A Software Guy's take on culture:
Ok, so here’s
the topic to blog about: “My Culture, My Pride”, rather a generalized topic
which would require 2-3 hours of Google and Wikipedia I thought. So let’s turn
off Wi-Fi and start dabbling with what the word Culture would mean to a normal IT
professional. Does it mean the Diwali holidays with an extended Work from Home
option? Or the Ethnic wear day during Pongal where we nervously wear those
Dhoti’s? , or is it the time we start plotting our country’s flags all over the workplace? The list is endless, on introspect
all of the mentioned above is a part of our tradition’s outcome, a system of
celebrating the way we are.
Working in an IT
organization has its perks, the multi-cultural atmosphere manifests itself with
diverse people, environment, food, greetings etc. We might be the people who
celebrate the wonderful festival of Navaratri at office by ordering Pizza, but not before sharing homemade
Laddus, Halwas with our colleagues. Doesn’t matter if your North Indian friend takes
trouble in pronouncing Pongal, he still musters it up and you return it with a glee.
Our customers
and onsite counterparts are no different, to them our country has a gazillion
festivals with trillion holidays and we worship billion Gods. True by every
word and that’s how as much as we are diverse the whole world understands that
it’s the vibe called culture that brings us together. One such instance during
Diwali the customers thought they should do their homework before and came up
with the best possible way to greet us, Indians in the company by serving
Indian sweets and we as the service Industry decided to bring upon Diwali in
western way by greeting them with Cakes and Donuts. It’s evident irrespective
of what race you might be, the culture teaches you to love and respect each
other, which comes by routine and not upon enforcement. That my dear friends,
is my… no “Our Culture, our pride”.
