Brought back some memories, you did. No , I think I will drop the Yoda part now. I remember that my room mates in college were also s$% crazy. Everytime a lady passed by on the roads, they would scamper around to get a view, often toppling chairs and glasses on the floor. I wonder how many of them lived up their dreams. Of course Mehar got official license to drive.
Well well, what do we have here ? A mosque that sells cds ? Maybe they give it free with a copy of the quran, hahaha. Ok , that was too much. Taking back the Quran line. Fact is, the mallu soft porn industry has a big market, and my northy friends are fan’s of Sakku aunty. I was embarrassed when they described her movies. And now you are asking me to send cds to you via courier. I am scared to go back to parrys, they will hypnotize me and make me watch them, maybe they will give discounts for bulk orders too. There is no famine in kerala da, just go out. Soon they will be selling them in trains and buses.
Now, lets escape from the world of lust and ..mmm.. cds. Science. In its truest form. Purest form.
NASA is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with an auditing company hired to review NASA contracts. The firm, Horn and Associates of
NASA has been at the forefront to space science. I have subscribed to their news feeds, and get regular updates when new things happen. I even took part in its Send your name to space mission:
Lunar Reconnaissance is an unmanned spacecraft that will launch for the moon in late 2008. The objective is to find safe landing sites on the moon and other planets like Mars.
Now NASA is collecting names of people who support this mission and this list will then be placed onboard the spacecraft when it is headed for the moon.
If you want to send your own name to the moon, just go to this Johns Hopkins site and submit. The deadline was June 27. You may also print a "certificate of participation" in PDF
Cant vouch about ISRO’s funds being sufficient. I just pray that politicians don’t look that way , otherwise that money also will go down the drain. (BTW Did you know that IISC turned 100 last week ?) It will not long that the story mentioned in Deception Point will come true in
Two days ago, Lagaan was shown on Sony TV. And I was watching it alone, then my friends started dropping in one by one. Finally, we had an entire gang of guys watching a patriotic cricket movie. It was after a very long time that I was seeing myself surrounded by the full gang. All of us had watched the movie in its hey days, but forgot the story. One of us, a Tyagi, was watching it for the first time ! We laughed when we saw them learning the game. There was a scene were they were learning cricket from Elizabeth, the British girl.
Bhuvan(Aamir): “Baapre, ithni badee baasha hamara thaoo na samje !!”
Then we were commenting on each of the characters style. A sardar came in ,who reminded us of our very own Sardar Amarjeet.
There was a muslim I guess, and we talked about Jubair.
The Kala traitor reminded us of….Bissooo…don’t ask me who that is.
Pahalwaaan made us miss our Pahaaadd Harsh.
After the tryouts, there was our Kachra the spinner, who was easily our favorite character of them all. Story was going on smooth like butter of warm parathaaas….(I’m hungry now). We enjoyed the songs too, Pankaj was crooning to each song. The guy still remembers the lyrics!
And then , the final match !! Wah, kya match thaa. Kya sajaya thaa. Kya bajaya thaa. Helpless King on Mahal end, along with the british team. And our own gaon ke chore on the pavilion end, along with the king’s elephant ! The british guys hindi language was flawless, they can learn even Japanese I think. They start batting, our guys fielding…sorry ksethra rakshaning. The director had effectively caught the energy of the villagers.. they were roaring wheneve a catch was taken. When Kachra came and took his first wicket, the gaoon ke chorian all got up and clapped from behind their dupattas. “Ladkiyaaaan !!!” I and Yadav called out. Even then, the ladies took the show.
The pahalwaan missed a catch. “Arre yaaar”, Tyagi said, “who le sakthe the yaar..” he said , forgetting that this was not a live match but a choreographed seqeuence. Everyone was spitting on the traitor wood cutter, when he missed the ball again and again.
Second day, our boys start batting after half day’s play.
The swamee with his unique batting style had us in gasps, “Hari Om” , he said , when he clicked the ball backwards.
……to be continued…..
From: Prasanth R.S [mailto:rsprasanth007@gmail.com]
Sent: 16 December 2008 1:30 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Hay ad
Very very interesting. In all the way. erivu, pulippu, madhuram, kaypu every thing in that single message. Its a pretty long message.
I dont know abt Yoda. I didnt watched the Star Wars series yet. I referred in Wikipedia any way. But its an interesting way of talk. I can imagine from
Then, its a very good view of urs abt Attire. I know that my last article was not in a depth. it mainly concentrated on Cinema. But I only wanted to make a view abt todays fashion concept and the foreign trends influence in our Cinema and thereby in our culture. At some extend it was good but mostly it was really bad thing particularly in the Ceremonies.
Then abt the CDs and DVDs. Its horrible, openly in a street. Also a swamee selling such Srikrishna Leelas and Bhakta Kuchelaas. Our Metros are so open. I dont even think abt this. I know abt BeemaPalli in TVM. But its like a secret service. So the period is not far, to sell such CDs openly in Thampanoor like Evening edition news papers and shouts " CD cd cd nalla choodulla CD, Shakeela, Maria, Reshma, Sajini.... Apratheekshitha rankangal.... Sneha prakatanavum vatsalya prakatanavum.... Romaanjam kollikkunna muhurthangal......Mazha ..Light Pokku..Bed...aduthenthu sambhavikkum...CD cd cd...."
Then abt
Da, I cant connect to
My new Topic.
This year was a Golden Year so far for ISRO. Two great successful lauches: PSLV-C9 successfully launched 10 satellites in its orbits in a single mission and the second Chandrayaan-1.
ISRO is currrently on the workshop for devoloping Chandrayaan-2, which is a mission based on landing a Rover in the Moon. Also ISRO is planning to send a man on the moon within 2020. All the best for that mission.
In a recent interview, Madhvan Nair told that there are a lot of gifted Indian Scientists who were working at NASA and RKA..And told that he will try to make their service available for
Good days for
All hail
I know this topic also a little bit summarized one. Its a vast topic. But I wish that at the end of this mail odyssey we must have to discuss all the subjects that we can reach.
Today I'm suffering with fever. Still I dont want to break it. That's why this mail.
Da, I forgot to congratulate u.
Congratulations for getting one more chance to go to
Also bye bye for eosinophilia and allergy.
Can u use this email outside of
Pinne enthokke undu vishesham. What abt the weather. Is it favourable.
Next time when u go to Parrys. Buy two or three Abhijnana Sakunthalam DVDs. Actually here it is very hard to get a copy. Kshama kaalam aanu.( Famine days). Not getting a single copy.
Ok da. Do reply. Byeeeeeeeeeeee.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:41 PM, <ranjith.x.ravindran@accenture.com> wrote:
Yes, we are doing a good job with the trail. No I am not busy today. Yes its good you are taking initiative. No , I am not bored.
Interesting topic you have chosen. And again, since there is no tech there, I don't have much to say. So the least I can do is to make things difficult for you to understand. I will now type this email in the way that Yoda speaks. Yoda, from Star Wars.
Although more emails than you in this trail, I have, just nonsense, most of mine is, like fountain of knowledge, while yours is. And indebted to you for this, am
Indian attire. Yes, I think, referring to the six foot sarees of cloth and silk, you are, and as miniskirts the long strips of white cloth called dothi and our own mundu draped clumsily. If you look closely, see that unstitched clothing is the true form of our traditional wear, you will. Imported, everything stitched was. In that sense, be considered traditional wear, even the kurtha pyjama cannot. But I think you emphasis is more on the area under coverage, instead of type of wear. Anything against western wear, I don't have, maybe because I find them easier to carry off. No cell phones, there were when saree was invented, if so, ladies, to tie them to their pallus, would have.
Look good in western wear too, women can, to its actual purpose provided the dress lives up. If to black and white movies you go back, see college girls in Naseeer film college kumari, we can. Always been taught to respect women, I have, and like it I don't when movies depict women as objects of beauty alone. The feeling is further worsened by the fact that, a kid sister, have I, and never agree with her wearing such clothes, would I. But fact is, the wearer's final decision to chose what he/she wears, it is. Made to wear against his/her wish can no one be. If so, clearly visible, the discomfort is. And the comfort which ready stitched clothes offer weigh against them.
But yes, of exposure both on screen lately theres been lot as well as on live shows. Dancers, actresses, gone minimalistic, even the party wear has. To project onself as rich and successful ,i think it's a desparate attempt. In the last mallu movie I watched, wearing, wearing less than what mamoo koya was, I noticed that nayanthara and bhavan were! As eye candy in the movies just, were they, and with dileep uncle dancing in tight tops, bhavana was. Remember, told you I liked priya gill in josh, have I, cause, wearing full length skirts, was she. Wearing western clothes in goa all right, she was, but with her a certain grace I last saw in waheeda rahman, had she.
I shall make my stand clear: I am 100% against moral policing. There is no rule written anywhere that people should wear certain kind of clothes when one goes out. Schools and colleges may have, and it serves good purpose. But other than that, its freedom of choice. Imagine our policemen wearing dhothis to work , and our brave soldiers wearing khadi in Kargil ! They will be like :
Sardar: Oye, mere khaadi pagadi par goli lag
Swami: Ayyo, you can use my bullet proof mundu from Kancheepuram ! It was used by Rajani annan in Muthu.
Or maybe: Rough and tough jean sarees. Rough and tough ho, tho rough and tough pehno. Aur dikhao.
Truth is, the glam and glitz is trying really hard to catch up with american counterparts, and the young generation is blindly following. You will not believe it, but things like one night stands and multiple partners and group 6 are all becoming common in
Compared to this, the view of glitz dolls showing off their assets is nothing to me. When gen next itself is taking all this for fun on the run, establised pros take it in their stride.
Last Saturday, I was feeling bored, so I took out a spare bike here and went cruising. I landed up in Chennai area called Parrys, which has a Parrys factory. There were lines and lines of shops opposite a catholic church here, with heavy rush. So I thought to look around. As soon as I entered the place, tamilians surrounded me and started wispering "BF venama ? Tamil, Hindi,English". Shocked, I spoke in my broken malayalam-tamil "Vendama, enakku electronics venam". They chuckled "Appo malayaleeya ? malayalam irukkum super". When I looked down, I saw that the guy talking to me was wearing a black mundu. He was a Samee !!! "Super engilsh , 5 hours DVD, 20 rupees" he told me. The offer was tempting, but already the sex crazy guys at home were desperate, I didn't want to encourage them. I told them , no DVD player. But he had seen my phone. "Direct to phone loading available maaa" he told me. The place was actually Bhurma bazaar, where cheap electronics was being sold. Remember , the whole setup was in front of a church.
On the way back, to our states I compared all this reality. Free from these so called western cultures, our primitive and orthodox system was, but going the same way, it is. In an outlook study, from
From: Prasanth R.S [mailto:rsprasanth007@gmail.com]
Sent: 14 December 2008 2:39 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Hai da
Thanks 4
I know now a days u r very busy. Still u r continuing the trail. Great commitment da.
After the last reply from yours, the saga reached 25. ie Silver Jubilee!!!!!
It may be 4 the first time in the history of Gmail, such a mail trail discussing every aspect of events moving around us. 11 of them r mine and 14 of them r urs. Here also u r topper!!
Today once again I'm taking initiative, as u r busy, it may be difficult to get start from
I dont know whether it is an interesting subject. Till.......
Indian Attire?
From the earliest civilization of
At the time of Non-Cooperation Movement lead by Mahatma Gandhi, people came to know abt the importance of Khadi (or Khadar) dresses. The freedom fighters and the common people of
I also like to watch FTV. Not for watching new dress style but to count the Goods.(u may be clicked). Heaven!!!
I had never been conscious abt my dress. U know abt that. I dont know how I came into the topic to interfere?? Leave it.
In the Bollywood movies, Bikinis are not a trend started in our generation. From the films of 1950's and 60's we can watch this. Even Vyjayanti Mala Bali wearing Bikini in the song Bol Radha Bol Sangham Hoga Ki Nahi......
There are lot of examples.
Sex Bomb Bipasha Basu has been called for hosting the selection of "
Mallika Sherawat got a dream come true opportunity to work with Jacki Chan in The Myth. She exposed whatever she can in that movie. Jackie Chan told after that movie that he had a great respect to Indian Women. I dont know why he told that.
Then Shilpa Shetty. I like her very much at the beginning of her career. Her cute smile in Baazigar and Main Khiladi tu anari. But after the great performance in Big Brother show and her final interview in the show showing her full cleavage, I became disappointed. Recently a most interesting thing happened. A reporter asked why she was wearing saree showing all her assets. And also asked dont she think that she was ruining Indian culture. She responded that if wearing a saree is an insult to the Indian culture, then why it is treated as a part of Indian culture.
I think she is so stupid that she cant correctly answer to that question. If she has to know why the reporter asked that question, she has to watch the movies of 1950's and 60's and how the actresses like Nutan, Nargis Dutt, Waheeda Rahman, Meena Kumari, Padmini etc wore saree. ( I'm a great fan of Nutan).
Esha Deols case was an exceptional one. In the first movies she acted showing very must conservatism towards the attires. But no one noticed her. After dazzling hot performance in Dhoom every one noticed her.( Actually there is a rumour that Hema Malini adviced her to do so to stand in the field).
The Award Ceremonies of Bollywood movies are places which challenges the Ramp Shows. Every actresses coming half naked. Some of them holding their Husband's hand wearing half naked without any shyness. Most noted couples were Abhishek-Aiswarya and Shahrukh-Gowri. What is this. This is not Hollywood. No one is raising against this. Where is the so called "Activists". Where is our Gandhians.( Sorry, the actresses are actually following Gandhian Path by wearing "Less dress". May be less than Gandhi)
This is the case of most of the film field in
The Men still immune from this to a great extend. because the trends can only make a few changes in the Pants and Shirts. Thats all. Even if a guy didnt wear a shirt and walking wearing only Pants, then also nothing would happen.
In the Western Countries, the classic families still shows conservatism towards the attire.
I'm sorry to concentrate a lot in Bollywood. But its nothing actually. If u watch recent movies and Award Functions, u can realise that rather than my opinions.
The girls of our generation is hesitating to wear saree. Basically its a great task to wear. They choose Churidars and Jeans and Top rather than saree. But really these dresses are comfortable. It is not the dress that makes it decent but mode of dressings. Thats very important. The elocutioners speaks a lot abt
In the School, there is uniforms for the students. Its a great thing because the children from the high class society and low class society will looks the same standard.
Wearing the favourite dress is everyones privilege. Use that privilege by wearing simple dresses. When ever we wore a dress we must have to think abt the people who not even holds an alternate dress to wear.
I know u wont be satisfied with todays article. But I wrote this just for a change. But its a good subject, but want a little bit of time to furnish it. That what i lacks.
Anyway do reply da...
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:19 PM, <ranjith.x.ravindran@accenture.com> wrote:
Dear DespDa,
Wonderful article, this I will definitely save for future references. You have touched a very nice issue here, the new occupation of so called "Activists" . Reminds me of Munnabha MBBS, where circuit describes themselves as "Social Workers." When he said that, the image which came to my mind was of these people protesting against all development works. And you are damn right about the media coverage part, there is too much live telecast nowadays and people are lapping it all up.
I have no in depth knowledge of the remaining incidents, but the Tata singoor project was a bad story gone all wrong. The damage has already been done, no new factories will now open shop in that place. There have been funny articles on this topic here and here.
One question which comes to my mind is where do these people get money from ? Does this occupation pay ? Obviously, money is coming up from corrupt netas or their betas , whoever have personal gains in the non – development of the area.
The plachimada incident occurred when I was fired from Accenture the first time, and I had nothing to do except read papers and novels. I read about how Achud and gang milked the incident to win the election. My dad rightly pointed out that they will forget it as soon as they sit on the minister's chair. I was once watching discovery channel (not FTV !) and I saw them covering the plachimada incident. But the channel was only giving a reference to the incident. It was covering the Fiji water incident.
Read the page, it tells you that :
Also see this.
Everytime I travel home,I carry water. And people are surprised the light brown ayurvedic water I drink from my bottle. My mother boils tap water and fills it the same bottle I have been using for the past one year. And I travel home every 3 weeks on average. I have never bought a bottle on the way. I think this is the best I can do in this regard.
Also this
As you can see, I am reading a lot of kerala blogs nowadays, maybe I miss the corrupt and lazy kerala naadu more now than before.
From: Prasanth R.S [mailto:rsprasanth007@gmail.com]
Sent: 12 December 2008 1:39 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Hai da
U reply was not that much short. Its ok 4 todays quota. What i really want is
Ok, as
Now a days there are lot of Human Right Activists and Environmentalists in
In Kerala, recently we watched lot of incidents which questioned the humanitarian value as well as environmental challenge. In all these incidents, the above activists actively involved to raise against the mishaps. But for how many days??? Till the media covers that incidents with colourful headlines. Thats all. The strikes and demonstrations conducted at Plachimada was a best example.(I think u may be familiar with this incident. Any way I give u a brief idea. Coca cola started a plant in Plachimada, Palakkad. They used the undergound water for making the Cola. It created drought in the entire area. The Wells dried out. Only muddy water was there in the Wells. The locals travelled a long distance to carry water for the household purposes. No water for irrigation). For the crowds support for the election, V.S. Achudanandan, the then Opposition leader protested against Coca Cola, which received accolades from National media as well as from Philanthropists. Like dog finds a bone after long hunger days, the "Activists" lined behind VS. All the medias praised the "Activists". Great Personalities!!!!!!! Then the assembly election in 2006. LDF won with 3/2 majority. VS became CM. After that he never noticed that strike at Plachimada. Last January, with the pressure of the Plachimada Panchayath, he visited there just for a formality. Thats all. The strike successfully completed 2400 days. Still it continuing. No news abt that. No activists there. But still the local people continuing strike. Whats my question is, Will the "Activists" only participates in the strike, if there is medias to cover that incident and praises them!!!
Another incident, Chengara Strike, which is conducted by tribal people and still continuing. Its in Wayanad. It also completed 1 Year. Here the demands are different. The tribal people of Wayanad demanding land for dwelling as well as for cultivating. Each demanding 5acres of Land. Sounds ridiculous. Kerala's total land area is 38,863 sq.km. Other interesting fact was that more than 75% of the people participated in the strike owns house.
Then Govts move to Athirapally Power project. Without any second thought, the activists protested. The Govt assured that the project will not affect the Tourism. And also it can mitigate the electricity problem to a great extend. But who hears such things. There is position is that if there is electricity problem then ask the God for the remedy. After Govt imposed Half an hour load shedding, "Activists" responded that it is just because of Govts inefficiency to satisfy the demands. the Govt is not promoting, new projects. What a contradiction, isnt.
Then abt
Then Singur problem, Tata started its Tata Nano Plant at Singur in
In
All these "Activists" got lot of International Awards. Great!!!!!! You know C. K. Jaanu (Leader of Muthanga Strike.) also has been listed in Forbes World's Strongest Womens list in 2006 or 2007.
Its a long passage. But please reply. There is still lot of voids. But the time not allowing me. Also through this particular message, its look like I'm trying to test
Anyway do reply da.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:07 PM, <ranjith.x.ravindran@accenture.com> wrote:
Looks like this mail trail will grow into GBs soon.
I am from Vatakara Engg college. I have been posted in Banglore, and Chennai. So far, the only other CIT-Vian I know here in Accenture is Rajest (Kappi.) . I head Arun Satheeshan has joined the Callcenter/Network operations in Banglore, but other than that, there is no CIT-Vian here (Tell me if you know anyone else). A college from where so many students have passed out in past and present. And no one here. Accenture emphasizes a lot on quality and soft skills. Other companies don't. That's why there are so many of us at Infy/Satyam/TCS/CTS. But no one here. It hurts me, when I see gangs of boys and girls who got placed here together from the same college. I am a loner here. But I guess our college does not produce quality Accenture wants.
Now for the good news. I am flying to
I have been to
I cant believe you have still not learnt from your experiences. You were a bright student, and I noted you right in first year, when you sat behind me in B-class. You have paid for the lack of study environment and facilities with more than 4 years of your Engg life. Your marks are low. You are yet to be employed. Its been 3 years since we left college. But you still have not learnt. Do me a favour. Imagine yourself at……CETrivandrum. Imagine. The excellent teachers, great atmosphere. Studious and inspiring friends. Full lab facilites. Imagine. Would that have changed something ? Or everything ? Would you have failed there like you did at CIT-V ? Give me a frank answer.
If I was at CET, I would have never failed a paper there. I would have topped in CSE (at least among the boys !) I would have done path breaking projects. I would have taken up R&D and published some papers. These would have help in my job hunt too.
Institutions do make a difference , bro.
I cant believe you called up minister A K Balan to get electricity on onam day !! Man, you are one responsible citizen at work. May your tribe increase.
This mail is shorter cause I have urgent work regarding my foreign travel. But ill be back soon, with more nonsense in an email.
From: Prasanth R.S [mailto:rsprasanth007@gmail.com]
Sent: 11 December 2008 1:02 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Hai da
Very lengthy reply. I love this.
then, abt Shashi Tharoor's interest in entering the politics. Its a good move. Actually, I'm not criticizing his decision. But the thing is that after entering in a political party, everyone tries to mark the leaders of that party as Angels. That is what I'm opposing. From that single "Column", u can easily identify that. That is not fair. The conventional politicians can do that. They must have to. But from a person like Shashi Tharoor, not one is expecting that. After joining Congress Party ( a party which never shown any interest to accept Gandhism or any other ideology, but believes in monarchy, a monarchy of Nehru family in the name of Gandhi) can he retain his identity. Offcourse not.( U may think that I'm opposing Congress Party because I'm a believer of Communism. But u can refer to earlier mails abt my stands.)
In the case of
Calculations of the fee structure of Private Engg Colleges are based on my own research. If I took that excerpts from any Communist magazines, then my calculation should be based on the base donation of Rs 7 to 8 lakh rather than Rs 2 to 3 lakh.
I already told u da. I'm really concerned abt the Baseless scaffold of Kerala school education. Also the Plus 2 students are giving chance to write the exams in Malayalam. what will be there future. May be they can expect a PSC job. Nothing more than that.( there may be exceptions). Here i can use my usual proverb "kooninmel kuru" also another one "Pande durbala ippo garbhiniyum"( Already weak, now pregnant also). Govt tried a lot of innovations(sorry its not innovations, its stupidities), but failed in all the aspects.Experimenting the education system with the students. Both the Govt were absolute failure in Education reforms. In the history of Kerala education system, only once a great attempt has been tried. The first Kerala Govt. But the feudalists, churches, and the other parties opposed that move. After that, for all the Govt the Education Ministry became a curse and after that none of the MLAs interested to become an education minister.
I know that we studied in a low profile
Actually I always thought abt u that u must have to be a product of IIT or NIT. But the destiny. Not one can read it earlier. But u got the job what u deserve. Still I feel, u deserve rather than this job.
Abt the transport system in
Abt power cuts. u r talking abt the exceptions. U know about
the Maniyoor. Powercuts extend sometimes even a week continuously. But in Vadakara and the neighbouring places there is no problem with that. This is because of the illiteracy of the people reside there. They never complaint about this to electricity board. They dont even know the Line Man of that area. Just because they deal with this by lighting candles and lanthers. They dont have any complaint with the powercuts. Here what they lacked is the power of their voice. I can tell u one incident. on the Thiruvonam day this year. I woke up at 9'0 clock. At that time i noticed that there was no electricity. I asked my mother, when it gone. She told me that from 7'0 clock itself there was no electricity. I told her that I'm going to complaint to Electricity Board. She responded that lot of people should be complaint all these hours. I didnt heard her. I called electricity board. But there is no ringing. I understood that they kept the receiver down. I really surprised. On the Onam day they are doing this chaotic act. Without any second thought I called Minister A.k. Balan. His PA picked the phone. I told him that i want to talk to Minister. He gave the phone to Minister. I complainted about the power cut.And also the dirty game played by the electricity board. He told me that not to worry about it. Whatever the problem may be within 5 minutes
Long Live
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:44 AM, <ranjith.x.ravindran@accenture.com> wrote:
Keep up the good work. I never imagined you would comment on Shashi Taroor's column. I do not know of his political stand, but the guy's knowledge is on multiple levels. I just take everyone's opinion on a certain topic, so I see what he has to say too. But truth is, I think even he is now being drawn into filthy politics. Maybe, the guy has potential and may change things. What do you think about Congress's winning in
Kudos to your calculations on
Why didn't they start more Govt Engg colleges ? My guesstimate is that the last one was Govt engg college in Palakkad, where I got first admission. I was moved to Vatakara via higher options. The govt can still open such colleges and take matter in their own hands, but they want to have the fun but not willing to sweat for it. I am still confused, if I was education minister, I would have opened 10 govt engg colleges more, and ensured free and fair education to more students. As for the huge amounts you say are taken in, I still insist that you will not understand as you and I have not studied in a true engg college. Hence you don't know what we have missed. Half of the students who were in our batch are still unemployed. A quarter is yet to pass. Some of our seniors have to pass too. Those who passed , don't have enough marks to land a quality job. The high scorers of our batch are yet to develop their soft skills to land that dream job. Some of the sharpest minds I have ever met : you, Tomci, Lalu (yes, he is sharp), Sam… are still in queue for their dream job. I know the girls are not that interested, but hey, they too dream big. When our products enter an interview and talk about their projects and papers, they don't match up to the world class projects coming in from other college students. I have spoken to students from these management colleges, man, their projects are stuff out of
What was missing ? We had a course, we had buildings, we had uniforms !! Time has proved to us that all these don't constitute a good college. The stuff which was missing was environment. Inspiration. Ideas. Challenges. the only challenges were the arts competitions and the two elections we ever had. Nobody in our batch was willing to come with me to take part in programming/debugging competitions (two members required sometimes). Even you turned down my offer. Nobody participated in our own coders challenge when it was held at CIT-V !! But when I made it to my first job on my very first interview only because I had to prove myself, I was the talk of the college. People were all over my pestering me for treats !! Wow, this is a real Engg college. I am ashamed of typing this email now.
Lalu is a character whom I run into sometimes when I go home. Every time I see him, he in on his beautifully maintained
Even today I am ashamed when people ask me about my college and its students. There is absolutely nothing worthy of mention. A bunch of losers.
If you want to know how the education system has affected students, talk to some one who passed +2 in 2002-2003. That's when all the radical (read stupid) changes came in and put students in a fix.
Ultimate truth is this. If you are a bright student, there is no shortage of seats for you in kerala, or
If one is not a smart student , (which means one is an idiot), but rich (that makes him rich idiot), he/she too will get seats, cause money can buy everything.
The problem is between these thresholds. Sort of like a band pass filter J, the poor idiots !! These are the people who are passed by +2 valuators on Baby's ideals of minimum pass.They pass, but they don't qualify for higher education.They don't get seats.
My only worries are for my siblings, but its not a tension at all. My sister is smartest in her class. So she will get seats.
My brother is smart too, but he was lazy, now he is working harder. And I have made some money now to teach him. So he is covered.
So the message is clear : Either get rich , or get smart.
One line from your previous mail clearly stood out : Also enhancing the mother tongue Malayalam is a pretty good idea, but the Minister must provide the job for the ones who cant cope up with English. This is an excellent point, something people haven't thought about yet.
One thing I wanted to add, I don't agree with these indexes GDP fundas. These are only estimates. There is no way you can measure development level on such indexes. They just give you an idea. I completely disagree with these kerala living standards are on European levels. From my personal experience, no,cars are not cheaper there. My manager bought a car when she received huge bonus just before I landed there. In these places, the preferred mode of transport is tram/bus/train. Cars are taken out only when there is camping or parties to attend. That's why there were lesser cars on the roads there. All these are from personal experience.
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Please, your comments on this article.
One last reques: when you get time , please go and visit Shibon's college. You will know what we have missed.
From: Prasanth R.S [mailto:rsprasanth007@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 December 2008 1:54 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Hai da
Thanks da Ranjith 4
I accept
Then abt school education in Kerala. Here also i do accept
Abt the transport system.
Then abt MPs protest. U must have to realise one thing. In
Abt books. Please inform me abt
Then Shashi Tharoor Column. This is the comment I wrote to Tharoor's column about Police and Minority relation.
"
Sir,
Vande Mataram."
I think its a lit bit summarized. Anyway I cant accept Shashi Tharoor in the way that he looks the Indian community. U may also not accept me. the latest news is that he is going to contest in Parliament election as a congress candidate. That is why he praised Manmohan Singh in the Column. He is praising a person who never won an assembly election or Parliament Election. ie Manmohan was never elected by Indian people. His economic reforms are based on capitalist economy. Not based on strong future policy as done by Jawaharlal Nehru. Also investing the Provident Fund and Pension Fund in share markets through ICICI, HDFC and Anil Ambani's insurance company he created a great insecurity to the employees and pensioners. Also he was the one who was responsible for the vomiting of Shashi Tharoor's chance to become UN Secretary general. Manmohan didn't asked any countries to cast their vote to Shashi Tharoor. He not even asked the support of SAARC nations.Leave it. Coming back to the point. Shashi Tharoor praised Manmohan singh on the basis of his stand towards minorities and against terrorism. I already told Manmohan's and Congress's stand abt Orissa issue. Abt giving security to the flags laid by VHP and Bajrangdal. Also in the election campaign for the election held in the last week in Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, Congress never tried to highlight on Hindutva terrorism and talked a lot about Islamic terrorism. Taking a mild stand against Hindutva terrorism they lost both states.( In Rajasthan, congress regained because of Gujjar's problem). They not even tried to oppose BJP based on Hindutva terrorism. It shows that Congress also had a partiality in the vision of equality in the society. Shashi Tharoor never tried to write against it. A person like Shashi Tharoor cant realise the pulse of Indian people deeply as like Manmohan and Chidambaram. The reasons were a lot. Also the Congress Govt. never tried to suppress Shiva Sena and Maharastra Navanirman Sena in
Now i'm tired.
Ok da........
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:44 AM, <ranjith.x.ravindran@accenture.com> wrote:
As they say, Prasanth and wine get better with time. He he. Its evident from your emails. Nobody from college reading our mails can guess that it is your who is giving all these replies. You have gone miles ahead after leaving college. About the names for my blog, Silent Alarm looks good, but then people will expect things like Kerala Tips from me. I think of writing about some tech too. How is the name : Static Variable ?
If you are guessing why such crooked names, they are catchy, and make you think. These are oxymorons. Its an English language phrase. Read about it.
Coming to movies, no, I have not seen transporter 3. I will read about it on Wikipedia after sending this mail. Remember the transporter's rules:
- "Never change the deal"
- "No names"
- "Never open the package"
- "Never make a promise you can't keep"
I will not comment on the state of education in kerala, as I can see no clarity myself. I admit that education is costly and should be made free, but in this sense we are comparing it with the age-old gurukul system, where education was truly free. But you must remember that teachers in those times taught because they wanted to teach. Not for a living. But for pure joy of sharing knowledge. How many teachers today would be ready to teach for no salary ? Bring me 20 such teachers and we can start the cheapest engineering college in kerala !! I have seen the product of so called Govt Enng colleges. Though they are smart and quick thinking, they lack in soft skills and don't have access to latest changes in the system. Most govt engg students get through via campus placements, when companies have to take up a certain number of students. But if govt college students take part in open recruitment along with products of private colleges, private college students will win hands down.
I don't know about other courses , but engineering is not a course which can be taught under leaking roofs and frequent power cuts and strikes every other day. The instruments required are costly (remember the drafter itself cos 350 Rs/-). We did not have the electrical machines to do our labs. And our linux computer labs came up when were in final year! My friend, our college was no real engg college, if you want to hear about reall engg colleges, listen to what shibon has to say about his college :
"Actually the picture here is different entirely, in all respects, from CIT-V. It is now that I enjoy real engineering life. Research, research and research.....everywhere, everyone I see...Kinda perfect for me. And whats more, the facilities are mind blowing. 24 hours high speed internet, 24 hours hifi lab facilities, all the burners and programmers for all sorts of microprocessors, microcontrollers and Digital Signal Processors, VLSI Design lab, Embedded Systems etc etc....Library facility is one thing I'll never ever forget. Name a book and you get it. If the hard copy is not available, the book can be viewed, downloaded or printed from CET server. We M.Techs are automatically IEEE student members here with full access to all the documents. Canteen facility extends upto 9:00 PM. Reasonably cheap and good food. "
This is an excerpt from Bon's mail about his college. It took Govt engg college 20 years to reach the grand state they are in today. If we want private engg colleges to catch up, we have fund them. Also, my mail was not about Baby's engg college stand. It was his decision to do away with Onam exams. The CBSE system is reforming by introducing smaller, but more frequent tests, and my including these marks in final 10th standard valuation. The main exam marks constitute only 30% of CBSE marks system, rest coming from all the tests and records and reports and field trips and arts classes. The kerala-baby system is going completely in the opposite direction, no more tests, Govt will pass you through. What will these just pass children do when colleges demand 90% marks just for admission? Personally, I feel Baby is striving for Utopia.
(Please read the links I provide, I am taking extra effort to link them up here.)
Frequent delays in transport system is disease spread all over
I still read hand books instead of E-books. They are the perfect for a rainy day, with a cup of tea. But since I spend 8 hours in front of a system, the online way is easily accessible for me. 5 Point Someone is a nice book with great shelf value. You can read it again and again, so get a good copy. It will be made into a movie soon. But read the book first, you will enjoy it better then.
Reminder: Please read these articles on the net. Read Shashi Taroors column. I am also missing lot of activities happening in our state ,like this
Cherio
