Harish Palaniappan's

"A good deed is a good deed... when its known as a good deed."

Note "when its known as" in the above line. That means one has to claim recognition for a good deed or action, to "complete" the good deed.

Again notice "complete", it means when you do a good thing to the society, or to your employees, or to anybody/any place/or a thing, you need to tell that you have done it to complete the action. Some people think of this as show-casing or making a hype, and not- claiming recognition for doing a good deed is considered being, modest, humble and the likes.

In my opinion people who try to be modest are 'stupid'. I am sorry to say that, but that's the fact.. because they leave their action incomplete and they dont understand how much it affects the reach of their good deed itself. Tell me, will you feel ok if you paid for your shopping and the shop staff didnt give you a bill?. Can you just hop out of the shop calling it as being modest. That's what happens when good people do good things and don't make a noise about it.

Call it showcasing, 'making hay when the sun shines', or whatever you like. But being against it, or being "modest" has very bad effects. And, what wrong is it to claim recognition for a good deed done well... when there are people who claim even bribes for doing nothing or just doing their duty. The more the number of modest people, there exist double that amount of unmodest, anti-development people.

I will take Indians for quoting the effects India is facing in growing into a better country because of modest people. Because there are too many modest people is one of the big reasons for India still trying hard to become a developed nation.

The politicians in India for example, just sign/approve a reform bill and claim they have done great things to make the nation grow.. and they drum it loud on newspapers, TV channels, radio... name a medium, they shout there for little deeds they do.

Point Number 1 here is, these politicians were elected only for doing these deeds, and shouting it loud is nuts... they are just doing their duty... and they are not giving away their money to reform anything or anybody. Are they?

There are some people on earth like Bill Gates (Chairman Microsoft corporation), who earns all his money out of hard-work, stressed-up planning, marketing, managing his large enterprise over many many years, and after all that Bill Gates donates billions of this hard-earned money to charity. Does Bill Gates drum it like these stupid politicians do.. and comparing Bill Gates with these politicians would only de-credit him, because he does it with his money, while politicians do it with people's money amassing some it to themself too.

In my opinion, every minute Bill Gates doesn't claim recognition for his work, his modesty costs an awful amount of time and money. Wondering how?

Kill your modesty:
You are a Dance choreographer, your creative work for a hindi music video gets you critical acclaim.. Go there, show off.. if you be modest, you are giving valuable Television air-time for a politician to make another claim for signing a small reform bill, you are giving scope for government employees to show-off as if they did a great thing when they have just did a part of their job and this is because you make general public think that great things are so uncommon and they believe every bit of a claim that unmodest people make.

This why I call unmodest people as anti-development guys.. and modest people are directly supporting them in allowing them to do their stuff with all the hype.

Looks like a simple thing to be modest..
Looks like a great thing to do a lot of good work and keep quiet,
But if you understand what all advantages people make for every bit of a space and opportunity they get, you will only need to make use of your good deed and claim notice for it... so that great things remain great things, and doing duty remains just a duty done well.

Kill your modesty... or it kills the meaning of "a good action".

Modesty and Indians:
Being an Indian, I have seen that "Modesty" is something that's grown with the fabric of Indian culture... quiet unfortunate.

So sad to see that many Indians who talk of trying to change the face of India, are also the people who are reluctantly trying to be modest with their deeds.

All the time when the question arises how they feel about doing the good work, they point their fingers above (towards god), or at someone else at a lower level (to encourage them help more)... which gives unreasonable effect to their work and makes it look like the person wasn't interested doing it, or it just happened by accident, or it wasn't hard work at all. They in turn insult the act of doing good, and nullify its importance (if it has any).

Whenever I see a politician or anybody making noise about a thing or two they did to correct a problem that was waiting to be solved, I remember one of my Project Managers.
Everytime a person on the project complained that the client has no proper systems or processes and its a big problem with doing things for the client, the manager used to clarify saying, "you are here only to make these improper systems and processes proper... thats why we hired you..and thats why the client hires us".
I wish politicians and government employees knew that.
Especially politicians in Tamilnadu India, who even have their own TV channels (owned by family or friends) to do the drumming part. Examples are: SUN TV which drums about every reform Mr.Karunanidhi (cheif, DMK party) make, and JAYA TV drum news about every reform Ms.J.Jayalalitha(cheif, AIADMK party) make.

Whenever I see a person being modest about his work.., I only used to wonder how much TV / media time he could have made use of to make his claims and explain how, why and what made him do it.. which could inspire probably a 100 more people to become like him. Such things are like lost opportunity to drive a million people into achievers...and these opportunities come only once in many years for these million people.