17th August, 2007
It was a pretty long day today. Had 3 lectures, 1 hour 40 minutes each, today since morning 9:45 am. Had to prepare and appear for two quizzes IGP and Finacc. In the evening there was a presentation by topnotch Consulting firm. So attended the same, got a lot of insights about them and what do they do. Then attended the brand quiz by marcell, scored badly, somewhere around 5 out of 40, I guess, poor knowledge about brands and their advertisements... Thanks to not watching tv frequently. Had Stats tutes to attend, distributions and the related problems are awful. After that decided to participate in Dumb Charades with Vineet and Sumit. We enjoyed a lot during the act, laughed out our hearts but werent able to guess a single movie, simple ones like, Space Jam and Mission Impossible.... Back to room and about to sleep now ... Its already 2 am ... chao
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
60 years of independence ... some thoughts
15th August 2007
Aaj bahut dino baad mein jaldi utha ... to attend the flag hoisting ceremony at IIMC.
(Delibrately started with hindi our mother tongue, before most of us forget using it)
I was immediately charged up when I reached that place. The flag hoisting ceremony was followed by inspirational speeches by our Director, Dean PI, Professors and others. Everyone cribbed about diminishing importance of this day among the youth, but they also portrayed the positives that we can take from India's 60 years of independence. While most of the stuff like growth, emerging market, etc ... seemed globe (universal gyaan ... that is used to fill pages when one doesnt know a precise answer ... fart in iitb lingo) to me, I did agree
with a point of view of our economics professor, who termed this period as an experiment of implementation of democracy on such a large and linguistically diverse population which stands unmatched in the history of mankind.
The truth still remains, the common man hasnt really tasted the priviledge of indian independence so far.
This reminded me of an article by Deepak Nayyar on "Globalization, history and development: a tale of two centuries". The article criticizes the concept of globalization by bolstering some figures and some hard truths. It stresses that, we people who have the required skills which are desired in most developed nations are the ones who have benefitted from the process. But are we doing anything to make sure that the other people, our under priviledged fellow countrymen, also get the benefits of the process. It has been noticed that the proponents of globalization were the people who saw their benefit in doing so. Also the growth figures from history show that the world economy has indeed slowed down due to globalization and the rich-poor divide has increased even further. Also unemployment have risen in the developed nations due to globalization.
The speeches were followed by a sweet distribution break. Savoured the bengali delicacies with chow... JBS BaroC presented songs Vande Mataram and Yeh Jo Desh hai Tera ... Choreo club featured an amazing dance performance, which was very well received by the audience... Dramatics Club presented a play "Aakhri Salaam" which featured the plight of soldiers during partition, where they were made to fight with their fellow military friends who had fought together during the world war ... The prize distribution ceremony followed the performances. Top 20 academic rank holders were given prizes. Chitresh Kumar Sainia from our wing received the prize for the 20th rank. His feet was amazing given that he had scored a CGPA of 6.5 at the end of term 1.
Aaj bahut dino baad mein jaldi utha ... to attend the flag hoisting ceremony at IIMC.
(Delibrately started with hindi our mother tongue, before most of us forget using it)
I was immediately charged up when I reached that place. The flag hoisting ceremony was followed by inspirational speeches by our Director, Dean PI, Professors and others. Everyone cribbed about diminishing importance of this day among the youth, but they also portrayed the positives that we can take from India's 60 years of independence. While most of the stuff like growth, emerging market, etc ... seemed globe (universal gyaan ... that is used to fill pages when one doesnt know a precise answer ... fart in iitb lingo) to me, I did agree
with a point of view of our economics professor, who termed this period as an experiment of implementation of democracy on such a large and linguistically diverse population which stands unmatched in the history of mankind.
The truth still remains, the common man hasnt really tasted the priviledge of indian independence so far.
This reminded me of an article by Deepak Nayyar on "Globalization, history and development: a tale of two centuries". The article criticizes the concept of globalization by bolstering some figures and some hard truths. It stresses that, we people who have the required skills which are desired in most developed nations are the ones who have benefitted from the process. But are we doing anything to make sure that the other people, our under priviledged fellow countrymen, also get the benefits of the process. It has been noticed that the proponents of globalization were the people who saw their benefit in doing so. Also the growth figures from history show that the world economy has indeed slowed down due to globalization and the rich-poor divide has increased even further. Also unemployment have risen in the developed nations due to globalization.
The speeches were followed by a sweet distribution break. Savoured the bengali delicacies with chow... JBS BaroC presented songs Vande Mataram and Yeh Jo Desh hai Tera ... Choreo club featured an amazing dance performance, which was very well received by the audience... Dramatics Club presented a play "Aakhri Salaam" which featured the plight of soldiers during partition, where they were made to fight with their fellow military friends who had fought together during the world war ... The prize distribution ceremony followed the performances. Top 20 academic rank holders were given prizes. Chitresh Kumar Sainia from our wing received the prize for the 20th rank. His feet was amazing given that he had scored a CGPA of 6.5 at the end of term 1.
World War - Tyre raid
5th August 2007
The most exciting event of the world war was the tyre raid. Our hostel team had to dig out a 200+ kg tyre from the hallowed grounds of WH (White Hostel aka Tagore Hostel). Actually the ground was muddy and the leg gets buried till the knee as soon as you step on it. All the drainages were blocked by cement. The agenda was that our team (OH = Old Hostel = Ramanujan Hostel) had to dig out the tyre in the shortest possible time, WH team would make our task difficult by pouring 100s of litres of water from the hostel terraces through huge drums for the initial 90 minutes.
I was in the tarpoline team. My job was to hold the tarpoline above the digging grounds from one of the corners. On the corners the pressure was tremendous. Below the tarpoline the digging process had initiated already and the job of the tarpoline team was to ensure that no water enters the tyre area. When NH (New Hostel team, the third team in the event) had come to raid OH, we were able to destroy their tarpoline twice. We did a good job and our tarpoline was unbreakable. I have some cool videos of the water getting repeled through our tarpoline.
Enough of the tarpoline story. After the 80 minutes I assisted in clearing the drainage so that the water can be drained out of the area. There were more than 15 people involved in this process. Once 90 minutes were over, I came to the digging grounds and started helping the team with startegies to dig out the tyre. The instruments were too slippery to handle because of the muddy hands. So we initiated the clearance of the dug out material through hand. Once enough tyre was visible, we tried to push it from one side. But after some more digging, we attached ropes to the tyre and everyone gave an attempt to pull out the tyre. Unfortunately the sturdy rope broke and most of us fell on the muddy grounds. We immediately gathered together and without getting disheartened started pulling the tyre from another side and out came the tyre. We won .......................................... Our time was 2 hours 37 minutes, the next best team had ticked 2 hrs 45 minutes. It was a great satisfaction. We made our seniors proud and ofcourse we demonstrated great team spirit. Each member of the team had a role to play - some were involved in tarpoline, some in clearing drains, some in digging and some in refreshments. Everyone gathered their act together and made this win possible. Great show ...
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