Historical Perspective

I was a second year student of philosophy; friends came to know that I would be going to Dhanbad to teach in a school for a year. One of my friend, Henry, took me aside and in a serious tone advised me, “George, you are going to Dhanbad, don’t be careless, it is your core strength but don’t display it there. Do not go out at night, if you have to go out at night, make sure that you do not stand at one place more than three minutes. If you happen to stand on the same place for more than three minutes, then you must keep smiling and your teeth must be visible”.

I, out of curiosity inquired him about the logic behind his advice. He continued in the same tone, “See, if you stand in one place for longer time at night in Dhanbad, people might misunderstand you for small coal mountain and cut you into pieces and carry”. Henry did not laugh, so I was pondering over his words in a confused state of mind.

Seeing my predicament, another friend, fair looking Kamal continued the conversation, “George, we need to look at everything from historical perspective.” That was time, when all professors, whether they were teaching physics or home science, used the phrase ‘historical perspective’, least they bothered about its’ relevance.

Kamal pointed out that Arians invaded the Dravidian’s land long time back. Then he asked the most painful question, “What do invaders do after conquering a country?” without expecting any answer, he continued, “They loot things and rape women; even today the so-called civilized army is faithful to this historical precedence. That’s what happened when Arians defeated Dravidians, but strong and athletic Dravidian women ran fast and escaped the assault but other unfortunate women became the victims. My great great great grandmother was a victim, that is why I am fair, and your great great great grandmother escaped that’s why you are in dark complex.”

I am very proud that my great great great grandmother was truly an athlete, but at times I wish that she should have been less athletic.

Punch Dialogue

I think you know what it means (refer the post on rules and regulations). In reality, it is not only Rajinikanth who delivers punch dialogues but also many corporate and academic institutions. Of course they call it either vision statement or mission statement, basically they are punch dialogues.

IIPM’s punch dialogue is “Think beyond IIMs”, often I wonder are they advertising for their institute or for IIMs? In fact it is a ‘reverse punch dialogue’ means getting punched by one’s own dialogue. The other corporate that was punched rather heavily was Tata, when they came up with the slogan “We also make steel”. Till then it was nearly impossible to steal the technical experts from Tata by other steel making companies. This slogan offended their sensitivity to some extent; they preferred to work for other who are serious about making steels and proud of doing so.

Our institute also has a punch dialogue, “Management with Humane Face”. It is a real punch, because indirectly we say that other institutes have some different kind of face. But now we seem to be receiving punches. When a punitive action was taken against a staff for his misdeed, instead of defending himself his first reaction was how can an institute with humane face administer this kind of punishment?

Faculties use this dialogue for anything and everything. Even if there is no sugar in the tea, they say how can an institute with humane face forget to put sugar?

Very recently, when some students were taken to task for lower CQPI, they were dismayed and in utter surprise asked, “How can an institute with humane face, even think of doing this?”

I think our punch dialogue has become truly the ‘reverse punch dialogue’. It is time to come up with new one. Any suggestions?

Abhishek Patnaik

It is the saddest day at our institute. Words fail to express our sorrow.

Abhishek expired in an accident.

Let’s pray for the eternal peace of his soul.

May God be with his family members and accompany them in this darkest moment.

We love you Abhishek and you live in us.

Teaching in the school

Light years back, I had an opportunity to impart education in a school at Lupungutu, Jharkhand. I taught from KG to 9^th STD. This endeavor lasted for a year, lucky the evaluation of my teaching took place at the end of the year, had the principal done it at an early stage, my teaching career might have been over long ago.

The major complaint against me was that I have forgotten that the school was Hindi medium and I was teaching in English unconsciously.

One student told me that I was teaching rather well – active, shouting and laughing (students laughed because I was doing so not because they understood the jokes, maybe out of sympathy or maybe they did not know what else to do) – but the only minor problem was they could not understand what was going on.

Another pointed out that I start and end the sentence in Hindi, in between only I use English, for example, “ Dheko, Hydrogen atom has only one electron hai”. But sincerely I believed that I was teaching everything fluently in Hindi, self-deception was at its best. I think that the only other competition I had in speaking in Hindi was late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who said in one of his election campaign, “ Jeethenge and nahi Loosenge”

Some time consciously I used Tamil words when I failed to find appropriate Hindi words, because I strongly believed that Tamil is closer to Hindi than English. But was never aware I used English words, maybe it may be the result of selective remembering.

Winston Churchill

At the faculty lounge one recalled the famous quote of Winston Churchill: “I like to learn but don’t like to be taught”. Immediately another pointed out that Churchill might not have studied where attendance was compulsory. Had he studied in our institute, he would have been the number one student if not in CP (Class Participation) certainly in DCP (Desperate Class Participation).

In reality, all students, if not all at least most of them, consider that attending class is a waste of time and energy. I too as a student firmly believed that sitting in a class is nothing less than a third degree of torture. But now as a faculty I have changed my position and increasingly believe in students attending classes (It is called the employment loyalty).

Even if the faculty is boring and the subject is lousy, minimum you learn that some things in life are boring and lousy, so one can never say that he has wasted time.

Witnessing the lack of interest shown by students towards the subject called “Business Ethics”, I announced that the attendance for this course is not compulsory. In the next class less than 40% of students were present. After interacting with students, it was clear that students had their own priority in focusing and choosing subjects. As of now, ethics is the least of their concern, making a mark in career seems to be major obsession. Of course, I do not agree with them, but at this phase of their life, they can assimilate only this much only.

At the age of 50 plus, priorities will change, ethics and morals will appear paramount import, that is the reason most of the CEO talks are nothing but reflections on ethical behavior. So I recommended the management to make the ethics course as optional and advertise it as a course for future CEOs. But unfortunately we do not have Churchill kind of people to make a bold decision. Sounds like a human right violation, we need people like Anna Hazare to go on fast to make the necessary changes. You might ask why I can’t take that step. If I declare fast, people might perceive that I am fasting to reduce my weight, let’s wait for a thin guy to take up the cause.

Rules and Regulations

Years ago, during the previous to previous regime, when Fr. George CL was the Dean of Administration, this incident occurred. A girl student, few weeks after the orientation (for first year students), barged into his office and literally shouted at him, “Jesuit’s institutions are known for rules and regulations, discipline and order, whereas in this institution rules seem to exist only on the Manuel of policies, and the order, neither in the Manuel nor in the reality, and I am totally disappointed and disoriented.” Fr. George CL just looked at her dump bound, it took him time to comprehend the situation then he said to her that she is new to the place and the system to make sweeping statements, if at the end of the second year she continue hold the same opinion, then he would seriously assess the environment of the institute and make necessary amendments.

Towards the end of second year, the same girl walked into his office and expressed her gratitude and gratefulness regarding the institute; it is a marvelous place where freedom is given to grow and mature. If not here, she would not have learned so many things like playing basket ball at 2.00 am, JLT round the clock, group works etc... She emphatically recommended that the environment of the institute is healthy and it should and must continue to remain the same, it shapes everyone for good.

Fr.George CL recollected this event and then made his trade mark punch dialogue “Management is basically doing nothing and taking all credits.”  Immediately, I came up with the counter punch dialogue, “What we basically do is; selecting very good students and not only corrupt their life styles but make them proud of that achievement”.

Note for those who do not know the meaning of punch dialogue

Punch Dialogue: it is the dialogue delivered by Rajanikanth when he meets a big challenge (problem) or the villain or the heroine, for Rajini all these are one and same.

FR. RAJ

As a student I admired quite a few professors for their teaching. One of them is Fr. Raj. He is known for the command over the language, the authority on the subject and the power packed presentation. At the same time, sitting in his class gives the taste of concentration camp. Every one sits straight, listens attentively and even breaths carefully.

But outside the class, he is entirely a different person; jokes, serves and goes out of his way to make you feel comfortable. I have not seen another person who is as generous as him. Selflessly serves others.

He had many terror tactics; at the end of the class, he would ask one of us to summarize what he has learned in that class and evaluate it strictly. At the end of the first class, one girl had to do this creative exercise, she summarized in two sentences; “Basically this class highlighted the importance of communication and one can indeed learn it, provided paid attention”. Fr. Raj stared at her, I thought like Lord Shiva, he is going to open his third eye and burn her alive. But all he said was, “Good, you have scored .025 out of 20”. Thereafter, during his class each one was learning to do two mental activities - listening and memorizing - at the same time.

He gave us a group assignment, we, five poor mortals, chose some exotic topic to impress him, little we knew that nothing on earth and heaven can surprise him. Every group had to meet him in person and answer his questions. As a strategic preparation we enquired other groups who have completed sessions with the father, since they were all in the state of perpetual shock, they were moving around like zombies and we gained nothing from their experience. It is only after the session I realized that he asks questions for which there are no answers. You can only give wrong answers, and that leaves the room (not only room, but entire cricket ground) for him decimate us into pieces. One student made the observation, “I have heard about gang rape, today experienced it. But it was not five against one, it was one against five, it is a unique and specialized gang rape.”

At the end of the first term, we wanted to get tips from the second year students to handle the forthcoming subjects. One second year guy said, “If Fr.Raj’s course is over means the PMIR program is over, here after guys, it is only party time”.

No wonder every one experienced absolute liberation sense of great achievement at the end of the 20^th session of Fr.Raj.

Sir

It is embarrassing when students address me ‘sir’. It is an acronym for the phrase ‘South Indian Rascal’, I usually wonder when students call me sir, ‘Are they saying it knowing its meaning or not? Basically it originated at IIMs, that’s what Prof.Ganesh’s research finding highlights. Since the rascal sounds exotic, I do not mind it, yet I would prefer to be called by my proper name.

And calling me Father is equally embarrassing. Imagine the situation; in the market place when two or three grownups calling me Father. Invariably number of people stares at me with lots of confusion and curiosity. Once one man made the comment looking at me, “You must be a stud bull”.

Personally, I believe one should address the other by the personal name. Parents go through lot of home work, consultation and compromises before selecting a name for their child. For example, when I had to be named, there was a big confusion; my father wanted the name George, my mother liked the name Joseph and the grandmother insisted on the name Peter. Since no one was willing abandon their choice, after much discussion, fights and arguments they gave me all the three names, that is how I came to be known as George Joseph Peter.

When someone calls me Sir or Father, he or she is not respecting my parent and their hard work. Coming Monday new academic session is going to begin. And I am going to make the rule; for every time a student calls me ‘sir’ or ‘father’ he or she will be given minus 2 marks in my subject. I am sure it will put the fear of hell into their hearts. But how to impose this rule on students who are in second years and who have passed out? Some creative thinking is needed.

Nobel Prize

The dream of winning the Nobel Prize was shattered (I am not joking) as soon as I entered the B-school. Motto of any B-school seems to be creating jack of all trades and master of none. Calling it a masters’ program is adding insult to the injury. Too many subjects and too short a time, can’t even be a master in JLT.

But there is no regret; Nobel Prize is not such a great thing. Selectors of Nobel Prize are conservatives they nominated Sigmund Freud under the category of fiction (literature). They could neither accept nor reject him. Freud being one of the thinkers who changed the way we think and act, the only other comparable greats are Darwin and Marx. It is understandable that the selectors could not give the Prize to Darwin and Marx because the award itself was established only after their death. But in case of Freud, they have reduced the important of the Prize by not giving to Freud, and muddied it by treating him as story teller.

The legend has it that Alfred Nobel strictly instructed that no Nobel Prize should be given under the category of Mathematics. His hatred for mathematics was not because he was a poor student in Maths, it is due to personal reason, his wife ran away with a mathematician.

So I should forget about Nobel Prize on moral ground and start concentrating on Oscar Award. Hope there are no moral issues as far as Oscar is concerned. First, I have to find out whether they give award for watching films. If it is so, then I will have a real chance of winning it soon.

1983

I was studying in eleventh standard in Madurai. It is during this time devastating riot against Tamils broke out in Sri Lanka. Protest marches were organized at various places by various groups in Tamil Nadu. Few of my seniors in our school too demanded we need to show our solidarity with our suffering brothers and sister. The principal questioned rationality of going on a protest march and wanted us to concentrate on studies. The students’ secretary literally bounced on him and accused him being a traitor of Tamil language and Tamil race. Finally he succumbed to the pressure and declared that the school will remain closed indefinitely.

Then the protest march from our school to the collector’s office began, thousands of students from 5^th std to 12^th std participated along with teachers. Slogans were formulated, and everyone was shouting. One of the slogan was aimed at the then president of Sri Lanka, it sounded poetic and rhythmic in Tamil but sounds crude in English, yet let me translate: “wife of Jeyawarthane, is our concubine”.

This slogan captured the momentum and even 5^th STD students started repeating it. Our chemistry teacher, picked up the one student and asked him,” Do you understand the meaning of the word concubine? Or at least do you know how old his wife is? His wife is 78 years old, and you are just 12 years old”. When the senior students became aware of the age of Jeyawarthane and his wife, they need to change the slogan, then and there they coined a new one; “Declare the daughter of Jeyawarthane as the national property”.

Libido plays a crucial role whether it is a religion or racial protest; it makes no difference who is a protestor. Literate or illiterate, poor or rich, villager or city born, everyone is a victim of libido when aggression is on rampage. Sigmund Freud will be laughing at his opponents who undermined his theory.

There was a government college nearby and their principal put the notice saying that the college will remain closed indefinitely, one student corrected the notice thinking there is a spelling mistake, he wrote; "The college will remain closed definitely".

Ph.d resolutions

This post is taken from the 'e-mail forward' received from Prof.Latha, it is creative and sounds true, verify with someone who has done P.hD. Similar dynamic takes place in all walks of life for example marriage, career etc...

Before joining PhD:

·  I want to win the Nobel Prize.

·  I want to win the Turing Award.

First year of PhD:d

·  I want to finish PhD in two years.

·  I want to publish papers only in top tier conferences.

·  I want to make ground-breaking research.

·  I want to win the best PhD Thesis award.

Second year of PhD:

·  I want to finish PhD in 5 years.

·  I want a problem.

·  Shall I change my advisor?

Third year of PhD:

·  I want a paper; I don't care which conference.

·  Shall I change my topic?

·  I want to be known as Dr bhOndOO...

Fourth year of PhD:

·  I want to finish PhD!

·  My industry-friends have two children by now. When will I get married?

Fifth year of PhD:

·  Why did I come here?

·  Why did I choose this advisor?

·  Why did I choose this topic?

Sixth year of PhD:

·  Someone give me a degree!

·  I want to leave this place — for ever.

·  Let me leave.

Seventh year of PhD:

·  People call me uncle.

·  The girl waited and finally married someone else.I don't want any degree. I just want to live peacefully

10 reasons why I chose   Research as a carrier- 

(1)   I hate sleeping.
(2)   I have already enjoyed my life in childhood.
(3)   I cannot live without tension.
(4)   I wanted to have disturbed family life.
(5)   I believed in Gita “Karm karo, fal ki icha mat karo”.
(6)   I wanted to take revenge on myself.
(7)   I want to miss my LOVE.
(8)   I wanted social boycott.
(9)   I wanted to break up with my friends.

(10) I love to work on Sundays and Holidays.

Gossiping

Paraphrasing the opening statement of Michael Douglas in the movie wall-street one can emphatically say, “Gossiping is good, gossiping is right, gossiping works. Gossiping is an intellectual activity arising from the existential curiosity”.

Men of the past called women of their time gossip mongers, conveniently forgetting their contribution to gossiping. They said that women gossip because they have got nothing to do except the house hold works, whereas men busy running the government, fighting the enemy and winning bread for everyone. Today that kind of superficial explanation will not be tolerated since women too have joined the hunting ground; they are not only bread winners but also winning butter and jam.

So the art of gossiping is practiced by both men and women today. Yet, some feel guilty and others point fingers at the source of gossips and look down upon them.

Gossiping is not easy; you need fertile imagination and creative mind. It is seeing few dots and painting an attractive picture which will satisfy our primitive feelings. One need to project one’s own fears, desires anxieties, fantasies and insecurities on others and come up with convincing and credible story. For some it comes naturally where as others need to practice  day in and day out.

Successful gossipers have great professional activities; they can become a great story tellers, film directors, PR officers, spies, and heads of perception management firms.

Do not feel bad if you enjoy gossiping. It is a normal human behavior. Remember we gossip not only about our enemies but mostly about our friends. Speaking face to face is a risky affair; you might end up offending and breaking relationships.

Expressing one’s opinion is a must for every individual, if you keep everything within yourself, you might end up in asylum. Gossiping helps to express yourself spontaneously and at the same keeps the fragile friendships intact. If someone goes and complains about you for gossiping about him, do not worry, you can give new twist to what you said and interpret them creatively. Never forget, gossiping is an art.

Training Program for IPS Officers

Leadership program for IPS officers started today at our institute. I was the opening batsman; all of them are senior IPS officers with too many years of experience. I was nervous as hell, if I anger them or irritate them; it is far too easy for them to knock me down in an encounter. One of the officers just completed the mid-night crackdown at Ramleela ground at Delhi. When he was sharing his experience, my nervousness only increased. Had I known the profile of the participants, I would have refused to take classes. But now it was too late.

Said few prayers and plunged into the mission. I think gods did not abandon me, things went reasonably well. On one thing I was careful; no matter what they say, I will not contradict them. One officer went on giving his opinion on personality structure. I could understand that he knows nothing about psychology; but my reply was, “Sir, with your ideas you are shattering the foundations of psychology”. In a normal situation, I would have told the person to read some preliminary readings in psychology before putting forward his ignorance. Anyway, I consoled myself saying desperate situations demand desperate actions.

I narrated the psychopath test to the group (refer the post on psychopath), one of the officer gave the right answer immediately. I asked him whether he has taken similar test before, he said never. All I said was, “sir, you think like a psychopath, so you can easily arrest them”. I did not dare to tell him if he is not careful, he may act like a psychopath.

They were extremely cordial and appreciative. Yet, I was not feeling comfortable, may be in my previous birth I was a criminal that is why the word police create fear in me. Because in this life, I am yet to commit some crime (means serious crimes).

Inner Engineering

Of all gurus available in the modern India, I find Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev to be more sensible. His discourse is engaging and appealing to reason. In Tamil Nadu, literally, he is creating waves. His disciples call it a silent revolution, but for me understanding revolution to be silent sounds contradiction in terms.

I attended this program, if you can delete the disciples attempt to imitate J.Krishnamurthy, then it is an effective and useful exercise. Set of yoga practices which they call it ‘sambhavi maha mutra’ indeed makes your body and mind flexible and rejuvenating. I am writing it after practicing for few months.

In my opinion Sadhguru is equal to Rajneesh minus sexual discourse. His talks in English are fluent and entertaining at the same time makes convincing intelligent arguments. His talks in Tamil did not impress me; you may be disappointed, so listen to only English version.  Rajneesh talks in Hindi are an out of the world experience, but Jaggi has real advantage when it comes to English.

Remember that gurus and priests are nothing more than a postman, listen to the message fall in love with the message and not with the postman. It is not worth surrendering ones uniqueness and individuality at the feet of a fellow human being, however great he or she may be makes little difference.

AMMA (Ms.Jayalalitha)

It is difficult to de-code the leadership style of Ms.Jeyalalitha. The loyalty shown by her party members remain a mystery.

Recently one of the ministers entered the assembly bare foot, when the journalist asked about his act, the minister said that wherever Amma is present, it is a temple and one should not enter the temple wearing footwear. That minister's respect for his leader is unprecedented.

Some say since she picks up a nobody and makes him a minister, he ends up worshipping her. This may be true, but does not explain the intensity of the devotion shown by her followers. It is not one or two who are promoted display this kind of devotion, but most of her followers.

Freudian concept ‘Transference’ sheds some light on this phenomenon. Followers going overboard in getting attention from Amma can’t be explained otherwise.

5%

One of my students was rather agitated with the increase of CQPI as a prior condition to get promoted. He adopted the angry young man avatar of Mr.Amitabh Bachaan and wrote: industry experts and alumni are saying that only 5% of what we learn in MBA program is useful in our corporate application, so why do you insist on the so called academic rigor.

His anger is genuine and understandable. When I shared his concern with my colleagues, they too agreed that only 5% of MBA learning is useful in their professional career, but no one knows which 5% is going to be useful, so they have to master all 100%.

Academic learning can’t be judged based on their application. Conceptual learning is fundamentally an exercise of brain. What is learned remains, if at all learned properly, in the realm of unconscious mind. When needed it emerges and helps us to understand the reality and come up with solution.

If you want to learn a subject purely based on its application, then you should opt for technical subjects like mechanics or car driving or any skill developing programs. It is there application is kept in mind and the syllabus is prepared.

If you think MBA is a skill development program, then you have committed a serious error of judgment in choosing this program.

Psychopath

Lara is an intelligent and beautiful girl. Her mother died and during the funeral service she met a handsome and attractive young man. She liked him and it was love at first sight. Funeral service ended without her knowing anything about him – name and address etc. Days passed and after few weeks Lara killed her sister.

Why did Lara murder her sister?

Think and write down the answer on a paper …….

Scroll down for the right answer

Right answer: Lara murdered her sister because she met him during the funeral service, and one more funeral service will give her chance to meet him again.

If you have given the right answer then you think like a psychopath. Warn your friends that you may harm them any time.

If your answer is wrong then you are a normal person which means you are a boring and useless guy.

BABA RAMDEV

I am not getting into the issue of corruption and black money, that need to dealt with at different time and space, as of now I am concentrating only on the drama enacted by three dominant players – The Government (Congress), the opposition (BJP), and Baba Ramdev.

Mid-night crackdown was disturbing to say the least. The strategist for the government seems to be overlooking some of the important aspects of human psyche. In a patriarchal society like ours, women are abused in private life but worshipped and respected in the public realm. The sight of women struggling against armed force will melt even the hearts of criminals. The government ignored this simple reality in executing the operation. Their strategy looked perfect on the paper, but at the time of implementation they messed it up.

The government played the age old game called ‘good cop and bad cop’. On the one hand they were bending backwards to appease the Baba and on the other they used leaders like Digvijay Singh to play hard ball with him. It looks like that the Baba’s camp was aware of this game but failed to take necessary precaution. Had they taken the precaution, Baba’s behavioral pattern at the entry of the police would have been one of courage and steadfastness. Baba missed the opportunity of playing the role of a hero.

Like any exciting drama, all three main players had their high and low times. Who will be the hero? Time only can reveal. The government had the upper hand in the beginning, they could set up the stage and assign roles and dialogues to every actors involved in the drama. But the problem in real life drama is that one cannot control all the variables to suite one’s interest. In the beginning they overestimated Baba and towards the end they underestimated Baba. Now they are paying the price.

There is no doubt whatsoever in the fact that Baba Ramdev is a charismatic leader. He can easily connect with the masses and emotionally excite them with his words and actions. The mastery over yoga is his biggest strength and the image of a yogi is well accepted by his followers. What he lacks is the Machiavellian thinking and strategizing. He seems to view the reality as black and white, and blissfully ignorant of the gray area where life is enacted day and night. As of now he is getting support from all walks of life, he need to bring in established players like Ram Jethmalini into the think-tank and formulate his strategies carefully. He should not forget that politicians are politicians no matter to which party they belong, accept the support and trust no one. He should master the art speaking two languages: emotional language with the masses and rational language with policy makers and the media. He is already a master of first but has to go a long way to master the second.

The opposition was given a golden opportunity; it is pity that they are not making use of it. They are behaving like children in the toy shop, not knowing what to choose. Ms.Shushama Swaraj dancing in the Rajghat was the comic scene of the century. They are like the emperor Nero who played flute when the Rome was burning. They are acting like picnickers in the battle field. It is perfectly understandable when one rejoices at the misery of his enemy, but a true politician should put up the act of a concerned wise man who is sorry at the misery of the enemy and play the lead role.

INTERVIEW

Selecting students for the institute is a taunting task and it is mentally draining activity. I rarely ask any questions to students since I believe that it is only by listening you make sense of a student and also communication experts tell us that 93% of any communication is non-verbal (I don’t understand how they managed to measure and arrive at this percentage). So, why to waste time in asking questions?

Recently went for the interview to select students for HRM program. As usual students were full of energy and confidence, they answered the questions with real guts, didn’t care whether the question made any sense or not.

Prof: can you tell us about your schoolings?

Student: up to 10^th STD I had studied at St. Xavier’s and for secondary I went to Don Bosco.

Prof: Who is St. Xavier?

Student: I am not sure but can make a guess.

Prof: You studied for 10 year at St.Xavier’s, yet …

Student: This type of question was never asked in the exams, so….

Prof: OK, at least tell me, who is Don Bosco?

Student: He is a Christian for sure, certainly not an Indian, and might had been a successful teacher or a student, and sorry for this too I can only make a guess…

Prof: since you are coming from west Bengal, I am asking this question. Say something about Swamy Vivekananda.

Student: He is a great man; he had a great personality …

Prof: Making a guess on this too …

Student: No sir, I know about him. He gave a great speech at the national conference of Economics at USA.

Prof: National Conference …

Student: No sir, it was the international conference on Economics.

Prof: Economics …

Student: Absolutely.

Prof 2: Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize, can you tell about the contribution for which he was awarded that prize?

Student: It is for the poem “Jana Gana Mana….”

Third professor did not dare to ask any questions.

That student reminded me of Albert Einstein, why bother about remembering the past and cloud the brain with all kinds of information. You can always refer the book and find out the correct answer. And if you don’t know the history then you are in an ideal position to create a history. I liked his confidence and attitude. Since studying HR will be under utilizing his creativity and insult to his intelligence, I did not select him for the program. Sincerely, I will fail if Einstein or Newton applies for MBA programs.

It is another genius who gave me nearly a heart attack with his answer to the question: What is working capital? Without even blinking his eyes he answered, “Any capital that is working the company is a working capital”.