World Class Abhimanyus

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Before I forget, here are two suggestions...take them, they come Free!

Suggestion 1:

Change your glasses at least once a year. Whatever the cost or boasted quality of the lenses, heat, cold, dust, wear and tear impair them, and unless replaced early, eyes suffer unknowingly and unnecessarily (Ask me!).

Suggestion 2:

There is nothing to beat a completely empty gastrointestinal tract for heavenly bliss for a while. Enjoy it for an hour every week (I do it every day).

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Cassius Clay is said to have boasted: "I am the Greatest!"

Let me boast: "I am World Class!"

Don't believe it?

OK, here is why:

I was an IIT Student (Ph D) who worked under a World Class Guide, SDM (ask John Wheeler)

My thesis was World Class (ask C H Papas of Caltech)

I was a World Class Teacher of IIT (ask Edwin Taylor of MIT)

I am a World Class Blogger (ask Varuns, Sr and Jr)

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This chap Arjun of Mahabharat knew every trick of war and he was fond of boasting about it to his wife, Subhadra, who was as drowsy as my own when listening to husbands' cheap boasts.

So, one day he was explaining how to crack Chakravyuh and how to get out of it alive.

He thought she was intently listening, an unusual thing, because she seemed to keep muttering: oh, ok; oh, ok; oh, ok;...

But indeed she was fast asleep as usual, and the oh, oks were coming from her son Abhimanyu who was in her womb (like our own Salvador Dali).

Half way through when Arjun explained how to get into it but before teaching how to get out, Krishna played the spoilsport (as ever) and dragged Arjun to Harrys.

So, Abhimanyu met his bitter end because he didn't know how to get out.

IIT students are like Abhimanyus: they are World Class as far as knowing how to get into IITs (their corporate schools only teach this half).

But they don't know how to get out of IITs unless their World Class Teachers give them World Class Grades and World Class Recos.

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Jokes apart, let me say something inane:

I draw the simile from Kathopanishad.

IIT is like a World Class Cart.

The horse that draws it is a World Class Teacher like gps.

Director is like the tonga-driver with a leash to whip the horse when it doesn't draw well (by denying promotions) and a tickle on its world class vitals when it needs to be amused (by undue promotions).

World Class Students of First Year (segregated) are like passengers that board the Cart.

The journey is reasonably smooth with occasional halts (Summer Quarters).

It ends when the World Class Degree Holders end up in the World Class American Heaven.

So, everything is World Class as my 40 years experience shows...and anyone who denies it has to teach at KGP for 41 years or more.

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Last Laugh

I am told by Dick Burton that the few surviving Frenchmen in NYC have decided to slightly alter their country's slogan thus:

Liberty, Equality, Futternity

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