Dream On - "CAT gone wild"

Aakash - a general category student , a male and a engineer too but he dared to write CAT 2011 in order to get into a reputed B-School of Country.This was the very first decision he took off his own unlike others which was biased by society and people around him. He started preparation since March in order to make sure he gives in ample hardwork to pursue his dream. Started off with weekends study, attending coaching classes in order to make sure he is in touch with subject everytime. Reduced regular weekend outings and other activities to put in more time and effort for preparation.
Being a optimist he never thought of rejection or selection but cared only to put in more of hardwork . VA was not his strong hold so he focussed more on VA as compared with QA. He was distinction holder in Math at school level and is math olympiad qualified for year 2004. In September he gave GMAT and score merely average with around 99%ile in QA which was of same level as was CAT 2011. After a month he took CAT and attempted 26 out 30 question , was rest assured of getting 95+ as he had practiced for 6 long months and was his strong area. Finger Crossed , VA he was unsure of his score and waited for result.


Results are Out. Aakash was fucked to limit as his QA percentile was merely 84.xx and VA was 92.xx . Clueless! he just looked at monitor and kept wandering what all "chutiyapa" he might have done in Exam . It was like in a moment all his hard work and effort gone leaving behind a big void to understand his mistakes . He went to surf pagalguy for all his queries and grievances and found a post by Coverner of CAT 2011 :

 "One has to understand how scores are worked out. If a candidate does well, it does not always mean his score will be excellent. Scores are relative"


" If there are any issues they are solved psychometrically."


"Normalisation :Different papers are set for different days of the exam. And all these papers have different questions, though some questions may be common. The performance to these questions help us know the difficulty level of the paper. So, all papers are brought to the same level of difficulty and scores are given accordingly."

Holy shit ! Some students who got in ninties last year just managed to get score in  single digit , does this is what he meant by normalisation and psychometric. Few question i would like to put forth to computer based CAT typo exams;

• How students will analyse their mistake if actual mark is not shown to them? In paper based exams atleast it was clear which mistake you did and whom to blame for?
• Normalisation: One topic might be easy for me and hard for other, one may be more effective in  first slot rather second but how these factors can be normalised
• Why can't transparency be manitained may be by sending students a complete details of thier question and answers.

What about Aakash? He understood that beating around bush is not gonna work . Whether you cry or argue on any forum , reality is that IIM has sole control and results are final and mandatory whether you are satisfied or not. Game was played and Aakash was out - HOW and WHY dosen't matters a lot now a days, Only things that matters is whether you are in or out. Gone are the days when hard work did paid off,  in modern scenario hard work must be accompanied with right execution and luck to fill in the voids which you can never be aware off. Aakash is still motivated for MBA but unsure about path to be chosen ahead.

Congrats to all the fellas who managed to get "in" and bell the CAT.

Airtel -- "Harass Yourself" - 2

                 So sequel has arrived [Airtel -- "Harass Yourself"] .  Nothing seems to had happened and things aren't getting prettier day by day. Just to summarize , i had billing issues  and registered a complain on 18th of August 2011(Complain no - 2459550) . Then , a lot has happened afterward here a brief summary  or rather continuation of events from last post.

• 10th Sep , After four days of continuous phone calls and mails finally connection was up . Thanks to Airtel
• 14th Sep , Got a call stating that "We (Airtel) are looking into issue and revert back in a week".
• 24th Sep , Got a mail that your complain has been resolved , but bill remains the same.
• I called them and got to know that original complain was closed and a new complain was registered, no clue why? On asking , they told regarding previous complain i was unavailable on phone so they closed . What the Fuck ! They didn't even bothered to drop a mail .
• 30th Sep , I went to Airtel and office and inquired  . Reply - "Sir, we are in process and will revert back in two days".
• Then i got few calls in next week stating that things are moving
• 3rd Oct, I got a call that Connection has been corrected to required plan and hence no false billing will be in coming months . Cool!
• 7th Oct, Airtel - "Sir, your waiver for false billing has been approved so please pay the bill which is close to 3500 rupees asap." . 
• 8th Oct, I went Online to pay the bill , and it showed bil amounting to staggering 30k .(I tried on till 12th but same figures.)
• 14th Oct , Connection was blocked due to non-payment

• Immediately,  went to  kormangala Office and enquired. thankfully i met a senior manager over their and he helped in restoring connection and once again assured that by Monday things will be sorted out.
• 15th Oct , Today I was in middle of something and suddenly connection was blocked once again. I called the same guy and he restored the connection again.

                 I even mailed to appellate at Airtel but no proper response . Airtel is busy with Grand Pirx and other important stuffs. Its  earned enough from the poor Indian market that they can neglect the issues of the Customer , rather i should tell they got a licence to  harass customers for no reason.

Seems all Airtel officials are busy with Grid Girls . Would like to request Airtel that , stop harassing your customers otherwise you will one day end up being  a company who would be manufacturing bikinis and pants in India which no one would use.

Why Should We Pay TAX ?

           Every earning citizen of this nation , need to pay taxes which has to be used to develop nation and cement bright future for coming generation. We need to pay road tax , water tax , housing tax and many  more  taxes in order to make a bright tomorrow for ourselves and our fellow country men .

           Where dose this huge amount goes ?? It goes to Switzerland or  other foreign countries (Madhu koda bought some company in South Africa). Now a days,  politicians are using it to make parks embedding their own statue. Ironically , alive person building statue of own and that too from people money which we pay in form of taxes . Sushri Mayawati - CM of Uttar Pradesh and Epitome of Selfishness and Self-Proclamation  has recently inaugurated Rs 685 park in Noida  .

             UP , An  Indian state with highest population is starving for basic amenities and other small resources . People are having a tough time earning bread and livelihood .In contrast CM of state so called dalit leader and leader of poor is using the money needed by them for her selfish needs . This summarizes  the pathetic condition of poor and dalit residing in UP. People commit  scams , but are carefull that no one knows about it, but she has fear of none . Seems their is no authority to check Mayawati. Here problem starts. Witnessing this, a common people will think twice before honestly paying taxes or part of his/her hard earned money which will be anyhow  misused . Therefore it result in advent of corruption (and lie) from grass root level.

              When we talk of corruption , we often get this remark that corruption lies at grass root and to make nation a corruption free we need to curb corruption at that level. But , people making this counter argument ignores the fact that corruption at low level result from corruption at top level . The best example is Mayawati and her recent achievements. She desires to be Prime Minister , desire to be messiah of poor but on grounds of .."false acclaims tightly held like a mirage ".

               Aam admi suffers in either case . Aam admi should decide whether he has to suffer from his own money or others money!

Airtel -- "Harass Yourself"

Old Logo , but worth putting here

               I did a worst mistake , and got a Airtel broadband connection . Promised to install every thing within four working days , but anyhow they took around two week to install connection when frequently inquired and coaxed. I was having 1099 unlimited plan. On a lazy sunday , got a call "Sir, I am from Airtel , you as a privileged customer, can upgrade your connection to 1199 unlimited  with speed upgrade from 1 MBPS to 2 MBPS and FUP to 25GB from 15GB  " . I nodded giving them licence to harass . So from 5th July i was getting speed of 2MBPS. Things were smooth . Suddenly , a series of historical event took place.

• On 8th July , got a SMS "Dear Customer, You have reached 80% of  your high speed limit . After 100% your speed will be will be revised as per your plan till the end of this bill cycle ". 
• I called airtel and enquired about my FUP and was cheated as it was 15GB only not 25GB, but airtel personnel assured that things would be taken care off.
• Bill cycle is 5th of every month, by 10th August bill for July was not generated , on 11th i checked online and bill was around 19k ! Holy Shit.
• On 11th , i went to Airtel Office in Kormangala, Bangalore in person and did inquired. Person over their told(giggling) . "Sir, u have 1199 unlimited plan , bill seems to be false and let final bill come at your place by that time things will be sorted out". I was convinced and came back.
• On 18th August , got bill amounting to 19k, immediately i went to same office and inquired, they registered complain (complaint - 2459550) assuring that within two days problem will be solved.
• Meanwhile , nothing happened and by mistake didn't get any call or mail.
• On 21st August i again went , and was told that in another two day they will call me and fix the issue.
• Meanwhile , i tweeted to @Airtel_Presence " and got a response  [ 22nd August @aquarius_vishal Hi! Please mail us ur concern and contact details at airtelpresence@in.airtel.com for us to get it checked. Regards."]
• Nothing happened , on 26th i mailed to 121@airtel.in and tweeted again and all in vain.[@aquarius_vishal Hope you have mentioned that in your e-mail. Team will get back to u on this. Regards.]
• Meanwhile , i got some SMS from Airtel for the month of August

"Kindly note that unbilled amount of internet usage for your airtel fixed line & broadband  no. 08041659517 as on 19-aug'11 is Rs 9139(excluding rental and discounts) This is nearing the usage pattern of your last 3 months usage"

"Kindly note that unbilled amount of internet usage for your airtel fixed line & broadband  no. 08041659517 as on 24-aug'11 is Rs 15378(excluding rental and discounts) This is nearing the usage pattern of your last 3 months usage"

"Dear Customer, You have reached 80% of  your high speed limit . After 100% your speed will be revised as per your plan till the end of this bill cycle" [24th August]

• Again after mailing and tweeting got this response

Thank you for writing to Airtel.

This is with reference to your e-mail regarding the billing issue
towards your Airtel broadband connection 08041659517.

Please be informed that we are in process to resolve the abovementioned
concern at the earliest and will update you accordingly with its
progression activity latest by 06th September 2011.

Meanwhile, you may contact the undersigned regarding the concern
highlighted by sending an e-mail directly at
airtelpresence@in.airtel.com.

Regards
Airtel Presence (Airtel Customer Service Team)
Bharti Airtel Ltd
airtelpresence@in.airtel.com

• On 7th Sep, got a call from Airtel that i have not paid bill . I informed them about my complain and asked them whether i can talk to the concerned manager. He confirmed that complain has been fixed and i would be formally informed soon.
• In evening , around 5pm ADSL was down and Airtel blocked the connection when i was in middle of a very important online assignment . No Internet when i require it the most.
• I again went to Kormangala office, Airtel inquiry team was busy wooing new customer for broadband and was giggling when we told our problem. Height of customer harassment. I on top of my voice explained them the problem and asked him to call his manager. Mr. Manager heard the concern and assured that connection would be up in 1-2 hours.
• At around 10 PM , 7th Sep we checked the connection and gave a call to Mr.Manager .
• Thankfully he lifted the phone after 2nd ring and told that by 8th morning it will be up.
• On 8th Sep , 10:30AM i called Mr.Airtel Manager and was assured that he will revert back in half an hour . Again a lie and harassment.

          Airtel , claiming to be caring for customer , has started harassing its customer mentally in recent times. I am not the only one who is suffering but one among many.

I am still waiting ....for a solution or atleast my connection to be up - a deja vu ?

Fastest growing billionaire in a poverty stricken Nation.

                 A Common youth  has picture perfect of Dhirubhai Ambani, Tata's and few others as fastest growing billionaire in India as their role model . Let me acknowledge  one of most fastest growing billionaire of recent times. He is from Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh)  and very low profile personality. Too tough to guess ?? ...Robert Vadra ..heard of , You might have, yes i am talking about Priyanka Gandhi's husband and Sonia's son-in-law. His meteoric rise in last five year has been inspiring and  not much talked about even in media . Any Media person listening, you are missing a spice of a news or it is to be ignored ?

                  Priyanka Gandhi , daughter of Late Mr. Rajiv Gandhi fell in for Robert Vadra  around 1997 . This marked a important turning point in Life and Career of Robert as well as Vadra Family. Robert Vadra''s brother , sister and mother met with different accidents and lost their life in early decade. In 2009, Robert's father committed suicide , reason still not clear.

                Robert's family had a business based out of Moradabad. He owned a Jewellary designing firm Artex since early decade. Surprisingly since 2008 , his business has expanded  manifold. He owns hotels(Hilton) in Delhi, a major stake in 2G Scam hit firm Unitech and DLF.  Robert's family had a business based out of Moradabad. He owned a Jewellary designing firm Artex since early decade. Surprisingly since 2008 , his business has expanded  manifold. He owns hotels(Hilton) in Delhi, a major stake in 2G Scam hit firm Unitech and DLFRobert Vadra’s entry into the real estate business has been accompanied by a partnership with the country’s largest realty firm, DLF Ltd, a staggering feat by any standards (The Economic Times, 14 March 2011). Hitherto known for the export of faux jewellery and handicrafts, the 42-year-old Vadra quietly switched lanes in 2008, buying up land in Haryana and Rajasthan, a 50% stake in a leading business hotel in Delhi, and attempting to enter the business of chartering aircraft, a quantum jump that certainly merits an explanation.

                 Vadra seems to have floated a number of companies, some of which have received unsecured loans from the DLF group companies, including the Bombay Stock Exchange-listed flagship DLF Ltd. Readers may recall that during investigations into the Spectrum Scam, the CBI found that a number of non-entity (shell) companies had received and passed on unsecured loans that ended up in Kalaignar TV! It believes these were bribes received against the sale of spectrum at throwaway prices, and that the loans would ultimately be cancelled as ‘bad debt’ and the slate wiped clean. Thus, Vadra’s receipt of unsecured loans certainly merits a probe. Not only this he also owns a Antique showroom back in Italy .  When asked about joining politics , he says - "I want to be remembered as Entrepreneur and Businessman" . Well said Robert , you are inspiration for many UNMARRIED entrepreneurs  . 

               Seems its all family business, One does some Scams , his wife step-in and overshadows scams (like Bofors). Wife is making sure that her Son steps into Politics with all guns blazzing (famous Ravi Shastri idiom :D), so that he can rule the nation comfortably for decades to comes. On the Other , She is also making sure that her other son and her family becomes financially stable enough to live lavish life in coming decades. All in a family.Happy Family! 

Media / News Channel ..Listening??

References:

1) Economics Times 

2) Youtube  (Video has been removed, anyone can view from US/Europe proxy)

Bullshit and TOI

              TOI - Times of India , now a days is giving tough competition to Faking News. The authenticity of the news on TOI has reached new heights. Albeit , both of them trying hard to kick each other arse since last few years, but no third brand is coming even to close to TOI's masterpieces . Recently, as per reports available online TOI is way ahead by a huge margin . Faking News editor and reporters are having a hard life these days. According to one of correspondent of FN , Rupert Murdoch wanted to expand its empire to India in alliance with TOI , but due to a crisis deal is stuck in its final stages. Mentioned below is some sparta work of TOI in recent timeframe.

              Bangalore, (Karnataka ) lokayukt Mr. Hedge report was leaked . TOI  presented to its urban readers about the caste division and reason for Yedurappa being Honorable CM of Karnataka something like this . TOI - "..with Lingayat population in Karnataka pegged between 17% and 21% followed by Vokkaligas and Muslims, they are a decisive factor in a candidate's victory in at least 100 of the total 224 constituencies . While the JD(S) enjoys good support of Vokkaligas (16%), the congress, which had unconditional support of the Lingayat community since the 1960s, lost after the summary removal of Verendra Patil as CM inearly 90s. Over the past three years , Yedyurappa's major tactic to gain community sympathy to veerashiava mutts and temples through donations....." .  What the fuck?? . Now a days, who cares about  caste politics and when people are moving away from these shits TOI left no ambiguity and published similar articles to make sure it has got unique news as compared to others competitors.

                In April , one of the corner of nation was witnessing a protest (IIIT Allahabad) and TOI was probably only newspaper or media covering the wrong side of story and tried to make it a satire publications. Not only this ,when Norway was mourning the tragic event which took life of 90+ innocent TOI was busy giving it a Varanasi connection .

                What is secret formula of success for TOI,  Any guesses ??.  TOI has got it marketing and strategy team rightly placed. They know pretty well that nowadays maximum demand  is for news related to SEX, Gossips and unwanted Controversies. Reporters are trained religiously for same . Training is considered to be one of the toughest in Country. Few retired army personnel, Experienced reports since independence and some scholar tried their luck but all in vain.

 If you want to be correspondent/reporter in TOI , you must meet following criteria
- Good acads (Duplicate certificates would work too)
- Excellent "Story making" ability .
- Excellent "photoshop" knowledge
- Should have some experience in morphing ( experience working with  websites like desibaba.com is big plus)
- Open to Controversies.

             These are the things which made TOI reach the height it has reached today , beating the likes of vivid and bold  news maker like Faking News. I wish TOI best of luck to continue the good work it has been doing since past few years..Cheers!!

Education can be panacea?

           India is nicely poised to be next Superpower. We as a nation have many milestones to count since independence thanks to democracy , human resource and education . Indeed, after  64 years of independence we have  lot to vaunt upon , would like to mention india's contribution to global economy . On contrary, what we have have not achieved in past is  due to "lack of education". According to recent provisional census of 2011 current literacy rate of India is around 74% which is around 9% more than last census of 2001. Nowadays , education doesn't anymore mean "to impart education to one who has some or none" , but it has became merely a arena for rooting one business . Education business is the one business which is flourishing to paramount heights  . It is probably safest business in our country these days without much of innovation and risk involved and profit beyond imagination. Just one need to have good political background or connection and some black money to convert it to white money .

            Tier two cities is considered perfect to setup Coaching institutes as aspirants are in abundance and unaware of possible opportunities ( due to lack of education) . Education here means knowledge about the options one has apart from unbeaten and tested path of engineering, medical , IAS and all. These institutions helps rather inspires the orthodox believe of good career option being restricted to above mentioned . If you are a topper in any competitive exams , then be ready some alluring offers can be made to you from one of these institution just to speak few words in their favour. Astonishingly,  coaching institutes are run majorly by teachers working full time in college/school. The UNESCO’s International Institute of Educational Planning study on corruption in education released recently says that 25% teacher absenteeism in India is among the highest in the world, second only after Uganda that has a higher rate. The global average of teacher absenteeism is about 20%. Now shifting our focus to tier -I cities which is witnessing a similar scenario on much bigger platform.  Go on a highway to Chennai, Bangalore or Pune , you would notice plethora of institution with good buildings and loads of advertisement claiming one's awesome past records. All claim to be AICTE approved and registered with many other universities (mind you some foreign as well) , assurance of 100% placement too is claimed by everyone with effortless assurance . Regarding infrastruture and faculty , you can witness  perfect business acumen of marketing  and you would made to believe that that college possess probably the best infrastructure possible. Seems college nowaday no more hire good professors/teachers but focus a lot more to hire sales and marketing person who can bring in more of students and donation for college. 
           Corrution - a sought topic now a days. If we dig in deep we get to know that people involved need more money , but why ? Reason is that they think money is only thing one need to possess in long run but amount should be large enough to make sure whole of generation can be fed freely upon . These pondering too shows the lack of "right education" among those babus, business tycoons, and  politicians  involved. Politicians , second most sought profession after prostitution is a perfect example of lack of education in today's scenario . It is considered to be a easier  method to earn money and fame , which again signifies lack of proper education .  Rather than making our primary education robust and of high quality , we are involved in fight against reservation . If same time and energy can be diverted to make primary education better then we could have witnessed not 9% but may be 30% rise of literacy. Thanks to Education ministers and secretaries who works day and night to make sure agenda for election would remain intact and people can be fooled around that one more time.
            "Divide and Rule" strategy of british worked in India for so long, main reason was that we lacked education  which curtailed our vision and influenced our ego in negative direction . This is what was required by Britishers to rule us. Since past to present we have many incidence to show what we have not acieved is due to "lack of education". 
            Without Education "India - Super Power" would be a castle of sand in air. One need to understand to become superpower we need to get rid of corruption, unemployment, poverty, apathy and other evils ruining our society (child labour, female foeticide, prostitution, dalit exploitation) . Education will help in better understanding of problem , better implementation of policy ,  broading of calibre and moreover will  help one to spin-off differences between right and wrong. In Nutshell , Education can be a panacea to all evils prevailing in society today . Hello ! Any Education minister or Secretaries listening ??

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela