Journalism of Courage
Management professor Arindam Chaudhuri speaks on education,books and films during a visit to the city.
I am on for the competition he says as he describes how his competitors need to de glamorise and focus on research and educational exposure rather than past glory and campus placements. Raising concerns on the educational system,claiming that it fails to focus at the primary level and describing how Management in India has a high emotional quotient,Arindam Chaudhuri,dean,Centre for Economic Research and Advanced Studies at Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) was in the city for a seminar on MBA where he interacted with the students stressing on skills and achievements in management.
Having launched a consultancy firm and a motion picture company as well as working for supplementary education at primary level in West Bengal and Orrisa,he feels a lot needs to be done in this sector. Students in our country are educated in a manner that is unemployable. The question is who will regulate our regulators? For case in point AICTE,UGC have fooled students and have done immense corruption. Reservations are there since decades,because no one is willing to revamp the primary level for equivalent education. Whatever Kapil Sibal has done,is exciting and interesting and is most welcome but he must also strive at the basic level.
Having produced films,Chaudhuri is now scripting a film that is in its initial stages adding,It is based on a historical event and shows the spirit of survival although it is too early to reveal more. Recession gave us ample time to divert towards other things and thats when I have been writing the books and the script. Besides this the slowdown also taught all of us a lesson,that good times do not last forever and the basic management principle of utilising resources cautiously.
