Atanu Dey reports from the PanIIT 2006 and has some interesting observations to share.
Kalam is charming. There is a naïve simplicity about him that is endearing. His eagerness and sincerity is almost childlike. Perhaps that accounts for why he is an able administrator; people like him. I sometime wonder: is it better to be very bright, extremely arrogant, supremely competent, and highly accomplished—but disliked—or is it better to be not too bright, quite humble, somewhat mediocre, charming—but liked? I suppose the answer depends on what job you want done. If you need a monumental work done, you need the first kind, the kind I would call “General.� (General Patton is the archetype.) But if you need to be inspired to be good, then you need the second kind, the “Grandfather.�
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Sudipt
Dec 29th, 2006 at 5:32 am | #
Kalam is a good human being, a great scientist but a very bad President. A president should have the guts to take up stands on issues, his voice should make people rattle, his silence on the issue of Afzals hanging just proves that he is scared of rattling feathers.
Anirudh
Jan 2nd, 2007 at 10:41 am | #
I think Kalam is a moron. Maybe he could be a good grandfather; I don’t know.