Today I visited Seewri Depot and realised that how so called Indian Business Superpowers are surviving on pathetic infrastructure all thanks to cost savings.
It is often said that real life is funnier than any myth or fiction. Here are some excerpts of my trip to prove the same.
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Me (to a vendor): ये Marico का depot कहाँ पड़ेगा?
Vendor: Marico (puzzled) ये क्या बनाती है?
Me: Parachute, Saffola etc.
Vendor: ओह खोपडिया का तेल। ये तो हमारी खोली के पास है। है ना चाचा? (to a old man lying nearby)
Me: और आपकी खोली कहाँ है?
Vendor: HUL के Depot के पास।
Me (frustrated): और दोनों कहाँ है?
Finally I somehow got to know that Marico is popularly known as खोपरा तेल की Company in that locality.
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Me (to an old fellow) : ये खोपरे के तेल की company कहाँ पड़ेगी?
Old: वो तो कब की बंद हो गई है। आज से कई साल पहले।
Me: पर मुझे तो आज ही किसी ने उसका Address यहीं बताया है।
Old: देख लो है तो इसी रोड पर। पर वहां कोई आता जाता तो नहीं है आजकल। किसी भूत का चक्कर तो नहीं?
Evidently it turned out that Marico had a Parachute factory which was later on converted to depot.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Mumbai...Meri Jaan
I have been residing in this cosmopolitan city for past one year but started experiencing it for the past one week only, thanks to my internship. The more you explore it the more you fall in love with it. Everyday you leave your home with high spirit and energy levels which are consumed exponentially in the traffic crawling at snail pace and trains packed with people like knapsacks.
Yet you are expected to hunt for your space in this crowded world. You have to be always with high spirits and on your toes expecting the unexpected to happen.
Still there is a strange force which binds the lives of millions of Mubaikars together in a knit and results in a splendidly woven cloth of life, of hope, of despair, of fear, of joy and above all of integrity.
Here is a city which was ransacked by militants for three days but still dares to assemble in huge numbers at the same spot with assemblage being started by an anonymous SMS. This city gathers daily and sings together with their chants soaring high in the sky in the same locals which have been ripped apart by bombs.
They sing in unison reflecting the true Mumbai's aspiration: "Jai Ho!!".
Yet you are expected to hunt for your space in this crowded world. You have to be always with high spirits and on your toes expecting the unexpected to happen.
Still there is a strange force which binds the lives of millions of Mubaikars together in a knit and results in a splendidly woven cloth of life, of hope, of despair, of fear, of joy and above all of integrity.
Here is a city which was ransacked by militants for three days but still dares to assemble in huge numbers at the same spot with assemblage being started by an anonymous SMS. This city gathers daily and sings together with their chants soaring high in the sky in the same locals which have been ripped apart by bombs.
They sing in unison reflecting the true Mumbai's aspiration: "Jai Ho!!".
Sunday, February 22, 2009
PGDIE The Road Ahead
PGDIE: The Road Ahead
Hi all friends.
Here I present a plan to revamp the future team structures of PGDIE (starting from batch 39), kindly read it carefully and give your comments/ suggestions for further improvement on the same.
Current Team Structure
* All teams and functions not shown due to space constraints.
Proposed Team Structure
| Team | Sub teams | Prime Responsibilities |
| Media Team (8) | | To create visibility and brand awareness about NITIE in general and PGDIE in particular through various mediums available |
| Corporate relationship Team | Alum Team (8) | To increase the involvement of alums in various activities and hence foster a long lasting relationship with them. Students will be assigned responsibilities of alum batch wise eg: IE1-10 will be the responsibility of Mr. X. |
| Placement Team (10) | To develop symbiotic relationship with corporate and channelize the relationship developed with them so as to achieve “the placement” for all | |
| Student Management Team (8) (Equivalent to Kaizen) | | To improve awareness of PGDIE batch so as to make sure that best talent is identified and selected. |
| Infrastructure Team (8) (equivalent to Event Management Team) | | To provide hospitality and infrastructural support to all activities of IE. |
| Sysco (8) | | To provide IT infrastructural support to all activities |
| Sponsorship Team (10) | | To gather financial support for all student activities |
| Academic Interaction Team (5) | | To facilitate interaction between administration and students To bridge the gap between consulting, MDP and UBP programs offered by NITIE and its eminent faculty to ensure maximum benefit from these activities |
* Figure in braces indicate the number of students in each team
If I have missed out any other critical function kindly suggest its addition
Other Salient Points:
- Teams requiring core competency like Sysco will have stringent criterion like tests for admitting students
- Performance of each individual will be mapped. The coordinators of each event will be decided by batch consensus and his performance.
- Teams will be flat with no coordinators.
- Each event can evoke any individual from the concerned team for his requirements.
- Last but not the least “the event teams will be abolished”.
Further Details will be provided in subsequent posts depending upon the response to this post.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
And Ambedkar Laughs!!
It has been a long time since I last blogged!! Infact almost six months!!
The Great Institute which gave me inspiration to start blogging is inspiring me now to continue it!!Yes I am back in IIT Kanpur......
The recent violence in Maharashtra over the desecration of Ambedkar Statue back here in Kanpur!This incident clearly depicts how much oppressed dalitas are despite promises of equality and provision of reservation. How much they feel isolated?
Actually Dr. Ambedkar never wished himself that he must dot every nook and corner of the country inn the form of statues! He wished that his ideology must be propagated which unfortunately has not found much heed amongst the so called dalit leaders! Dr. Ambedkar devised the scheme of reservation not just to bring the dalits in mainstream politics but he expected the power bestowed upon them to ensure the improvement of needy! This Ideology does not find much takers in todays politics which revolves around mud slanging!
When Kanshiram was a struggling leader he said "I am unlike dalit leaders of Maharashtra who just believe in erecting statues of Babasaheb, if I come to power you would see a decisive and definitive change in life of dalits!". Isn't it humorous that most of the Uttar pradesh was dotted up by statues of Ambedkar when he came to power!
The incident not only reveals the malicious intents of our politicians it also throws light on how much isolated dalits feel in the so called socio-economic upliftment.There is a sense of betrayal as the benifits of reservation and all other schemes for their upliftment have restricted to the so called creamy layer and left a vast multitude still wanting! They saw an opportunity to express their anguish after the statue was damaged and grabbed it!
In fact there are Khairlanji's happening daily in India.And our politicians are just yawning at the dead bodies of dalits!Reservations continue to be a political agenda rather than serving their purpose of bridging the divide between rich and poor; Those in demand and those having excess!
If things dont improve...More Priyankas would be gangraped and life of Bhaiyalal would be ruined everyday..and Ambedkar would laugh..wait for the day when his ideology are transformed in action... a new India is created!!
The Great Institute which gave me inspiration to start blogging is inspiring me now to continue it!!Yes I am back in IIT Kanpur......
The recent violence in Maharashtra over the desecration of Ambedkar Statue back here in Kanpur!This incident clearly depicts how much oppressed dalitas are despite promises of equality and provision of reservation. How much they feel isolated?
Actually Dr. Ambedkar never wished himself that he must dot every nook and corner of the country inn the form of statues! He wished that his ideology must be propagated which unfortunately has not found much heed amongst the so called dalit leaders! Dr. Ambedkar devised the scheme of reservation not just to bring the dalits in mainstream politics but he expected the power bestowed upon them to ensure the improvement of needy! This Ideology does not find much takers in todays politics which revolves around mud slanging!
When Kanshiram was a struggling leader he said "I am unlike dalit leaders of Maharashtra who just believe in erecting statues of Babasaheb, if I come to power you would see a decisive and definitive change in life of dalits!". Isn't it humorous that most of the Uttar pradesh was dotted up by statues of Ambedkar when he came to power!
The incident not only reveals the malicious intents of our politicians it also throws light on how much isolated dalits feel in the so called socio-economic upliftment.There is a sense of betrayal as the benifits of reservation and all other schemes for their upliftment have restricted to the so called creamy layer and left a vast multitude still wanting! They saw an opportunity to express their anguish after the statue was damaged and grabbed it!
In fact there are Khairlanji's happening daily in India.And our politicians are just yawning at the dead bodies of dalits!Reservations continue to be a political agenda rather than serving their purpose of bridging the divide between rich and poor; Those in demand and those having excess!
If things dont improve...More Priyankas would be gangraped and life of Bhaiyalal would be ruined everyday..and Ambedkar would laugh..wait for the day when his ideology are transformed in action... a new India is created!!
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Whats IIT all about!!
Hi Friends!!
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
-Edith Sitwell, Taken Care Of ,1965
English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)
Before coming over to IIT Kanpur I was part of the crowd, my opinion about IITs was that it is a bunch of frustrated guys working under some crazy profs coocooned up in their labs and having approximately zero knowledge about the actual world! But after spending 5 weeks in this great Institute(IITK) my vision has been choked clear.Though no doubt IIT is a coocoon shelled into a serene and conducive enviornment in a city like Kanpur (my project partner would kill me for this statement)! Just to turn out the professionals who can mould the world in their frame of reference!!
The Indian government plans to open up 7 new IITs. But it doesnt seem to be so easy to replicate an IIT! You can tag a college as an IIT by furnishing it with the most modern facilities...but then IIT is not mere a college...it is an ideology!! It can be best described as a place where students and faculty merge to form a single unit, Ideas and innovations merge to expand the frontiers of technology, constant guidance and support churns the best out of the person.
No doubt that these Mecca of Education are equiped with the most modern facilities, but this fact has never caused the death of the zest to upgrade itself. IITs provide you wid all the freedom you could enjoy in your life as a student. You would always cherish even a single moment spend out here.
Further analysis shows that it is the team work which makes IITs what they are. So you have a professor , who earns 30,000 bucks per month and can enjoy every amnity working with you and bestowing his faith on your capabilities. They consider IIT as a historical process as evident from the extracts of convocation address given by Dr. P.K. Kelkar in 1981 "When I came to Kanpur first to join as the Director of the Institute, almost everybody I met in Kanpur asked me…..if I had wanted to commit professional suicide,… I did not at all worry about this because I was no longer myself but an instrument of a historical process". You might feel astonished when a PhD professor asks your ideas about solving a problem.This will automatically instill faith in your capabilities.
In short IITs are not just Colleges..they are phenomenons transforming the life of their students to such an extent that you would always owe something to this great institute and want to pay it back as evident by large pool of money available in the alumni associations of IITs!!
"The best way to get selected in IIT is to spend 4-5 days in an IIT. When you recognise that you will allways feel proud to be a part of such a great institute, it will automatically ignite a spark in you to get inside these coveted institutes"
-Shailendra,one of my friends after spending a day in IITK
"This is not certainly India, we are somewhwere else"
-Sandeep Kumar Singh, Collegemate and project partner after strolling through the vast campus of IITK
Aristotle must have envisioned a place like IIT when he said "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
P.S.: This post would be incomplete without the mention of two persons. First of them is our supervisor Prof Rajiv Shekhar, who is one of the most principle-centric persons I have ever met in my life. The second one being Mr. N.P. Singh, who is certainly the most efficient worker you could find in govt. offices considering duty as his religion.
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
-Edith Sitwell, Taken Care Of ,1965
English biographer, critic, novelist, & poet (1887 - 1964)
Before coming over to IIT Kanpur I was part of the crowd, my opinion about IITs was that it is a bunch of frustrated guys working under some crazy profs coocooned up in their labs and having approximately zero knowledge about the actual world! But after spending 5 weeks in this great Institute(IITK) my vision has been choked clear.Though no doubt IIT is a coocoon shelled into a serene and conducive enviornment in a city like Kanpur (my project partner would kill me for this statement)! Just to turn out the professionals who can mould the world in their frame of reference!!
The Indian government plans to open up 7 new IITs. But it doesnt seem to be so easy to replicate an IIT! You can tag a college as an IIT by furnishing it with the most modern facilities...but then IIT is not mere a college...it is an ideology!! It can be best described as a place where students and faculty merge to form a single unit, Ideas and innovations merge to expand the frontiers of technology, constant guidance and support churns the best out of the person.
No doubt that these Mecca of Education are equiped with the most modern facilities, but this fact has never caused the death of the zest to upgrade itself. IITs provide you wid all the freedom you could enjoy in your life as a student. You would always cherish even a single moment spend out here.
Further analysis shows that it is the team work which makes IITs what they are. So you have a professor , who earns 30,000 bucks per month and can enjoy every amnity working with you and bestowing his faith on your capabilities. They consider IIT as a historical process as evident from the extracts of convocation address given by Dr. P.K. Kelkar in 1981 "When I came to Kanpur first to join as the Director of the Institute, almost everybody I met in Kanpur asked me…..if I had wanted to commit professional suicide,… I did not at all worry about this because I was no longer myself but an instrument of a historical process". You might feel astonished when a PhD professor asks your ideas about solving a problem.This will automatically instill faith in your capabilities.
In short IITs are not just Colleges..they are phenomenons transforming the life of their students to such an extent that you would always owe something to this great institute and want to pay it back as evident by large pool of money available in the alumni associations of IITs!!
"The best way to get selected in IIT is to spend 4-5 days in an IIT. When you recognise that you will allways feel proud to be a part of such a great institute, it will automatically ignite a spark in you to get inside these coveted institutes"
-Shailendra,one of my friends after spending a day in IITK
"This is not certainly India, we are somewhwere else"
-Sandeep Kumar Singh, Collegemate and project partner after strolling through the vast campus of IITK
Aristotle must have envisioned a place like IIT when he said "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
P.S.: This post would be incomplete without the mention of two persons. First of them is our supervisor Prof Rajiv Shekhar, who is one of the most principle-centric persons I have ever met in my life. The second one being Mr. N.P. Singh, who is certainly the most efficient worker you could find in govt. offices considering duty as his religion.
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