Thursday, November 03, 2005
IIPM brouhaha
If anyone is still unaware of the IIPM saga - here are a few pointers on what has happened and happening?
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/051026glaser/
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/2005/10/10/india-defending-freedom-of-speech
http://www.jammag.com/careers/articles/mbacorner/iipm/index.htm
http://gauravsabnis.blogspot.com/2005/08/fraud-that-is-iipm.html
Bloggers all around India are fighting against Arindam Chaudhury and IIPM. Legal censures are going on against the people who write facts about IIPM.
And it has even led to one guy quitting his plum job with IBM to defend his freedom of speech!
It just questions the tenets of democracy in our country which we are making much ado in the world!!
And also makes us aware how deep the rot of making money and doing business has oozed into the field of education in India. I myself, am a victim of the commercialization of education and have faced the worst adversities during my graduation days. The great money spinner called UIT(University Institute of Technology) set up by Kerala University still runs in a primary school in TVM and still has tatched roof on top and no basic facility or labs or faculty. During those days we the students tried to do a agitation against this atrocity by bunking classes, but alas! the mgmt played politics and made us the culprits and we were put in a bad light. And after this like school days we had to bring our parents to enter back to the classrooms. In front of parents the staff rebuked and made allegations claiming that we were indiscplined and arrogant and what not.
And still the rot stinks in the same place. Nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen unless some one comes front and is ready to sacrifice his career and do something drastic to change this.
And not surprisingly, it was the worst campus expereince I had in my life, but amidst this clutter only beacon of comfort was the good friend circle which was developed and all the fun we had. And even today after 7yrs of passing out most of us are in touch!
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/051026glaser/
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/2005/10/10/india-defending-freedom-of-speech
http://www.jammag.com/careers/articles/mbacorner/iipm/index.htm
http://gauravsabnis.blogspot.com/2005/08/fraud-that-is-iipm.html
Bloggers all around India are fighting against Arindam Chaudhury and IIPM. Legal censures are going on against the people who write facts about IIPM.
And it has even led to one guy quitting his plum job with IBM to defend his freedom of speech!
It just questions the tenets of democracy in our country which we are making much ado in the world!!
And also makes us aware how deep the rot of making money and doing business has oozed into the field of education in India. I myself, am a victim of the commercialization of education and have faced the worst adversities during my graduation days. The great money spinner called UIT(University Institute of Technology) set up by Kerala University still runs in a primary school in TVM and still has tatched roof on top and no basic facility or labs or faculty. During those days we the students tried to do a agitation against this atrocity by bunking classes, but alas! the mgmt played politics and made us the culprits and we were put in a bad light. And after this like school days we had to bring our parents to enter back to the classrooms. In front of parents the staff rebuked and made allegations claiming that we were indiscplined and arrogant and what not.
And still the rot stinks in the same place. Nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen unless some one comes front and is ready to sacrifice his career and do something drastic to change this.
And not surprisingly, it was the worst campus expereince I had in my life, but amidst this clutter only beacon of comfort was the good friend circle which was developed and all the fun we had. And even today after 7yrs of passing out most of us are in touch!
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Happy Diwali
Nov 1st - Karnataka Rajyostava, Kerala Piravi, Diwali!
Auspicious occasion to update this blog which has been in somnolence for quite sometime now.
Thanks to the kick start of protoiyer's musings here I'm trying to awake from this slumber.
Its expected that the world-wide fan club of Proto is going to visit here through his musings page :)
Atleast that is what he has forewarned. Let's see what is gonna happen!
Diwali as always is the auspicious occasion for Tamzhs around the globe. And probably a good day to add a couple of inches to the waist line, thanks to plethora of sweets and irrestability of limiting them for a sweet tooth person like me. This time also it was no better, flow of sweets started from morning from all the neighbours....gulab jamuns, laddus, kalkandas, burfi, milk koa, cashew halwa.....a jist of things which I had plattered today :) But still I'm sure I will give no competition to Proto and his Dairy Milks.
Auspicious occasion to update this blog which has been in somnolence for quite sometime now.
Thanks to the kick start of protoiyer's musings here I'm trying to awake from this slumber.
Its expected that the world-wide fan club of Proto is going to visit here through his musings page :)
Atleast that is what he has forewarned. Let's see what is gonna happen!
Diwali as always is the auspicious occasion for Tamzhs around the globe. And probably a good day to add a couple of inches to the waist line, thanks to plethora of sweets and irrestability of limiting them for a sweet tooth person like me. This time also it was no better, flow of sweets started from morning from all the neighbours....gulab jamuns, laddus, kalkandas, burfi, milk koa, cashew halwa.....a jist of things which I had plattered today :) But still I'm sure I will give no competition to Proto and his Dairy Milks.
