Thread by @jamewils

Flood is always a rate problem. There are attempts to say that it is all about total quantities, yep, depressing to see such narratives from academia of Premier institutions without grappling practical side.

The chasm between research & real world in India are oceans apart

Then we should understand that we cannot create systems for once in bluemoon events.

Also no reservoir systems has endless capabilities, like all other things in the universe.

All systems we design & maintain with an acceptable risk criteria, this is a call of the society

Many of the expert engineers and doctors are bad communicators, they only know to converse with their peers. They struggle to explain the nuances.

Our decision makers are impatient to listen to the details and nuances because sometimes the details make their head spinning

This is a conflict I witnessed through out my career.

Then there are academicians who lives in their ivory towers and offer you solutions w/o understanding the practical limitations and uniqueness. They sell universal theories which has no relevance to real life pbms we face!

So the decision making happens without having the details or grappling the unique nuances associated offered by academia or foreign technology..they will be tested only after ages, that is why we fail to acknowledge the bankruptcy of solutions offered to us.

Every one is ready to jump and do a post facto simulations and criticise the people who are managing the crisis situations, which are very unique and there is no SOP or template available for managing them.

Our criticism became so vocal as vested political interests involve..

If our academia is not disconnected from the ground, India would have been a land of millions of innovations.

Instead our Premier institutions degraded as a factory to supply manpower to US & Europe.

The faculties terribly failed to scale up their game.

Many Premier institutions bank of the talent of the students and the milieu available there for growth rather than the quality of the faculty.

This is my thoughts after reading a post facto simulation study done by a Professor of 3 decades academic experience from an II#$

The disconnect from the real world is so frightening and I was really wondering about the PhD guys this gentleman is guiding over years!

Will discuss in detail about it in another occasion, as there is a nondisclosure clause exists for the time being.

Most disgusting thing is the way he changed his goal posts after the goal is hit, yep, conclusions and findings every time we offer befitting responses correcting them. But failed to acknowledge that all this is done consequent to our inputs/comments.

Ethics my foot!

People should understand that for engineers facing a crisis situation doesn't have the luxury of post facto data or all the time in the world or the liberty to do undo&redo like these research guys do!

If a society fails to acknowledge their effort, we are destined to be doomed

And we get judgemental without grappling the nuances and many use such once in a blue moon events to sell their products/theories.

God forbid, you will not get an opportunity to test these solutions until you hit with another disaster of immense proportions. So they are "safe"

If your education is not empowering you to at least to identify the real talent from the bunch of charlatans and snake oil merchants around, you can only blame your destiny for the plight of your pathetic state.

Real life is not black & white, it has thousands of shades.

Over simplification of complex and esoteric problems without grappling nuances, based on easy perceptions for the goal of scoring political or other brownie points are the biggest bane we are facing now.

Literacy does not ensure wisdom unless we strive for it.