Board exams

Recently the HRD minster Kapil sibal announced that there will be no board exams for 10th and he will be planning on not to have 12th board exams as well in future. This announcement has triggered to lot of debate in media, students and parents. some of the students are really happy that they need not have to study and get pressuried. some of the teachers are pitching in for continous learning and thus might get more control on students than earlier. But still there are lot of unanswered questions on having board exams or not. Every body are keen to know about all details from government on board exams.

Board exams are in india for long time probably we inherited it from the british. Primary purpose of the board exams was to assess the student's performance and provide feedback to the student.Board exams results are looked into before admitting any student into higher education institutes, before selecting a candidate for a job, etc. Earlier this system worked perfectly simply because there were lesser aspirant students and supply/demand ratio was at optimum level.

After Indian independence i.e 60 years, things have changed considerablly. Population of india has doubled, more and more student population have becomed poential aspirants for colleges and schools. The quote system ensures backward community students 50% seats irrespective of their results. Rest of the 50% is left for general merit students who score very high marks and sometime it gets so competitive that 0.25 marks or even lesser makes a difference in getting a seat or not.

Now, what would be the impact of not having exams? how would one give seats when 2 students are separated by just 0.25 marks? will grade system work for indian education system.

Giving a seat under quote system is no big deal in present situation, because demand & supply for quota candidates in not that much. but for general merit students have the actual competition , because of fewer avalibility of seats and, more and more students are competing for lesser seats irrespective of quote or general merit students.

from the above we can conculde that more students are pressurized not because of the exam, it is because of competition of getting a seat after your exam. And many parents push their wards because 0.25 marks makes them to pay lakhs of rupees for admission. So parents make students not to watch televisions, send them to tutions, stop all their extra circular activities etc.

From the above inference it is clear that lack of seats in colleges are directly/indirectly driving parents, students and teachers into artificial pressure and intense competition.

Now with current announcement from government makes me feel crazy and i am not sure what are they thinking about it ?. Cancelling the board exams would bring in curroption and illegal practices in admission process and major impact will be towards good students. Now parents would be forced to pay money to different colleges, managements and politicians to get a seat in colleges. How would one differentiate a A+ student with other A+ student. Government is also proposing an optional objective typed examination to decide who would get admission. If this is true, are they getting rid of exam? it is just changing the face of board exam into optional exam which would eventually become compulsory simply because of competation in getting a seat.

finally my suggestion to government to reduce pressure of students are.

1. Increase the number of seats in all good and average colleges.

2. Increase salaries of all professors and lecturers.

3. Target for one IIT, one IIM, one AIIMS for every state.

4. Tie the salaries of professors based on performance. Have a variable component system in pay structure.

5. Provide easy access of loans to colleges and students to increase capacity.

6. Make the system unbaised.

7. Open new colleges and improve standards of existing colleges with good principals,professors, lectures and other facilities.

I recently happened to read that students will be given percentiles and grades, i guess this would be decider in selecting students for a particular college/course. But still i feel we will be back to square one. Things would only improve when one reduce the demand/supply ratio.

Murry mania

It is not andy murry britain's no 1 tennis player. I am refering to Al Murry, the pub landlord, is simply hilarious and wonderful to watch and listen to his comic stuff. I am indian and no where connected to britain expect for colonial period in early 19th century, during that time i was not even born. but i could get 90% of his jokes, few i went and re-listened to make sure i understood correctly. His concept of jokes is about Pubs and he prefers to be called pub landlord.

In pubs people talk about different topics and they have their own opinion for every topic in the news. And most of the opinions are funny and one cannot really argue with a drunk guy who is simply adamant on one thing and about his point of view.

Pub landlord is really patriotic in nature and loves britain so much that he hates all other countries and french being the top of the list. He likes the queens band and thinks all other bands are only second to queens. Every name which he hears becomes a beautiful british name. Pub landlord thinks britain has got best language, best national anthem, best music bands , best army and thinks all the best things comes out from britain. Apart from this he thinks even God is british because their are no earth quakes in britain. God will not have earth quakes where he lives !!!.

The lord thinks Itsy bitsy spider is also british and draws inspiration by listening to nursery rhyme Itsy bitsy spider which goes up the spout and always tries again and again to go to the up every time when it gets washed down by the rain.

Pub landlord thinks women can do only 2 jobs a) being secretary and b) being as nurse. All other jobs he categroies them either into nurse or secretary profile. He thinks women are not equal to men become they are much more polished and nice people than men. Sometime the land lord gets angry about the current british people because they are loosing their values and traditions. Once he embarassed a 16 year old lad for not lieing his age in public. He said he so terdior and out of touch of british tradition, he does't even know how to lie about his age in public. Ofcourse the land lord taught him the skill, so that he can have a glass of beer when he comes out on weekends.

The pub land lord belives that 2012 olympics will be disaster in london because of various complaints from differet organizations such a peta, human health , teachers, environmentalists etc. He puts this accross in really funny way.

One of his good joke is "Dropping of sausage"

I dropped me the sausgae joke was really hilarious one. In this joke, the pub lord drops the sausage and says he dropped me a sausage. To this other 3 guests react by saying. "Oh i see....." , "That's the big one" and "whoa........" in 3 rounds and finally the 4th guest picks the sausage by saying "don't worry, i will get your sausage" to his the lord plays a buggel to make a really nice background sound.

Few of his other good jokes are "American are dreamers" , "God exists" , "Dam the churchill" etc..

what would have happened ?

what would have happened?

few years back, i had received a email from my friend with the subject what would have happened if 1 ruppee was equal to 40 dollars?. The email had detailed description of how people in US and across the world would be dying to come to advanced country like India and their implications in terms of visa,climate,studies, food and other things.

I was just thinking on same lines as that email and though little more than that email. In what condition would have made india like US and US like India. I went back to days of Columbus. Columbus started of his voyage to find India and not US, it was just a co-incidence that he discovered US and people during that time felt US was indeed India for few days and they still call the Native Americans as Indians.

After this finding US, europeans started to move from europe to US and started to colonize US and there was war,trade, competation and supermacy. Eventually it was the britsh who started to control the US from england. Mean while India was also discovered and Britsh has just started the east india company. and it had started to do some trade.

Historically we know the different states in US combined together fought the british and US got their independence as early as 1774. By this time east India company in India was in its infancy and british was just about had captured bengal and mumbai and chennai regions. I feel once US got its independence, the britains had learned their lessons and strategy of handling/controlling a country from London. Queen got more cautious and obviously stared to send only those people who performed and were more loyally to London government. so british who came to india never aspired to rule the country themsleves rather than preferred to be ruled by the queen from england. I guess British people who were working India were paid properly and also had sufficent amount of control and liberty within themselves. Therefore all the lords who rulled india during those times never thought of ruling India by themselves.

Now think of a case, if columbus had discoverd India first rather than US, what would have happened. I personally feel the history would have happened on easter part of the world rather than on western part of the world. with the 20-20 hindsight. I think India would have been ruled by britsh rulers who would have fought against themselves and US which would have been discovered later, will be like India or probablly ended up differently or underdeveloped because london would have just focused on trade without giving the independence.

Independence is the key for any country to develop and prosper. If somebody has to wait for a decision from the queen will never be able to take any country to prosperity and never will think in terms of local people. He will become more self centered and thinks of himself before taking any decision.

So one can only blame the fate of India and circumstances that took place during the course of history. But on other had India was more fortunate to have British ruler in India rather than mughals. If mughals had ruled India without the interferance of British. Then India would have ended up as muslim country and would more likely ruled by different Arabic rulers and rules like burgka,taliban what Not would have been enforced. And one wrong foreign policy or war with west have ended up a brtual war and bombs being exploded every where in India. I guess even words like India/Hindu etc would have totally wiped off from the history. Just look at Egypt, do you see any native egyptians in that country. I afarid, it is NO, Egypt now is an Muslim country and i think the economy of Egypt runs only of oil and little bit of tourisim.

India should actually be thankfully to british to rule us rather than having mughals ruler to continue. No doubt one would choose lesser of the evil when you are certain that you are going to the ruled by somebody else.

Differences

Evidence indicates that modern humans originated in East Africa about 200,000 years ago. After first man and women,In initial days man, women and children lived together.Women due to their physical capabilities naturally were over-powered by man and they continued to stay with man because of no other alternatives.

we can conclude from this,the first difference, which human could realize was sex.

They learned that man is more powerful when compared to women and it was a good's gift. women could not do anything because she did not have any other alternatives. She continued to stay along with the man under dormant status.

Later on,centuries passed and ethnic groups were formed and they stayed together sharing knowledge, food, work and hardships.Due to environmental conditions like availability of water, food , preys and also because of growing population they formed different ethic groups.This eventually led to differences and people fought for water, food , authority, command. Eventually dominant ethic group started to flourish,others groups perished or got merged.

The next generation of dormant ethnic groups started to escape to totally new place in Africa. This way ethnic group started to live in different parts of east,west and central Africa.Their could be whole lot of other reasons also like epidemic disease which could have made the ethic groups to simply kill or amputate the diseased part of the one or many individuals. It was a bloody world where humans could have attacked other humans or animals could have killed and eaten if you are not able to defend yourself.

From this we can conclude that second set of differences, which is strength,power & command. Any human being when it comes to survival would naturally differentiate others humans.

Few of tribal people who were not allowed to stay in any part of Africa because of various reasons like decision of the kings in ethnic groups, or for a crime which was committed by individual or group, Or it can be a new successor of tribal group sending a current king on exile. All these people, who some how managed to escape from the Africa landed in Middle East, Asia and Europe. As we all know the availability of natural resources in Middle East and Europe was relatively less compared to Asia.Most of the people then would have preferred Asia as their destination. But few unknowingly entered Europe and continued to stay their and made a living with limited available resources.

This way people of Africa started to migrate to different part of worlds like Middle east, Europe and Asia and more ethnic groups were created within the those specific regions resulting in lots of conflicts and hardships.People moving to new place has long term environmental impact on them. Their skin color got changed, making them to turn from black to brown in Asia and from black to white in Europe. Any person would't turn from black to white, it takes generations, climatic effects are more effective on new born and on children. when humans could see different skin color in themselves, they got the 3rd differentiator, the SKIN COLOR.

Armed with there differentiator, humans were eager to venture into more differentiators which eventually created lots of problems later on.

Fourth differentiator came, when people started to communicate with each other. once people started to stay in differentiate places their body, life style, food habits , survival instincts changed. People started to talk with different dialect, languages and different words were created. This language as differentiator lead into separation of people even though looked exactly same.

After thousands of years, Fifth differentiators came into existence when people started the living with different life style. People adopted different life style because of climate conditions. for example people in middle east would ware a turban in hot weather, where as western man wore tight clothes to make himself warm due to cold weather. Life style being the catalyst lead to different ways of thinking and Human brain by nature thinks differently from one individual to other. This thought process led to imagination of God in different ways, every individual had his own interpretation of GOD.

Different interpretation of god lead to creation of small groups of certain god believers and eventually became Religion. And finally we have hundreds of religion today. So I say the fifth differentiator is the thought process of certain individual. Adamant, stronger, consistent, focused and convincing your are, you would become more dominant and others will be over powered by this.

Apart from above differentiators, there are other differentiators like food( veg/non-veg) , castes(again castes are made based upon work which you do) , Class (which is based upon how much money you own & life style) and many more.

From the beginning , human are not able to get rid of any of the differentiators. Instead they are used by many individuals, Groups, employers, employee, lawyers, doctors, businessman, societies, states, countries, invaders, politicians and lots of other people. we find there is era of each differentiator making waves in entire world at different times. In early days it was religion, later it was color then languages and again religion it goes on.

In 21st Century, the main differentiator is the Religion. People simply are not able to digest other person's thought process and life style.

Solution for above differentiators can be only be time and scientific advancement.

If one could change his skin color through laser treatment, then we can get rid of that differentiator or air conditioned environment would lead our future generations to have more or less same color.Finding the truth of universe and it's evolution, alien existence, discovering earth like planets and exploring the universe would give us altogether a different and same picture of god for every one. Empowering all women with advance scientific knowledge and protection and medical advancement of changing sex from male to female and female to male would also eventually remove the sexual differences.

Small Time Investor, Watch Out.!!

After Harshad Metha, Ketan Parekh, Ramalinga Raju etc...

what should small time investors should look before investing there hard earn money?.

1. Most of the indian companies are linked to different political parties. Before investing into any company, check for political nexus between the founders or Company directors.

How would one check for the same?; Check for each and every individual director or promoter's  profile. If you feel any political contact in terms of relatives,kith, kin and anybody directly or indirectly related then , be very careful. 

Secondly, Check is that political party is in power ?; Is any elections coming up, it could be national, state or even by-elections. Because investor's money could be siphoned off for election campaining.

Thirdly, Check how is the company getting projects?; Do they have any unfair advantage?.

if so, then do not invest in these kind of companies, even if you have slighted amount of doubt. Some might argue that you could make good money with these tainted companies as well. my answer for those would be not to promote the evil over the good. finally, More you lower your standard more you will get into danger zone.

2. Track the investements of reputed big time inverstor companies

Investment companies like Morgan Stanley are good companies to track and decide the investement based upon their findings. Morgan Stanley had not invested any share in satyam. The comapnies's chief investor told he did not had any confidence with stayam's management,So Morgan had not bought satyam shares.

Interestingly, I would like to inform people in the share holding bussiness that Morgan-Stanley has not invested in ICICI Stocks as well. (i think it must be because of sub prime issue, so guys be careful if you have invested in ICICI)

3. Track Childrens of all the Founder Members

Some time founder might be very good, candid and clear, but their children,spouses might not be as capable or as good as  the founders. Many times, kids of the founders will be the catalyst in changing the policies and reputation of the company thus resulting in the share value down fall of company stocks.

The Ambanis for example, Dirbubai was really good, but his kids Mukesh and Anil turned out to be killers in the Bombay stock exchange. who ever had invested money in the year 2003/04 had to wait for more than a year get back the returns from the stock market.

Why should a small time invester suffer because of cheap family affair?. Look into the Satyam issue, the Raju's Kids, in a way or the other were resposible for company's down fall.

There are numerous examples which i could quote that resulted in down fall of the company stocks and Indian investors suffered time and again without much help from government.

4. Look for the Banks with which Company deals

If the company is dealing with co-operative banks, or any small time bankers then do not invest your money in that company. Because many politicans create small time banks and close them before and after elections.

5. When in doubt sell of the shares

If you are in doubt for any reson simple encash your shares. Do not wait till the crisis hits you.

6. Do not ever be a Bull, always be Bears.

It is nice to be Bulls and aggresive, but for a small time investor being bulls is not good. You will loose money with out any clue. Just take Satyam's example when shares dropped from 240 to 160. If you had been Bull then you would have lost huge amount of money. Because now the value of Satyam is just 30.

Satyam Fiasco

Today i was reading the news of Satyam, i am really disappointed about an Indian company going down literally in couple of weeks. All the effort of  50,000 odd employees and years of 

hard work by them went into drains in no time. if you look into this issue little deeply and look at ev

ery Indian you would see lots of hypocrisy, aberrations and unfaithfulness in

 every walk of life. I do not want to generalize but the majority of them are that way.

I would like to quote few examples within India Inc , politics, films, Bureaucracy and others.

India Inc.

1) Ramalinga Raju tried to buy maytas only because his sons were the promoters of maytas.

 The father was prepared to throw away all his reputation just for his sons. And did not care about 50,000 people's life.

2) Wipro chairman removed Vivek paul as CEO. As per the speculations Ajeem Preamji wanted to bring his son as CEO. Again father son fiasco.

3) Infosys made 1 billion in just 1 quarter sometime in year 2007. Is anybody listening, check the accounts of infy. i am not sure after Satyam Fiasco.

Politics.

Almost every politicians in India want to promote there children at any cost. They throw all the ideology out of window when it comes to their children.

1) Devegowda supported non secular party when he wanted his son to become CM. And withdrew the support when BJP's turn came.

2) Omar abdulla is made CM of J&K even though he lost his seat. Simply because his father Farooq abdulla wanted his Son to become CM. I can keep quoting about all politicians

Film Industry

Film Industry is one of most Hippocratic industry of India. Every hero's son will automatically becomes hero. Most of actress become heroins because of casting couch.

Bureaucrats

Most of Indian Bureaucrats of India like IAS,IPS,IFS etc promote their kids & relatives for jobs, tenders, govt opportunities and many more. I can quote some examples but not in blog.

From the above the main problem i see in Indian Society is the hypocrisy in terms of ideologies when it comes to their children. And others do not raise their voice even if they see lots of unfaithfullness every where. This is because of fear their own jobs, security and financial obligations.

I hope these things change in time and  India would prosperous.

Final Notes

[I am adding this to the blog after stayam ceo's arrest]

Can anybody guess , when will a person confess about his own fraud ?

Any person would confess only if there is tremendous pressure on him in different ways or when a person attains nirvana.

In case of Ramalinga Raju, he has confessed all by himself without any body blaming him or nobody filed a case against him.

I feel he must be pressurized by some share holders who had invested good percentage of money in the company. Now a days it has become common for politicians, mafia,underworld people owing shares of big companies. I think he must have got life threating warnings from these people. So he must have decided to better go to jail rather than die.

From the history people who confess in major incidents like Hansie Cronje who confessed about match fixing did have a very bad ending in his life. i think Ramalinga Raju's fate will also be same as Hasie Cronje

AADINA.....

After long time, I went to Film Theater to watch a Kannada movie. It was only because of my friend who wanted to watch this particular movie called AADINAGALU. I had read the review of this movie and felt this movie must be different compared to other commercial movies. I, T and P decided to watch this movie on Sunday afternoon in movie theater Triveni.We reached majestic at around 1:15 PM and when we 3 were walking in majestic area towards the movie hall I could see lot of Kannada movies running house full and we saw huge crowds in front of all movie halls. Kannada movies are doing well now a days.
We took the tickets for AADINA…… and entered the full house hall with tickets, the movie started in no time with just 2 ads. The movie starts off with hero and heroin shooting each others and then they take back seat leaving the 1980’s Karnataka rowdies in fore front.I learnt lot of things about under-world of Karnataka through this movie and it tells who were very prominent during 1970’s and 1980’s.
The director has put lot of effort to show the 1980’s peaceful Bangalore when compared to today. During those times there was no traffic and one hardly saw crowded places. The story mainly concentrates on 2 parts, one the love story of hero and the heroin and the other on two rowdy gangs who fight tooth and nail for supremacy.
I felt love story was just added in the movie to make audience relax between the intense gang war of rowdies. Director clearly shows how under-world seed was sowed in peaceful state of Karnataka; off course he also shows the human touch of rowdies during those days.
I recommend people to watch this movie only if you are interested in seeing offbeat cinemas.