Simple Words of Wisdom

  Yesterday, a friend forwarded this message on WhatsApp: “O-ve blood required urgently for a patient in M Y hospital in Raipur. Please contact on this no: +91- 98XXXXXXX6” Now, as there was no date or time mentioned in the message. So, I asked him out of curiosity “kab chahiye? (when is it required)” “I don’t know” he replied. “Why don’t you call and ask? The contact number is there in the message” I knew that either this message is old or circulated by someone just for fun because it’s the 3 rd time I had received it in recent times! When I told him this, he was adamant that its impossible that the message is fake or old, because he just received it in a family Whatsapp group, by someone he trusted. Now the funny thing is that as far as I know, there is no M Y hospital in Raipur. M Y hospital is in Indore and is one of the biggest one in Madhya Pradesh. I asked him that there is no MY hospital in Raipur, but he insisted that there is one. Seeing his confidence, I thought

  If you are living in India, you must have certainly heard this statement regarding marksheet/ degree certificate: "A single paper (marksheet/degree) cannot define my future". And ironically when it comes to jobs, people expect them to give job based on that paper itself! These are the 7 reasons why India has a high rate of unemployment: No education only literacy: While India has a few institutes which are top class, others are simply pathetic. Ever since independence, our education seems to have been focused on literacy. Even in higher studies, in most of the universities, the goal has been to impart technical literacy, scientific literacy instead of technical and scientific education. While literacy enables one to read and understand the those technical terms, it doesn't promotes one to create something beneficial for the society and nation as a whole.   Lack of R & D:  There is a dearth of quality research in the country. Many times researchers' only motivat