Goodbye, Satish Kaushik. You'll always be my Calendar.
One of the most underrated & forgotten bits was #SatishKaushik & Pankaj Kapoor playing Titu tey Tony, two brothers up to silly hijinx. In Phillips Top Ten.
Anyone remember that? Who has those videos from the 90s?
Around the world, undergrad college education in this century has evolved towards a more Inclusive broad based learning oriented approach. For example, many top universities have made GRE, GMAT, and recently even SAT optional.
India has gotten even more JEErankish.
Yes! "Brand dilution" it seems.
America has like 100 massive high quality research universities with huge number of engineering and MBA seats. Population 33 crore.
But more than 6 IIT/IIMs in 140 crore India is brand dilution.
This last class before spring break is my "Oscars Pre-Game". 10% of the grades in this class are for a group presentation on Oscar Advertising & Marketing.
Yes, there will be a marketing lecture excerpt 🧵 after. 😁
Some pics of things I'm going to talk about in class today.
The central message of this class and this assignment -
The #Oscars are not, repeat loudly, NOT about recognizing excellence in film. They just are not.
They are an industry trade show based on an industry straw poll and are about selling more films. Preferably Disney.
" 🤣🤣 Cos since Archie comics and breakfast club days, I've been fascinated by this concept but never actually known anyone getting it."
"You're weird"
I always found it so hilariously fascinating and foreign and first world that in America, "punishment" equals just sitting in a room for an extra 30-60 minutes staring at the wall.
She got detention for being late last week. Given that I spent a huge chunk of my first 22 years waiting for her dad to get ready in time for school or college, I'm gonna blame it on him.
I started off thinking 4-0 to India, but the Aussie spinners of this generation have shown the grit and guile that none of the previous Aussie teams showed. Especially Lyon. Hugely fanboying at his growth as a bowler in the last few years. Him winning this test too would be nice.
I have tweeted about this before. How we in India think we have the highest levels of academic competition cos our cutoffs are so brutal and our admissions so dauntingly selective.
My unpopular opinion is that NY/NJ kids face way tougher more intense competition than India.
Everyone who went to Harvard wants to send their kids to Harvard.
Everyone with any discretionary income to spend on their child also, if possible, would like to send their kids to Harvard.
Immigrants pouring in also want to send their kids to Harvard.