Do Or Die

It has been always a fact that indian parents give more importance to education than anything else. I remember when I was growing up the a local high school teacher was treated with the most respect than the richest person of the village or town. I have a friend who studies in A famous Medical College of Mysore which is probably the only college in the world to allow its student's moms to stay with their students in their rooms (with a minimal charge of 120 Rupees per day) to provide a moral support. These moms not just provide them the moral support but also help them with their laundry, cook homemade food for them in the hostel's canteen and make sure their kids are not spending any of their time other than studying. They even bring their handmade food to their kids to their rooms so that they can cut down the time it takes to come down to the canteen and eat. This is really a unique arrangement and it is mostly used by female candidates/students. I was surprised to know th

I studied in a gurukul (ashram) for 3 years and all those 3 years I use to think I wish I was in a normal convent school dating girls and partying out but since then I have realized that I wish that place was still intact so that I could have sent my kids there in future. If you are a maths professor and design a question paper with very challenging questions then it is very obvious and natural for students to say that the exam was so tough and it is impossible for anyone to score beyond 70% or 80% and the only way to prove them wrong is by you telling your colleague to design a question paper tougher than what you have designed and you solve it with 100% accuracy within the given time. Now you might think Why am I saying this and how is it connected to the title of the post. Please give me 3 more minutes of your valuable time and you will know. reason 1: If you have children and if you really love them then don't you want to spend your time among them, help them and guide them

Airtel is probably the 2nd biggest mobile network service provider in india after BSNL (Both Side No Listening=Bharath Sanchar Nigam Ltd) and it seems in their recent attempt to expand outside india and raise money for the same they have gone down to a level where they are crossing the law to make money. My dad is one of those Zero tech guy who does not know how to use a phone and all its features. He do not know how to save a contact in the phone thus he carries a diary with phone numbers and dial it in his mobile phone. He do not even know how to read, send or delete the messages in his inbox and every now and then he takes the help of people like us to do it for him. It seems airtel is activating value added services without the user requesting for it by just sending a message which basically reads like "we have activated a service on your phone and if you do not want this service call us and cancel it" or "We have activated a service on your phone and you have XX a