Comments | rachana_shenoy: Food for thought

rachana_shenoy

Food for thought

Feb 08, 2005 16:43

One of our family friends had dropped by the other day. This guy is currently pursuing his Phd at a coveted university in the U.S. We had a long conversation and few of the things which he told me were like reeelly thought provoking ( Read more... )

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Here comes my reply to it. amarts February 8 2005, 14:22:26 UTC

Ok! every thing he thinks is correct, I mean, there is not much scope for innovation, 'out of box thinking' etc. True and sad too ( ... )

Re: Here comes my reply to it. rachana_shenoy February 9 2005, 18:34:49 UTC

hi amar thanx for the comment! do agree with u tht population is a key problem...but nevertheless i think the first step is in recognising tht a problem exists n acknowledgin it!
maybe to bring a radical change in the education system or people's perspectives overnight is unrealistic,but we need to start somewhere???!!!maybe try n bring a gradual change.......

creamanups February 8 2005, 18:11:24 UTC

although i agrre with amar's thought bout few companies like ittiam and others who r doing som good work, the fact is that most of the companies come here to make money.. its just the cheap labour and an above avg brained population which attracts them ( they may say indians hav a vast talent pool etc, they never use them...its just human resource exploitation ).. now tel me why my company ( i hope nobodry from my office reads this..anyway they cant restrict me to put my opinion here.. and moreover i'm not blogging from office :) wants to open a development center in china.. they say we hav a huge s/w potential in china.. all bullshit.. its bcos chinese r availbale at a much lower price than us..very simple equations ( ... )

creamanups February 9 2005, 05:56:53 UTC

some typo there.. kindly adjust :)

rachana_shenoy February 9 2005, 18:39:15 UTC

hi manoj......can't agree with u more ...in most companies all we r paid to do is coolie kelasa!! maybe we can call urselves "cyber coolies" on those lines.....

kewldeaf February 10 2005, 13:12:09 UTC

code coolie is the apt word ....i think :D

madhumala_j February 8 2005, 18:21:40 UTC

rach, i strongly believe in one fact- "where there is a will there is a way"..
there are many people who have succeeded in life staying in india.
everything finally bottles down to ones perspective of life..
>>> Btw he’s frm IITchennai..There’s absolutely no scope for practical thinking n innovation…….
dont they provide good education in iit. finally these iitians are the ones who leave a mark in this world..
>>>He went on to say that Indians keep bragging about gr8 achievements in the fields of Mathematics n physics n other scientific fields
what's wrong in it...
n moreover india is famous for research oriented works...
c we cant blame the education system for everything, brain drain is part of our society, so it is left to us..
tmw if u r i work for some international company, that doesnt mean i am not sattisfied with education system in india. though there r some flaws in this system, but i can proudly say indian education system is responsible for whatever i am tdy...

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Re: Past Glory madhumala_j February 9 2005, 17:33:35 UTC

gooddevil u deserve that name. must say smart move....
now that u have mentioned abt srk, he said dont JUST bank on traditions...
c i am just puttin forward this idea-
we have some responsibilty towards our nation. v cant just keep blamin the education system for everything that doesnt workout in our lives.. we should realise our responsibilties then v have the right to blame the politicians, education system n so on...
n c'mon iit is better than most of the eng colleges in the world.. dont u think.

kewldeaf February 10 2005, 13:20:07 UTC

dont they provide good education in iit. finally these iitians are the ones who leave a mark in this world..

crap have heard from many of my coursin's friends this etc

why did i have to toil this hard to get to IITs ? they ruin our lives...

getting to IITs may be achievement but getting out of it with your life intact is achievement ...

There is no innovation here it is same as top VTU universities except for one thing infrastructure....and all those glorification is bullshit ....mess is bad .....profs scare the hell of you .......etc etc

and infrastructure comes from US NRIs who leave with IIT tags to serve US not India note this kindly please madam ....

So watch swades and kindly try to encore yourselves .....I hope i will be able to in future something good for India :(......

but i can proudly say indian education system is responsible for whatever i am tdy...
yeah Indian system which encourages mugging is responsible for what you are today ? please rethink this .....we never had chance to think ...look at those papers ....

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Relax!!! rachana_shenoy February 9 2005, 18:45:02 UTC

Chill madhu there is more to this situation than SRK and Swades!!!!
n sure enough it's absolutely debatable if we shud blame ourselves or the edu system.....it's a viscious circle!!!

Re: Relax!!! madhumala_j February 10 2005, 14:43:20 UTC

hey rachana plz read the comments properly before u reply,
i wasnt the one who started abt srk r swades... so blame gooddevil (sorry pk, am putting the blame on u)

Re: Relax!!! raviks February 14 2005, 10:47:43 UTC

Madhu relaxing when Srk in the field?? No way... :-)