I just saw Rang de Basanti. A movie with a great concept indeed, Mig 21's falling out of the sky used to happen too often for comfort. God knows how may pilots lost their lives or were maimed for life because of the faulty parts used in maintaining these outdated aircrafts. The movie goes the distance to sensitise the viewing public to this issue but the solution resorted to by the protagonists makes it unbelievable.
Who goes around killing corrupt officials as a solution? And drawing a parallel with the freedom movement, that's stretching things too far. Bhagat Singh did not become a revolutionary for personal vendetta. The whole freedom movement was based on a different ideology. Today if you go around killing all the corrupt people in the country, then the population of India would be halved!! "An eye for an eye will leave the world blind" as Gandhi said. It is not the solution, it will only lead to more problems.
The movie does address the right issues, but does not offer any conclusive solutions. It will probably provoke a lot of thoughts on the issue though. Maybe a generation will be sensitised to the extent that some solutions do actually emerge. After all there is little that a corrupt political generation can do in front of an empowered public. Aakhir janata ki hathon mein hi hai sarkar ki takdeer, atleast during the elections.
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my eyes
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Something arbitrary...
I can't believe this just happened..I pride myself on being able to remember names, email ids and my own passords..but I just forgot the password to this blog!!! Looks like I've been away a tad too long. :D
Had a nice break from the rigours of education with 10 days of luxurious relaxation at home!! Returned on the 4th and find time to blog only now. What have I been doing in this period? Nothing much actually, catching up on the work that I was supposed to have done at home. But then, who ever works when they go home?!
Meantime, lots happened since my last post. There was an i nternational conference joint hosted by ASB and the Stanford Centre for International Development (SCID). It was about development in Kerala, with speakers from India and the US (Stanford). Was able to meet people like T.N.Sriniavasan who's a world renowned economist and teaches at Yale! Visitors from SCID included Dr. N.K.Singh, Roger Noll and Jesicca Wallack. Some big names from the industry was also around. All in all a great experience!!
That was in December and soon after that I headed home after almost 3 months!! That's the ongest I've ever been away and I can assure you I did not like it. Came back with a heavy heart, but then this is life and in management jargon it's called trade-off.
This term is heavy as expected. 5 subjects - Finance-II, Organisational Behaviour-II, QM-I, Operations Management and Macroeconomics. All pretty heavy subjects with a lot of concepts to understand and jargons to spew when necessary. For eg. "The variable component of cost structure can be tweaked to improve operational efficiency and profitability by increasing the contribution of the process." That's just some of the statements thrown around when you have the prof staring at you expectantly and you don't have anything of consequence to say since you were busy in Never Never Land!!
One of my resolutions this year is to be more regular in my work and that includes my blog. Which incidently reminds me - "Happy New Year" :D
Had a nice break from the rigours of education with 10 days of luxurious relaxation at home!! Returned on the 4th and find time to blog only now. What have I been doing in this period? Nothing much actually, catching up on the work that I was supposed to have done at home. But then, who ever works when they go home?!
Meantime, lots happened since my last post. There was an i nternational conference joint hosted by ASB and the Stanford Centre for International Development (SCID). It was about development in Kerala, with speakers from India and the US (Stanford). Was able to meet people like T.N.Sriniavasan who's a world renowned economist and teaches at Yale! Visitors from SCID included Dr. N.K.Singh, Roger Noll and Jesicca Wallack. Some big names from the industry was also around. All in all a great experience!!
That was in December and soon after that I headed home after almost 3 months!! That's the ongest I've ever been away and I can assure you I did not like it. Came back with a heavy heart, but then this is life and in management jargon it's called trade-off.
This term is heavy as expected. 5 subjects - Finance-II, Organisational Behaviour-II, QM-I, Operations Management and Macroeconomics. All pretty heavy subjects with a lot of concepts to understand and jargons to spew when necessary. For eg. "The variable component of cost structure can be tweaked to improve operational efficiency and profitability by increasing the contribution of the process." That's just some of the statements thrown around when you have the prof staring at you expectantly and you don't have anything of consequence to say since you were busy in Never Never Land!!
One of my resolutions this year is to be more regular in my work and that includes my blog. Which incidently reminds me - "Happy New Year" :D
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