[Som] Brown Sahibs (“Macaulay's children”) of IIM Ahmedabad

Here are whistleblower emails on electronic discussion forums of IIM Ahmedabad. For management these were documents "couched in satire". So what? A thought leader would still have picked up the red flag. Messages trace deep malice within faculty dominated administration and resultant frustration within lower ranks.


http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/62252835?access_key=key-o0dv9lodi6bavu7gjvn
Above is the communication to Dr. Singhania (Chair, BoG). This message also on electronic notice board of IIMA highlights the predominant faculty mindset at the institute. YES, this indeed is the predominant mindset with exceptions in minority. Faculty members have organized themselves in to a communal force with there being absolute NIL avenues for victim's grievance redressal against faculty abuses. YES, each and every IIMA faculty is a part of this commune. NONE of these bugs would undo deliberate wrongs committed by one amongst them. 


So many of these people are sucked in sleaze and greed. Sulking or relishing actually depends on individual upbringing but silent spectators nonetheless.


Above was the communication that let loose alarmed faculty power-grids basking in arrogance of discretionary powers as "भाग्य विधाता" of lower ranks. These are the Brown Sahibs ("Macaulay's children") of IIM Ahmedabad. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) famously defined the term as, "Bhagya Vidhata of laity", "a class of person, Indian in blood and color, but Colonial in taste, opinion, words and intellect". 


Though the whistle blower had delivered signed copy to Director on 01-Jul-2008 for onward dispatch through proper channel to Dr. Singhania, Prof Barua sat on the letter till 25-Jun-2009 (~12 months) when he was FORCED to forward the same on receipt of hearing notice from CIC. Here are the two related petitions (on status of grievance redressal system) available on Government of India website.
http://www.rti.india.gov.in/appeal_second/SA_UG_09_47998iulsal.pdf 
http://www.rti.india.gov.in/complaint_direct/RC_UG_09_4123dg8n_doc1.pdf (pg-5,6)

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Posted By Blogger to Som at 8/13/2011 11:02:00 PM

‪2G Scam Explained in Detail by Subramanian Swamy‬‏ - YouTube

‪2G Scam Explained in Detail by Subramanian Swamy‬‏ - YouTube

Subramanian Swamy explains in detail how corruption was done by UPA Govt in 2G Scam. Subramnaiam tells how special laws were made by Chidambaram and Pranab Mukharjee to facilitate black money involved in the scam. He also exposes the national security issues involved in 2G Scam as Dawood Men Shahid Balwa was key figure in buying spectrum & ISI front companies were also involved as per Home Ministry reports . Subramanian further explains the revelations done by A Raja on Sonia Gandhi, karunanidhi, kanimozhi, Chidambaram and their share in the total loot of 2G scam.

How participatory notes were introduced to bring illicit wealth and manipulate share market.

[Som] Mr. Bhatt’s rejoinders to Prof. Barua, Director IIMA

This is in continuation of earlier post at http://my-voice-of-dissent.blogspot.com/2011/04/som-prof-barua-director-iima-beating.html

And the Director was beating around the wrong bush! Here is the first rejoinder email where Mr. Bhatt laments that "an employee's call to his OWN Director had to be routed all the way through Lucknow".

100915 Ketan 2 BoG

Here is the other rejoinder email from Mr. Bhatt.

100916 Ketan 2 BoG (Download .pdf to follow hyperlinks in scribd doc)

These leaked documents are alarming commentary on state of debased polity at IIM Ahmedabad. As elsewhere, rot spreads deeper and wider when anchored among top hierarchies of an organization. Director Prof Barua indulged in misplaced argumentum ad personam.

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Posted By Blogger to Som at 8/05/2011 10:30:00 AM

Swami Chinmayananda on Violence and Dharma

Chinmaya Mission : Articles by Swami Chinmayananda

DHARMA HIMSA TATHAIVA CHA

Personally, I am no advocate of violence. But violence, too, has its rightful place in life, life does not preclude death. The average Indian has been moulded into a particular national mentality of quixotic tolerance. His attitude is shaped into its distinct pattern by the ideologies and moralities preached in our national literature. And no single work in our classics has gained such a wide influence on our people as the Bhagawad Gita: and in, this century, no other single message had such a universal appeal to our countrymen as the single line, "Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah" -- "Non - Violence is the greatest Dharma."

This line in its over - emphasis, has sapped both initiative and energy in our millions, and, instead of making us all irresistible moral giants, we have been reduced to poltroons and cowards. And banking on this cowardly resignation of the majority, a handful of fanatics have been perpetrating crimes which even the most barbarous cave dwellers would have avenged. To clothe our weaknesses, we attribute to them glorious names and purposefully persuade ourselves to believe that they are brilliant ideologists !

Let us for a moment go to the original sacred verse and investigate the significances of the moral precept: Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah. This is the opening line of a stanza, and the very next line reads: Dharma himsaa tathaiva cha. "So too is all righteous violence." Indeed, non - violence is the supreme policy to be adopted by man to foster enduring peace in the world; but there are certain dire moments in the life of individuals, as of nations, when we will have to meet force with force in order that justice be done.

To every individual his mother, wife and children are the nearest dependents and to guard their honour and life is the unavoidable first moral duty of each head of the family. This is an obligation whether the victim be a member of the majority or of the minority class within a country, province or city.

By the over - emphasis laid on non - violence we have come to witness the pathetic situation of today, when thousands, in cowardly fear take to precipitate flight, leaving their innocent children to be butchered and their unarmed helpless women to be dishonoured or converted or killed. Under the cloak of glorified non - violence, an entire nation of cowards fly from their homes, when a small sect of fanatic barbarians boldly stalk in and out of their open undefended thresholds to kill, to rape, and to loot. When will we learn to fully interpret our Vedas, scriptures and Upanishads. If only we all learn that dharma - himsa is equally noble as ahimsa.

To me it seems that the only solution for the day's internal chaos is to bring home to the people the significance of the much neglected teaching of dharma - himsa. As it is, a misled and over - excited minority in the country has the sole monopoly of violence; and non - violence is a dangerous folly. However ideal a moral precept may be, so long as, in a society, innocent children, helpless women and defenceless old are left to be butchered dishonoured and tortured, while the youth of the land is made to watch impassionately the hellish scene, we are to conclude that either the idea is a dangerous one, or that we have not rightly understood the full meaning of the precept.

Under the present available scheme of chaos in this country, when under the planned instigation of a few power blind, reckless men, a minority community is rendered into a murderous gang of fanatics, it is the duty of the majority to win back the erring thousands. The cure depends upon the disease; the potency of the medicine is decided upon the virulene of the illness. Today when looting, arson and rape are the dharma of a few, it is rank cowardice for the many to suffer the tyranny of the unprovoked violence in meek submission. In the battlefield, when violence is rampant, it is the dharma of everyone to meet that maniacal violence with determined, restrained, violence not only in self - defence but also to convince the aggressive vicious few that 'it rarely pays to be violent.'

Religion of Vedas and Agniveer

Here is the list of interesting articles by Agniveer (anyone who subscribes to follow Dharma as espoused on http://agniveer.com )

1. About – ‘Agniveer’.  http://agniveer.com/about-agniveer/    ........... Agni, the first word of Rigveda – the first wisdom to humanity, is a synonym for the Supreme Entity that purifies, illuminates and is source of all energy. Veer is synonym of brave. ...........Agniveer is a collective movement of brave warriors dedicated towards worship of this purifying Agni alone through thoughts, words and actions in self and society. 
2. What does Agniveer stand for?  http://agniveer.com/2415/agniveer-stand/
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4. Religion of Vedas.
5. http://agniveer.com/1634/religion-vedas/
6. Universal Religion for all
7. What is Vedic religion?
8. Common questions on Vedic religion
9. Fountainhead of all philosophies – Vedas
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11. Vedas and Caste System
12. Vedas totally reject Caste System
13. Vedas and Shudra <------http://agniveer.com/821/vedas-and-shudra/
14. Vedas and Dasyu in Hinduism
15. Vedas and Daas
16. Rakshas in Vedas and Hinduism
17. Vedas and Dignity of Labor
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19. Self-Help
20. Part 1 – Vedic Self-Help
21. Part 2 – The First Principle
22. Part 3 – The Second Principle
23. Part 4 – The Corollary
24. Part 5 – The Third Principle
25. Part 6 – Why other methods fail?
26. Quick transformation with Gayatri Mantra
27. Why did God create us?
28. FAQ on Theory of Karma in Hinduism
29. The power of Now! – Vedas
30. Om in Hinduism
31. Lets truly enjoy! – Ishopanishad Mantra 1
32. Lets have some action! – Ishopanishad Mantra 2
33. Avoid troubles Remove guilt- Ishopanishad Mantra 3