The Blunder of All Blunders...

There are some days where you wake up and feel "What a day!" and when you go to bed the same day, you would wish you had never actually gotten up. Well, I'm pretty sure that the Infosys "Chief Mentor" Narayana Murthy had one of those days over the weekend. How on Earth one could condone his actions - I do not know. When we make mistakes in stats in our college, our prof. says "You are blunder!" Well, I would think that he'll say to Narayana Murthy "You are Big Blunder!"

So, what's the fuss really all about? A man in the position of Narayana Murthy should, at the very least know what he's saying. I mean, being a potential presidential candidate - he's made one of the dumbest statements. He said that he didn't want to embarrass the foreigners by making people sing the Indian National Anthem. I mean, to use the word embarrass and National Anthem in the same line is down right idiotic. He might have not meant it, but he's drawing flak from various quarters and in all honestly - he deserves it!

Even if his statement was not misconstrued, why would foreigners be embarrassed at listening to the National Anthem of India? In football, before a match both sets of National Anthems are played – and when one country’s anthem is being played, the players from the other country stand and listen. That’s what the foreigners could have done. Why do something which makes the foreigners look bigger than our National Anthem? Narayana Murthy is a member of the management of the IIM in Ahmedabad, the 4th employee of Infosys and yet he comes out and says something as stupid as this... unbelievable!

This happened days after reports of Sachin Tendulkar cutting a cake of the Indian tricolour. Maybe this case was a bit different, but again we have High Commission officials preparing cakes of an Indian flag. I heard someone say that we cut birthday cakes with people's names on it, so what Tendulkar did was fine. Has anyone ever cut a cake with a god or a goddess on it? Of course, then it comes down to "holy" issues. So, isn't our flag holy? Shouldn't the flag considered to be sacred?

When your national ambassadors go out and make a mockery of the very identity of country, we have every right to be angry. “Sorry” is not going to make amends for a thing. Going to court will barely make a difference. These people can easily say that it was not their fault or that they weren't "thinking at the time", but that will not change what they've done. As my stats prof. would say - They are Blunder of Blunders!