IITs or Call Centres : What India needs more.

Let me start this blog with a very short true incident that happened with one of my friends during the software recession period of 2001 - 2002. This friend of mine was interviewed for a company and he did exceedingly well in the interview. There was'nt a question that he did not answer correctly and after the interview was over he was quite confident about making the cut.
After a week the company HR mailed him saying he does not qualify for a position. The mail said "The hiring committee carefully reviewed your experience and qualifications and determined that there is not a strong match for our position at this time. We hope that in the future if a position arises that will be a better fit, we'll keep you in mind as we grow and hope you might consider us again sometime down the road. Thanks again for considering us we wish you well in your future endeavors."
The crux of the above mail was that he did not get the job. This guy had another friend in the same company whom he called to find out the exact reasons of he not making it. His friend told him that as he had done exceedingly well in the interviews the company feels that he is gonna leave the company as soon as the market stabilizes.

Was the company right in doing so?

This is a question that came to my mind a lot of time after this incident and almost everytime I felt it was not fair, and I still feel ethically that was not the right thing to do. But thinking practically I realize that the company was right in not hiring him becuase he would have certainly left the day he had a better opportunity.

Khwaish

khwaish teri ab to ek ibaadat ho chali hai,
khwabon ko palko pe pighalne ki ab to aadat ho chali hai.
har shaam youn kshitij ko takti, bas ek hi intezaar mein dhali hai,
ki mit kar mil jaane ki tujhme ab to aadat ho chali hai.

tapti hui zameen par masoomiyat meri kuchh is kadar jali hai,
ki khud ban kar mit jaana ab meri fitrat ho chali hai.
yun hi nehi is kyun mein yeh umar ek muddat se jali hai,
shunya mein hi, par kehin, tu mujhe tanha mili hai.

by Chomsky AKA Amar Singh Chauhan

Zindagi

shaam aayi to bekali layee, seher aayi to beqaraar aayi.
kuchh chand uljhe huye se afsaane, bas zindagi aur kuchh nehi layi.

chashme purnab hai, bahi, bahi na bahi
zindagi hai kal rehi, rehi na rehi.
Tum to kehdo jo tumko kehna tha,
mera kya hai, kehi,kehi na kehi