HELLO,
PLEASE STOP WRITING NONSENSE ABOUT OUR GURUJI SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR JI. HE WILL NOT EVEN GET A SINGLE PENNY OUT OF ART OF LIVING ORGANISATION. HE IS STRUGGLING SO HARD DAY & NIGHT TRAVELLING ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR PEACE AND A SMILE FROM HEART. I GUESS YOUR LIFE MUST BE FULL OF TROUBLES..NO […]
Entries from December 2006
R U MAD ??????
December 29th, 2006 · 18 Comments
Tags: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Essence of Leadership
December 29th, 2006 · 6 Comments
“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith
Tags: Quotes
IIT–Inspire, Involve and Transform
December 28th, 2006 · 22 Comments
Hoopla at the Bandra Kurla
The PanIIT 2006 conference was a marvel to behold. I was among the over 5,000 (so the organizers claimed) who attended the event at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, Dec 23rd to the 25th. I had had my misgivings about being part of the hoopla but my curiosity trumped discretion eventually. […]
Tags: IIT
Competition and Choice
December 21st, 2006 · 2 Comments
From Bath, England, Keith Hudson’s Daily Wisdom mailings are a source of endless delight and surprise. Wide ranging and eclectic, Keith’s musings are edifying to say the least. Here, for the record, is today’s bit which focuses on a topic close to my heart–education.
Tags: Education
Dividing India
December 19th, 2006 · 24 Comments
Surendra Kaushik is a professor of finance at Pace University in New York. His article Do Not Reinforce Two Indias is worth a read.
Tags: Corruption · Education
Linking Poverty and Hinduism
December 19th, 2006 · 13 Comments
A couple of paragraphs from Alvin Toffler’s The Thought Leader Interview (hat tip: Anish Sankalia) caught my attention:
Tags: Random Draws
Panjim, Goa
December 17th, 2006 · 7 Comments
It is interesting to learn that Goa tops the list of favorite places not just for your average European tourist but also the Al Qaeda. Israel issued a warning to its citizens.
“In light of terrorist threats by Al Qaeda in India, a concrete threat now exists specifically for the Indian state of Goa, which hosts […]
Tags: Places
What the world owes to the US
December 15th, 2006 · 13 Comments
In a comment on my musings on “An entirely avoidable tragedy”, Jack Stack wrote
You are quick to point out issues (again) with the US. Yep, Iraq, but at the same time, we’ve done quite a bit for literally every nation since we became a nation. We can debate the merits of capitalism, democracy, […]
Tags: Conflict
The Dollar Auction Continues
December 13th, 2006 · 7 Comments
It should come as no surprise that the US is selling arms to Pakistan.
“2,769 Radio Frequency TOW 2A missiles, 415 RF bunker buster missiles, fly-to-buy missiles in both these categories, 121 TOW launchers for wire-guided and wireless missiles, E-2C HAWKEYE 2000 Airborne Early Warning Systems, simulators and support equipment. Their total worth could be […]
Tags: Conflict
Liberalize the Indian Education Sector
December 10th, 2006 · 18 Comments
This is a true story. The faculty member involved emailed me yesterday. Scene: an IIT professor interviewing a potential candidate for PhD in a technical subject.
Tags: Bureaucracy · Economic Reforms · Education
Gordon Dryden on India
December 8th, 2006 · 5 Comments
New Zealand author Dr. Gordon Dryden, who showed me around his home-country last year (mentioned before here and here), breezed into India last month, and a week later flew out “head filled with a haze of contraditions”:
Air travel: Horrified at the Air India trip from Hong Kong to New Delhi (”Do they really have […]
Tags: Alternative Viewpoint · Development
Desperately Seeking India’s Google
December 6th, 2006 · 9 Comments
The San Jose Mercury News has a recent report about how mobile phones are going to be for India what the PC was for the US. Naturally, they quote the most passionate evangelist for the mobile web, my colleague and MD of Netcore, Mr Rajesh Jain. The matter that the article focuses on is of […]
Tags: Education
Instituto Thomas Jefferson
December 5th, 2006 · 6 Comments
George Bernard Shaw had claimed with characteristic immodesty that “when I want to read a good book, I write one.” Fulfilling a perceived need is a defining characteristic of entrepreneurs. Like great artists and poets, entrepreneurs see the world not as it is but rather how it ought to be. And they follow that creative […]
Tags: Education
