I don't think this is an appropriate forum for what is to follow but I have been reading a blog on IIT politics. besides I think the broad guidelines remain true for most public offices in essence.
I hope Tejram is reading this because criticism is often more useful for self improvement than any praise. I think a house secretary has two duties. First, to lead the hostel in the quest of trophies. This work is more in the lines of planning and pushing people than working oneself and as such does not require any special talents. I hope future house secretaries would not neglect this duty of theirs coz it is winning trophies that ultimately earns respect for the hostel apart from the good conduct of its residents. The second duty is of managing the institute elections and I dont think I am equiped to comment on that. However a point about selection of candidates at the hostel level. I think candidates should be selected on the basis of his commitment to the hostel cause, hostel's performance in the concerned activity and the candidate's role in it, and finally the overall suitability of the candidate for the post. Finally a House secreatry is the leader of the house and not only of the faction which supported him in the lections. All are his and he is everybody's. Bias should be especially avoided.
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Drama, painting, and movies
Lots of people really admire Drama while I cannot see the purpose of it after the advent of cinema. In times gone by, when there was no motion pictureand people wanted stories to acted out (like action songs) drama had its purpose. It entertained people, it still does. However, motion pictures, where retakes are allowed so that each scene can be perfected, which has a thousand techniques in its hands to perfect the visual experience; should have by now, a century after its advent have wiped out drama completely. yet we see everybody around clamouring to act in and watch drama.
Similar is the case with painting. Painting originated, I read somewhere, because people wanted to get their portraits done. They perhaps wanted to record how they looked like at certain points of time. Then it diversified to scenes and to religious motifs. Interestingly paintings in caves were almost always of scenes and very rarely of individuals and I have certainly never heard of a cave portrait. However, then came photography about 150 years back and suddenly every face and scene could be recorded much more precisely. However painting sill flourished and is exorbitantly expensive. Furthur it has taken a form by name of modern art that very few of us can begin to understand. Why? Perhaps arts which have lost their original purpose survive because people appreciate them as special endeavours and enjoy them with an "acquired taste". I don't really know haven't yet developed the faculty.
The kind of movies I watch should make any self respecting person cry out in disgust. These movies are typical boy meets girl, one of them has a problem and then they solve it together and live happily ever after. And these movies have to Hollywood. Reading other people's blogs containing movie reviews I wonder.
maddu you should know that I am not a "chakka" anymore. You are the last remaining holder of that title in company of that bhakt of yours Das (how apt).
Similar is the case with painting. Painting originated, I read somewhere, because people wanted to get their portraits done. They perhaps wanted to record how they looked like at certain points of time. Then it diversified to scenes and to religious motifs. Interestingly paintings in caves were almost always of scenes and very rarely of individuals and I have certainly never heard of a cave portrait. However, then came photography about 150 years back and suddenly every face and scene could be recorded much more precisely. However painting sill flourished and is exorbitantly expensive. Furthur it has taken a form by name of modern art that very few of us can begin to understand. Why? Perhaps arts which have lost their original purpose survive because people appreciate them as special endeavours and enjoy them with an "acquired taste". I don't really know haven't yet developed the faculty.
The kind of movies I watch should make any self respecting person cry out in disgust. These movies are typical boy meets girl, one of them has a problem and then they solve it together and live happily ever after. And these movies have to Hollywood. Reading other people's blogs containing movie reviews I wonder.
maddu you should know that I am not a "chakka" anymore. You are the last remaining holder of that title in company of that bhakt of yours Das (how apt).
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
BLACK I
Yes, the biggest news personally is that I have calls from all six IIMs. Finally something to be pleased about personally. i am once again going with the flow and doing things because they are the thing to do by popular wisdom but it seems that fate is also playing a hand here. Not that it (fate ) is something whose origin, form or end results are known to me but still it feels like the right thing to say. Rambling has its own pleasures with hardly any side effects except for a truer estimation of the protagonist by the general populace.
There were two thing that saddened what was personally a very pleasant fortnight with family and good news. One became news, the Tsunami, enough web space has been given to its coverage and commentary. I also met a twelve year (just a guess, no one knows her age) old girl who has no parents, had kalazar when she was younger which went untreated and she is going to die. And she knows it. Personal exposure was much more distressing than world wide news. I would like to help her but how.
Last summer (seems to be a long time back ) I inerned in an NGO in Almora, Uttaranchal. I must say it was the purest, most fulfilling month of my life. It makes me smile whenever I recall it. NOt that I did any noble work but that I was among special people the purities of whose lives was elevating. The main guy in the NGO is an IITD (makes me happy) Mechanical BTech and an MIT PhD. I wish someday I can attain that purity.
I think Anant http://anant1.blogspot.com/should start writing again. He is just plain lazy. I read Arnav's bloghttp://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/ and he is great.
There were two thing that saddened what was personally a very pleasant fortnight with family and good news. One became news, the Tsunami, enough web space has been given to its coverage and commentary. I also met a twelve year (just a guess, no one knows her age) old girl who has no parents, had kalazar when she was younger which went untreated and she is going to die. And she knows it. Personal exposure was much more distressing than world wide news. I would like to help her but how.
Last summer (seems to be a long time back ) I inerned in an NGO in Almora, Uttaranchal. I must say it was the purest, most fulfilling month of my life. It makes me smile whenever I recall it. NOt that I did any noble work but that I was among special people the purities of whose lives was elevating. The main guy in the NGO is an IITD (makes me happy) Mechanical BTech and an MIT PhD. I wish someday I can attain that purity.
I think Anant http://anant1.blogspot.com/should start writing again. He is just plain lazy. I read Arnav's bloghttp://thelosthighway.blogdrive.com/ and he is great.
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