Internationally acclaimed management expert. Chairman, DKIF
It almost inspired one of the most famous titles of novels in English, 'For whom the Bell tolls?' The question doing the rounds was; has humanity overreached itself through its rapacious search for more comfort, more wealth and inevitably higher dominance.
This requires practice. Everyone's instinct is at different points effectiveness. The good news is it can be sharpened through programmed effort. Some find it easier to practice it than others. Naturally the quality of outcome varies.
The system had so many layers and such documentation needed that ultimately the person had to approach an Election Commissioner whom he knew personally to get it corrected. That is another story.
The need is obviously to go back to see and realise the 'power of the mind'. It is a must to realise singly, in duality, collectively, amongst communities and nations,the need to give to each other the freedom to pursue their lights.
This was the first ever such statutory department devoted only to management studies amongst all IITs. It was a major breakthrough in the overall design of the academic structure of IITs. It gave parity to a non-science and technology input in the making of a good engineer.
It is one of those institutional wonders where almost everyone has some fault to find with it, and be it the UPA or NDA governments, nobody has got anywhere near shaking its foundations. Someday somebody will write the history of the UGC typifying how mediocre institutions survive in a sea of...
The number of circulars from competent authorities of the Government and elsewhere got so large that a Maharatna company assigned the charge of reading all the circulars and doing a summary, to an exalted official like an Executive Director.
It was an appropriate summing up of the bottom-line of the situation, including touching upon the care of the infirm and the other well-known principles of the lockdown.
