Thursday, September 28, 2006

Even professionals colour their articles with unconnected facts

I thought only journalists used unconnected facts to give colours to their articles. How wrong I was! Even reputed professionals who ocassionally don the hat of a journalist are no less.

I found one such example in today's Business Standard column by Arvind Singhal, Chairman of the retail consultancy 'Technopak'. He writes about India's education sector. Read it here: Arvind Singhal: Educating the educators

Now read a few lines of his:
Ironically, this is happening not in Bihar or Uttar Pradesh, where such developments would probably surprise no one, but in the more progressive Karnataka, whose most recent claim to fame is its high technology and technology-enabled services, which have found recognition across the world and have even led to an interesting addition—Bangalored—to the international vocabulary.

Why no one will be surprised if this happens in UP or Bihar? To me this kind of reasoning seems moronic.

Another example:
The director of IIM (Ahmedabad) cannot find a better guest lecturer than our current railway minister, notwithstanding the fact that till recently, he and his wife managed (?) Bihar for long enough to take it to the lowest levels on almost all socio-economic indicators, including literacy.

Questioning the judgement of IIM-A's director without going into details or facts and figures as to why Lalu was called to deliver lecture. Isn't this kind of assertions childish?

And this doesn't end here. Mr. Singhal ends his article with following lines:
A young, well-educated India is our best hope for becoming a developed, vibrant, creative and a truly civilised nation!
I never knew that India was an uncivilized nation aspiring to become civilized. And ya we are also not vibrant and creative!!

We expected the chairman of India's leading retail consultancy to present his thoughts more logically, coherently, and driven by facts rather than a string of unconnected and prejudiced words.

What is junta's take on this?

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