Reservation in Premier institutes

Its quite sometime that debate is active over ‘reservation for OBC in premier institutes’. If we look at opinion polls by different media we can see that, majority condemns this movement by government very strongly. HRD minister Mr. Arjun singh took a safer side saying PMO is very well aware of the decision and it’s from there, not me who is responsible for this. We very well understand your concerns Mr. Minister. A clear sign we can see at present is Govt. is planning go ahead with the decision.

Is this reservation funda, a big non sense? I don’t think so. A less privileged class has to come up; they need exposure or opportunity for that. That was the thought behind it, when Dr. Ambedkar proposed this concept. Its quite a long time after independence now, but still reservation system is very much alive. It clearly tells you that, the idea is not working out very well or ‘Politicians’ are not dare to stop this being afraid of the majority(read vote bank) in the country.

Now let’s come more close to premier institutes. Getting into IITs/IIMs is not kids play. You gotta be really competitative. But to be competitive you need to get exposure that’s how people raise their bar. People who have got strong basic education and good exposure really dominate when it comes to JEE or CAT. Are we giving this kinda strong foundation or exposure in Villages? An Absolute strong NO. If we don’t give them enough opportunity how will they come up? Concept of reservation holds good here. One of my friend who had done his studies till 12 Th in a remote village got admission to a good engg. college in Kerala thru OBC quota. You belive it or not, he stood top through out engg.and secured first rank in university. Is it not a very valid example for ‘If you are giving opportunity to people’ they come up really well? I know, there are people raising their eye brows saying this is one odd case. Now look at Globalization arena, if we don’t have trade regulations and rules in India, will not this experienced foreign big players swallow our system. Regulation/reservation is a sensible concept to an extent.

What is happening to our IIT/IIM grads, it’s true that good education is accessible thru good money from basic education till 10+2. They are the front runners for IIT/IIMs, no doubt about that. The same money factor or better opportunites is leading them to go abroad and settle down there. Who can stop this? No one. I think to an extent this can be stopped by giving opportunity to less privilaged. Another concern is about the quality or the brand of Premier school grads if best students are not admitted. Definitely a big concern, if you implement reservation, how to take care of this is a genuine concern. A very valid threshold cut off for the reserved category is my answer.

Another argument against reservation, there are well off people still getting the benefit of reservation. I agree to that, definitely some quality measures are to be taken at least for the premier institutes. Another concern of loosing out deserved candidates over reserved ones; it’s the cost of not having well placed and efficient basic education system.

Some proposals for implementation…

Best solution: Ensure the access to quality education for all class of people as early as from basic education and scrap the reservation system for premier institutes. Scrap the system where more you pay more you get in basic education system. Easy said than done, a big thought and movement need to be done for this.

Some practical solutions…

1. Increase the number of premier institutes
2. Decrease the percentage of reservation
3. Merge the seats of reserved category to general list, if students do not meet threshold criteria.

Last but not the least, a request to the government. Look at the data of post independence. See, where this reservation system is leading us. We believe in empowered nation, where people have equal access to basic facilities and equal opportunities. Let the best people come out and lead us from the front. Shed these petty tricks for keeping the vote bank stable. Convince people what is the need of going ahead with the reservation system. No hide and seek please….

Rang de basanti

After reading excellent reviews, it was with lot of expectation that I went for ‘Rang de basanti’. Also by expecting a class performance from Amir Khan. Anyway, I was satisfied when I came out. Tips: Dont not choose night show for this kind of movies. Thru out my dream amirkhan and his friends doing masti, also another sector of mind doing an analysis of what the movie is and how will it click in box office?.I cud not sleep at all. A short note from dreams...

Maybe the taste of people has been changed; they expect ‘Garam masala’, kyaa cool he hum. In general, affinity towards masti is clicking in box office; I believe that’s a good change. They want to be happy in theatre.But I doubt, is it not preventing themselves from achieving a brain stimulating laugh. When the humor can makes you think, that will be long lasting. Infact, reaching out humor thru short cuts like sexually inclined dialogues is not the right direction for the long lasting and constructive comedy. This general Impression about the taste of people might have been the inspiration for Mr. Mehra to make such a film where he tried to find a right mixture of masti and seriousness.

Five young men, like any other young Turks enjoying their best at the college. DJ does not like to go away from college, because he enjoys at campus. And he realizes he has got no value when he is out of college. That feeling binds him to the campus. A sudden change in the theme, which no one expected from the masti in the first half is questionable. But anyway, now the movie gotta serious face. Young Turks wanted to do something for their friend, country. Movie goes on...

I think Director sincerely wanted to convey only onething...”Instead of cribbing about the problems in the country, go ahead and do something for it.” He is successful in presenting his ideas. He tried to remind and compare spirit and will power of our old young heroes Bhagat singh, Azad so and so. I don’t know how far he is able to inspire youngsters with this comparison. But, Idea is very clear. A good movie is made. All characters acted really well, matured and consistent. I still remember the scene Aamir khan sobbing very sincerely, after the demise of his dear friend and resting on his girlfriend’s lap. She said “I later realized, he was not sleeping, they were all waking up”. A good example for the transformation from a person to a character.

A very good thought, good music, good acting. But somewhere something is wrong in the total presentation that will stop this movie achieving heights. After all movie itself says, we realize the value of our martyrs and Indian history when some western brain tells us “they were great”. I think movie is also no different. Let this movie achieve its heights. Let this movie inspire all my young friends to make them do something instead of cribbing about it. Hats off Amir , this is why I call you an actor and Sharukh a Hero. You have set an example for all other megastars in India; actor does not go above the character or role. “I have seen two kinds people facing death, some go to death screaming, some in peace, I met the third kind…..” .movie still hangs in me…

Business process and religion

I happened to hear, so many spiritual leaders appealing business leaders to promote spiritualism among business community. As expected, I think the appeal was always neglected. “What religion and such principle have to do with our business?” .No one gave them clear answer, or nothing could convince them. They can blame about religion as, something which had a major role in splitting the society and broke the very purpose of it. Is not valid?

Hmmm...Now, let’s come to the business community. As we all know, every industry has some kind of quality process defined for them. They “religiously” follow it, to attract customers and also to ensure the quality of the end product. They will also boast about the quality, by certifications they achieved in their growth ladder. CMM, ISO are some examples. But as one among in the customer community, we will agree that we do look at these certifications, for choosing a suitable vendor for our work.

What are these processes and why it is so very important? When a collective community of employees works for a major purpose or a project, it is very much needed to have a process in place. This is to learn from experiences and also to correct and set a vision for future endeavors. In summary, to get a better visibility, ensuring improvement, ensuring quality, some bench marks has been defined. People who master these processes become leaders, after sometime they see themselves growing out of it.

Now come back to religion. Very well known fact is all regions are made for the good of harmony and peace of society, to some extent we can say universe. These were the benchmarks defined to understand themselves and also to ensure the quality of human race specially; the dominating creature. But in the evolution, man started taking it as part of him/her. (h) She became proud of saying “I am Hindu” Or “I am Christian”. I think from then, the whole purpose of it was lost.

Can we imagine a world, where employees fight each other saying, “I am CMM level 5”, and “I am ISO: 90002” etc. When process becomes part of self who is supposed to just follow it, the very purpose of it is lost. Now the key note here is, if the process and certifications are benchmarks for delivering better quality product in business, religion is to ensure the stability in human life and it’s the key to discover self and grow out of it. Keep a personal space for “I”, let that be the mantra.

Rules and Character

Recently our company went for BS7799 security certification. We are a CMM level5 company. They have also plans for getting CMMI certification. Sorry if you are not an IT pro, it may seem continuous bouncers for you. But if you ask any employee in an IT Company, “are you following all the rules what the certification manual put forward?” obvious answer is No. Some of them even go to an extent saying “all crap”. Why these companies go for certification is a different topic, but it is a very evident fact that, it’s to become trust worthy of western customers not the obsession for the quality or security.

When we look in to the fact that, why all these certifications are futile attempts to make people better or company a quality one our topic starts. Discipline is a character and rules are no different. Attempts should be done to make all these processes a part of company’s breathing. I mean to say, building up a CMM person and security maestros should be the vision of the implementation team. Let me take one e.g. of our daily life. When we were child we were told that, “Hey, you have to wash your mouth before having breakfast” and we were also taught, washing hands and face is must before having food. We religiously followed what ever they said. Yes, some of us hesitated to follow, and were also beaten up. Anyway, now we make sure that what ever was told is followed religiously. Not that we are following the rules told by them “It has become our part of character”.

Solution is unique here, imbibe the character of rule mandate don’t follow the rules. On Indian roads, we are told to follow some rules. Do we follow all of them? Look at western countries how do they react in a traffic jam. But my argument is not that, they will follow the rules, even there is no controlling body since it has become their part of character. But there is a slight difference in “Baby-mouthwash” example and this scenario. We later realized that what ever we were told to do in childhood was directly linked to our health and personal good. Unfortunately, later in life society rules and other rules are taken as something which is told for the benefit of someone else and so a necessity of a controlling body still exists. Let’s dream for a day, every one of us imbibe the rule not follow the rule.

Live for the moment!!

My parents never told me this. They said “Don’t try to act matured, be child and grow matured”
My teachers never told me this, they said “Study every day’s topic systematically, and then it will be easy for you in exam”
We friends never discussed this. But we were happy playing cricket, volleyball making noise in group trying to steal good fruits from neighbor’s house. Nice and funny days…
Is n’t it? May be story that you have is different. But we know, we were really happy when we were children more than what we are…So analyzing the change what we had from our childhood to manhood is really important when we realize that, we lost our real happiness somewhere in this path.

I am matured now, I have moustache, and my body is bigger than those little kids. But I doubt, we have hindered the mental growth, when we were growing up. When we really know that, we can’t remain child physically, and if we realize that mental happiness was lost in the process of growth; either we should search out in the path and determine in which stage we turned gloomy or try to be a kid through out (Mentally). A valid question arise from here can be, “We were worried about mom’s punishments; we were really worried about Exam results”. How can we say, we were really happy when we were children. I look at it in this way. True that, children are really worried about punishments, they are also worried about exam results. What comes out from this thought? Let the worries be part of your life style.

Don’t be worried about the worries, but when we find happiness from any corner of our life, grab them and live for that moment instead of looking out for worries waiting for us. It is and it was always part of our life. Let us take them along with us. If there are no worries then how will we distinguish happiness? If What ever was taught to you and given to you was easy problems; Mathematics will become easy for you, people who scored good marks in mathematics first distinguished easy and tough problems and then the took along the difficult ones with them in the process. They got it done.

We have worries and happiness, as well said by an adage “two sides of a coin”; let’s take along the worries with us, and distinguish the happiness out of it. Like I earlier mentioned, Lets score good marks, by seeing and understanding the best out of it. Be an energetic and enthusiastic kid thru out. ” humming comes to my mind …18 till I die.

I am not forgetting the fact that, time puts you in a mental state where we only see difficult problems. But I strongly believe, a ray of hope remains in every moment.When you fight with the difficult ones you emerge stronger and confident. In exam we can skip difficult ones, but fortunately or unfortunately life may or may not allow you for that.Be prepared for the worst, don’t ever get away from the worst, remember it’s your turn to emerge stronger!!!

Best of luck for your love with worries…Love him (her??) and be kid thru out, Not physically :)

Listen to wht your mind says

Let’s look at title, 'listening to your mind'. What does this mean? Every one keeps telling this, every one advice. Most of them, just take it as some one told me this, so let’s follow that. Can we not interpret it in this way, today your mind say some thing (assuming what mind says as thought of the person), we go ahead with that and do it. But if that is something makes you repent later, in other words mind tells just contradictory to what he/she had been hearing from his/her mind. So 'listen to your mind', is not perfectly right. Whts the solution for this? Give some time for your mental process, and even after the time passes by the thought does not change, put down the solution as “ This is what My mind says “. Unluckily, we cannot define the time period here. But even the essence of the solution is to make people happy, not to repent for the "hearings" from mind. Some of them say, listen to heart...”I don’t agree with this".

'SEX' why is it different from other emotions ?

Is 'Sex' something to be shy of ?. We have a very unified opinion globally in this regard. Some one having sex in private, people tend to keep special eye on them. It is just a relation or just another emotion that living animal(hope plants do not) have. Do we have the same eagerness when some one is crying in a corner out of pain? If its a rape victim obviously 'Yes'.It is a fact that 'Sex' is something really wonderfull and very different emotion. How it became different and what is the evolution behind it ? Sounds intresting, is n't it ?
The way we look at sex changes with culture, and that it itself points to the fact that its not an abnoraml emotion..!!

HAVE A BRAINSTORMING TIME !!!!