Sunday, March 24, 2013

The History, War & Politics Quiz - NSIT Quiz Fest - 2013

This one is the History, War and Politics Quiz conducted by me and Akshay on the Open Day. Tremendous hard work by everybody involved. It's a quiz I'll long remember. 






The Business Quiz - NSIT Quiz Fest - 2013 - Finals

The Business Quiz - NSIT Quiz Fest - 2013 - Prelims


Here is the Business Quiz I conducted during the NSIT Quiz Fest - 2013. Extraordinary inputs in the quiz have been provided by Sarthak, Vinayak, Vidya, Archit, Shashank and the others. Thank you for making this the way it turned out to be.





Thursday, February 28, 2013

Quriosity - 3

Who says there aren't pretty woman on Dalal Street :) She for one is pretty and talented. Identify her and her more famous father?





Answer (Highlight to View):
Roshni Nadar (Executive Director and CEO of the HCL Corporation) , She is the daughter of Shiv Nadar (founder of HCL)


Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Monday, February 18, 2013

The Power of a Question Mark


Heterodoxy, until a few years ago, and sometimes even today, was considered a taboo and a path most feared to tread. Why? It is because human beings are uncomfortable with change. There is an innate resistance to question the way things have been and to follow reason to discover the truth that may not only be unraveling but unsettling too. It is easy for us to comfortably pretend that things are perfect the way they have been and that ignorance is bliss. It is here that we surrender reason to superstition.

Perhaps, no symbol, or forms thereof, in the English language is as wonderful as ‘?’. The power to ask questions, to look for answers and to challenge notions has played a far greater role in the development of civilizations than all of man’s other tools put together. While we were being taught the fundamentals of research, at our orientation in CCS, we were told that every good research project begins with a good research question – a ‘?’ seeking answers to or challenging pre-conceived notions about the way the society works. This would not only serve as the keystone of our research here but also for any other task that we would embark upon in our future.

Whether it is laying down rules and policies for the world’s largest democracy, delivering products and services to millions as a corporate entity, as a liberal think tank or even as an individual fighting for his/her rights, we must realize the immense power of asking the right kind of questions. Rather than accepting things at face value, we need to approach things with positive criticism. We need to question why things are they way they are and vision what if they were different. We need to look for solutions beyond what our surroundings have conditioned us to.
 The only thing that separates man from animal is his ability to reason beyond the obvious, and if we surrender the one faculty that sets us apart, we would send the civilization back a million years.

A recent article that I came across on the Web, which triggered this chain of thought:

Simpler Graphic

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Quriosity - 1


Poster for which Bollywood movie ? Which movie's poster is it inspired from ?