The most dangeorus thing

this is a translation of one of the great poems titled - 'सब तो खतरनाक' of revolutionary poet Avtaar Singh Badhana 'पाश'.

to rob you of your hard earnings is not the most dangerous thing.
to face a third degree in a deep dark dungeon is not the most dangerous thing.
greed, dishonesty are the sinnest of the sins, but still are not the most dangerous things.

to lay mum even under the most grieve of the attrocities is surely bad, but not the most dangerous thing.
to just survive when you should have striven for better is surely bad, but not the most dangerous thing.

the most dangerous of the circumstances is -
the apathy with which you treat all sorrows around,
to be an automaton, go office from your home and rebound.

the most dangerous of the things is -
the self crucification of the dreams with no murmur or sound.

जिंदगी

जिंदगी क्या है, चार दिन की पाती
थोडी गुजरी, थोडी बाकी

एक अनसुलझी पहेली है जिंदगी
सुलझाना जरूरी तो नही
लगातार बनती, कभी बिगड़ती,
एक नायाब तस्वीर है जिंदगी
हर रंग के मायने बतलाना, जरूरी तो नही

विद्वानों से सुना की मंजिल पाना है जिंदगी
हुं, एक यादगार सफर का फ़साना है जिंदगी

"है सीखना अभी बहुत" - हर मोड़ पर है ये एहसास दिलाती
जिंदगी क्या है, चार दिन की पाती,
थोडी गुजरी, थोडी बाकी

Reality Bites

nothing novel,

but the TRP craze has just touched new heights.

once the fiction used to emulate reality,

but now this fictitious reality.. simply bites..

..

man has always sought refuge

in his fellow being's plight.

but ever got a chance to ponder even once

the hollowness of happiness

in such a way you drive..

..

glamour, action have for decades now

made senses go numb and tight.

but this box has made you look so idiotic

that you don't even get to know

when your emotions were monetized!

Spring!!

Don't remember it exactly, but the physics of spring was tought something like

force = - k X x

(Mr. Hook might have gone realy upset with my intial omission of negetive sign while stating his law but thanks to one of my friends who corrected me on this. Anyway, don't delve too much into signs, the philosophy still holds true.)

where k is spring constant and x is displacement from mean position. So higher the displacement higher the force imparted by the spring and more the force higher you go.
This small thought is actually a corellary of what one of my friends has posted on her blog: "how hard you rise depends on how hard you try" exactly like the spring motion. Individual quotient to strive may very as the spring constant for individual springs but one must adjust the displacement factor to achieve the force required to make an impact and ultimately be the force to reckon with.

Please correct me if I am mistaken on the equation part, though the phylosophy still remains valid.

This time, let the CAT adapt!

I will try to keep this short and simple.

Is it just with Indian society or does entire humanity socialize in this way? The context under which this question should be viewed is how little room do we provide for the wrong doers to correct themselves.

An extremity of this would be the fate of Shiney Ahuja, the bollywood actor who got caught in the rape case. Its not just him whose life is spoiled but the life of his family, his child will also perish.

Linking it to subject. The prestigious CAT which doesn't need introduction to most of my countrymen is going online this year. I think that's a move in the right direction. But there is much speculation around its format this time around. Some people are dead scared if it goes the GMAT way, means it turns adaptive. Keeping the logistic challenges, emotional outcry apart just think about the psychological approach being followed in its last year format and in the adaptive format. That will help to get my point grounded.

Till now, CAT has been like a bouquet of challenging problems, solve as many as you can. But beware, you attempt one and you happen to be on the wrong side of judgement then you will be heavily penalized (with 25% negative you stand to loose 5 points on each wrong attempt). So the crucial thing is to be selective in the right way, to tackle the right problem and to control your ego.

But just think, that's not how the life of a manager operates. When he comes acorss a problem he has to face. He has to solve it, tackle it, have an opinion on it or at least a blind guess. He can't avoid it for long. After a stage he can't avoid it at all. And quite often the problems are so sequentially linked that one will turn out to be a failure throughout in case one decides to skip upon the problems and seldom is there any room to be selective in such circumstances.

So, I find the approach of adaptive gradation of difficulty more in line with real life situations. It leaves room to commit errors even though silly but it penalizes you heavily in case you happen to leave the problems unattempted. Remember the age old adage - to err is humane. Since the organizers have finally decided to leverage the technology to there end I think they should let the CAT adapt this time around.

What's your say, boss!