The Dream

The biggest grouse of companies of today is the talent that comes out of institutes of great pedigree fall woefully short of vocational needs. The academically excellent candidates need a lot of time to transition from the desks of their classrooms to cubicles of workplace. In times like now startups are the order of the day and small and medium enterprises are looking for trained resources that can be deployed in the shortest time possible. The academia does not seem to be equipped to provide such talent. This is always going to be the case in a country where schools are run by academicians and companies are run by corporates. I will limit the scope of this discussion to technical schools and the talent that come out of it. Technical schools today provide talent that have academic highfliers. But these astute students do not always translate into becoming great employees. They may become great employees eventually but when a company is looking for readily deployable resources then ...

Cricket commentary is an art. We have seen some practice this art quite wonderfully. Even though we do not live during the radio days where every ball had to be visualized through a throaty commentator emoting it over AM, we still love our commentary just as much as the game. It is the essential background music and only with appropriate commentary does a good cricket match become a great symphony. In our eyes the Ravi Shastris, Harsha Bhogles and arguably Navjot Singh Sidhus are just as big as the super stars that don white or colors of the country and walk out on a green landscape with a solitary brown strip right in the middle. We have woken up and some of us continue to wake up at wee hours not just to catch great cricketing action around the world but also some sublime commentary that makes the match watching worthwhile even to the annoyance of the non-cricket watching family members. Recent times have seen the launch of a flurry of sports channels. I was wondering if there i...