RIP Prof CK Prahlad

Recently, received the news of sad demise of Prof. CK Prahlad, the marketing and strategy guru of Ross Business School, University of Michigan. He passed away in San Diego few hours back.
His theories and learnings were so practical yet influential that he inspired a lot of entrepreneurs around the world.
My interaction with Prof. Prahlad goes back to my college days when I met him during one of the seminars. He was the Guest Faculty of our institute and he was planning to take a course this fall also.
That one interaction has inspired me to such an extent that Ross never went out of my prospective list of institutes.
We will miss you, Professor and I pray to GOD to give your family all the strength to face this unfortunate and invaluable loss.

AWA 9

Some cultures view life as a line, extending from point A to point B. Others view life  as a circle.

Explain which of these two views coincide with yours. If neither, what shape or form would you propose? Please explain.

I believe that my life have been the shape of a Ray, where even though it starts from a point, it just tries to extend itself more and more, with no limits. My belief is based on the following reasons.

Initially, my birth on this earth was the point of the ray, which starts its journey. From child, I have been moving around a lot of places within my country. I have done my schooling in almost 7 places, stretching the point of learning people of different cultures and extending friendships with them.

Then, after my education I taught people in my area about the latest software technologies, helping them learn the new developments of the IT field in our country. After 1 year, I stretched myself by taking up higher studies and extending myself to top the class in one of the semesters during my graduation. That was the time when I saw and met eminent personalities like Mr. Narayan Murthy who have stretched their lives for their dreams and betterment of the society. That helped me gain strength and believe in my capabilities and dreams. I dared to innovate a new course in my final semester, taking up a challenging task of the niche field of bioinformatics.

After working for almost a year now, yet again I stretched myself to go for my desire to do MBA from a reputable university, for which I am writing this exam, which can help me in realizing my dream of being a successful entrepreneur and lead the world towards a new dream.

I believe everyone comes in this world with a purpose but very few people tend to realize it. Life without a purpose is like wandering in a vast desert. Due to the dreams and the zeal to do something different, makes my life being a ray, which though having a start point can never end because I hope to leave behind some principles for somebody else to follow.

 

Essay 4

Some people believe that zoos serve useful functions. Other people believe that it is cruel and wrong to confine animals in zoos.

Freedom is the most fundamental right of all the human beings in each and every independent country of the world. A lot of world wars and freedom struggles are fought just for the sake of FREEDOM. If FREEDOM is necessary for human beings, then it is also necessary for each and everyone who has life and can feel. And so, I strongly feel that it extends to the animals also and it is absolutely rubbish to confine animals in the zoos.

There are several reasons for this. Firstly, by confining animals to the zoos, we encourage them to be provocative against the boundaries to break them and set themselves free, thus, endangering the nearby human habitats. As an example, I remember when I was visiting San Francisco late last year, the day we planned to visit the SFO zoo, one tiger broke out of the zoo killing a man and injuring a couple others. How far can such an incident be justified when we ourselves are responsible of having the zoo in the city? Secondly, the reasons given for having a zoo is to protect animals and help save the endangered species. But just imagine what would we do when someone tries to enter our house forcibly or some other country tries to empower us? We actually try to defend ourselves and save out belongings and properties rather than just moving out to some other place, provided by our enemies as the safe Heaven. Now, the animals become endangered due to our excessive neglect, greed and so-called fast development. But we forget that we are disturbing the ecological development cycle in this process. If we don’t interfere in the activities of the wild animals, there is no reason why some species should become extinct. Thirdly, sometimes education is also given as a strong reason for having zoos, but can’t the same education be provided in a well-protected environment of animals such as sanctuaries, where people can visit once in a while, but not regularly, for study purposes, giving the animals the freedom of roaming and living their life in an open environment rather than confined cages of zoos. Moreover, now a days, the television channels like Animal Planet, Discovery and NGC are much more informative. due to the above said reasons, I strongly feel that it is absolutely cruel to strip any living thing of their basic fundamental right-FREEDOM just for the sake of few bucks and in the name of false-development of the humankind.