How Many Look like Students is a Moot Question I was in college between 1975 and 1982 and more than once I vividly recall the mad frenzy of students chasing a copy of the so-called exam question paper that had leaked. We spent more time chasing this elusive leaked paper than studying. How did this work? One weak link either at the lowest level or at the level where someone had custody of the question paper decides to leak it for benefits to self. Every such transaction has a buyer and a seller. A seller doesn’t actively go looking for a buyer. It’s the buyer who using various means “seduces” the seller into sharing the information – its deliberate for specific reasons. The very fact that majority of exam papers DON’T get leaked, but only some is proof of the fact that the buyers are few and do so for a specific reason. The student community by and large are honest. Once having purchased the exam paper, contrary to popular perception, the person doesnt go around distributing it like...
One thing that often frustrates me, is when I listen to global experts and folks I meet, who give sermons on China its progress, scale, development & then talk of how we India are so far behind. This is what I call as Fact but not true. Have we as a nation failed to harness our abilities, talent, opportunity etc? Absolutely YES. We could have done far better & yes, we can justifiably blame the socialist age, license raj regime, our politicians, our industrialists. But why is it that none understand one simple fact that is also true - China is a one party, one policy, one govt autocracy/ communist/ socialist/ capitalist system with no election ever - & once a policy is made, it is implemented, if need be, by "gunning" people down. They make 50-year plans while others plan for the next elections. Today they are criminalising the business decisions of anyone who has invested in China, if they chose to develop a second supply base outside China – and the world a...