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Recently I heard a young techie challenge her colleagues – Is your profession a Job, a Career or a Calling ? Job and career need no explanation but what is Calling ? It is something that you pursue with a passion, with a zeal, with your entire being. More often than not, the calling comes from within and when it comes, there is no looking back. No age bar. No barriers of gender, geography, ethnicity or financial resources. This urge to do something, the desire to give back something, the will to pursue something manifests as a limitless energy, propelling you to achieve extraordinary things. The calling comes unannounced. One must be conscious and aware of it. From Swami Vivekananda who strived for Nation Building through the Youth to my Nephew who is making great strides in a top US university in Data Science and AI, despite odds (refer 203rd issue of Samhita for what I wrote back then) to Mrs. Lakshmi Kalyanasundaram, a 91 year young teacher who has been teaching English to spastic children since the age of 67 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p080b5t4 – for all 3 of them, it is their Calling. Nothing else can explain what they have done or what they are doing. Age, circumstances, finances or the times they were born in, haven’t mattered. Calling is timeless and ageless. As we begin the new decade of 2020, Find your calling, Find life !
Every fortnight, as we start compiling regulatory updates from across legislations and ministries, it appears as if there will be no new updates. It starts with just 1 or 2 but lo, as we proceed into the weeks, the basket is full to offer. Some are genuine changes that reflect progress in the legislative mindset with a positive impact on the economy while many others are corrective actions by way of Rules to rectify clerical / drafting errors. Thanks to the rule-based laws like Companies Act, GST, IBC etc. this is easy and has become the order of the day for the Ministries. So much so that we seem to have lost count of the number of times these laws have been amended. Well, these changes form fodder to Samhita. Wishing that the decade of 2020 ushers in better quality legislations and enforcement in the true spirit of Ease of Doing Business, without just an eye on the World Rankings, a la students aiming for true learning without an eye only on marks. In my opinion this should be the true Calling of all of us – Parents, Children, Teachers, Educational Institutions, Corporates, Society – then and only then the world will be a better place to live in ! As Franklin Roosevelt said, “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
Having said this, catch up with the updates from the stables of CA2013, IBC, GST, IT, RBI etc. along with the interesting article from Mr. Vittal Rao, Labour law Advocate on “Practical Tips for drafting Employment Contracts”, in this 228th issue of Samhita, the first edition of 2020 and the decade !
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Wishing all of you a Happy, Healthy & Fulfilling New Year 2020 !!