A fairly long time before I put in a post, so decided to correct the wrong. Well, I graduated out of IIM-A and stepped into the big, bad corporate world.
As part of my first engagement, I needed to travel to NYC. (What, US again?) So, keeping my long standing relationship with US, I stepped into Newark Airport and said 'Hi' to the immigration officer at the airport. His response was 'What happened?' I guess he must have seen my F-1, H-1B, J-1 and now my B-1 visa and just couldn't imagine why I had not stayed back in US after all!!
I moved on, but the question kept ringing in my mind - 'So, what happened?' I don't know what happened. I don't feel very much in control of my life and I don't know what life has in store for me. I have embraced uncertainty into my life and I don't have a clear picture of what I want to do. I don't have any solutions towards my long-standing goals, and I have begun to compromise. Everyone has to compromise, but does compromise also mean that you have failed? Again, the present state of mind answers back, I don't know.
So, I'll leave it at that - I don't know. Uncertainty, the dark cloud of existence, I embrace thee for I know not what I do.
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Monday, December 24, 2007
Getting older...
The good thing about getting older is that you have so many memory lanes down which you can walk, and reminisce of old times.
The bad thing is that its so easy to get lost in them!
The bad thing is that its so easy to get lost in them!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Take a chill-pill !!
Corporate Finance - Brealey/Myers/Allen. Chapter 20 - Options. End of chapter - Summary:
"If you have managed to reach this point, you are probably in need of a rest and a stiff gin and tonic. So, we will summarize what we have learned so far and take up the subject of options again in the next chapter when you are rested (or drunk)."
The authors are obviously very highly regarded in their field. The text-book is a standard for most finance courses taught in business schools the world over. What is even more striking is that these guys have a sense of humor (Actually, its not so striking if you have ever been to the US, and interacted with the brightest and the best professors - the Gods.) A very common feature amongst most of these professors is their humility and sense of humor - something that I can attest to since I had the honor of being taught by Prof. Deiter Schroder (Semiconductor Characterization) and Prof. Douglas Montgomery (Design of Experiments), both stalwarts in their respective fields. Maybe, one of the reasons why they are what they are is because they truly enjoy what they do, and enjoy laughing at themselves once in a while..
I compare the styles of American authors with the text books written by Indian authors. For the most part, the Indian contemporaries are formal, succinct and BOOORING...
(Important Disclaimer: There are some very refreshing and notable exceptions - Concepts in Physics by Prof. HC Verma. If you are into Physics, you wouldn't be able to have enough of him.)
But the point that I am making is that the norm amongst Indian academic authors is that they rarely ever make you laugh. So, why this lack of humor amongst Indian academia. Is it that the academia would always want to be taken very seriously? Is it that the academia scorn at any attempt to belittle them and/or cannot laugh at themselves? Or is it that Indian academia does not always truly enjoy what it does, that it is frustrated and discontent with the resources given to it and this is what comes out in its publishings?
Well, I don't want to play God here, but I do wish that the Indian academic community would cheer up, laugh a little more often, or in simple words, take a chill-pill.
"If you have managed to reach this point, you are probably in need of a rest and a stiff gin and tonic. So, we will summarize what we have learned so far and take up the subject of options again in the next chapter when you are rested (or drunk)."
The authors are obviously very highly regarded in their field. The text-book is a standard for most finance courses taught in business schools the world over. What is even more striking is that these guys have a sense of humor (Actually, its not so striking if you have ever been to the US, and interacted with the brightest and the best professors - the Gods.) A very common feature amongst most of these professors is their humility and sense of humor - something that I can attest to since I had the honor of being taught by Prof. Deiter Schroder (Semiconductor Characterization) and Prof. Douglas Montgomery (Design of Experiments), both stalwarts in their respective fields. Maybe, one of the reasons why they are what they are is because they truly enjoy what they do, and enjoy laughing at themselves once in a while..
I compare the styles of American authors with the text books written by Indian authors. For the most part, the Indian contemporaries are formal, succinct and BOOORING...
(Important Disclaimer: There are some very refreshing and notable exceptions - Concepts in Physics by Prof. HC Verma. If you are into Physics, you wouldn't be able to have enough of him.)
But the point that I am making is that the norm amongst Indian academic authors is that they rarely ever make you laugh. So, why this lack of humor amongst Indian academia. Is it that the academia would always want to be taken very seriously? Is it that the academia scorn at any attempt to belittle them and/or cannot laugh at themselves? Or is it that Indian academia does not always truly enjoy what it does, that it is frustrated and discontent with the resources given to it and this is what comes out in its publishings?
Well, I don't want to play God here, but I do wish that the Indian academic community would cheer up, laugh a little more often, or in simple words, take a chill-pill.
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