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The rat race

I noticed an interesting trend, when i was still in high school and they were teaching us reverse osmosis, i was wondering if its that simple why don't they use that to make water purifiers and sure as hell somebody in HLL woke up about a decade later to the possibility. Then post engineering when for the first time i entered a b-plan competition and said that there lay a big future in sports entertainment industry, (sports played in short formats) they chucked my b-plan out (probably becoz i really didnt know how to do the financials then)...that was 2004 and in 2007 somebody realized that cricket would work better in a 20-20 format.

On a not so grand scale...whilst i started writing case studies and b-plans in first year, first trim of college, it is only in this fifth trim that i see a flurry of activity in college related to case studies and b-school competitions and i find myself bored of these kiddy things and am thinking on entreprenuerial terms...

I may not have cracked the mysteries of winning in this world...but atleast i have the thought leadership part quite well set...gives a happy feeling in the tummy about that :)

Perversion

Through the life and time of society we have been decreeing what is decent and what society finds unacceptable. Is seeing by the roadside perversion? what if you are peeing on a sapling, you are actually supplying it urea...wouldnt it be a shame to pee in the toilet and deprive the plant of nutrition it could have gotten so easy...

But this article is not about something so frivolous. Till orkut came in I had no idea how many gays and lesbians existed in India. But that wasn't the shock, soon the extent extended beyond that to alternate lifestyles...submissives, dominants, crossdressers, pain sluts, scat plays and a whole lot of other fetishes and alternate lifestyles. While I am sure Shiv Sena would like to blame it as an effect of the corrupt western world...i believe its neither corrupt nor due to the western world, but i would be digressing if I were to tackle that question in this article only...the point here is that while it took gays and lesbians to come forward slowly..they have...they are not as hidden as earlier and are gaining acceptance quite fast...soon we will find that these other perverts will demand there space under the sun...

And that brings me to what this article is really about, its about perverts, no not the gays , lez or other alternate lifestylists, they are just doing what they like, no there is a bigger sin in life...a perversion dirtier than someone who likes to eat shit...it is the perversion of feeding others shit...adulterated in normal food...it is the perversion of corruption...of falling for pleasures which harm others, of flling your coffers by starving others, the perversion of hate of finding excuse to hate another human, the perversion of not caring who comes under your car tyre, the perversion of enjoying life without being responsible for it, the perversion of feeding your kids with money...and the list goes on and on...

There are two kinds of perversion as i see it...one that will eventually change the shape of society...what is today frowned upon will become openly acceptable tomorrow...and the other which shall destroy the society itself...

We need specs

The sectoral courses at my college have been the point of unrest with the core mba people vehmently opposing these courses. With lot of points being raised in opposition to such courses, breach of trust, lack of quality intake, dilution of core brand, unnecessary competition, contextual relevance with threat of redundance, oh ya lack of infrastructure to house more courses, Yes i think i have covered them all. The final brink point has been placements, whilst the core people demanding that separate placements be held for core and sectoral programmes and the administration refusing it on practicality grounds.

Whilst there are some valid reasons on both sides, the strategic viewpoint of sectoral courses is lost for the moment. Whether the industry demands such courses, how the industry perceives the college, whether it takes sectoral and core as one reflection or whether they are different and if different then on what aspects.

With only a short term view of the situation i believe we are casting away a very strategic leverage that could be of use in the future.

It would be sissy like to just give out the objective view on this topic and not take a personal stand being in the thick of situation. I believe that sectoral programmes might be the way ahead, its like a superspecialization and while most of the industries wouldnt need more than a general manager, there are some where super specializations will be a good value add. There is always a fear of losing a good job to another and yes more competition increases that fear but then competition is something that is increasingly becoming tougher so its a reality to accept, also this year atleast the sectoral courses are at a disadvantage cause they are the first batch so most organizations would be wary of their produce. So as of now i am not really scared that someone from the sectoral course is gonna steal my coveted job, and if they can give a fight, i am all looking forward to the duel and i wish them luck.

What really pertrubs me is that there is water cooler in the outdoor sitting area which has been leaking since the day i came about an year and a half back and the core, the sectoral and the administration together have not been able to find a solution to that, or is it that they can't care enough. I leave this one problem unsolved so that every time i come back i can see whether this instituion that i am from, has it put on its specs and finally been able to see the things that will make it worldclass or is still bickering over small personal fights.

The Contemplative Indian

Something more important than being argumentative right now is to be contemplative. Whilst we managment grads and engineering grads of India are happy about the boom in the economy and thus our fattening pay packages there is a key essential that we are forgetting, it also means a more rapidaly decaying environment and whilst doomsday prophecies abound now maybe the time to start wondering if they are gonna come true and as i believe the human race is far beyond its peak, the question is when is nature going to restabilize.

But the point here is not about joining doomsday cults its purely about what should be our next steps and it seems to me, that soon we shall see re-village-ization of the world, pockets of people trying to isolate themselves from the destructive tendencies of the city life.

Environmental management would also be another area which will become big, people who can purify your sewerage, people who can build systems to help you be self sufficient in drinking water, help you get energy from the surroundings, infact without these consultants revillageization will not take off on a big scale.

I think we people have done too much of shopping, now is the time to sell...and probably stop breeding kids...i know this sounds like a doomsday prophecy but when you realize that even if you agree with me that the environment needs to be saved, you and i will end up destroying much more of it before we stop and then there are over 6 billion people who need to stop and if they do, then they just may not have enough to do in the world...so all in all letz enjoy while we can becoz soon earth is gonna take over from us humans...

psst...here's an analogy...if we dont expect the sensex to boom without a correction...havent we been expecting too much that there will be no correction despite our 6 billion parasitic boom...