I am sharing this because it ties in with what I earlier wrote during
Shahrukh,
Luke and
Siddarth cases.
Lot
of people and I specially mean the educated class just loves to bring
successful persons down to feel better. A Paradox but true. (By the way
Luke and
Siddarth are free and the girl suddenly finds them ' young and
silly' more than criminals as earlier projected). And
Shahrukh, being a
typical Scorpio (in my class!!!) rested his case by winning and getting
his KKR supporters to do a
MC/ BC to
MCA,
Shobha De,
Media... for him!
I
chose the above pic because I came across a couple of reactions on
Aamir by some recent
XLRI students on Facebook. Now youngsters think a great deal about
IIMs and
XLRIs. Mentors like me having spent much time with them know them better.
You may got a IIM- or a XLRI- degree but very few of them really become the creme
de la creme of society! Most of them just thank their stars and luck
(and some lies in CVs and cheating ) for the admission and carry on with
the upbringing and lacking they had , bolstered with some deception skills they
learn wonderfully the best in those 2 years in a B School. Most of IIMs/XLRI etc. Entrants are cheats in some way or other in CAT and other earlier or later examinations is a quite well known fact; BUT a MURDERER or two in IIMs?!! Surprised. See the link below.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/cbi-arrests-iim-lucknow-student-for-alleged-involvement-in-murder-170344
Thank God the outsiders
admire them so much! Some consolation. What the leading Professionals feel of them see in the links below!!!
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/an-open-letter-to-indias-graduating-classes/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/08/10/the-ten-biggest-lies-of-b-school/
Of course I don't mean all of them, just most of them. Coming back to what I came across.
One
XLRI guy writes some choice abuses, which may put a rickshaw wallah to shame, about
Aamir. ( He possibly some days back was pontifying about
Shahrukh's MCs and BCs!!!). He says his family has so many doctors and how dare the
bastard Aamir talk about
doctors like that. But I remember
Aamir very clearly pointing out some
very good doctors too like
Dr Shetty and others. But that is forgotten.The student takes
Aamir's expose as a affront to his family doctors.
I personally faced many doctors in the last 1 year after my brain stroke. A
eminent
Neuro-Surgeon of Bombay tried to force me into a brain surgery
costing more than 10 lacs by picking up a problem, which he himself had
declared minor earlier, and frightening my sister knowing very well she
will get scared and agree. It was only when I 'threatened' my sister that I
will rather acquire a lover and go for a foreign jaunt with 10 lacs and
then return and die contended!!! that she stopped listening to the rogue.
And the fact that my brain is writing all these shit articles proves
that I didn't need a surgery. It was fine and rotten anyway!!
The
other
XLRI student updates something in
Facebook to the effect that people who
really work for the society do it for the entire life and not make
one-episode issue like
Aamir. His insiniuation that Aamir is doing this only for making money. A
IIM/ XLRI student finding
a money making act as wrong for
Aamir forgets most people join, survive and pass out of
IIMs/XLRI only for making money!!!
In fact, most of their Facebook updates after joining a Organization is not how much they are getting to learn or perform or evolve BUT how much they got in their first salary or Which 5-star Hotels they checked-in or which Car they bought!!!
My query to this person and
other similar educated 'elite' is did
YOU do a good cause even for one
episode? Or did You do it for collecting grades in MBA and sexing up your CV
with social leadership!
For example,
XLRI boasts of village
visits in the first trimester '
to teach students social responsibility'. But
most of them attend the village trips because it has compulsory grades allotted
while hating it and compensate for it
by drinking binges, luxury
dinners, 'loving' fellow females/males passionately in hideouts (and
that a village does gives amply!) to get over the torture of a village
trip. And of course not forgetting to click lot of pics with the
downtrodden in the DAY saying 'cheese', while giving them some
condescending "
cheeze", to display on the Facebook, while anxiously waiting for the evening when they will be free from the morons!
And these
arse-holes have the audacity to advise
Aamir on his selfishness.
All
of us may or may not like or approve
Aamir's acts. That's our choice. In
fact a well-read, or is it a well-seen person, would have criticised the
programme easily by mentioning that the idea or the format is not very
original. A wonderful older programme called "
Zindagi Live" still comes on
weekends on the Hindi IBN 7 channel with a very sensible and sensitive lady
host for years. But she is not a power celebrity! She has already
covered, over the years, all issues of
Satyamev Jayte shown so far and
more. And YES she cries too!! But
Aamir's reach and the same cursed celebrity status makes the
reach more powerful.
But abuses, insinuations and
character assassinations just prove the old adage: "
One can send
talented Donkeys via a CAT to a IIM/ XLRI but one cannot EVOLVE all of them into
Pedigreed Horses" !!!
Recently heard a interesting quote by a IIT Professor on a NDTV Talk....
"We
find that the successful Candidates after being coached just learn to
say what is wrong and not what is right.. they may make Good Managers
but not Good Engineers....."
Amen.
Satyamev Jayte.
(coming soon with more breaking news on XLRI and its secrets culled from a Mare's mouth)
© Rajan Kapoor 2012
