OH! MEDIA ...

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
-- Jim Morrison

Oh! no not again ...give me something new.
It seems media has nothing but Isreal, Palastien, Iraq and now Iran. The whole issue has becoming so boring now. Bush barks, Ahmadinejad bark. One has ego of being the head of most powerful country but dilemma of past experiances is there. Other has ego of oil and natural gas resources and patriotism trigered by USA, Isreal. One wants to control everything, other wants to prove himself ...

And media seems to me like a director of bollywood/hollywood, in the whole issue a lot of imaginative creation. Recently I learnt from a big media personality the whole protest against Saddam and Celebration after his defeat in Iraq was fabricated by CNN, few protesters and whole lot of cameras. They always seems to me are creating a certain bais or emotions. Palestine attack on Isreal becomes a big issue and Isreal atrociousness is safely ignored. Media holds the key of the world. Mostly governed by single entity.

Like in Southern part of India, a TV channel by Jayalalitha shows something in certain perspective and TV channel of Karunanidhi shows the same thing in completely different perspective (this is what I have heard, I dont know Tamil myself). But good thing here we have is the two competing party have there own channel, so we get to see both sides of the moon. Similar thing happend in Italian elections recently, one of condidate controls the whole media and a lot of resource and he almost won the election even when his rating and chances of victory was very low .

So when media is governed by a single person, when all the products come out of the same factory the whole issues lost its signifance becuase its almost always biased. Palestine will continue to be led by terrorist. Saddam will reamin villain to this world. Islamist will continue to be the extrimist fundamentist and threat to the world. Abhu Gharaib, Guatenama will continue to remain hidden even after huge protest. And this world will continue to be ruled by the person who holds the key ...THE MEDIA.

beware mediocre are coming ...

So another dirty move by politics, to give 27% quota to OBC in all premier colleges of India. And the debate starts again, what would happen to the institute like IITs and IIMs if all the
midocre students start comng in such a huge number.

Sometimes I wonder what makes IIT one of the best undergrad insitute, is it the tough, very competative entrance exam which we all proudly call JEE, which no midocre can pass or the insitute itself like the faculty, infrastucture, academic structure, etc, etc ...IITs still doesnt stand anywhere in Post Grad studies

There is no doubt IITs have some of the best infrastructure, 24 hours internet available even in hostels, good sports facilities, lot of money is pouring in IIT, everyone is accomodated well in the hostels, professors are quit commited to there jobs. IITs has some of the best administration among engineering institutes in India. Still a whole lot of mediocre phobia exist in IITs. Whenever HRD desides to make entrance exams a bit easier at par with 12th Std it sends panic among everyone related to IITs, whenever HRD decide to increase seats or open up a new IIT it sends insecurity among all who are related to IITs.

Now the question arises is, is the academics structure/ staffs of IITs motivating enough equally to everyone genius/average/below par ? Or faculty itself is scared of taking any mdeiocre students. And is it right attitude to look for only academically genius guys. Or structure is such that the mediocre student just cant survive in environment ?