Saturday, August 21, 2010

LOOKS CAN BE DECEPTIVE

Daily duties of an intern is always tedious in the American library; especially when you arrive before the other co-interns. But the commotion of people in and out of the place keeps my time ticking around; looking at different people and their decorum fascinates alot.
So this was a special day which taught me the fundamental principle of life -" never judge a person by the looks"
So after finishing all the diurnal works i sat in my place exhausted and peeved. Meanwhile had a 5 Min nap; which was disturbed by a reeking smell of tobacco around. The guy was a literal threadbare with some patches of beard and a folder accompanying the bizarre. Unfortunately (later ,it was my fortune) he sat beside me and started to scrutinize some pages of a magazine. He had this habit of getting up once in every 10 Min and pondering up the book racks around for some books. Sitting there with that a pack of cigarette pack was like the " last thing to live for " situation. Noting all his activities i fortuitously completed some of my works and eagerly waited for the lunch interval.
In the cafeteria, the bizarre sat beside me for the lunch ; so i hastened up my lunch and went back to my seat. There in my table his dossier was there with some books scattered around. I have this habit from my childhood of poring new things; the same intuition struck the time and made me ponder his folder. Accidentally had a glance to his resume which had my heart to my throat.
The guy who i named bizarre was a graduate from IIT kharagpur, masters and doctorate in MIT USA and now he was running an orphanage in Delhi. With other appurtenance of awards and felicities filled his resume whose names where unknown. Replaced the resume back in the dossier with the trembling hands and went down to the cafeteria and genuflected him in front of every body.
Hope India doesn't let him brain drain out of the country

Sunday, August 8, 2010

The way students and scholars interpret the materials they work with in their academic fields is more a matter of personality than of training.

Personality is a cauldron of "nature and nurture" of a human which defines the discipline and conduct towards the society; whereas training is a tutelage process of guiding and honing the personality for the future.
Personality can be defined as the combination of hereditary(nature) and ambience(nurture) of a person. So, according to the definition, the IQ level of a parent should be transferred to the child. But the question is; whether is it a inevitable concept of genetics that a doctor parent's progeny should all be doctors(insane concept). Admittedly, nurture (ambience) in form of training moulds the nature(personality) to adapt for the future battle. Ambience has many manifolds- religion, culture, parental exposure, informal training etc which plays a pivotal role in predisposing of talent and discipline to a child.
Starting from the day 1 of a child, the parental training prepares for the next step of the life.Body language (coddling, touching), anger, depression, work and attitudes of a parent simulates the child as a facsimile of the parent. It is a germinal start to all the trainings in the mere future.
Secondly, religion and culture are two ethical veins for a child to develop. Festivals, invocations, family gatherings etc give an exposure about the ethnics of the family and the surroundings. Culture including food habits and diurnal activities adorn the child for the future realities.
In addition, formal training includes college and schools are 2nd stage preparation for the professional status. this training is the stepping stone for nurturing the child as a student into a pro level. Specific field depending on the interest of the student is cultivated as an investment for his work. Basic rules of social comity, decorum and civility are made conversant to the student in the premises of the formal training.
As a recap i morally buttress the concept of training as the step towards culmination