TOI getting Dumber each day

This is how you misread stats or this is how ‘the glass is completely full’.

“The great Indian dream of pursuing an MBA in the US seems to be on the wane.”

and Why?Proof :

“In testing year 2005 (July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005), when over 43,000 GMAT scores were sent to management programmes in the US by Indians, a mere 19,196 GMAT scores came from Chinese. Till 2009, India maintained its lead over China. But in testing year 2010 (July 2009-June 2010), for the first time the number of Chinese far outnumbered Indians: 80,000 to the Indians' 65,361.”

Second Argument is equally Dumb :

“In testing year 2010, over 17,000 Indians sent in their GMAT scores to Indian institutions. Meanwhile, only 1,743 GMAT scores from mainland China (and 5,184 from Hong Kong) were sent to Chinese B-schools in the same period.
While the last five years saw only a marginal increase in GMAT scores sent by Chinese in their own country (but a steady growth in those sent to the US), there has been an almost four-fold rise in the number of Indians applying to Indian management institutions—from 4,879 in 2005 to 17,087 in 2010.”

And Ergo :

“Ashok Sarathy, vice-president, GMAT Programme, feels this may have a lot to do with the emergence of high-quality management education in India.”

Do I explain it or does everyone get how stupid TOI can be?:-)

Or wait, is fall in 'logical reasoning’ ( an area tested in GMAT) the reason :-)?

Corporate lesson 1

 

One of the things that I have learned in my corporate IT life is that the employees of client company (the company that has outsourced its IT work) do not have the “one team” attitude towards employees from third party IT companies even though they are all literary working on the same team or project.

A client side line manager probably feels that since they are paying us for the job – it is totally upon us to deal with the problems we are facing in operations.This is a disastrous attitude as we are all finally running their own operations.Showing empathy to our problems instead of “your management problem” attitude will go a long way in building a strong unified and highly productive team.

 

To Pakistan.... With love ... US of A

Slow response of Pakistani Govt to the flood relief operations in north-western part of the country might be because of the fact that they are probably wanting more F-16s from US to help "rescue" stranded people (just like they want to fight terrorists with F-16s). No?

AND..

Don't be surprised if the US actually gives them.:-)

BP and the great leak.

My perspective on the BP oil leak is shared by few other people as mentioned below : 

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The multibillion-dollar, multinational company found support for its efforts. In New York, that support came from billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

"The guy that runs BP didn't exactly go down there and blow up the well," he told a radio program. "And what's more, if you want them to fix it and they are the ones with the expertise, I think I might wait to assign blame until we get it fixed."

In London, England, a Downing Street spokesman said Prime Minister David Cameron spoke Friday with BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg.

"The prime minister explained that he was frustrated and concerned about the environmental damage caused by the leak, but made clear his view that BP is an economically important company in the UK, US and other countries," the spokesman said in a news release.

"He said that it is in everyone's interests that BP continues to be a financially strong and stable company."

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg appealed for a reduction in the vitriol that has gripped many observers. "I don't, frankly, think we're going to reach a solution stopping the release of oil into the Gulf any quicker by allowing this to spiral into a tit-for-tat political, diplomatic spat," he said.

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I have no idea – how is a protest going to stop the leak any faster?? This is because I believe BP is already doing all it can to stop the leak, unlike ofcourse the shameless Union Carbide India ltd – which got away with a slap on the wrist.

While all this is happening, Obama is delivering populist dialogues. Yes – dialogues.

Do not read beauty magazines, they make you feel Ugly!

 

On a lighter vein, enjoy this :

Love this, don’'t you?

Israel’s Attack on “Aid ship”.

All the opinions that one might form of Israel after its soldiers attacked the so called ‘Aid ship’ should be formed after watching this video that Israel has released :

BBC link here

It is a disturbing video. Only idiots can believe that these were ‘aid’ or ‘peace activists’.

World’s intelligence is probably plummeting, when it stridently opposes this incident. Ofcourse these people were only self proclaimed ‘peace activists’ . To me they were just malevolent ‘pro-Palestine’ Jihadists.

I agree with Israel’s ambassador to India when he says

“First of all any loss of life is tragic. This loss of life yesterday could have easily been avoided had the organisation that had been running it (flotilla) been a true humanitarian organisation dedicated to aid,”

You go and mess with armed soldiers, then you whine about the fact that they retaliated?Highest form of idiocy.

The world bias rankles me.And you??

Apologies from PCPA

 

“sorry-we-attacked-the-wrong-train” 

                      -- PCPA leader Umakanto Mahato

Oh common, we understand, anyone can commit mistakes. We totally forgive you.Things like that happen. Try not to repeat it though, but don’t worry, in case you repeat it, we will forgive you again.

“There must have been some miscalculation”

MUST ??

I like the tone of the statement..

Wiki Answers …. Almost anything..

 

Have you ever visited Wiki Answers ? It answers quite useful facts such as these :

Click on the image to view it clearly.

Link

I liked the question

“Has shahrukh khan ever had sex?”

Even more the line after that :

“The question has not been answered yet”

:-), Oh Boy! Now, thats a mystery !

 

Link

Another one , Just for fun

Q : “Has Kareena has exposed herself”

A : “Yes she was exposed”

:-).. Active and passive voice,, huh??

Link

There are tonnes of other.. I can do this whole day , but just one last one :

Q : “You want to marry a kashmiri girl?”

A : “Yes I want to marry a Kashmiri Girl?”

Notice the question mark .. :-)

Link

Fun, isn’t it??

Am I really “spoilt”??

Why do people think they know what’s best for you? Why are they sure that their decisions and only their decisions are what are going to keep you happy? Why do they not trust you with your own decisions?

Why should I do what ‘society’ will like and accept? If I do so, I will not be the person I am. How will I ever have self respect if I go against my principles? Will I not always and always remember that I did something I thought was wrong, but had to do it just for the ‘society’ that otherwise doesn’t even care about my existence? Am I indebted to society that I sacrifice my happiness for them ? Will, what I know is right become wrong just because the society doesn’t approve of it?

When I say society I am talking about Indian society. Ofcourse – the people elsewhere are more humane.The great Indian society where neighbours are more interested in what is happening in your life than the events in their. Surprisingly everyone seems to give a lot of importance to what his/her neighbours think of him/her. Although you will always be taught that your neighbour is a bad person, you will also be taught to give a damn about his perception of you. If he ain’t approving something, you are spoiling the family name if you still do it.

Almost all your relatives will take it for granted that they have the right to control your life too.The thing is even they will care more about the ‘society’ than they will for you. Finally, its all about the ‘society’. ‘Society’ will control your life till you reside in India. Oh, and if you leave India and talk of never coming back, you are “spoilt”.If you are open about your feelings for India – “I hate it“ , no one will still know – “why?” .You will have to hear to “Money is not everything in life!” sort of stuff. May be they just don’t get it and may be they never will.

Is it only about the comfort that I would never want to come back to India – No! Its the people, who interfere in my life, the people who judge me at every opportunity that they get . Its the sudo independence, the lack of freedom to act on my own decisions. You will almost read this piece few times a month :

Couple stoned to death

Indians are typically judgmental people – the sort that I truly hate. For us a divorcee is a bad person – an untouchable.For us a gal who drinks is bad.For us – 2 people who have consensual premarital sex are “westernized” and “Spoilt”. For us – a gal who can wear shorts outside the house is “spoilt”. We like to hide our judgmental nature under the cover of "our culture". What rubbish! I don’t get it – how does someone become good or bad because he/she had sex before marriage ??This disturbs me! And by the way because it does, I am “spoilt” too!

We also a cynical group, may be because of post independence lack of opportunity meant that we step on our neighbour’s shoulder to reach the top.I am taught that the whole world but my family is after my life – they are all here to fool me and take advantage of me. If I don’t get it, I am “naive” and “immatured”, “I have not seen the world”. What if I have seen the world, what if my world is different from yours?

“But… But.. you were born here” …

I did not have a choice! I did not choose to. I am an Indian only by birth, not by choice.

“But .. there are so many good things too “ ..

Ya, may be I want a little more than you do..

Do people love you only as long as you listen to them or agree with them? I guess so .. else you are just too “spoilt”.

whom do you believe?

IBN:

3 out of 9 dead terrorists Indians, says Kasab

CNN:

Mumbai suspect claims four gunmen were Indians

Times of India:

All terrorists who stormed Taj hotel were Indians: Kasab

Ha! the best part is, I don't believe any of them - including Kasab ofcourse . :-)

Rebuttal from Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor's Rebuttal on the controversy here:

I believe it is our duty, to counter media everytime they go for such cheap marketing to increase readership.I am disgusted with TOI right now.

The damage would have been done by now. Media should be sued for every such mis-information they sell. I mean - atleast what they put inside the quotes should be correct!! But then, the courts.. Ha!

Without warranty

Indian villages along Punjab border came under attack from Pak

“Six rockets were fired from Pakistan into Indian territory shortly past Friday midnight.”

“Luckily, the rockets did not explode.”

Why buy ‘made in China’??

Bloody showoff

Why can't Australian govt nab those behind attacks, asks India

Yeah! I mean common – Indian Govt takes such good care of us in India after all. It even makes sure that every single criminal in the country is put behind bars, mind you even if he or she is a govt official or from civil service..

Ha!