Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

                         If everything pans out as scheduled, this would be my last week in this campus. It also marks the end of metamorphosis from student to worker. I had been a student for the last 19 years in a kind of educational framework which pressed hard the seekers of it for marks,marks and marks. Success stories were weaved around these numbers and egos,envies were generated by these marks. These marks hugged the student who read, retain and reproduce well (barring the entrance tests when the questions were twisted). Though there is no alternative for this indicator to differentiate, does it mould the learners the way they had to learn? Can the winners of this type of learning be called as those fully stuffed with 'meaningful' education? If not all, are the toppers at least contributing to the progress of arts or science they learned from these temples of e...

        After the initial hiccups, the sailing in the training became relatively smooth and may it stay as such till the end. Thanks to the strong dollar, the computing industry has generated lot of wealth and employment. This has ushered in a certain degree of financial independence – which was hitherto enjoyed by a elite few – to those with second tier of brains.         My complains of the peripheral hardships here would have been unmatched with the real struggles had I graduated a decade or two earlier. There is a lyric of a Telugu song sapatu etu ledu ..(which translates to ‘we have no work, atleast sing a song brother’) from movie Aakali Rajyam (translates to Hunger Kingdom) of that period which captures the turmoil and disgust, the previous generation has gone through after passing out of student life. Considering the previous state of affairs and with an income which is a high multiple of percapita in...