Why do I care what other people think!

Yes Yes, No Problem?

Now why i had the longest day in sweden was this : I wanted to attend the India Day at KTH ( the university I study). This is one of the nicest courses any university can come up with : basically they choose 10 students in their final or prefinal year from different disciplines and ask them to choose a country to study in terms of sweden's investment and relations with that country. Now this group (which I had met in India) christened their project : Project India 2005. So i really wanted to listen and I also decided to help them out a little like passing out flyers and stuff ( can not help my self) . Before i forget , passing flyers in country like sweden is difficult then it seems. But i really enjoyed.
Now the group had published a book about their views on India and the book title was " Yes Yes No Problem?". which I know can mean a lot of things but if you add the Indian sideways head shaking to it, then it symbolizes the Indian eagerness to help others no matter what situation he is in. Now i thought the title was a little sarcastic but the book turned out to be true in some ways so I have no grudges against them. (Thinking about putting up article on Education in India if i can find it).
But they said one of these things :

• There are people who are in India for a day and on returning home write a book about it.

• There are people who stay for a week and on returning write to the editor of newspaper.

• Then there are those who stay for a month that on returning home they are so awestruck and confused that they choose to remain silent.

I also heard this great thing from the Indian ambassador here : Mrs. Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa about population in India : At one time we were embarassed about our population but no longer now. This is one thing that is changing. The confidence in India. Somebody even tried to give explanation for this. Because the price of knowledge has become so low, the advantage of developed countries is slowly fading away. Indians are realizing people all over the world are nearly doing the same thing. Some famous indian said on outsourcing ( i am not good at remembering names) : "we just do not want your dull boring jobs, we want your fun jobs.. the good jobs... you can send your dull jobs to china." jatte bra.

Finally there was the typical thing which said what can sweden learn from india and vice versa: this i will not go into detail cause that will be done after four months.

At night i even met a nice prof who said " There is a difference between knowing a lot and doing a lot". What a great line. More about this later.

And as Mahatma Gandhi said :
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you and then they fight you and then you win."

posted by inhas @ 12:52 PM