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Never in the history of the mankind business and business men were regarded highly by the society. The political, social, economic discourses of couple of centuries are centred around the wealth creation and its distribution and centre of it is the business men. Strong and perceptible cultural and political changes are directly linked to the business and management. Frankenstein monstors are not created by the nerd, introvert scientist but the articulate, sophisticated MBAs who make u feel u need one. But it is possible for a management student to complete his degree without knowing and understanding Marx, Gandhi, plato and venture in to world to sell products naively believing to be immune to culture and political changes it creates in the society, choosing a work is also about choosing lifestyle and culture. Management is essentially a philosophy, reducing it to mere skill and alluring with money is dangerous. Today we need business school which essenti...

who can be in social work, what is the driving force behind people who engage in social work, is it love, or anger. for me it is anger most of the time. it helps keeping my mind sober, and relate with people stronger. but does it make me better person, because social worker is suppose to be one isnt he. well certainly not but then does it matter, if i am usefull to many.

I think for all who have read Gandhi with some amount of seriousness, with out the compulsion of certificate exams, he would have been a greater influence in them. We would be fortunate if we get a chance to read him when we start to understand the world and form opinions about its good, bad and ugly faces. But as a word of caution, reading him at this stage would also restrict our understanding of him. We would by that time have lost faith (God!!!), developed scientific temperament?? Tutored in the possible salvation through Technology etc. Unless we see shortcoming of our lives Gandhi would not make much sense for us. But any way he would start disturbing our soul, (if there is one). The initial years is mostly unlearning what we have learnt or what we think we have learnt, this I think will be the period that would probably be spent in intellectual gymnastics trying to comprehend him with our contemporary civilisational understanding and bring him to the fore of our da...