancestral Tradition, Beliefs, Values, their Culture and Ritual to the best possible way you can, so that you can save your ancestral uniqueness for the future generation to come else things will be monotonous". Lets not stop doing good things even in the smallest possible way rather than not doing it, if everyone is busy, if all of us are tired and if we think its 'OK' others are there to do some good and it's need not to be done by me, then there won't be any GOOD left in the world..!

Hmm.. Here is an incident where there was an accident in the mid of busy street, the guy was badly injured and bleeding, looks like he has missed the track and hit the lamppost. I saw many people in the busy street stood seeing the victim with great surprise, few were sad for him, few didn't bother to stop and help even after knowing that there needs some aid for the injured person, they were least bothered to see what went wrong. Others were making video for whats-app/face-book, some of them couldn't even notice there was something fishy as they were wearing headset listening to music or seeing mobile or on call/texting.
Even though most of them are sad or surprised, hardly few people readily came to aid the need. May be because they may have felt that they need to pay for the victim, if he is hospitalized or they need to be present in Police station/Court if called as witness in case of any issue/death. There were few people who felt this as a common scene and a death of people aren't something new to worry about. Few didn't find their loved ones in the eyes of suffering man, some people who knew the victim in person were about to help but didn't as they just followed those who passed by the victim as unseen. There were few crooked minds who helped the victim and in mean time snatched his wallet/money too.. Hmm variety of people aren't we?!

Among these different hearted, different mind-set people only handful of people were little kind to the victim or had the sense of humanity or kindness working to whatever extent that they had cultivated in them. Only those who see the suffering in others are real humans and not those who wear a Polo-T with a quote "Being Human". I saw one guy rushed to the victim and tried to lift him up and to ensure the injured person is 'OK', the other one rushed to give some water, as these two are about to leave there was one more person in the crowd aided the injured to breath easy by removing his bag-pack, shoes and a lady came buying some sort of anti-septic liquid, bandage and a generic ointment for applying the injured. As they left there was one strong guy who informed the police and other nice girl called the emergency helpline and couple more joined to assist the victim & stood with the victim till he was hospitalized and stood still their family/friends were available for the victim's help.

Even though you may not get a direct credit in helping the needy or the victim may not realize the amount of aid you gave him during his critical stage of life, but still few showed the amount of kindness, humanity to the best possible way that is left in them. Here victim may not give you any return gift but still few stood to help by not thinking like other hundreds of people. We can't judge those who helped were good and those who didn't were wrong but still... Hmm! May be there is a saying "What goes around, comes around in same way. What you do for others, you reap the same someday".. Yes, may be it's true..
Now, what was 'I' doing?! Who am 'I' when other played their role in the scene?!

Consider your ancestral culture, values, traditions and ritual as a victim (the person laid in the street suffering) and you are the person seeing the sufferings of your ancestral values or diminishing unique traditional cultural heritage of your Nation/State/Religion/Family, what you do, after seeing its gradual decaying phenomenon?!

'I' was the victim, 'I' am your "Traditional Values in your Culture & Ritual" ...!!

Now, just ask yourself...

• Would you stay as if you don't know about injury or you find a reason/a chance to escape from aiding me?
• Will you stay so occupied in your own world that you can't notice the suffering in me?
• Will you think this decaying of one value is the rise of something new and you can't be sad for any sort of loss and don't make any effort to save your ancestral uniqueness?
• Is it more important to capture the decaying process in an Instagram/Twitter and create a buzz about my endanger rather than saving me?
• Are you one among those who just feel sad and stood surprised seeing the fatal incident of mine?
• Are you among those who were willing to help but blindly copied others who didn't bother to aid?
• Are you that person who couldn't find himself in the place of victim and failed to feel the pain even after knowing the impact of it?
• Will you pretend to help and ill utilize the scenario to your benefit?

OR

• Will you be the one, who rush to aid by feeling the pain of mine even when you can't completely heal my condition?
• Will you be the one, who helps to ease situation even if its not in your control?
• Would you be the one who comes at-least with a small help even when he cant aid in big ways to save the culture?
• Will you assist by practicing the right protocol and intimating right people in time of need and show courtesy to protect the 'decaying national heritage'?
• Are you that one person who stays till the end holding on to good practice, principles after knowing the intensity of pain and feel it as yours?

Its left to each one of us to decide whether to pass on the baton given to us by our elders to the next generation to come in the same way (or with a slightly polished way) or its worth to just run behind others baton and create a prototype of others by leaving your own baton (a unique one).



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- By #PMH