The OutSourcing Miracle, explained at Dadar Station

It is very difficult nowadays to read any Sunday Paper that doesn’t have some random expert telling us why IT has become such a success story in India (as debatable as this may be in itself). And to that growing list of random experts you can always add my High School teachers who insist it is The Great Indian Education System that has helped, our great proficiency at learning a lot of data by rote, such as History Dates, Chemical Formulae, the Principal’s School time Sleeping hours and even Multiplication Tables.( I do see how that helps, you see, familiarity with tables leads to familiarity with MS Excel, and that as we all know is the fast track to PM-Ship in any IT company.)

But I believe, the reason why we provide software/it’s maintenance/whatever so sasta, sundar and tikau has more to do with The Great Indian Community Shitting system and not The Great Indian Education System (though quite often it is tough to spot any difference).

Case in point , try this link :- http://www.moonamtrak.org/.Yes ladies and gentlemen, they need a website to co-ordinate Mooning Timings so that they can collect in one place and moon amtrak trains.

But with great pride I inform you that our very own, desi early morning Mooners near the Dadar Station need no such tech support. For my four years of commuting from Colaba to Andheri, they were their, every morning, with clockwork precision, as precise as the 8:23 Virar fast itself. And no, there seems to be no MoonVirarFast.org or even a MoonWesternRailwaysInGeneral.org. The only co-ordination they needed was their own Bio-Clocks. For those whose Alimentary Canals had outputs ready early there was the 8:23 Virar, for those with slower metabolism there was the 8:38 Bhayander and for the even slower there was the 8:53 Borivili.

I would honestly, not be surprised if the Maintenance of this website soon gets outsourced to our dear friends from Dadar Station, who will be outsourcing not just their software skills but will also leverage their mooning expertise. And very soon in those pics on that site you will see many Indian faces (and behinds as well), of the engineers who will get sent onsite from this project to be where the action is. However, I will feel very hurt and insulted if we do subvert The Great Indian Community Shitting to new technology, and come up with a MoonWesternRailways.org. Some traditions are not to be messed with.

Amen.