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Entrepreneurs are Fools

2009-04-11T04:40:00.000-07:00

Its for people who believe so blindly in something, that nothing will stop them from achieving it. They could go mad, lose their marriages, break relations with family, give up their education - nothing will stop them.
An entrepreneur is someone who lives by the words ‘No Matter What’.
Isn’t it easier to be a sleaze? To give that hidden middle finger to your boss when he asks you to do something? To know fully well that your boss will get fired by his higher up if you are not productive? That its totally OK to not finish something? That you always have other options? That there is always an easier way out?

Entrepreneurship is for people who want to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders
Its for people who want to solve the world’s problems. Its for people who think it is upon them to be ‘The One’. People who are actually delusional enough to think that they are like Neo from the Matrix? That if they stop doing what they are doing, the world will crumble and lives will be lost.
Isn’t it easier for someone else to do the worrying? To chill out, relax and laugh at people stressing out? To know fully well that someone else will clean up your mess? That you left the world exactly the way it was, and did nothing to change it? Do you really want to be responsible for people’s salaries, happiness, and putting their children in a good school?

Entrepreneurship is for Visionaries
Its for people who don’t live in the present - people who think they can alter the course of destiny for the planet. People who always think there is a better way of doing something. People who can see the future, and stake their lives to make it a reality.
Isn’t it easier to just do what is told to you? To just finish the day’s tasks and forget about work till the next morning? To use the current solution, however inefficient it is? To only think about getting married, having kids and settling in life? To leave predicting the future to a palmist or an astrologer? After all Astrologers and Palmists have an easier job, they just predict the future and leave it - these mad entrepreneurs will actually go and make it happen.

Entrepreneurs are Fighters
Its for mad guys who like to fight till their last breath. For people who will keep on breaking - barriers, ceilings, impossibilities, resistance, competitors or whatever is thrown in the way. For people who will keep on punching till the opponent begs for mercy, no matter how much they themselves bleed. For those who just cant stay away from a challenge.
Why do you wanna get hurt? Why do you wanna break barriers? Isn’t it easier to just let people be, and barriers stop you? If something is impossible, why challenge it? Who gives a damn about competition anyway - its your boss’s problem!

Entrepreneurs make pots of Money
Its for those who want to create huge amounts of wealth. Enough for them to make a pile and swim in it. To be able to blow it up buying fancy cars and huge mansions. More importantly, its for those who want to create pots of wealth for those who work with them - to see their employees buy all these fancy things. Most importantly, To create funds, and give back to society and the economy.
Who cares about giving back to society? Why be so altruistic? Isn’t it enough to just find a better paying job, save properly and make sure your children study in good schools? Why bother about your colleagues?

Entrepreneurs change lives
Its for those who change the lives of people around them, and in the entire process have their own lives changed. For those whose lives are not the same once they embark on the journey. For those who grow into Superman, Batman, Shaktimaan and Hanuman all in one. Those who seek to attain mastery over their art because they have no choice but to be the best at it for their startups. For those who know that their team’s lives will not be the same once they are done with the startup.
Why do you want to be Shaktimaan? Why do you want to attain mastery over anything, when one can just Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V? Why do you want your life to change, when everything is so nice and normal?

Entrepreneurs are Survivors
Its for those who can be thrown into an island full of monkeys, devoid of human beings, and they will still manage to build a roaring business by finding a neighboring island with humans and export coconuts to them while having taught the monkeys the basics of economics, and living a luxurious life. For those mad guys who can survive a nuclear holocaust. For those who can turn the proverbial eskimo into a Ice cube franchisee. For those who can not only survive, but make the most of it.

Bold Blogs - Series 2

2009-03-23T08:27:00.000-07:00

Dedicated to people who missed the action. I would try my best to narrate the event without any bias but it would be very difficult for me to do that because I had inclinations towards 2 candidates competing for FINAX secy and that too, a strong one towards one… and my narration might just imply that. There might be some mistakes in questions and answers because I was not that attentive J

The SOP session started with AXIOM.

Risha with her mind-boggling SOP. Spectators let-off her without any questions. Feels like they don’t even feel like external stakeholders for AXIOM..

Next came our very own body-builder. Everyone started shouting “Sleeveless pehen ke aata”, “dance kar”, “Body dikha toh vote milega”. Badde started with his emotional speech. His inclination towards operations where XL lags. What he has done bla bla bla.

But the smartest and campaigning sentence in his SOP was “Myself, kalanidhi and Peddy went to meet Prof. Rajiv Mishra.”

God knows what happened in that meeting but as soon as the crazy spectators heard the name of Kalanidhi, hall started resounding with that voice…strange acoustics, whenever this name comes up in any room of XL, it resounds automatically.

Badde has done his part in waking up the crowd and he was pretty much sure that he won the crowd with that name. SO, this was his success mantra.

Now came the most important SOPs, FINAX SOPs. All were waiting for these SOPs. Personally even I was curious about how they would go because these play a very important role in shifting of votes at the last minute.

Here comes NN. NN started with the SOP and first time I noticed the curiosity in crowd. Everyone was attentive. Whats so special about FINAX. I was busy with some game in lappi and chubby ordered me to stop it. No-one can go against chubby, so even I had to listen to the SOP L

NN showed his initiatives, his intentions and his work as a FINAX member. I would say a decent SOP.

But But But, How can you go away with your rivals and that too when you have so many opponents in your own team. Frankly speaking, FINAX had seen a very low stature in last one year but this should be attributed to each and every team member. But every team member projected as if they tried a lot to nurture FINAX and it was NNs single force which was able to destruct everything. So, it was clear that NN was going to have a very bad time as students as well as his team-members were pitching against him (Oh did I forget the senior??)

Here comes IS. Well, we were supposed to ask questions but IS could not control his emotions and started commenting. (Kitni baar bola sar pe baraf laga ke rakha kar J )

He was fast enough to complete his comment “Friends we know what happened in FINAX last year and so, we should elect a right person keeping that in mind” Before he could complete it, Halla dragged him off…Gensec announced the inappropriateness of comments.. IS with his red face came back…

Then Steps in SK, NN was pretty sure that one more cross-question is going to come up.

“ You mentioned about a Finax journal, can I get an update on what is your role in it”, it became clear that SK was the one who was working on it. But there was strong disapproval on the question. SO, she was smart enough to reframe the question “Can I get the update on the status of finax journal?”, she leaves angrily.

NN played it safe by answering “You are working on it and you should be knowing the status better.”

Next Comes CK, One more cross-question.

“I was looking at finax blog, and I can see the last entry in AUG, 2009. Whats your take on this?. How can we expect someone to be a secy who cant even update a blog”

A simple answer “We were focusing on other initiatives, so could not go well with this one”

Finally, seemed like it was done and NN was relieved but soon came the last part, SB. As soon as he entered, crowd started showing disrespect of his presence and Gensec had to present several rules and instances for the validity of his presence.

His question “NN, we had paired you with a MAXI member for certain project. Whats the update on that and tell me some of your initiatives”-

Last nail in the coffin for NN as even SB was taking his case royally. It was crisp clear that there were huge differences in the existing team and unfortunately NN looked as the sole scapegoat at that point.

NN defended that question with a decent answer but it was not decent enough for crowd and specially for SB, a dissatisfaction came on his face. But finally NN was done with his round and it might be a long relieving moment for him.

Then one by one came other nominees, with their SOPs and took their share of questions.

In KB’s Q&A, IS bumped once again. It would be interesting to see what he is upto again, definitely not a comment. But this time he was smart enough to give a comment through a question.

“KB, there is a conference being arranged and you want to select one of your team-mate to volunteer it. First candidate is the one who worked very hard for it and second candidate is having a pretty face, whom would you select”

Two things over here. First of all… KB, that question was not intended to you and everyone knows the receptor of that question. Secondly…IS, pretty is really an over-rated term for the context you have used. Anyways, applauds were all over in the hall.

KB came up with the obvious answer but the purpose of the question was solved.

Well, here comes the Final SOP and the best one. AK a.k.a. SRK enters the room….

To be contd….

THREE WARRIORS, ONE MYSTERIOUS ANIMAL

2009-03-16T08:26:00.000-07:00

Kuch dino pehle Sunderban ki ek anokhi kahaani itihaas ke panno mein kahi kho gayi…
(All the incidents and characters mentioned are 100% true and they have been taken straight from the horse’s mouth)
Characters: Pessy, Kala, Arun, A mysterious animal as shown below:

Location: A tent in Sunderban

Time: 11 PM

Pessy, Kala, Arun and Krishnan occupied one of the tents at around 10.30PM. Krishnan, due to his exhaustive thinking whole day on all the subjects and of course tigers also, was tired and slept soon.
Pessy, kala and Arun (do they ever think) didn’t even bother to search for tigers and fraxed entire day. Hence they were quite refreshed and having their share of drinks.

Pessy: Kala, we have to do something about that Vivek. He consistently shouts our names in every other lecture.

Kala: Next time, I will kick that bastard there itself without caring about the faculty.

Arun (lies perfectly even after drunk): DO that machi…but I repeat, I never shout your names.

Kala: Thanks dude, you are our true friend. Due to all this non-sense every teacher recognizes me now and people are scared of giving my proxy. What the fuck.

(Suddenly they hear a remote sound “Woooooooooooooooooooooo”)

Pessy (in his pessimistic voice): Is that a lion roar.

Kala: But as far as I remember, Sunderban was famous for tigers. As such we have not seen a single tiger or lion from last 2 days, so I can’t comment on the voice.

Pessy: No, I am pretty much sure that’s a lions roar.

Arun: Stop non-sense machi, Sunderban is famous for tigers and you are supposed to hear only tiger roars here.

Kala: Then it must be tiger, how does it matter, make me one more drink.

Pessy: But one thing that’s pinching me, aren’t they supposed to be out in daytime only.

Kala: They might have started following CST.

Arun: Stop PJs machi…
(they hear the voice, this time from a nearby place “Wooooo” “Woooo”)

Kala: oh my god, a tiger roaring near our tent.

Kala started scratching his grey cells for the best option out. Before he could do that, he saw pessy running towards toilet. He followed him. And to their horror, Arun was already present there shivering.

Kala: Arun saale, khud ki jaan bacha ke nikal liya…kamine…

Arun (in his innocent voice): What I can do machi, I thought you people would follow me.

Pessy: Oh my God, Krishnan is sleeping in the tent. We should have woken him up.

Kala: Let him be, He gets angry if someone wakes him up at this point of time.

Kala’s intentions were different which even others understood and no-one cared to wake Krishnan up.
(The sound continued “Wooo”, “Wooo”, “Wooo” )

Pessy: We got screwed up, I dont think we can do anything better than hiding here.

Arun: Yes machi, I am not a coward but its smarter to hide here than going and fighting that tiger.

Kala (Looking at others’ cowardness): What the fuck??

Kala went out… Pessy and Arun were astonished to see his braveness. They decided they won’t be teasing Kala for every small thing. Kala was back in a minute.

Pessy (in a relieving voice): So Kala, were you able to scare that tiger away.

Kala: Mad or what, I am more scared than you, I just went to bring back my cigarette pack which I left outside the tent in morning. I was worried if that tiger carries it away.

Pessy and Arun kicked him and he could not understand why.

Kala: I dont want to die so soon..i want to kick all those who tease me in class before I die...

Arun: Even I dont want to die so soon machi..I have so many secret desires to be fulfilled...Where from this fucking tiger came...

Pessy (Pessimistically): All we can do is smoke for last time...forget all other last wishes..

All three of them decided to spend the night in toilet itself.
Next Morning, Kala woke up and he was happy that he was still alive. He even saw Arun besides him. But he was shocked that pessy was missing.
He woke up Arun and started enquiring about pessy. Even he had no clue and both came to a quick conclusion that pessy sacrificed his life for them. Both of them decided that they would run out and inform everyone about Pessy’s braveness. In the meanwhile they could hear Pessy shouting “We are such a big stupids, we are such a big stupids”
Kala was happy not because pessy was back but because pessy was including everyone in stupid’s list, not just kala.

Arun: What happened machi?

Pessy: We are really dumb. The gate outside is so high that no tiger can cross it. So, that animal was not a tiger.

All three jumped out of joy and ran towards the gate to see. It was indeed very high.
But they soon noticed the low fence across the gate through which even a dog can come over. They kicked pessy for his expert comments. But they were really happy that the scary night was gone.
They decided they won’t reveal this story to anyone and started their one more day bravely with others in search of a tiger.

Kala: I really tell you, this chipo does such a cheap things na…..

It is still a mystery, what that animal was but we should be happy that the three warriors from BM-B have fought bravely, what can be called, the most challenging night of the millennium. Kudos!!

Direct Dil Se...

2009-01-27T13:16:00.000-08:00

I am in motion
I have stoned my emotionss
I am thrriving for redemption
I have lost my discretion...

I wanna love again
even with a broken heart
wanna make a fresh start
who am I kidding
the world is cruuel
lets get rational...

Its time to get reeal
the world is spinning
and I amm still living
I don't wanna die
but ain't keen on living either...

I havee to take my vengeance with god
in this life or next
the future doesnt look bright
and I know its a long fight
its a long long fight!!!

Bold Blogs – Series1 (Only for BM-B)

2008-11-20T13:41:00.000-08:00

Disclaimer : Again the same one, All the characters in this blog are not at all fictitious and they are deliberately added to resemble the real ones. Adding to this, the comments mentioned are restricted to my limited knowledge about each person. Left-over ones may be targeted in the next series :-)

One fine day in Nov… LH-7 seems busy, a lecture going on. But as usual, every student is dreaming in his/her own world. Lets try to get into each one’s thoughts… Here it goes..

Abhishek: I hope I am allowed to shift into girls hostel…the moment it is done..I will fly like a kabootar to LH..

Shruti: Only 15 pages of notes completed in this lecture..something’s wrong…

Stuti: Topping in St. Xavier's College was far more easier…

Angshuman: Hope that the facilitator takes a surprise test today..

Abhinav (reading Angshuman’s mind with his divine capabilities) : Even I hope the same as angshuman is besides ;)

Pratima: I wonder what Pankhuri might be doing..

Pooja: When is the next wet night?

Raashi: When When When When When When When When When When is the next wet night?

Swapna: Finance padna padega..nahi tho Finax ki naak kat jayegi..

Mohita: 31..no 29..naah 30..yes that’s the number of days left to go back home :)

Amit: Market 300 point neeche gaya hoga ab tak..Aur abhi 302 point…303..304…

Kalanidhi (topper of first QT test): Will I remain as only one test wonder.. :(

Vasudha: Something seriously wrong.. only 22 times CP from morning..

Syed: Make me dean..and i will show how many girls should be selected for BM..

Vinay: Do I really look like an Uncle?

Puneet: Sir says Indian justice cant act beyond land boundaries but it can enforce law upto 12 nautical miles in sea too..CP starts..

Chubby: Madsam Dosa soon after this lecture..

Khemka: Kehte hai ishq mein neend ud jaati hai..koi humse ishq kare..kambhaqt class mein neend bahut aati hai..

Ishneet: Today, Bhajji is the man of the match for sure..

Manan: This facilitator can very well sing a song with me..even his lecture takes me into rhythmic dreams..

Gayathri/Ashish: Good that Himanshu is jotting down everything..

Alok: I used to teach a lot better in my classes..

Shwetank: Will Subprime crisis affect P2P solutions?

Suhasini: Good that system, AC, fans.. all are working fine. And most importantly blackboard is clean..

Rohini: Prathik mera hairclip kab wapas karega..abhi tho baal bhi gaye uske...

An Imaginary XLRI Interview

2008-07-23T06:50:00.000-07:00

Disclaimer : All the characters in this interview are not at all fictitious and they are deliberately added to resemble the real ones. But again No offences meant :-)

Interview Panel : BFA Prof, CSE Prof, QT Prof, OB Prof, PR & OM Prof
Interviewee : Myself :-(

Interview Starts:

PR : ok my friend…tell me what is the bottleneck of you entering XLRI??

I : err…err.. Sir, you people over here.

(Laughs all over)

CSE : ok tell me what is carbon trading?

I: err..Sir is it selling carbon for money…

QT : Are you interrogating us??

I : Sorry Sir, I was answering actually.

CSE : I am not convinced.

BFA : yes yaar, you can help me over here. Will the money that came from carbon trading reflect in balance sheet..if yes, where??
[I cant help myself at this point, how can I help you :-( ]
I : ????..Sorry sir

QT : You have 3 blue-colored balls and 4 red-colored balls…

CSE : Sir, Please specify that eco-friendly colors have been used.

QT : Ok. You distribute them into 7 urns. What is the probability that at least one urn is empty.

I : Sir, To simplify things, I assume that one of the urns is closed with a lid. Now I can safely say that the probability is one.

PR : Ok my friend, You have ordered a dosa at some dosa center. What is it – A made to order, made to stock, assemble to order or an engineer to order.

(I thought, finally an easy one….My eyes glew and I started answering in great confidence)

I : Sir, As I am an engineer and I have ordered it…So it should be an engineer to order :-)

All Profs : ????

BFA : Ok. So once you pass out from XLRI and become a manager and then order a dosa…what will you call it…

Myself : err..Sir I guess there should be some more classifications in your question such as manager to order, doctor to order, B.SC to Order, BBS to order….

(Profs start laughing)

CSE : ok, Where is Tirupur located??

I : Sir, Its in Karnataka I guess…err tamilnadu…Kerala most probably…

QT : My friend, you are mentioning mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive elements of the set.

[ I could not figure out whether finally my answer was taken or not but I played safe and kept quiet]

BFA : yes yaar, you can help me yaar… I have taken 20,33,262 from my friend at an interest rate of 10% p.a. I used it for starting a firm. I refunded 2,23,121 at regular intervals. Then after third year I gave 2000 debentures of Rs.2,100 each to my friend. Then I converted these debentures into shares and finally to preferential shares.
Now tell me yaar… what do you appreciate in this??

I: Sir, I appreciate your memory of recalling everything and your honesty of returning the loan.

CSE : Ok, tell me whats the average water consumption at your flat for a single day.

I : Sir, it depends on how many of my flat-mates take bath that day.

CSE : Ok. Lets assume all have taken bath.

I : Sir, then it depends on leisureness of the people as this determines how long they would like to take bath.

OB : hay-lo, hay-lo…What would you mean by a HALO effect.

I: It’s the effect of making people quiet when they go out of control by just saying HELLO two times.
(I was happy that I started my flow of correct answers)

QT : What is the probability of you getting into XLRI provided that I haven’t selected any student in my last 10 years of interviewing experience. Will you apply exclusive probability or conditional probability?

I : Applying conditional probability, Answer would be Close to zero.

QT : Finally You gave a correct answer my friend. You can leave now.

I: err…err..

BFA: Don’t worry…God is great and Life goes on…

(I leave sadly :-( )

FRAXER Identification simplified

2008-07-20T07:40:00.000-07:00

FRAXER identification simplified:

Well friends, its high time on campus and till now many of us might have seen, liked and disliked fraxers. Here are some qualities of a fraxer:

1) A fraxer is the one who gets surprised the most in surprise quizzes. Moreover, even announced tests take him by surprise.
2) A fraxer has the capability of getting a glimpse of a 50-page case through his friend by the time he reaches learning center from mess.
3) A fraxer is the one who can be seen only changing the slides throughout the presentation.
4) Most difficult question for a fraxer on any Monday “ What have you done in last two days? ”
5) A fraxer knows the safest position in a typical BFA lecture so as to get one of the easiest questions. He also accurately estimates the question that he can get while his row is being interrogated.
6) A fraxer is the one who knows which professor concentrates on which area of the class and hence always tries to sit where the prof’s attention is the least.
7) A fraxer is the one who carries a laptop to library even during quiz time.
8) A fraxer is the one who carries 5 text books to the library just to keep all of them in locker and have a good time with his laptop. Seems like there are too many thieves in hostel.
9) A fraxer is the one who always does the appreciation job in group meetings which helps him not to scratch his grey cells for new points.
10) A fraxer is the one who is always on toes in any group meeting trying to find the best time to freak off.
11) A fraxer is the one who is clueless about text book and notes until quiz is announced or a rumor of surprise quiz floats.
12) Every professor has his/her timing of entering a class for lecture. Some enter prior to the lecture timing while some enter later. To know the exact timing of any prof, consult a fraxer.
13) A fraxer is the one who can give you exact time in seconds for reaching from any place in campus to learning center.
14) A fraxer is the one who is the happiest after any quiz as he always feels that he has done better provided the effort given by him in studying.
15) A fraxer needs just one notebook throughout any term. Not to mention, this notebook contains weird drawings and quotes at the end of the term.
16) A fraxer is a one who expects a wet night even in day time.
17) A fraxer is the one who sleeps in a class and still has the efficiency to discuss what was taught in class.
18) Given a dilemma amongst various priorities of work, a fraxer adds one more priority of sleep and brings it to top.
19) A fraxer can easily identify sincere and hard-working persons in class and forms a project group with them.
20) A fraxer is the one who wont jot down a single point in the whole 90-minutes lecture. He instead searches for the person who is noting down all the points who can help him later.

Tribute to John Nash (Bollywood Ishtyle)

2008-07-16T11:12:00.000-07:00

Tribute to John Nash (Bollywood Ishtyle)

Finally, I got the time to write a blog.

Disclaimer : All the comparisons and statements given in this article are light-hearted comments and has nothing to do with the original work of these two legends. And moreover these are being given by an immature person who knows little about economics or application of mathematics in economics.

Adam Smith, I first came across this name in 2003. I was watching Beautiful Mind and the ever charming hero John Nash (Russell Crowe) concludes in one of the scenes that Adam Smith was wrong. I perfectly understood that Adam Smith was a legend but I didn’t care to get any more information about him.

To give you a background about the scene that I am talking about :
A blonde comes into a bar with her friends. Nash’s friends, as usual, come to him and start bullying him. But finally all of them notice that the blonde is looking towards Nash and that’s when you can see sparkle in Nash’s eye. Of course, not because of the blonde but because of his brilliant idea. I am saying it brilliant because I am going to use this idea as my reference for comparison with Adam Smith’s idea. Anyways, the dialogs go as below :

Sol: Nobody move...She's looking over here…She's looking at Nash.
Hansen: Oh, God. He may have the upper hand now, but wait until he opens his mouth. (Laughing) Remember the last time?
Bender: Oh, yes, that was one for the history books.
Hansen : Recall the lessons of Adam Smith, the father of modern economics.
"In competition...individual ambition serves the common good."
- Exactly.
- Every man for himself, gentlemen.
Bender: And those who strike out are stuck with her friends.
Hansen. I'm not gonna strike out.
Sol. You can lead a blonde to water, but you can't make her drink.

Nash : Adam Smith needs revision.

Hansen : What are you talking about?

Nash : If we all go for the blonde...we block each other. Not a single one of us is gonna get her. So then we go for her friends, but they will all give us the cold shoulder because nobody likes to be second choice. Well, what if no one goes for the blonde?
We don't get in each other's way, and we don't insult the other girls.
That's the only way we win. That's the only way we all get laid.
(Laughs)
Adam Smith said the best result comes from everyone in the group doing what's best for himself, right? That's what he said, right?

Others : Right.

Nash : Incomplete.
Incomplete, okay?
Because the best result will come...from everyone in the group doing what's best for himself...and the group.

Hansen : Nash, if this is some way for you to get the blonde on your own, you can go to hell.
Nash: Governing dynamics gentlemen. Governing dynamics. Adam Smith...was wrong.
Nash leaves the bar.

I was able to hear about Adam Smith recently again and it just reminded me of the movie. I tried to search Nash’s papers and theories but I could not really get this idea but lets assume that this is for real and Nash has worked on this part.

Now, the background is set and I am about to compare these two legendary ideas with reference to Bollywood movies. Yes, Bollywood movies, because these movies have everything in them which may just help us to get more insight about this competition and common good.
And effectively we are going to compare the following two theories:
Adam Smith : Individual ambition and selfish motives serves the common good and brings out the best result.
John Nash : The best result will come from everyone in the group doing what's best for himself and the group.

1) Lagaan: Lets get into this great Oscar nominated movie. Organization can be considered as the village of Champaner and the common good would be to get tax free for next 3 years. According to Adam Smith, if every village person takes it as a competition and apply their own selfish motive, common good should be achieved.
Bhuvan and others worked for their selfish motives and it almost helped them to achieve the common good.
Lets take the case of Lakha. Yes, the person who was involved in the match fixing. Lakha’s selfish motive was to get Gauri as well as to be more famous in village than Bhuvan. And it could be seen in the movie that the common good could not be achieved in the first half. Adam Smith’s theory looks incomplete in this case
It was later in the movie when Lakha understood what is best for him as well as team when he helps the motive to be achieved. And Nash’s theory works out.

2) Rang De Basanti : No need of any introduction for this movie. This dialogue says it all “There are only two ways to live life: Tolerate things the way they are... Or, take responsibility to change them”. Here I may raise some controversial matters. Organization was definitely India. Common good was to free India from corruption.
All the characters worked with their own selfish motives to achieve common good. Yes, there were selfish motives behind their sacrifices which may not be the same as the common good. For eg: Sidhharth had the selfish motive of trying to get rid of his father’s sins, Soha had the selfish motive of getting tribute to her husband’s sacrifice, Sue had her own little motive of making the film throughout, Amir had his motive of helping Sue, Sharman had his motive of being with his friends come what may. However, at the end it was the common motive which was driving them.
Anyways, was the common good achieved? There wasn’t any flaw and all worked what was best for their own and team. At the end, it looks like generation has awakened. But in real life, when the same incident was happened due to the sacrifice of an IIM-A alumni to get rid of corruption, it helped little. It may be because every citizen has his/her selfish motive and they work whats best for themselves rather than team.
However I would not give a point to Adam smith or John Nash in this movie as I feel both the theories were not effective completely.

Lets end it at a happy note. The evergreen movie DDLJ. A perfect example:

3) Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayange : This movie makes life simple for us and I would like to ask you to apply adam smith’s and nash’s theories before moving further.
Organisation being Simran’s family (excluding Satish Shah’s family : this assumption ought to be here). Common good : Welfare of the family and happiness of each and every individual of the family.
Selfish motive of Raj (SRK) being marrying Simran and Selfish motive of Amrish puri being marrying his daughter to Kuljeet.

Applying Adam Smith’s theory here just means that both of these people have to act selfishly for their motives which clearly indicates that common good cannot be achieved in either case. Either Raj elopes with Simran leaving whole family shattered or Amrish Puri gets his selfish motive accomplished leaving behind Raj and Simran shattered.
Now lets apply John Nash’s revision to Adam Smith’s theory. Raj has to do what is best for himself and the team (family in this case). Raj does the same and decides not to elope with Simran. And finally everyone knows that it was a win-win situation for everyone.
So, conclusion is DDLJ was a straight adaptation from John Nash’s principle :)

Finally, Nash scores 2/3 points in the 3 movies i have compared and Adam Smith Scores 0. It may be added here that Nash just revised Adam Smith's theory and hence Smith has to be given a lot of credit.

Comments regarding the flaws in the theory and some additons in the theory are welcome.

Mystery of Dognizant (Name Changed) Bomb Case Unveiled.

2008-06-29T12:01:00.000-07:00

Aao sunaau pyaar ki ek kahaani,

Ek thaa Ladkaaa,

Ek thee Ladkee Diwaanee.

Naaaah!!!!

Bahut hogayi pyaar ki ghisee pitee kahaaniyaa…

Ab aap log yeh sunoh………..

Mystery of Dognizant (Name Changed) Bomb Case Unveiled.

5 Sep, Pune

Few days ago, a bomb was found in Dognizant and surprisingly police diffused it on time. After watching Hindi movies, I could grab one conclusion that police never does any job on time. This doubt forced me to form a detective agency and unveil the mystery. So heres it…the shattered plot of a deadly gangster and the way it was shattered.

First and main character of the story Lallan:

His name was Lallan from Katni (name changed) computer sustems. Government has a reward of Rs.10 for the person who catches him alive and Rs.2 for the person who catches him dead. And this Rs. 10/Rs.2 is because wives of police have long forgotten Kadva chaut cos now-a-days they observe Lallan ka wrat for safety of their husbands.

It started long back in an interview of Katni computer systems where Lallan got recruited. Katni’s professional relations with Dognizant got soured and they were in search for a person who would take revenge. Lallan wene for the interview and seeing 1,000 people for a single job, he started shouting “Hazaar log aur sirf ek post….bahut naa-insaafi”. Lallan with his tremendous dialogs and revealing the reward on him by police grabbed the job easily. But to bluff people, he started living with some S/W professionals and pretending as if he is a S/W engineer in Katni systems.

The plot got thickened when Katni’s CEO informed Lallan “Loha garam hai”. Lallan started asking his fellows “Christmas kab hai…kab hai Christmas.”This was the time when Lallan planned of a bomb blast in Dognizant killing more than 5,000 innocent people.

Finally the day arrived and Lallan sent out the bomb through courier post (quite a modern way) which entered Dognizant as per Lallan’s plan and it is about to explode in 15 minutes.

And here comes the second character of the story

Long ago, there was a scholar called Gangadhar in Khamgaon district. Lallan was his class-mate and he used to outperform Lallan everytime in every field. Zealous Lallan used to rag and beat Gangadhar quite often. But Gangadhar never used to complain this to anyone as he used to be scared of him or was he pretending to be scared. We will come to know about this soon.

Gangadhar finished engineering from the same college as Lallan and joined Dognizant. Now, both started living in same flat. This was one of the attempts from Lallan to disguise people. But what a co-incidence?

Today Lallan’s bomb is going to tear Gangadhar into pieces. Or is his fate going to change? Let’s see.

And here comes the last character of the story

Whole country is gripped in a new-sensation called Shaktimaan who has helped a lot in destroying these types of deadly plots. He is a national hero now but noone knows his origin and his real identity. Will he be able to destroy this Deadly plan of Lallan?

Lallan is aware of this super-hero but he is an over-confident chap who says this quote quite often “Lallan ka plan sirf ek aadmi fail kar sakta hai…aur wo hai khud Lallan!!”

Lallan, not to leave any stone unturned, entered Dognizant that day to see his plan doesn’t fail and planned to escape 5 minutes before the blast.

But as soon as he entered the campus, he saw very less people in campus and enquired “Itna sannata kyu hai bhai?” to which watchman replied its christmas day and Company has a holiday that day. Lallan shouted in anger “Nahiiiiiiiii ye nahi ho sakta…Chutti kisne di….kisne di chutti”. But Lallan then calmed down and decided that he would execute the plan and explode the building at least.

For his surprise, He saw Gangadhar in the campus. He was overjoyed seeing his counterpart and started ragging him by teasing and patting him on his head. Gangadhar as usual avoided him and left the place.

But he was sure there is some mystery seeing Lallan in his own campus. Cos Lallan was not one of those guys whom Katni would like to advertise and bring down their own image.

From Nowhere SHAKTIMAAN entered the campus, he thrashed Lallan. Lallan after saying “Sorry SHAKTIMAAN” informed him about bomb. SHAKTIMAAN diffused the bomb and got lost in the crowd again as usual. Police took whole credit but it’s high time, SHAKTIMAAN should be appreciated.

But as we know Lallan is not one of those who would easily forget his humiliation. He ran away singing “mai wapas aaunga…mai wapas aaunga”. We would be informing you the next plan of Lallan as soon as we come to know one.

Thanks to our Camera-man Chaitanya, Reporter Ashutosh and Editor Prathik without whom this mystery could not have got solved.

Part 2 soon to be released. Please let us know your comments about part 1 so that we can improve in part 2.

My XLRI Interview

2008-06-26T08:19:00.000-07:00

Same interview with added smileys can be found out at following link:
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/other-exams-xat-fms-jmet/29283-2008-xlri-pi-experiences-bm-4.html#post1016818

Panel: Long hair guy (L), High Exp Prof (E), calm Guy (C)
Me (I)
Interview Starts:
I(wishing evry1): Hello Sir X 3
C: (Pointing towards seat) You can give your file to me. [was very much confused where to keep it]
E: oh, So you are from Sinhgad College.[Oops… no tell me abt urself….no why MBA…prepared this so much ][I was also surprised cos sum1 really knows my college ]
I [smiling] : Yes Sir
E: road to college has become nice after you passed out.[oh My god. These profs know everything ]
I : Yes Sir. Actually it started improving in my final year itself.
E; Good [Suddenly points towards my specs. My spectacles & tie being blue in color]Have you done any deliberate effort to match your tie color with your spectacles.
I : Not Exactly Sir Its pure co-incidence.
E : What do you work on?
I: Sir, I am into performance testing. I check the performance of a client’s website and deploy it online if it meets the requirements.
L [Interrupts] : So why do you want to do MBA then?[oh finally I was able to bring up this question and now see where it goes ]
I : sir, My present job interests me because it tests my analytical skills but its not giving me a platform to display my strategy skills.
L: STRATEGY [in a surprised manner..looks like time to grill me on strategy ]
Ok. Tell me what is strategy.[Oops.. I am weak at definitions..let me try ]
I: it’s a technique used to achieve any objective.
L: So, Strategy is a technique. Are you sure?
I : Yes [over-Confident me Little did I know that I am speaking to a person teaching strategic management at XLRI ]
L: ok. Why do you think you are good at strategy?[I wont get a better chance to show my credentials ]
I: Sir, I have participated in Robotic events and won several prizes in IITs, NITs and other colleges. I was a strategy planner and used to do SWOT [oh no. where from this word came up ] analysis of my robots and other robots & create a strategy which would help us win.[me..making innocent face hoping that everyone overheard the SWOT word but…]
L : Oh. So SWOT analysis. How did you do that.
I: Sir, SWOT means strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats. I can explain it better if I can take some strategy as reference that I implemented. Can I?
L: yeah Yeah. Sure
I: I would like to tell about IIT-Powai competitionStrengths and weaknesses are the intrinsic factors which I might know even before entering the arena or before going for the competition. Its like I can identify these as soon as I prepared the robot.
L: how do you determine weaknesses, I mean weaknesses of your robot or your team or your institute.
I: robot as well as team
L: Ok. Continue. Better list them down.[Oh No. listing means I have to think up the next points while describing the present as I was blank about opportunities and threats ]
I : ok. Strengths were 1) GOOD Speed of robot (described briefly)2) good maneuvering SKILLS (described briefly)Weaknesses were 1) Low Torque2) Not too rigid cktsOpportunity was carpet was provided for free fall of robot which we exploited.[almost completed..was satisfied till now..until i was interrupted ]
L: I am keen about threats. Tell me threats
I [blank for fraction of a second ]: Sir, Competitors were threats. We had 2 teams, one from Iran and other from Nepal. Both were very strong. So, it would have been sensible not to collide with any of these teams until final as each round was a knock-out one. So, we deliberately scored less points in some of the rounds to avoid the clashes with them.[bang on target ]
L: Oh my god. You already know so much about strategy management. Why do you want to do MBA. You have done so much, I don’t think you need this.
I: Sir, The thing is I knew in & out of robotics and hence I was able to apply strategy. Now, I want to learn in & out of business before entering into business strategy.[This one was the acer ][All look convinced]
L: So, tell me some strategy based companies.
I: Sir, Consultancies normally help out in mergers and acquisitions and prepare strategy for the same.
L: Agreed. Tell me the companies.
I: Lehmann brothers, DE Shaw, Mc Kinsey.
L: is it a deliberate effort that you said Mc Kinsey at last. Its evry1s dream company after allI; No sir, its just that I recalled it late
E: And how do you know about De Shaw
I: Sir, its into s/w too and hence I know it.
L & E almost signing me off,
C just completed seeing my certificates.
C: Ok, So you spoke about mergers and acquisitions. Tell me 3 recent acquisitions wherein some Indian company has acquired foreign one.
I [blank ]: Sir, tata is having talks with jaguar but not yet finalized. I don’t remember any other now.
C: ok. Tell me acquisitions from last 2 years.[Again me blank]
I : I am sorry but I don’t know
E: you know there is something going on in Pune Airport and it has been stopped
I: yes Sir renovation work is going on.
E: is it still going on.
[spontaneously]I: No Sir, it started operating from yesterday. Work is done.
E: So that shows that you read newspapers. Then why could not you answer that question.
L: its just that he started reading newspaper after getting this call [pakda gaya ][All started laughing. Me too joined ]
C: Do you follow any sport?
I: yes. I follow cricket
C: Ok. Tell me what is a flipper. I will give u a hint, Anil Kumble does it.
I: Sir, is it the wrong spin.
C: No. that’s the doosra.
I: Ok. I don’t know about the flipper then.
L: Ok. Tell me the difference between square drive and square cut.[Can we move out of cricket please ]
I(confused and again blank): Sir, I am weak at terminologies.
C: But you said you follow cricket?
I: Yes. I am good at statistics [I should not have said this but that was the only way I could have taken one more chance of answering a general awareness question]
L: oh. Statisics. Ok. Listen to this. Azharuddin in his period scored 3 centuries consecutively on 3 grounds in a series. Tell me 2 of these 3 grounds. Ok, Even one would be fine.[I was like…oh my god XLRI to gaya abhi….gaadi me baitho aur ghar wapas chalo ]
C(giving me a hint): One would be very easy
I : Sir, One should be Eden gardens.
L: oh. Good. Now tell me the second one.
I: I am sorry but I don’t know the others. I have to accept I am weak at general awareness.
C: ok. Then. It was good talking to you. You can leave
I: Thank you.