Is the growth story of IIM inclusive?

IIMs justify their fee structure with the high return on Investment. It is cheaper than equivalent non-IIM institutes. But hey IIMs are run by Indian government and not by corporates. I read IIMs claim There were no students who left IIM study because he could not afford it. I was not able to digest the fact. But did not have any proof either, so agreed with the claim.

Later I analyzed what might be happening. IIM is so expensive that common people might not be counting it as one of the opportunities. I have a friend who did his engineering with me and masters from IIT Delhi, he did not apply for engineering after his 12th, as the engineering application fee was expensive (the fee was around 100 rupees in 1993).
So there might be some people who might not have targeted IIM because of its expenditure.

My soul was buying the argument but my mind was not. I was confused until we went to Chennai for a recruitment drive. My boss told he did not apply IIM rather went for IISc as the application form for IIM was expensive. He was not ordinary student. He got distinction from Rajasthan (a rare accomplishment in those days) and become vice- president in his thirties.

So there are students who can not think of IIM because of cost alone. IIM can claim it is cheaper than ISB etc. But hey I am talking about IIM, that is government managed and made for the people.

Questions about IIM Salary

I was reading Times of India, and come to know about a salary of 1.6 crores by an IIM graduate. And comparisons among the IIMs and crore plus salary. I have lots of questions by looking what IIMs and paper advertise.

What is the lowest paid job at IIM? Does IIM salary is inclusive?

If IIM students get such salary, people won't mind joining free of cost and paying 10 percent of your salary for the next 5 year. Why don't we run IIM privately and make it free?

ISB has come up with a model of low cost housing. Do IIM have similar project?

What are the background of the person who got 1.6 crore? Is he from aam junta? I heard management jobs are unfair, it is heavily biased towards the upper class people.

Astrology and Engineering: Analysis and Synthesis

I would look astrology as a pure science where research is based on analysis and synthesis. Current astrology is about going and reading what is already present and it does not add much to the glossary. It either refers Parashar or Jemini or mix of both for doing analysis (both are great guys kind of Newton and Einstein of Astrology). if we look at the current physics, we look at Newton or Einstein as a great scientist, but science does not stop there. But astrology do not proceed much beyond them. BPHS (brihat parashara hora shastra) is still the most widely accepted book among astrologer. Not all astrologers predict as per BPHS only, but not many are trying to quantify when to follow BPHS and when not to. And they tell it as mix of science and arts.

Future research needs to quantify it and tell how to follow the details. Astrology is based on stochastic theory and probabilistic model. It needs to auto correct after adding random sample data.

For example, foreign trip was bad in past and people who cant afford to stay at home are using it. Now it is a part of luxury and prestige. So astrology needs correct itself for foreign trips. Marriage is an institution in India, but it is just staying together at some of the countries. SO one needs to analyze accordingly.

Vimsottari dasha is most widely accepted Dasha, but not all predictions coming from Vimsottari dasha are right. Researcher need to figure out when it coming wrong, and what Dasha should be used.

New Drama on Women's Day

Happy Women's day to everybody.

I am vocal about equality and oppose quota in any form. I was quite unhappy when 30 percent quota was applied to engineering students in Odisha in 1995. I would prefer 50 percent girls in engineering colege in stead of 33 percent, but that should be based on their merit. Simillarly I would like to see 50 percent women in Parliament instead of 30 percent, but it should be based on their merit. So I did not like the idea of reservation.

However being an anti-Lalu and anti-Mulayam entity I somehow wanted the ladies reservation bill to pass through the parliament though it is against my personal taste. Manmohan Singh told he is going to introduce the bill on 8th March 2010 on women's day. BJP, Left front, DMK, BJD were ready to support the bill. So congress has the required numbers. So I thought congress will be able to make the historic decision (blunder?). I was busy on the day with my usual work and did not get time to browse through the news, even skipped lunch because of hectic schedule and have not had any food till 7:30 PM. I rushed to cafeteria to grab some food before the next meeting starts, and watching TV for a the news.

I thought the women's bill would have passed in the parliament, and made an history. Hey what I saw was totally different. Congress was no different than Lalu-Mulayam. I started having respect for the Yadav duos. They at least speak what they preach. Not like the congress (even BJP) who speaks a different language and practices a different game.

Do IITians get undue advantages?

I have to take an interview in another 5 minutes and came to a logical conclusion of my work. So I thought of gossiping with my colleagues in stead of starting a new task. A few of my friends were talking how the people from IIT and IIM get undue advantage and they get a job just because they are from IIT and there are other people who are equally or better talented, but do not get the chance etc.

It is true that average IIT or IIM guy gets better placement or better salary than the others. Is an average IITian equivalent to an average of the other? I agree with the media report that current JEE exam does not get the best of all. It is flawed. So are the other ways of evaluation. If we consider marks alone, it is also flawed. I have seen people with less marks who are more capable than people with higher marks. But on an average people with higher marks are better.

Anyway we were not discussing the selection procedure of IIT, rather IITians getting undue advantage over others. When some people apply for a job, somebody's resume gets selected because she is from IIT, where as another's resume gets rejected because she is not from IIT. One gets job, promotion and everything else because of IIT. I partly agree with the first statement. One's resume gets shortlisted based on her college. But do not agree with the second one. When google looks to hire somebody it has limited openings and people above a certain intelligence can only make it. It has to limit the number of applicants. And easiest way to do that is to take only from premier institutes. The other common practices are allow only from specific branch or allow people above a specific percentage to apply for a job. Each of them has its advantage and disadvantage. And recruiter does it to reduce the number of applicants and when she knows she may miss the best fit, but can find a fit in a specific time and it reduces her work.

I have not seen people hiring because the other party is from IIT. It makes their resume stronger to be shortlisted. Average IITian works much better than an average non-iitian. In fact Mohan Das Pai from Infy said, they do not pick only because somebody is from IIT/IIM

Promotion is mostly based on performance and it has nothing ot do with where somebody has studied. It is what one has delivered and how her boss perceived it. People from premier institute get better work and thus promotion.

The environment in IIT/IIM gets the transformation of an intelligent student to an extra-ordinary student. Though I love 3 idiots and most of the content, I agree that IIMs and IITS produce better students.

Astrology and Engineering- Conflict resolution

I need an application which is secure, fast, user friendly, scalable, robust, available with minimum investment. Hey, I was talking about the dream requirement from any investor who wants to invest in IT. He wants it safe and he wants fast. Sending data over https makes it slower than normal http. He wants the application to be available all the time and wants it an minimum investment. Zero downtime means more investment on software and hardware (how is not the scope of the discussion). So the software requirements are conflicting among themselves. So one needs to understand the details to propose a solution.

Horoscope is the reverse of the engineering problem. Here we have the implementation details which can not change (the horoscope) and the same emits results which are opposite to each other and conflicting in nature. As an expert engineer can tune the application to the conflicting requirements, as expert astrologer can tune and predict the horoscope.

Let us say we are predicting about the first child. It can be predicted from 5th house. My 5th house has Venus, Sun and Mercury in it. Venus in 5th house will give daughter where as Sun in 5th house will give son. Mercury has no effect. As per rule venus is powerless when present with sun, so it should give son. Wait a minute, my 5th house Taurus which is own house of Venus and Taurus itself is a feminine sign, so it should give female. So here is the second conflict, whether Venus will overpower sun as it is in her own sign or Sun will over power Venus. By looking at the strength from the vinsopaka bala Sun has a strength of 16.2 where as venus has a Strength of 16.3. So both of them have almost equal Strength. It shows a marginal Strength of Venus and thus a daughter. But when we look at the vimsottari dasha during that time (3rd May 2004), my dasha was Saturn-Venus. Venus was the anatardasha and venus was frind of Saturn which is the dasha, so venus was over powering sun during that time (opposite to the handbook word venus is powerless when present near Sun). So the subject will get a daughter.

If you look at any horoscope you may find both raja yoga and Daridra yoga. Will the person be a king or poor? Roughly 33 percent people has budhaaditya yoga. Will all of them be learned and intelligent? My answer is no to second questions and depends to first question.

When we create a horoscope in south indian style it is different than north indian style horoscope. Which one is true and how to predict. The details need more conflict resolution technique than simple answers.

DOB: 31-may.1976, 21:45 Nayagarh, Odisha

Astrology and Engineering- Importance of Handbook

Astrology uses handbooks like engineering. A electrician who is repairing motor need not know about emf, a handbook on which wire to use and how much is suffice for his work. A person who is repairing television need not know what is a P type semiconductor and what is an N type semiconductor. He would definitely not know about VLSI chip and how it is fabricated. But he can go ahead with the handbooks provided. Other engineering disciplines have similar handbooks which enables a semi-skilled person to work on any engineering discipline.

Same with the astrology. People who look at the charts need not know why this happens to predict better. Sun at 10th house gives fame and power. Mercury in the Seventh House gives an intellectual partner and so on. By knowing what each houses mean and what each planets do one need not refer to the handbook often, and can come up with his own formula. When an astrologer looks at 7th house, she looks about partner. Mercury represents intellect, so mercury in 7th house gives intellectual partner. Moon represents mind, so moon in 7th house gives a moody partner. Mars symbolizes power and aggression, so mars in 7th house gives u an aggressive partner and so on.