Greatly amused to find Chetan Bhagat and Narayanamurthy sparring like good old Quixote tilting at windlmills.
Both are IIT graduates albeit from different times and both have built great reputations and moved numbers of people with their achievements.
Narayanamurthy with his stupendous success at what Chetan Bhagat describes as body shopping has succesfully gatecrashed into the select group and NDTV often refers to him as an intellecftual - he who took to crossing swords with a poor Panchayat president who was only asking why Infosys with its bloated cash reserves would not pay market prices for land acquisition and shielded behind antique laws to have the government notify land for acquisition for his company. He who praised the tv channels for their bold handling of the terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal Hotel and a famous t v anchor's brave strutting about at the height of the drama; he who when asked about possible approaches to fighting terrorism was inclined to promote vigilantism; he who attempted to improve Bangalore's muncipal administration with a task force and then abandoned the task; he who gave up on steering the commisioning of the Bengaluru International Airport; he who was proposed as a solution for Kashmir's unemployed youth presumably by promoting the succesful body shopping in Kashmir too. And now alas, he who thinks that the IIT students do not have enough brains. Is it the successful intellectual par excellence or is it the foolish
vanity 0f the public intellectual being carried away by the adulation he gleans.
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