Impulsive Plus Compulsive

Genuine, most Obvious, certainly Visible and Unfruitful traits of people belonging to my generation plus those who will follow, means the generation thereon...is most of them always live at the edge of being Impulsive and Compulsive..They don't think and do, rather they do and repent..and then later on prove the theory 'A bad workman always blames his tools'.

Yesterday, while coming out of a mall, we just stood next to the entrance and talked for a while, when we noticed that a group of people were assembling near the main gate (barely visible from the place we were standing). The group then slowly turned into a mob. Curiosity level among all the people around us increased for obvious reasons, for the mob there was not giving away positive vibrations at all.

A few seconds later, what we noticed was a youngster being beaten by 2-3 people of almost the same age. Surprisingly, the security guards at the entrance closed the door so that this guy could not escape and he was being beaten quite badly with helmets for reasons best known to them! No-one stepped in to resolve the issue, no one tried to help them talk over whatever conflict they had because they did not seem to be in a position to talk, Amygdala Hijack probably!

It did no good to anyone, may be one or both the parties wanted the other or each other learn a lesson, but I could hardly imagine any of the two using Neocortex (thinking brain) ..

I cannot comment on the need or the trigger of the situation because I do not know anything about the reasons it happened for but it was not a pleasant experience either for them nor for anyone around the place for sure, except a few people who probably enjoyed it as a free source of entertainment.

Tikona Broadband Sucks..!!

We took a prepaid broadband internet connection from Tikona Digital Networks for the year 08/2010 to 08/2011. Initially we were quite contented by the service and the internet speed. However there were hick-ups in the speed as well as internet availability after a period of time. When we wanted to shift to another apartment, even after calling them a number of times, there was no appropriate response from the company officials. We managed to get it done ourselves somehow.

We were quite frustrated with company's broadband service by the end of the year, there was no proper response ever from the customer care representatives. More as if they did not care about the customers.!!

We gave a call to the customer care, asking them to disconnect the services as we did not intend to continue with their internet plan anymore for the year 2011-2012. There were better services available at a much lower cost. Customer care representative, this time took a toll to convince us to continue with the plan. But we had already decided and were stringent to our decision. The person agreed and assured us that the service would be discontinued as and when the previous year's subscription ends.

After a period of around 6 months, sometime in January/February 2012, the company sent us a bill for the year 2011-2012, asking us to pay an amount equivalent to the annual internet subscription plan for the year. However it did not make any sense to send a bill to us for payment when we had already asked for the discontinuation of service. We called up the customer care service to inquire about the bill, when he/she assured us that this was some kind of mistake done by the billing department and would be corrected asap. However, the company had no such intent.

Again after a month or so, they sent us a few more mails, asking us to pay the bill, which they still do, with a threat of taking a legal action against us, if we don't do so. Their representatives call us from Rajasthan and prepaid sim cards of other cities claiming that they are advocates at some Tis Hazari court in Delhi. However, each of these people are well verse in telling about the payment page of Tikona with the exact placement and name of each and every button on Tikona's website. This is quite difficult for someone to remember, who is not a regular visitor of the website, a novice user or a legal practitioner. It takes sometime to recollect these level of details about a website even for a user of intermediate experience with the website

Even more funnier part is that, the person who calls up, is always standing outside the Magistrate's office and going to present the case in the court of law in 15 minutes, which are still not over, even after months. Everytime we track the mobile number via various tools available on the internet, it shows the mobile user's current location as somewhere in Rajasthan. It's a matter of immense shame that we have such ISPs in our country, running such scams and doing frauds to so many people in the country. A single search for complaint against ISPs gives a never-ending list of cases filed against Tikona.

http://www.consumercourt.in/broadband/117152-complaint-against-tikona-broadband.html

http://www.consumercourt.in/broadband/117633-tikona-bill-payment-after-disconnecting-broadband-connection.html

and so on..the list never ends..!!

Indian Education System

Somebody questioned about the trends in Education System in various countries today on Quora. While reading about various points mentioned by other people over there and doing a comparative analysis, I could see there are two major drawbacks which the education system we have in India puts forth:

Reservation: As we have reservation of seats for various sections of the society in all Universities/Institutes in India, it many a times(in fact most of the times) also lead to some reserved unoccupied seats in the top/elite colleges of the country. 

Reference for year 2011-2012: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/iits-had-757-seats-vacant-in--11-12-hc-told/962946

Performance Metric: Since we have Board examinations at Secondary/Senior Secondary level and Entrance examinations after Senior Secondary or High School. This in turn decides which stream(Science, Commerce, Arts) or degree major( Like Computers/ Information Technology/Mechanical... for Engineering or B.Com./B.B.A. etc. in case of Commerce and so on..) you may get admitted to. So your overall intelligence and fate is decided based on how you performed on that one particular day, the day of examination.

In general, even the weightage for various topics in each Subject is already decided by the Board/University or the Council conducting the exams, which creates this mindset of paying more attention to those topics which would fetch you more marks to get into the most sought after streams and degree majors in the best Colleges/Universites, even when the student would have no clue if that really meets his/her interest.

How could anyone else decide upon what should have more weightage and what is more important for me to understand and learn by setting up some random curriculum? Each individual is different with different set of qualities and capabilities, so instead of restricting it to a defined set of topics or courses..or whatever..let the person explore, give him/her the freedom to choose..If one selects a subject/curriculum which fits his/her interest aptly, that person can do wonders even in a not so hot/sought after dimension or career option..!!