This country is seeing a strange situation, the role models of today's generation are Sharukh Khan, a movie star, or Yuvraj singh, a cricketer, or Ambanis, the corrupt businessman, but noone likes to choose the lines of the greatest minds of the world. None wants to go in the similar lines of Einstein, Newton, Tesla, Nietzsche, Rabinder Nath Tagore, Aryabhatta, or Bhaskara. Very hard to believe that the country that guarded and awarded the highest honour for those who're capable in the field of knowldege is now treating them as 3rd rate in terms of money, respect and mass following. One has become just a salesman, one his selling his flesh and style in the movie industry, one is selling his skill in the sports and one is selling his cunningness in the business world, but the biggest problem is that Indians have become a soul less country where the beauty of intellect, classical divine music, poetry, spirituality, painting, writing, sciences of inner are no longer respected, rather cheap alternative of the same on the plain of sexuality is so much rewarded. So this nation is surely falling and look at the leader who're running it, the best minds of today are made to learn in the childhood to sell their soul, else they couldn't survive the schooling and the best example is Jiddu Krishnamurity, the highest possibility of human evolution, who'd completely discarded the concept of education. Bravo India, ur on decline
These are the strange ways of nature.Everybody who is born has to go through the painful phase whether rich or poor,professor or student,king or pauper. Professor and Student cannot be compared in terms of money.Superiority of professor remain above all these.They do good and forget.
I was in my second year when Ramu came to IIMC from Loughborough. I did not take any courses (I was an OR major then), but we interacted outside the classes and in the mess -- he dropped in for coffee once in a while and made bconcerted efforts to know every one.
Ramu Aiyar (that is the way he spelt his last name) was a very kind man, very well liked and respected academic. I am deeply saddened that he is no more.
--> what do you mean,the students should be poorer then the teachers or the business world shouldn't be preoccupied with growth and investment...
It is very nice that you are becoming nostalgic about a personal relation..but that is not the issue of politics.Why is the whole world wrong only if one personally experiences it.
So much talk about the prosperous students..it then shows what they have to educated is in more of human values and caring..one has to cultivate it or get educated about it before being proud of those business or technical degrees which are fit only to earn more money and catch more flights.
FYI a giant bureaucratic system is necessary to manage the affairs of the world's largest democracy..and the biggest problem is distribution of wealth..and they try it some how..a professor has to be equated with fisheries,mines or defense..they are not something less imp to the country then these iim's.
It is ironical that those who shape the nation are in pathetical position.Professors of prestigious institutes like IIM/IIT are in better position than their counterparts serving at school level who lay the foundation stone for a bright future.The nation needs to chart out a plan to attract best talent at lower level to inculcate moral values among students.This will prove fruitful for the society in future.
The agony of the ailing professor is very painful but who bothers in this materialistic world. Nobody has the time to take care of their parents who are looked down upon by their off springs. In general there is no relation these days. People think that they have already paid for the services they had. Still i say that humanity is there and one who is well to do must come forward. Help your teachers as well as your parents if you can. The help done is rewarded by the Almighty if you believe He is above all us.
Let us try for a solution. No rspectable teacher takes money from his students.For him students are his children. Let the students behave as their own children to their respectable teachers whom they regard them as parents. A word of solace from a child at a right time is a great gift and it gives them courage to die peacefully. Prof. Ramu is a great professor to have such a student. sarma
