Nobel and India

Heartiest congratulations to Prof Venky for Nobel.....but i wonder why Indians affiliated to Indian Institutions don't get Noble??????

It's not that they lack talent...probable reason is that we don't have infrastructure to nurture talent...or might be our institutions are not given preference while assessing the quality for Nobel.

Our department of Sci and tech needs to concentrate more on research works...need to build infrastructure to support world class research....so that our talents need not to go abroad to full fill their ambitions either financial or professional

Cattle class, cattles and human beings...

Our honourable Mos for External affairs has labeled economy class as cattle class. We should appreciate him rather than to thrash because he has been honest with the condition of economy class as well with his feelings.
Let us explore other cattle classes.....people travelling in planes call trains as cattle vehicles....people travelling in frist class of trains label second class as cattle class....and so on....people using bikes and cycles face problems with cattles (these is only instance cattle is used in it's dictionary meaning) grazing around roads....and these people are sought to be cattles by those cruising in their cars...and so on.....and people staying in cities label rural population as cattles and we people of developng countries might be labeled as cattles by those residing in developed countries and so on...

it is clear that cattle is not a absolute term.....it's is relative term...human beings call cattles to animal inferior to them and superior human beings call their inferiors yet another human beings as cattles....therefore we all are cattles at some point of our life or other...let our Mos travel in second class of local train in peak hour then he will find economy class very much comfortable...and those traveling in trains must go to villages and see what's condition of transport there then they will find trains very comfortable....

India's Democratic Princes

This is article from Times of India dated 11th September 2009 written by celebrity author Chetan Bhagat....

The recent death of the Andhra Pradesh chief minister was indeed a tragic event. To lose a leader is loss to nation too. However, what is striking is the immediate succession drama that ensued. The top choice for the CM's new job was, in what will be no surprize to Indians, the CM's son. Somehow, we have almost accepted the hereditary entitlement of children of Bollywood superstars and politicians. I have no view on the choice of CM, nor m I an expert of Andhra politics. However, I am intrigued by this general phenomenon on how some of the most importnat jobs in the country are handed over based on lineage more than calibre.
We simply don't have a mechanism to get the best person for the most responsible jobs in the country. So why are we like this? Why do we think it is almost alright for a politician's son to become the next leader? I think there are three main reasons. First up is emotional decision-making. Apologies for stereotyping, but Indians are emotional people. The content of our films and TV programming is ample evidence of this. When it comes to choosing a public figure, the decision is almost never completely rational. We are fond of Big B, so we also give Junior B a chance. It doesn't matter as much when it is about choosing the star you want to watch on screen. It has huge repercussions when you use emotional criteria for positions that involve running the country.

There is no doubt that the deceased CM's family is in deep grief, but to hand over the reins of the state only for that reason may not be the best idea. Political choices by voters must be rational. I am not suggesting that all people with lineage will not be able to do a good job. Rahul Gandhi has resurrected the Congress; he speaks well and has kept his patience and not jumped to take the top post. Maybe that should be the reason to elect him, but not because he reminds you of his father. Similarly, if some of his subsidy policies are damaging the country's finances, you can consider switching your vote. Your vote is an important choice for your country, not an expression of love.

Second, there is a lack of institutions to groom political talent. We make great engineers and doctors but we don't take our liberal arts courses seriously. A handful of colleges are good, but most places are poorly run and we don't have any institutions like Georgetown University in the US, for example, which actually trains students for political careers. The content of existing courses is outdated. I have met few political science graduates who can give an insightful view on the current state of Indian politics and how to bring about change in the present times. Even apart from education, the political parties have no induction methods of taking in bright young Indians, conducting training programmes, or a meritocratic evaluation system in place to make sure the best talent gets a chance to shine.

In absence of all this, parties depend on a few charismatic personalities to run the show and their sudden absence creates a void, which needs to be filled by a personality clone rather than the best leader available. This further acts as a demotivator for capable people to make a career in politics who know they'll never make it to the top. This worsens the supply of good people in times of need.

And then there is the lack of political awareness. While we do study the oversimplified definition of a democracy in school by the people, for the people millions of Indians, particularly in the economically weaker sections of society, still do not understand the full power of a democracy. Our history of monarchy is difficult to shake off, as democracy is a recent arrival in India's story. The established lines created by the caste system over centuries make it difficult to grasp the concept that anyone with talent can and, importantly, should rise to the highest levels in society. In this scenario, we see political leaders as kings, and their little princes are automatically next in line.

If we do pay attention to these issues, we can make the beginning towards a robust political system that elects strong leaders who can take India to the next level. Meanwhile, the little princes should learn a lesson from Bollywood. Your pedigree may have given you a break, but you still need to perform. There are only so many flops daddy's name can support. Somebody may have made you a prince, but to stay there and become a real hero, you need to become a leader. The lights and cameras are on you now, so let's see if you can deliver. Action!

Departure of Dr. YSR...

A potential bad news struck my evening tea yesterday....CM of AP goes missing...and unfortunately it was confirmed at today morning tea...India lost one of the best CMs...suspence still remains whehter this loss will be repaired?????

he is well known for his ground work rather than office works....and death chased him while performing his duty...going for surprize visit to some rural area....let us condole demise of Dr. YSR....and hope that gap will be filled soon...

Exams.........deadlier than death....

Final year student of MBBS is the best person on this earth who can understand the pain inflicted by exams. As it may seem that medical students face only 4 university exams during whole of MBBS but actual scenario is completely different. there are 4 professional exams....4 mid term exams....4 preliminary exams...innumerable part exams and ward exams.

कहते है की ज़िंदगी इम्तिहान लेती है, पर यहाँ इम्तिहानो ने ज़िंदगी ले ली है यारो...

due to so many exams we have to spend so many sleep less nights studying many useless things which are forgotten immediately after submitting the answer paper. Our education system needs to be reformed in order to develop more intelligent andrationale testing of knowldge. current examination system is nothing but hinderance in development of intelligence and understanding.

in order to score good marks many students go for sub standard books and end up studying so called "important topics" only and those who stick to standard books and try to develop understanding of the subject end up with substandard scores....this is paradox of medical studies with few exceptions. students spend more time in library than in wards.

This is one of the chief reasons responsible for declining practical knowledge in medical graduates and on other hand our government wants to hand over these fresh graduates the responsibility of PHCs the first contact between public and health care system.

why MCI is not thinking to reform medical examination system....so that we can have medical graduates with better applicability...so that future medical under grads spend more time with patients than mugging up some stupid names of genes in library...which won't be remembered outside examination hall??????

Slumdog Millionaire...

Apart from entertainment the function of movies is to expose the social problems prevalent in society. Many movies made in India and abroad have successfully done the later one. Two questions came in to my mind immediately when I heard about success of Slumdog Millionaire. One was that had this movie been made by an Indian director would it have won so many awards? Other question was that would any bollywood director have made this movie so simple…so realistic?

After hearing so much about this movie I could not stop myself from downloading it from net and watching (I am very much against piracy but it was too long to wait for this movie to be released in India). After watching movie I realized that it was very difficult for this movie to be made as it is in India. Everything looked very realistic and practicable. The way director presented the movie was extraordinary whole credit to him. The many social problems prevalent in our country have been presented in the movie in a very intelligent manner.

It’s not that Indians movies haven’t tried to do this but Indian movies have failed to do so without any extraordinary heroic character. In typical Indian movies lead actor (hero of the movie) does something which looks very impracticable under given circumstances (Few exceptions are there). This movie hasn’t involved any such instances. Story progresses in very simple and practical manner. Nowhere in this movie one can get impression that this is very difficult to be executed in real life (except from the way he answered last question a random guess proved to be correct but this also has probability of 25%; random guessing shows that he didn’t have value for Rs. 10 million he had won).

As far as social problem are concerned when these are shown in an Indian movie this is overshadowed by something else (latest example is that of Ghazini in which very sensitive issue of girl trafficking was over shadowed by eight pack abs and hair style). Many social issues like riots, problems of street children, forced begging, prostitution etc were shown in this movie. This movie must be seen by all radical groups who are often responsible for riots so that they can understand how riots can ruin future of children by making them orphan and in turn making them easy prey to the people who exploit them for begging.

Another problem of forced bagging has been presented in this movie. In city like Mumbai number of street children exceeds the number of cattle, dogs. Everybody is concerned about problem of street dogs but few are showing concern regarding street children. These children are exploited for begging and prostitution. We have laws to prevent these problem but these are seldom followed. I recently heard that any one found giving money to beggar would be fined Rs.1000 in Delhi but would it help us in eradicating this problem? There are many things to be learnt from this movie and accordingly we should act to prevent these problems at least on moral grounds.

Now coming to best part of movie that is background music, it should make all of us proud that an Indian has bagged the award of golden globe for original composition. A. R. Rehman deserved this award much before. He became first Indian to bag this award. All credit goes to his innovative thinking and imagination. He has again proved that he has got the best musical brain among his contemporary’s. Still one question moving in my mind if this had been made by an Indian director then also….? All characters have played their part well.

I have got the answer of my second question but still wondering about the answer of first one…? Are Indian movies ignored at international level or they do not deserve to get awards…? This question may lead to endless debate.

Best wishes to the Slumdog Millionaire for upcoming Oscars.

Slumdog Millionaire...