Why is the media here so negative?

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements?

We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

We are the first in milk production.

We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.

We are the second largest producer of wheat.

We are the second largest producer of rice.

Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such

achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.

I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to.. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime… Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported.. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her, you and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.

Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.

Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours.

YOU say that our government is inefficient.

YOU say that our laws are too old.

YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.

YOU say that the phones don’t work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.

YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.

YOU say, say and say.. What do YOU do about it?

Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name – ‘YOURS’.

Give him a face – ‘YOURS’.

YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don’t throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity In Singapore you don’t say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn’t dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai . YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah..

YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs.650) a month to, ’see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.’YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, ‘Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so’s son. Take your two bucks and get lost.’ YOU wouldn’t chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand .

Why don’t YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo ? Why don’t YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ??? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India ?

Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay , Mr. Tinaikar, had a point to make. ‘Rich people’s dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,’ he said. ‘And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure in his bowels?

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan .

Will the Indian citizen do that here?’ He’s right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.

We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.

We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity. This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public.

When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? ‘It’s the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons’ rights to a dowry.’ So who’s going to change the system?

What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbors, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr. Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away. Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one’s conscience too. I am echoing J. F. Kennedy’s words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians..

‘ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA

WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY’

Lets do what India needs from us.

Thank you,

Dr. Abdul Kalam

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh, known for courting controversy, on Friday said if there was a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India would get it.
“Our cities are the dirtiest cities of the world. If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt,” he said at a function to release a report ‘Green India 2047’ by The Energy Research Institute (TERI). The minister was REFERRING to poor facilities for disposing municipal waste in a majority of Indian cities.
“if there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it hands down. There is no competition for that and we have to do something dramatic on municipal solid waste,” Ramesh said.

how easy it is to say India will win  nobel for dirt infact any ’shembda porga’ can also make such comment but look its our environment minister who is saying such things… people having important ministry such as environment says such negative things, what kind of action we should expect from him! disgusting…

since last few months i was trying to say something about  IT ‘engineers’, academics and contemporary world n all. but i never concluded exactly for what i am looking for, but since i come across this mail plus book from nandan nilekani “imagine india” much of things are Cristal clear to me, for now u may see following mail from actual IT professional i.e. from employees desk, more facts i will post soon after i finish my work i.e. finding roots of it(IT).

Do you know what an Indian software engineer does for a living? They are the poster boys of matrimonial classifieds. They are paid handsomely, perceived to be intelligent and travel abroad frequently. Single-handedly, they brought purpose to the otherwise sleepy city of Bangalore. Indian software engineers are today the face of a third-world rebellion. But what exactly do they do? That’s a disturbing question.

Last week, during the annual fair of the software industry’s apex body Nasscom, no one uttered a word about India’s programmers. The event, which brought together software professionals from around the world, used up all its 29 sessions to discuss prospects to improve the performance of software companies. But there was nothing on programmers, who you would imagine are the driving force behind the success of the software firms. Perhaps you imagined wrong. “It is an explosive truth that local software companies won’t accept. Most IT professionals in India are not programmers, they are mere coders,” says a senior executive from a global consultancy firm, who has helped Nasscom in researching its industry reports.

In industry parlance, coders are akin to smart assembly line workers as opposed to programmers who are plant engineers. Programmers are the brains, the glorious visionaries who create things. Large software programmes that often run into billions of lines are designed and developed by a handful of programmers. Coders follow instructions to write, evaluate and test small components of the large program. As a computer science student in IIT Mumbai puts it — if programming requires a post graduate level of knowledge of complex algorithms and programming methods, coding requires only high school knowledge of the subject. Coding is also the grime job. It is repetitive and monotonous. Coders know that. They feel stuck in their jobs. They have fallen into the trap of the software hype and now realise that though their status is glorified in the society, intellectually they are stranded. Companies do not offer them stock options anymore and their salaries are not growing at the spectacular rates at which they did a few years ago.

“There is nothing new to learn from the job I am doing in Pune. I could have done it with some training even after passing high school,” says a 25-year-old who joined Infosys after finishing his engineering course in Nagpur. A Microsoft analyst says, “Like our manufacturing industry, the Indian software industry is largely process driven. That should speak for the fact that we still don’t have a domestic software product like Yahoo or Google.”

IIT graduates have consciously shunned India’s best known companies like Infosys and TCS, though they offered very attractive salaries. Last year, from IIT Powai, the top three Indian IT companies got just 10 students out of the 574. The best students prefer to join companies like Google and Trilogy. Krishna Prasad from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, who did not bite the Infosys offer, says, “The entrance test to join TCS is a joke compared to the one in Trilogy. That speaks of what the Indian firms are looking for.”

A senior TCS executive, who requested anonymity, admitted that the perception of coders is changing even within the company. He believes it has a lot to do with business dynamics. The executive, a programmer for two decades, says in the late ’70s and early ’80s, software drew a motley set of professionals from all kinds of fields. In the mid-’90s, as onsite projects increased dramatically, software companies started picking all the engineers they could as the US authorities granted visas only to graduates who had four years of education after high school. “After Y2K, as American companies discovered India’s cheap software professionals, the demand for engineers shot up,” the executive says. Most of these engineers were coders. They were almost identical workers who sat long hours to write codes, or test a fraction of a programme. They did not complain because their pay was good. Now, the demand for coding has diminished, and there is a churning.”

Over the years, due to the improved communication networks and increased reliability of Indian firms, projects that required a worker to be at a client’s site, say in America, are dwindling. And with it the need for engineers who have four years of education after high school. Graduates from non-professional courses, companies know, can do the engineer’s job equally well. Also, over the years, as Indian companies have already coded for many applications like banking, insurance and accounting, they have created libraries which they reuse.

Top companies have now started recruiting science graduates who will be trained alongside engineers and deployed in the same projects. The CEO of TCS, S Ramadorai, had earlier said, “The core programming still requires technical skills. But, there are other jobs we found that can be done by graduates.” NIIT’s Arvind Thakur says, “We’ve always maintained it is the aptitude and not qualifications that is vital for programming. In fact, there are cases where graduates have done better than the ones from the engineering stream.”

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Few days back I was in pune for one of my exams and planned to return in 1 or 2 days but my smart mobile warned me about possible high wind and heavy rains in Kankan region so I postponed my journey. i dont know what is the server of the spb mobile shell s/w but its weather forcast always turns right. infact the day indian wather department warned about phyan my mobile said nothing serious just light rain will occur not even furious winds and same happened.

the place where I stayed, there was neither internet connection nor a computer just my pocket pc to connect with world. So it was first time I was out of my home without my laptop (which I gave away to my brother) n net => my lifeline as I m so much addicted to it. But then one of my friend in pune gave me some books And for the first time in my 22 year I read a complete fiction book ‘duniyadari’ The friend recommended it, bt ya it was the first book I mean u know like novel which I read without using google or wikipedia. it was fantastic experience since my childhood I have been reading all general knowledge n how stuff works kind of books. And so now I have realize that a world surely exist beyond computers n without internet which is also wonderful n u can actually enjoy it. And as usual after reading the book my engineering mind started analysis on all experience n stuff of books, relating things from past like,

One of my college friend used to say this to me, ‘sanyal come of of the computers a better world also exist there’….now I am realising it does. But when I realize it that friend is hell busy with her job n all. I don’t know whether I made a mistake by taking my academics way to seriously n practice coz it has made me so professional that I even judge things on basis of computer laws or management laws no emotions. Today I am ‘a none in particular’ engineer just what a bachelor degree is designed for. I am very satisfied with my academics can go ahead for master in any IT related field (infact in graphics too) or can join a B school, all basic are very much clear but what about communication? I always struggle to initiate and get going. The reason is very simple, when a teenager spend his time with friends chatting all time with his girlfriend I was busy with googling on my pc or mobile for elaborating some thing digging for some information. And unfortunately I never got company of friend having similar mindset as me ofcouse I had one friend always with me but he was 300km away in mumbai so can’t had practice working. my classmates always supported me but it was like external support just like cheer up (no doubt that`s also important!) ‘ya great going… keep it up… but keep me out of our stuff’

I don’t know why this is like a rule that u have be a nerd to become a computer geek or something like that.

anyways coming out of computers is good but not exiting since the real time rules are very unpredictable, without any algorithm n mostly illogical too. but its fun to deal with dynamic problems!

finally my much awaited acclaimed distinction turn out as true as i got the Xerox of  my answer papers. But then the papers brought many new questions for me. I actually don’t believe in god but the results defiantly made me think about it.

Not much just 2 marks but it will be added into my total to change my academic class (of course not sure coz anything can happen in Mumbai university as I remember in 6^th sem I put a paper for revaluation and its result is still pending!!! Oh n I m graduate now so it’s been more than 18months they are evaluating my paper….)

when I saw the papers it looks like the paper checker has pre determined mind for giving away 6 or max 7 marks for answers no matter how good content of the answer is in fact for some question`s answer I literally cross checked book and found same contents in paper (it’s possible in Mumbai university coz 80-90% paper is repeated so with your experience you can guess what they can ask) but marks ware always given in range of 5-7.  Why if a student is writing each and every point as given in book with logic and justifying the asked question then what is the problem in giving full marks??

But wait a minute coz there is another joke, marks allocated to problems after solving problem with every step and precaution mention in reference book with proper steps, diagrams and correct answer…. Still out of 10 awarded marks were 6-7. So in IT you write theory or solve problem you get 6-7 marks!!!  (Citation needed… how they do it???) don’t they have model answer coz in case of problems some teacher allocates full 10 marks to correct solution which is desirable.

Why they maintain this in equality in case of problems and theory? Why they look forward to preserve the outdated system of mark giving, if they ask some analysis based question then 6-7 or whatever mark system was justifiable but if answer is static (just like write note etc.) the answer is fixed so every correct answer will have same contents just like solved problem and if it covers all points mentioned in book or syllabus then what’s matter in giving full marks? Oh n if u say that tech. syllabus goes beyond book and that all, then please see my MM answer book, for MPEG note I have explained main MPEG layers (mpeg1,2,3,4) [all from wikipedia of course] and then technique of MPEG with diagram still I got 4 marks!, well there are many such examples. But d point is if the examiner is not knowing about it then which god is gonna help student???

My another question is if you have decided that you are not going to award more than 7 at any cost (whether the paper is solved by reference book author also) why should student take affords of writing those long answers? Since if you write just points instead of full answer you get 4-6 marks. So what they exactly look for? strategy and planning also don’t work for Mumbai University. Since evaluation is based on total ad hoc methods. (have faith in god… right )

Another mystery is high scores from Mumbai colleges I don’t understand what they write in their answers to fetch 70-75 marks seamlessly where as we struggle around 60-65. we share same notes still no donuts for non mumbai ITions. I have spend lots of time in field of information security with actually doing hacking cracking and playing with viruses yet I got 54 marks in paper,(dont consider me wrong, i am not saying tht im guru of IS still a lot to learn… but know enough to write IS university paper)  it’s not like that I have not written paper well in fact the answers are inspired from my personal experience + Wikipedia+ the single reference book. Still 4-5 marks…. I don’t know how it works! I can bet on this if ankit phadia also appear for this exams he will also struggle to score par 60, coz that’s how it works. Nowadays I hate no. 54. oh n by the way i have got kaspersky home security expert certificate, (kaspersky knows me ) not a big deal actually the syllabus is same as that of Info. security subject. but for passing u have to score above 80% n i have did it.

my another observation is that all above mentioned things happen prominently in IT faculty than any other branch, for tronix i have seen papers with 83 marks in theory (of course the student didnt knew basic concepts of the subject and couldn`t even justify why she has written it in answer) mech boys get full marks for solved problems in fact last year university topper was from my college itself. IT never gets respect from companies just like other branches get even s/w firms prefer mech n tronix boys over IT! it happens in every college.

Oh and most important it’s not like that I get distinction means I got 70%+ its more than 69.5% so university gives away 10 marks for free??? Why? Don’t they have faith in their paper checkers? Indeed.

I was disappointed coz I didn’t get distinction but there are bunch of students who struggle from passing in-spite they have written answers with potential to get marks but they prefer to be quite just let it be…. People after getting fu*ked up from university prefer to keep mum in fear that it will affect their reputation and term work marks and rightly so. there is no association of students who can take such issue further and most importantly students i.e. the people don’t care for it and just let it be… where as its much needed a strong oppose from student community, remember India is a democratic country and nobody listen to single voice…

For photocopy and revaluation students have to pay more than 600 rupees per subject which is greater than total fee paid for the exams, this is disguising its not fault of student but the university and system still student has to pay for it why? University must have refund policy if there is actually mistake in makes allocation process.

All together now I think this exams from Mumbai university is totally based on luck, a gamble and not test for talent (?) if you get good paper checker you get good marks n class else keep crying. (citation needed… i think it`s violation of fundamental right :- equality.. lets go to supreme court LoL ) Anyways for me the university exams is just way to get that damn degree that’s all matters, but then what about time that we students allocate for exams? the system don’t care for time of students it just cares for reputations of system.

Repeated questions, zero analysis, testing mugging up skills, disgusting evaluation and 6-8 months delay in processing revaluation… where are we going??? i dont know about other branches but for IT branch,  mumbai university is factory of mug up experts which nutritiates ‘mind less brains’ which can be easily enslaved in s/w companies. instead of making evaluation difficult they should bring more analysis based questions, but again that make examiners job hard, but i don’t understand why university conduct exams for examiners or for students?

So I really thank mr. god that all these “reality report” things happen in my last year. really the 2 marks n distinction thing doesn`t matters for me n i am glad that i haven’t failed to satisfy expectation of my own  n my teachers. i just hope some thing will change for new syllabus at least so that after getting his result the fortunate students will be able to say proudly that yes i have earned my distinction.