MultiBrand Education

Globalisation led to a market full of brands from across the Globe and the consumer had more options thereby more competitiveness between companies, leading to a better product value. As time passed, man Capitalised on everything even Education.

So why is our education system so rigid? Its like we can wear only one brand-clothing, If education sector is such a serious business, Why is it so rigid and not up to the market ? Why dont we have a market of competitive teachers ? Why is there such a stagnation in this ever growing business ? Although more development and innovative techniques are needed in this sector rather than the automobile, clothing and other goods sector, as all these sectors are by product of an efficient education system.

Having said that, what change do we really want ? Do we want our teachers to treat us like customers and say the customer is always right ??? No, thats not quite what I am saying. What I am trying to say is that whenever there is a competition, we tend to perform better. But our education system has become outdated and our respectable teachers have become a prey to it.

Again, I am not suggesting to start some teacher training programs. They are already equipped with adequate knowledge. What I am trying to say is to just bring competition into the market by allowing the consumers i.e. the students to permute and choose their teacher that best suits them through online as well as classroom programs.

An immediate thought comes, Why cant we do that ? May be because we are institutionalised. If we can choose our teachers all over the country by their Video Lecture Programme accompanied by Doubt Session, Personal Lectures then we can bring in more creativity and learn from those, whose words hammer our brain.

The idea seems to be a bit impractical and eliminating human touch, but then what about the distance learning courses; How have they become so successful ? The idea they bank upon is the value of time. If we students are offered a curriculum whereby we can plan our own session, we would realise our value of time and money and utilise it to the fullest. Instead of totally depending on the institute for our Intellectual Development just because we have paid full fees in lump-sum.

What if teachers have a market cap value like our Bollywood industry and they are individual entities whose rights, the Institution has to purchase in order to provide good facility to their customers. And the best democratic part being we have the right to choose.

Dont you now think, this was a Right curtailed from us a consumer ?

Jago Grahak Jago !!!

Facebook Psychology

We all know about the facts that Facebook has become an excellent communication medium and it helped many friends to reunite despite of long distances. But have you ever wondered the principle which fb depends upon and what part of our Brain is leading us to log in again and again, uploading more photos with friends and family thereby increasing the data load on Facebook servers, which they happily welcome.

10 - 15 years ago when the communication mediums were not so subtle, Parents used to tell their Daughters not to even have a .jpeg format of their own photographs. As someone could morph it and malign their family's name. But today we have broken all Psychological Barriers into becoming a more open minded society. These days we click pics only for Facebook and it has become an indispensable part of our lives

As the mixed economy of India boomed, brought in more jobs thereby more money into the pockets; many superstitions were eroded as Westernization started capturing the minds of people. Today every american product and service has become such an integral part of our life that we cannot live without it.

Coming back to Facebook, where we seem to have a lot of friends and a great social life, some people like to portray their absolute happiness and some project their sadness. Everyone uses it according to their needs and personality traits. It is such an open platform that we can choose what to show.

Hence again we get drowned in a Quantified Ocean of likes and dislikes, share and promote totally forgetting the present moment by shifting our psyche entirely into the cyber world.

No wonder George Orwell was right about the Big Brother, but even if Edward Snowden would have not told us about the PRISM project, we all must have volunteered to keep each and everything online making NSO's work done at the footstep itself.

Previously we used to have 30- 40 people in our lives who we really cared about and they reciprocated similarly. But with the evolving e-newspaper of 1000 other friends or acquaintances of ours who we rarely cared about; now we deliberately log in to read what is happening in their lives. Feelings of absolute happiness, sadness, jealousy, greed have been captured online and the posts on Facebook have started controlling our lives.

There are people who come on, log in and see some news about what they like, log out and get back to work and there are some people who log in browse browse and browse, log out and log in again. I have not conducted a survey or peeped into some other balconies to gather this information but even you know this truth as we have been part of each of the two types at some point in our lives.

Facebook seems to have captured this tendency of ours to know "what is going on with other peoples lives". Although nothing seems to be wrong with it, we are totally within the frame of our Constitutional Freedom. But we forgot one most important thing which is "Self Analysis" i.e. the time that some of us used to spend in Analyzing our mistakes and thinking about our future, planning and most importantly dreaming.

This crucial time has been taken from us because of "Bhed Chaal" tendencies to first of all make a Facebook account and then the continuous need to maintain standards of Extrovertness by either writing funny or sarcastic status updates or uploading "had a great time" photographs.

That is why sometimes I feel Twitter is a much better platform, its like cricket match were only 22 players play, but we still have a good time and we also get the to raise our placards.

Don't worry I am not getting paid from Twitter, neither I have any malice against Mark Zukerberg.

The only thing I can suggest you finally is just follow me on twitter @mathuranshuman

No wonder I am smart  ;)

The High Of Happiness

While the rest of the world is busy with their external affairs, working their butt off to earn more Money or spending their Time Socialising. I am left with an Interesting question: To Attain Happiness, of which the easiest way I find is to get a High, not alone but with the best of my buddies.

Every time, there is a tremendous secretion of Dopamine which makes me happier than those who seek happiness in this utter Materialistic World, buying things they dont even need or buttering people who pull off the Ethical part in you. I am not boasting myself about the quality Friends and Siblings I have, but it is about the Expression of that Ultimate Truth which has become an absolute Cliché. If you know what I mean.

Although, I may not have a specific topic in my mind to write an article, well if u want to read that kind of stuff read The Hindu and The Economist with such prominent "The" standards of greatness. But as of now I am left with a very unusual, publicly unacceptable question in my mind which is -

Is getting High in any form equivalent to Meditation ?

There is a fine possibility that just after asking this question, some of you might realise that "This guy doesn't know what Meditation is at all" or may be I know something you don't. The facts that I've realised over the years of experiencing (a proud owner of a single prominent grey hair) is that anything that gives you Happiness Meditation.

With the emerging questions in mind that what Happiness is exactly about, we can go on researching, reading spiritual books etc; which gives us a great thought to memorise and show off our Intellectual skills in front of everyone. Its only with time that you realise the clichéd part of it that, Self Realisation is a very long process and -Knowing Something and Understanding Something are two very different things. Which should not be confused with either greying of hairs or natural ageing.

So now that my Dopamine levels go down over the week, I am left with another question: Whether I have fallen into a Vicious Cycle of Addictions living a life of practicality or Am I at a higher understanding of Darwin's theory of Survival of The Fittest. But the only thing that drags me again into the cycle is the Pursuit of the Ultimate High thereby secreting more and more Serotonin in my body.

As the urge for Happiness increases I am left with another question: Can we double our happiness by meditating when we are happy ? i.e. Meditating when we are High. Although I have never experienced such things, but theoretically it seems a mind boggling concept which I seek to achieve soon.

Being a Typical "Type A" personality, I would keep on getting such thoughts but the point is 

Have you found your Happiness ?