Prediction

Solving a problem requires good professional skills but predicting a problem in prior needs extremely good analytical skills. Predicting problems early helps us to plan the solution in advance so that the problem can be solved with less side effects. A good example would be the kathiapara project. The traffic at kathiapara has been heavy for a quite long years. Had we anticipated this traffic a bit early, the project could have been implemented without the traffic chaos that has been affecting commuters through the junction. The analysis could have been made using the data such as number of vehicles in the city, the purchase ability of people i.e., if the purchase ability is more, more people would buy vehicles and therefore will lead to increase in traffic and similar other factors.


Predicting problems also has many other advantages like adequate planning of resources, developing an accurate plan, establishment of an efficient implementation team, creating a co-ordination among team members (which is otherwise impossible, since we would be concentrating more on the problem rather than team co-ordination). A separate team can be dedicated for prediction of possible threats and problems, the team must be provided with the necessary details from all departments to derive out the possible problems in the future. Software industry also requires anticipation of problems in the software. It is better to predict the possible bugs that may creep in or possible points of system crash. This will help in embedding proper recovery measures into the software. But, its always better to be cautious that we don't predict too much and create unwanted complexities. A good planner will anticipate problems that will occur in near future with high probability and solving which will benefit most number of customers.

Fostering research

This article suggests an idea to foster research at professional educational institutes.  This suggestion is an amalgamation of solutions that will finally produce the tendency of research amongst the students and professors.  The problem, first with the professors in colleges is that they are satisfied with the salaries they get and don't take the risk of investing time into projects that command more time and resources.  The other problem in which the professors are involved is the state where they are payed minimal salary.  When the professors are provided with a salary that is not in par with their work, they naturally lose interest with the institution they work in and in the end have absolutely no interest towards research.

Not to blame the professors all the time, students on their part also are a major cause for research not being done at colleges.  Students look for enjoyment all the time and when it comes to project, they do it for name sake or some even make an "outright purchase!!".  When one student of a class does this, it spreads to everyone in the class and the whole class gets infected by this syndrome and no body does a worthy project "on their own!".  One way to encourage research among students is to award good cash prizes for outstanding research done.  But, the originality of project must be taken into account.  Only through pure commitment from professors and students can a good research project evolve and this is entirely a collaborated work rather than a success of an individual!

Touch of socialism

Graduates of engineering studies are nowadays eyeing at starting their own companies in other words wishing to become entrepreneurs. This is a good sign which will contribute towards nation building. But for the business to succeed what do you think is the most essential ingredient? Of course, the first option that comes strikingly forward is the "love for money". This quality is the most important because without a want for money, you can never make a successful business. Fine, but to keep the business surging ahead there is yet another feature that needs to be embedded in the business process. Guess what? Its socialism or love for customers!!


This may sound a bit too excessive for the one who wishes to do a lucrative business. Believe me, without loving your customers you can never bring improvements in your business. Trade must be customer centric, whatever changes you bring to your business see to that it benefits your customers ultimately. Care for customers can be brought into products that you deliver by maintaining good quality raw materials and ensuring long term usage. This quality applies to both software and manufacturing industry products. Retaining your customers is also possible only when your customers realize that you care for them.


World famous industries like Reliance, Microsoft, Apple, General Electrical, Ford all have succeeded only after realizing what their customers want and producing the products that conform to customer satisfaction. So, whenever you plan a change for your business process first study customer reaction to your existing process and try to predict the effects of customers that would result from the change you plan to bring in your business. No product, that is technically precocious, but less customer friendly manages to bring valuable returns for your business. So, young tycoons realize this golden trick, I might call it, that caring for your customers is the prime virtue that will keep your business rolling for many a years.

Animated Learning

The topic by itself is too interesting to discuss. Some of us are actually following it, for others here is this post which throws light on this beautiful form of learning. Every subject in the educational field has got its own domain of knowledge. The knowledge of each subject is inculcated into student's mind through books, audio clips and video strips. But, in our country education is mostly text oriented with exception on some parts where audio and video content may be used.



Plunging into the topic, animating what you learn is nothing but remembering what you read or hear as a sequence of events. When you study some complex text, say about psychology of human beings, it would be very hard to remember the text as such and may lead to easy deletion from memory. On the contrary, if the psychology note describes different characteristics of humans and if the student imagines these features in terms of pictures of human faces showing similar characteristics then it would never be forgotten. Similar justification applies all science subjects like Physics, which of course requires lot of imagination, Biology, Chemistry and Math.


Engineering could also be made so enthusiastic if one studies everything in correspondence to real world happenings. A good example of one such methodology is the object oriented programming in computer science, wherein the real world objects are converted into logical objects into the system. Such is the educational process and it would be highly successful with much more animation being done in remembering things. Animated learning also greatly helps in remembering what you hear for a longer period than just remembering things as such, particularly when the listening period is short and the content you hear is complex. Competitive exams that have listening skills test how accurate the students are in recollecting what they hear. Under these circumstances it is better to form still images of what we hear and believe me this surely helps you score better than taking notes of what you hear! So, animated learning is a magical tool that helps you learn better, faster and more importantly retain whatever you learn for longer time!!

Emotional Needs

This post is dedicated to all those people who have been wistful in their early childhood for want of emotional comfort. Emotional need, like any other needs like material and physical is a vital entity in shaping a child's future. A child under the watchful eyes of a strict father grows out to be an obedient, calm and a being with no love for socialism. Being strict on the parent's part is good unless it doesn't affect the child's emotional balance. A child in its early stages looks out for comforting gestures from his/her parents. The emotional gesture will help in creating a confidence in the kid's mind that there is someone who will support him/her in all endeavors.

Satisfying a child's emotional needs include talking to him in a friendly manner, taking time in listening to his problems and giving him advices that boost his morale rather than tarnish his confidence. Bringing up a child on purely a academic note will make him handicapped on other spheres of life which include moving with society and facing different challenges. Criticizing a child too much would too affect his emotions leading to a inferiority complex. Guidance to children must be such that the child must feel that he/she must do what his parents say out of love, not by force or through intimidation. Threatening a child with harsh punishments will help parents get the things done by the child, but the results will be poor and also this will only be transient. Though I am too young to comment on this aspect, this post is no literary script but a result of careful observation and analysis.

How the space smells??

The most amazing result from NASA is that the space smells like fried steak, hot metal and the most interesting, welding of a motorbike!! A steak is nothing but meat or fish that is cooked quickly! NASA is using these findings now to simulate a condition that is akin to the space which would prepare the astronauts for the space conditions. NASA has commissioned a research project with the help of a chemist Steven Pearce, who will be simulating the lab conditions that would have the smell of space as described above. At last, mankind is successful in smelling the space!!

The US Hegemony

The world has witnessed some 40 years of US hegemony (dominance). They have been dominating almost every commercial field ranging from food, agriculture, medicine, engineering and many other fields not only in terms of quantity but also in quality. US has been the pioneering nation in taking the first step towards a novel field. Of course, in the case of space exploration it was the Russians who took the lead but the Americans quickly caught up and now they lead the research in exploring the space and beyond. When it comes to engineering, the premier engineering institutes are located in the American states, MIT, Stanford, University of California-Berkley ( Which pioneered in creating the socket concept used in Internet programming) are to name a few. Not to forget the mind boggling basic sciences research at Harvard!


The Film industry of the US based at Hollywood rocks the World with its awesome movies that keep the people dumb struck for ages. The music bands that originate from this Western country have got fans larger than any personality in this world! I can hear you readers grumbling as to why I am iterating the points that everyone knows! rite? Well the scope of this post is to analyze the cause for US' success and to discuss the possible measure that we could take as Indians to rise in par with this country.


To start with, lets analyze a common man's attitude. Every single person on this earth wants to do only things that interest him. When he is forced to do something that doesn't rejuvenate him, he naturally produces a bad result and this would invite poor impression on the person from his superior, be it in school, college, work place or sport coach. Now, in the US nobody does that doesn't interest them. A swimmer in the US is never forced to take up a course at Stanford rather he is advocated to take part in World Aquatics Championships, a rock star finds his way by producing albums that mesmerize the crowd, by the same token a math student finds his way into top notch institutes only because he does what that "interests" him.


Now the problem with Indian educational system is that we look upon education as a lucrative and a easy option to earn money. The success rate as a sports person in India is much lower when compared to an engineer in India. A gifted singer has to struggle through unbearable hurdles to project himself to the selectors. Education in India is looked upon as a mandatory asset to everyone which is good from one point of view but at the same time it deters the hopes of children gifted with some other talents. A child with some other talent like painting, is not encouraged to pursue it as his career rather is asked to keep it as an extra-curricular talent and study some blah blah degree course. The pain of not being allowed to paint through his life will reflect on his studies where the dissatisfaction will lead to poor grades and ultimately he will perform sub-optimally.

The only way to alleviate this delicate problem that has crept into our intellectual society is to allow children to pursue their ambition right from their childhood. The US dominance clearly teaches us this lesson. The people in every department in the US are those who have pursued their passion as their career. Some examples from multifarious fields include Michael Phelps, Pete Sampras, famous music bands like Blue, Backstreet Boys, Beatles, Pink Floyd, educationists like Paul Krugman, inventors like Charles Babbage, entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet to name a few. I accept that our country too boasts of people who have anchored their names in many fields but there would have been many such ones had our people be allowed to pursue the song of their heart, their passion. So, lets think on this and bring in a intellectual revolution that would surely put India far ahead of its competitors.