Indian Education System - What it is?

Recently i got to know about some of the questions that were asked to a guy during selection process of one of India's top B school. What confused me was the purpose of the questions. Questions about Monetary Policy, Fiscal Deficit etc., to a guy who is not from financial or economic background, really don't get anything out of the candidate. Is a candidate going for MBA supposed to know about countries financial systems. Does knowledge of Monetary Policy means that a candidate is good to do MBA or does lack of this means lack of traits required to be a Manager.

Actually this has been the problem with our Indian education system for long. Here a candidate is not evaluated on what he knows and what talent he has. The evaluation is on the basis that how many things the examiner knows that the candidate doesn't. Performance in a 3 hour exam or a 15 minutes interview is used to give a verdict about the student. What is being done is, this is forcing students to just concentrate on mugging things and not on understanding and questioning concepts. This is killing out innovation from young minds, Which seems to be the reason we are lagging in R&D. Young minds in our country are more interested in getting favorable results using whatever data has been provided. They never think about questioning the concepts.

It is high time government looks towards changing the education and evaluation system in our country or we might be left far too behind when it comes to creativity and innovation.

IPL-Indian Panga League

With so many issues coming out i wonder if IPL is actually Indian Panga League. Politics, glamour, alcohol & controversy, i wonder if it is a cricket tournament or another SAAS-BAHU serial. And as with all such serials, it is also attracting huge number of viewers.
But deep within, cricket lovers like me are missing the dignity of cricket, which was the reason for calling it A GENTLEMEN'S GAME.

Beggers - Are you really helping them by giving Money?

Often while waiting at a busy traffic signal, we find small children coming to you and asking for money. More often than not, we give them some money hoping that we have earned some "PUNYA" for ourselves. But what we need to ask ourselves is, our we really doing something good? Are we really helping those children?

Off late, i have watched few movies showing the roots of this begging system. Slumdog Millionaire even went on to win an Oscar. But have we learned anything from these movies. One might argue that what was shown in the movies was too much. Although i don't agree with this statement, even if it is correct, we all know that there was a certain amount of truth in those movies.

There are many organized gangs who are into the business of making people beg for them. There main targets are children. Mainly because it is easier to control a child's mind and movements than of an adult. They show many fears to these children and make them believe that they can not run away from these gangs. The money which is received by these children, is not used to feed them or to get them basic commodities of life, but is used by these gangs for supporting their other illegal businesses. These gangs often push children in the well of drugs so that it is even more difficult for them to run away.

So, what i want everyone one to think about is - Are we really helping these children by giving them money. Is there anything we can do for them. We as responsible citizens of this country, will have to find some way of pulling these children out of this mess. Do we have the will and desire to do so? I request everyone to do his/her own bit to change this. Think about it.