Thursday, October 25, 2007

Personal Manifesto

This is a personal manifesto have prepared to share with friends, well wishers and skeptics. Will appreciate comments, errors and sources which need to be referred

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Scientific Foresight at SK Memorial, Gandi Maidan, Patna

This TECH FEST is aimed to provide an opportunity to explore the hidden aptitude of the budding engineers & scientists. Participating students will be able to develop their interests and awareness about the contemporary industrial and research trends in science and technology. They will be able to make them up to date their technical knowhow

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Saturday, October 20, 2007

Ad for Student Volunteer for Mission Possible

Some mavericks at work are trying to execute some very very ambitious projects but plan on using Open Source 2.0 / Wikinomics 2.0 model of setting up a non-profit or profit org at lightspeed with no overheads. If you wanna join please ping us or refer to friends ...Projects areBihar Society (WIP)IIM Society (WIP)India Society (long term)

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Letter to Members of Parliament in India

Bihar has got a very very "unfair" share from Govt of India in terms of investment for infrastructure, both hard & soft.Hard Infrastructure like : Energy, Water, RoadsSoft Infrastructure like : Education, Museums. Archeology, Art, Schools, Higher Educationtime to correct it and need to correct it very very fast if the raw energy locked in Bihar is to be tapped and unleased. Till we do that some of the anger will keep getting expressed in not so pleasant or productive ways

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Sunday, October 07, 2007

No offence meant

It is a tradition of some "intellectuals" Indians to make the most offensive comment, but add a wry ' no offence meant' and they expect to be absolved of any responsibility of hurting you. To me, it is worse than just making the offensive comment. The guy is aware of the offence his comment would cause, and yet chooses to make it. Latest in this tradition of obnoxious behaviour is this article in Churimuri, a so called forum of Kannadiga intellectuals.

Karnataka is going through nasty political turmoil. The only guy to hold the position of PM from that state has shown his lack of character by not honoring the public commitment of handing over power to the BJP. Any self respecting community would feel ashamed by it. But what do they do? Drag Bihar into it.

Bereft of self confidence, these are basically bullies who have to pull down something to hide their own inadequacies.

It is not the first time that people from Karnataka have shown their abhorrent attitude towards Bihar. MV Kamath, a journalist from there, had written an essay in The Illustrated Weekly of India saying Biharis are not fit to rule Bihar. He had thereby shown his anti democratic and racist character, besides showing his deep antipathy to Bihar. It is to the perpetual discredit of Karnataka people that this abominable character is hailed as a great intellectual of that land.

PS Appu, an IAS officer from Karnataka was the director of LBS academy at Mussorie when he chose to cut short the career of a young probationer from Bihar on allegations of misbehaviour. When the Deptt of Personnel insisted on an inquiry before initiating action, Appu publicly threatened to resign saying this is interference in his work. Newspapers of the day had a field day alleging Biharis are weak in character and hailing Appu as a shining example of integrity. The probationer was sacked summarily without any inquiry. Later, Supreme Court struck down the ruling of Appu and reinstated him into his job.

To the best of my knowledge, Appu never apologised for his hasty decision. Neither the newspapers ever apologised for their biased reporting or even gave prominence to the reinstatement news. Public perception continues to be of a wayward probationer from Bihar rather than the anti Bihari bias of an arrogant bureaucrat.

Last year, when Pratham did a survey of school kids in the various states of India, it was found that Bihar was way ahead of other states. Karnataka was one of the laggards. "Intellectuals" of Churimuri commented as if it is the divine right of the Karnataka kids to do better than Bihar. I had requested them to refrain from such thinking. It appears my words have fallen on deaf ears. These racists are bent on using Bihar to manage their inferiority.

What a shame that I have to share my nationality with these obnoxious characters.