Its not TCS its TCB- Technology Culture and BAPU!!!

Sounds outrageous, exaggerated, and insipid or even may be nonsense. However, IT industry has lot to do, though indirectly, with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (just to refresh our volatile RAM, this is full name of Mahatma Gandhi or more commonly known as BAPU). After next few paragraphs you might want to agree with me. Let's see how I do?

When James Gosling (Father of JAVA, the language) was working on first prototype of Java, little he would have had in his mind that the philosophy (or should I say, the need) which drove him to work on developing JAVA had its seed sown long ago, probably seven decades earlier, by our own BAPU.

The philosophy, while developing JAVA, from James's point of view was to diminish program dependence on hardware or the machine or more to say cut-through the barriers of different platforms. Now I will not load you reasons as to why Java, or any other language for that matter, came into existence. The point here is though there are different platforms, different OS, different hardware any many such differences but there has to survive one thing which each platform would understand, RESPECT and revert accordingly.

Now, we as a software professionals have a different culture which has no name(though some of us call it Professionalism), no Vedic existence but still is the most powerful cultures of all and that is - culture of NEED. Let's accept it we all are attached to each other may be because of need or emotions or gesture or what-so-ever. That hardly makes a difference to us, the point to note is we are “attached” and we have respect for each other. The question is how did we learn this? Of course man! The technology we work on works on this philosophy. YOU represent an individual machine which belongs to "YOUR SECT" platform and I represent another machine which belongs to "MY SECT" platform yet we RESPECT, dominate and get dominated by each other. And we go along smoothly!

Stop for a while, and just think who had this vision. The answer may be Your Father or My father (pun intended) or Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela or Mother Teresa etc etc etc. But for us it was BAPU, who taught us a very basic principle "Respect one and respect will follow the suit". He wanted us to Respect each other no matter which sect (or should I say platform) we belong to.

I think I should sue James Gosling for Plagiarism. :-)

Please remember, it's never YOU vs. ME, it’s always WE vs. The SITUATION.