tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26187191.post7041984818596972336..comments2023-02-13T18:27:42.289+05:30Comments on Recycled Writings: Felicitations to my online friendGVKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17350402171842472556noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26187191.post-56144321639787081462007-05-08T00:53:00.000+05:302007-05-08T00:53:00.000+05:30Next time you meet Mr Vattam, interesting to know ...Next time you meet Mr Vattam, interesting to know about what you both think about VKK's prejudicial attitude towards Sam Manekshaw. Also interesting to know about his experience with Inspector Kuttappa, the unique traffic cop who did not spare even HH Jayachamaraja Wodeyar. I still visualise the sight of Inspector Kuttappa's motor bike roaring through Ramanuja Road the route HH Wodeyar's Rolls used to take on the way to Chamundeswari Hills.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26187191.post-71629067965206742922007-05-08T00:08:00.000+05:302007-05-08T00:08:00.000+05:30'We talked about the blissful unfamiliarity of eve...'We talked about the blissful unfamiliarity of even some of our today's media folk with India's recent history. Mr Vattam spoke of L K Advani's Mysore visit, at which he told the local media about his imprisonment in Bangalore during the Emergency years (1975-77). After the press meet, said Mr Vattam, he was asked by a young reporter, in all innocence, why Mr Advani was jailed'<BR/><BR/>I am not surprised about that young reporter's ignorance. In the West from America to Europe with the exception of France, the country's history, past and recent past is diluted in the schools' curriculum in favour often of IT and a few soft subjects. In America it appears that the strong reverential gesture to the flag (without even understanding its background)is suffice and in Europe even this does not exist. <BR/><BR/>What is alarming about Indian education system, particularly the higher education these days is the way it is skewed in favour of IT-related curriculum. Science has lost its residual importance and so are other subjects through narrow focus on one area. In my college days it was engineering, and the best students were enrolled in engineering colleges/institutes. Mysore then lost some of the best scientists and science lecturers who migrated to countries abroad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26187191.post-50323310893000058362007-05-07T23:20:00.000+05:302007-05-07T23:20:00.000+05:30'Such is the marvel of the Net. The technology tha...'Such is the marvel of the Net. The technology that brings together people spread across the geographical divide can also obviate the need for even neighbors to meet, face-to-face, to be able to stay in touch'<BR/><BR/>The key words here are ' people spread across the geographical divide'. The Internet bring these two people together in some sense, but often separates the people where geography is not an issue. For example, people working in the same department in the same floor send e-mail messages to each other across the cyberspace instead of say using phone communication or better face-to-face chatting. Often these messages are much misunderstood risking friendship and collegiate relationship. Some organisations in the West have dispensed with staff common rooms in favour of the cyberspace. I can give examples of recent cases ranging from e-mail communication between doctors to ministers and their civil servants where the messages were misunderstood landing the parties in trouble and resulting in resignations .<BR/><BR/>I am an IT guy and have been one since the last 30 years. I strongly believe in humans meeting face-to-face where this is possible and using the phone otherwise. Verbal voice communication is God given gift to humans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com