मेघदूत: "नीचैर्गच्छत्युपरि च दशा चक्रनेमिक्रमेण"

समर्थ शिष्या अक्का : "स्वामीच्या कृपाप्रसादे हे सर्व नश्वर आहे असे समजले. पण या नश्वरात तमाशा बहुत आहे."

G C Lichtenberg: “It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word; when we ask for a word, they give us a dash; and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy.”

C. P. Cavafy: "I’d rather look at things than speak about them."

Martin Amis: “Gogol is funny, Tolstoy in his merciless clarity is funny, and Dostoyevsky, funnily enough, is very funny indeed; moreover, the final generation of Russian literature, before it was destroyed by Lenin and Stalin, remained emphatically comic — Bunin, Bely, Bulgakov, Zamyatin. The novel is comic because life is comic (until the inevitable tragedy of the fifth act);...”

सदानंद रेगे: "... पण तुकारामाची गाथा ज्या धुंदीनं आजपर्यंत वाचली जात होती ती धुंदी माझ्याकडे नाहीय. ती मला येऊच शकत नाही याचं कारण स्वभावतःच मी नास्तिक आहे."

".. त्यामुळं आपण त्या दारिद्र्याच्या अनुभवापलीकडे जाऊच शकत नाही. तुम्ही जर अलीकडची सगळी पुस्तके पाहिलीत...तर त्यांच्यामध्ये त्याच्याखेरीज दुसरं काही नाहीच आहे. म्हणजे माणसांच्या नात्यानात्यांतील जी सूक्ष्मता आहे ती क्वचित चितारलेली तुम्हाला दिसेल. कारण हा जो अनुभव आहे... आपले जे अनुभव आहेत ते ढोबळ प्रकारचे आहेत....."

Kenneth Goldsmith: "In 1969 the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler wrote, “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”1 I’ve come to embrace Huebler’s ideas, though it might be retooled as “The world is full of texts, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” It seems an appropriate response to a new condition in writing today: faced with an unprecedented amount of available text, the problem is not needing to write more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists. How I make my way through this thicket of information—how I manage it, how I parse it, how I organize and distribute it—is what distinguishes my writing from yours."

Tom Wolfe: "The first line of the doctors’ Hippocratic oath is ‘First, do no harm.’ And I think for the writers it would be: ‘First, entertain.’"

विलास सारंग: "… इ. स. 1000 नंतर ज्या प्रकारची संस्कृती रुढ झाली , त्यामध्ये साधारणत्व व विश्वात्मकता हे गुण प्राय: लुप्त झाले...आपली संस्कृती अकाली विश्वात्मक साधारणतेला मुकली आहे."

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Dr. Anantaraman of IIT, Madras always Noticed Pythagoras!

At IIT Madras 1981-1983, we had a great teacher Dr. V. Anantaraman for Organizational Behaviour. He was tall, dark, on fatter side, shirt always tucked in and had booming voice. Commanding presence in a classroom. 

He was an alumnus of Cornell University, US. (some other notable teachers then were - R K Gupta, L V L N Sarma, Dipak Chaudhuri, R Rajagopalan, T T Narendran, Rita Ghatak, Smt. S Kalpakam)

He made every lecture very interesting by illustrating all the theory with examples from real life , of which there was no shortage because he had huge experience as a consultant and sharp observational skills of life around him. 

 For instance he was helping then Madras local bus transport company called PTC and had helped them make many changes to their organizational structure successfully. He also was involved with a few student activities and was very popular among students. Therefore, illustrations for the theory also came from the campus.

Sprawling and beautiful  IIT Madras campus then had every major department named as a block and housed in a separate building. Typically students, faculty and other staff during a day walked or cycled around from one block to another for various reasons. 

The formal paths from one block to another were marked using tiles etc but people almost always took shorter paths, not using formal, marked roads in the process.  Anantaraman gave that example to us while teaching OB. 

This cartoon reminded me of my Professor...Anantaraman would be smilingly tell us - I-told-you...he always anticipated Pythagoras

artist: Not known to me
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