Pertinent Observations

i had recently written an essay on the recent reforms in the IIT-JEE. To give it more publicity I had given it to our student media cell (which, except for a jarring abberation, is a pretty well-run organization) and they had sent it to a few newspapers.
The Times of India has published it as a [...]

As I had told you last week, I had “gone on strike” and refused to take up a certain responsibility on behalf of the finance club in IIMB which i’m part of. I had said that I wasn’t confident of doing a good job of it and hence didn’t want to give false promises.
Inspite [...]

I started off as a rebel. Used to question everything and did nothing unless i was convinced about its usefulness. Mom gave up on me trying to make me religious. I was the teacher’s nightmare in school and my parents used to be frequently called for complaints. I was later made school captain and i [...]

My maternal grandmother passed away early this morning. Had been suffering for a long time from a multitude of illnesses. Hence it didn’t come through as a shocker. In some sense it was a kind of relief that her suffering has been put to an end. May her soul rest in peace.
Would like to put [...]

Spent the last couple of hours teaching math to a friend of mine. He entered IIMB through a reserved quota last year. Did extremely badly and flunked the first year. If he doesn’t do well this time round, he’s been told he’ll be asked to leave.
During the course of my teaching, I figured out that [...]

of late i’ve become highly individualistic, arrogant, self-centered, short-tempered, etc. Just the way i was in late 12th standard or when i just entered IIT.
and as of now, i’m yet to experiences the repercussions of being this way (i’ve been like this for the last 6 months). and i’m pretty much enjoying life. and [...]

i didn’t resign as i had planned. instead i decided to back out of that particular project only. here’s what i sent:

i’m neither motivated about the forex game nor am i confident of doing a good job of it.
under these circumstances it would be silly to promise to deliver this to someone.
hence i [...]

part of this finance club in IIMB. there’s a huge looming opportunity coming up in the way of a mega online game our Forum for Industrial Interaction (people who organize Vista, the bizfest) have offered us.
Sad part is i’m the guy in the team who will have to do the work connected to that [...]

wrote a paper for Vista, the IIMB BizFest. Couldn’t imagine that such fraud jobs can also qualify as “papers”. It wasn’t even a neat copy-paste job. read up a couple of websites on a topic, made up a fraud “lever model”, applied it to the topic, wrote about whatz wrong with the topic… and gave [...]

as i sit and think about my career choices, i suddenly have this feeling i want to become a prof. in something like economics or public policy. at one of the top institutes in India (IIT,IIM, types). i enjoy teaching, i enjoy research in stuff like this, if i’m a prof people will LISTEN to [...]