One of the contestants of personality contest at VNIT, where I was one of the judges, said he wanted to go to USA so that he could get the new ideas and technology. I wasn’t quite impressed with that answer. Why would one go to some other country to get ideas? Do they have an environment where the brain gets more blood supply & produces all creative ideas? Yesterday, Google introduce its Chrome browser in over 150 countries around the...

I was invited to be the judge at VNIT Personality Contest. Let me share an interesting experience with you from the contest. One of the contestants, a wannabe entrepreneur, said that he wanted to go abroad for higher studies and then come back to India to setup his own enterprise. Naturally, he was grilled on why he thought it was best to leave India and study abroad and then come back. While he was right in his argument, I guess I’ve...

[Update: When I began writing the part-I, I had no clue that I’ll be invited to judge the Personality Contest finals^. Since I am a smart-bum, I will combine the ‘best of two’ events and present them to you on ‘as-is’ basis.] (Moments from the Finals: Pan the camera to judges’ waiting room): The first year boys escorted me to the judges’ waiting room. Yet again, my co-judges gave me ‘that strange look’. After I introduced myself to them, they...

Being the judge; sitting on the ‘other side’ of the table is an ‘experience’ in itself. As a professional engineer, I’ve interviewed lots of people and have met lot of interesting person(alities). Each experience was different and the latest one was not any different. I mean, it was quite a different experience, as I had expected. CEan – Ankit Virmani called me up and demanded that I should be the judge at VNIT’s Personality Contest. I could...