Directed By Siddharth Saxena(Habib Faisal)-Produced by Professor Munish Alagh.(Aditya Chopra)
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.(William Butler Yeats)
Management Education some times appear to me
like a plot directly from the movie “ ishaqzade” where two opposites are
trying to get and bite each other
to death but in end they are to meet together. Destiny will make them come
together or may be the plot in which they are dwelling will make them come together.
Some
where now in between all the big bubble of MBA ( and we don’t mean Mane
Badhu Avdey chey) there is big
gap between the needs and supply and that is not quantitative but in a
qualitative sense. So when we say that it is like the
movie “ishaqzade” it does holds true as one side we have stern supply
side which is based on may be well
established principles by UGC or populist teaching mechanisms like case studies and role plays on other
side there is a rigid demand side which
wants prepared products ready to deliver form Day A, and prepared with perfection to “ T”. So we look at some
of the point that management education
of India
in our understanding lacks
MBA is no
more about contemporary issues , may be
not even understanding about it , its more like giving out assembly products with factory
default parts of finance, marketing , human resources to name a few enabled.
Appreciation of liberal studies is no more there, which have the direct
reservoirs of leading to creativity and
innovative problem solutions , but may be we are too skewed to see it . We may want to show off in a economics class
by saying that we read economic times and
knew that rupee has appreciated but if we ask the same person , so
what’s the reason , we can see the fevi quick effect. Appreciation of subjects
like economics and liberal studies is almost nill. If we talk about book on
these subjects we can count in a batch of 120 that they may know three
more books than their text book,
and then we question why we don’t get people who think in a cross discipline
manner. Some times we need to count how many 24 cross libraries we have . Even
if we have how many of them have books on literature , current affairs and
regional languages. Something which needs to be thought of as we want tomorow’s manager grounded and in
touch with there roots.
Lets just
look beyond the books , and the context as well , songs are important in movie
for mal masala, as you want one song “
like ishaqzade” and pareshan , you want ancillaries in management also which
are in lines with eating spaces and facilities
as well. As in movies where you need people who just give that fire to
your ticking bomb , a faculty interaction with students is a must and pivotal , one cannot be skewed
with limited number of teaching hours and get it done , teaching is about interaction and with
students its pivotal. Students also need to
feel an esteem associated with
the institute , as a actor feels associated with blockbuster . Management
education can deliver a blockbuster like Ishaqzaade but appropriate mal masala
is to be given.
