Comments on: Tolerance, Reformation And Retribution

By: ANANTPADMAKAR AYYA

ANANTPADMAKAR AYYA — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:20:35 +0000

TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE AUTHOR,THAT WE SHOULD NOT JUDGE A PERSON BASED ON ONE INCIDENT.TOLERANCE TO OTHERS MIS-DEEDS IS AN ART OF HANDLING INDIVIDUALS ,THAT GOES A LONG WAY IN THE TIME TO COME.

By: Naveen Kumar

Naveen Kumar — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:08:02 +0000

Yet another masterclass in storytelling, even though it’s your lived experience, the way you weave the context is fantastic and left me with no option but to read the entire piece, at one go. Yet in corporate lives, we make few decisions based on our role for an outcome within the premise of the Factory or establishment. In order to forgive, we must manifest a life-condition of compassion, says my Mentor. In Nichiren Buddhism this is called the life-condition of the bodhisattva. A bodhisattva is someone whose most pressing concern lies with the happiness of others.

By: Dr Devendra Bora

Dr Devendra Bora — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 07:59:47 +0000

Very rightly brought up issue Sir.

The responsibility lies with the Human Resource Development (HRD) department.

However, the Development “D” is restricted only from the organization’s perspective, the Humans “H” are redundant mute and gagged subjects.

After all, how many times has the CHRO lost her / his job for the cause of employees (whom they are supposed to represent and they are the very purpose of their existence) ?

By: Vineet Kaul

Vineet Kaul — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:16:08 +0000

Thanks Vivek for taking this important subject here
U have brought forth very good examples . Yes, acceptance and moving on is crucial
Our acceptance is also driven by other considerations – social class and reckoning etc etc

Many of us may have forgotten that Fareed Zakaria ,the famous journalist n international renowned news commentator was named and suspended for plagiarism ..( indulged in various writings) .

Bill Clinton was impeached by House of Representatives , not for the ‘incident ‘ but for blocking justice …the Senate did not pass it and he continued his full term

As per news in the public domain, the owner/ promoter of a World recognised Indian whisky brand is none other than the person who served sentence for murder , that made national headlines 20 yrs back !!!

Yes, they have moved on – are today highly regarded by all

Would be good to practice Tolerance and Reformation all around as a way of life

By: Mirza Yawar Baig

Mirza Yawar Baig — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 15:36:24 +0000

Thanks for this article Vivek Bhai. The reality is that corporate organizations exist only to make profit and everything in their cultures, is geared to make this happen. People are a resource, like money, raw material, inventory or anything else. That is why they are not called people, but human resource. And treated likewise. After all you don’t ask the coal which furnace it wants to burn in. That is why corporations are the most autocratic and dictatorial of all organizations in our society. That they put on a charade of being ‘democratic’ is nonsense. Litmus Test: After all, which corporation invites employees to elect their managers? All the way to the top all positions of authority are appointed by selection without any consultation with employees and whether employees like those selected or not is immaterial. Which corporation do we know that has managers who come up for re-election? Believe me,if they did, it would do wonders for employee retention, which everyone moans and groans about. Managers play politics to help themselves and their careers, often at the expense of the employees. And when the organization is going through a hard patch, guess who is kicked out in the name of downsizing/rightsizing. The question to ask is, if the new smaller size is the right one, and the organization can still create quality products/services with fewer people, then what must happen to those who hired so many more people than they needed? But that doesn’t. The truth is that people listen with their eyes. They don’t care what you say, until they see what you do.

By: Sunil

Sunil — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:10:34 +0000

Superb one. An eye opener and thought provoking.

By: Vikrant Bhuskute

Vikrant Bhuskute — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:14:41 +0000

Thank you for sharing sir. It has minded me to continually meditate on self imperfections, and limitations. And using that awareness to check in with oneself if anything more or different should be thought of.
Govind- I love your practical twist to draft an intolerance policy. Great idea…

By: Varda Pendse

Varda Pendse — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 03:05:01 +0000

Just sharing another story….a unit head shared his Financials showing profitable operations. When accounts team went through the Financials they realized that he had missed current liabilities or should I shay he deferred payments to show the black line. When I asked….his response…that you guys want to see profit so I showed it. If you asked him about liabilities I would have shared it…..no guilt / no sense of wrong doing / no sense that he is misrepresnting data. The strong sense to win and succeed driving all his action.
So your story ….has too many complexities of values, culture leadership and current ethos ! Commercial and Individua win as a value has has many negative impact on our ethos !

By: Joseph George A

Joseph George A — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:29:53 +0000

An extended benefit of this mindset is the heart for mercy. Mercy is usually unmerited grace or undeserved respite from the hardships of challenge.
While this could well be seen as the entrails of spiritual wholeness, it is a matter of contest still due to the structures and practices of legal instruments. That’s why corporates lose no time to castrate even the first-time wrong-doers.
Those low on the spectrum of moral, emotional or spiritual intelligence fall back on law to reduce their strain in decision making. Their capacity to imagine, feel and make space in their mind and hearts for impact on their ecologies is low. This is why capability is to be preceded by capacity.
Those who cultivate such sensitivity can propose the infinite goodness of the opposite end of the spectrum. Like the abolishing of death penalties even within legal systems.
Man’s obsession with prediction and control militates against being open to the emergent. Even what emerges through forgiveness or compassion for fellow human beings. Tolerance assumes limits. It imposes segmented bounds. Compassion unfolds potential. Nature is often unbounded in this respect.
When we socialise bounds, it reduces short-term cognitive load. It revolts soon after or surely later in long-term emotional load. Exclusion is easy. Inclusion is harder. It requires more than mind and heart. It needs open will.

Thank you for packing the precept within episodes in the popular moulds of culture.

By: Govind Sharma

Govind Sharma — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:21:03 +0000

The one thing I wait is,
Treasure of knowledge from your experience sir.
When I was reading this article, I was expecting police coming and how with courage you faced them but the story had hook and twist and when I started reading from do Ankhein Barah hath guide and so on, I could visualise many incident and one of that was an IAS officer caught red handed taking 10 cr bribe and who wrote a book on “ethics’ and given a lot of “motivational speech’. It also took me through a lot of dilemma when we found adverse report against one of the recent hire and your article was a perfect guide for me stating not to be a half judge. It also remind me another incident in my career where a senior person submitted cab bill from Vile Parle to Andheri for Rs 1500. We knew he is commuting fraud but we always act as per the convenience and as per “business exigencies”.
Thank you and keep us guiding sir.
And last – now I am going to write “intolerance policy” instead of Zero tolerence policy 🙂