The Real Fighter : Shibu Soren

Few people can replicate what Shibu Soren has accomplished. Even fewer would have the morals so low (if any) to have made a return to politics after unceremoniously being thrown out of office. And no one can present a picture a candor and calm as he maintains despite the very clinching evidence of his wrongdoings.He is "GURUJI", and why not he should be. He has inspired a breed of rogue, crass league of politicians whose moral decay and corruptible value system has made politics a challenge for the honest upright Indians striving to bring India back to its days of glory.

For the uninitiated , a brief of his political (mis)deeds are documented for which tangible evidence has been collected by the ever alert Indian media.

May 23, 2004: Joins as Union minister for coal & mines

July 24, 2004: Resigns after non-bailable warrants are issued in the Chirudih massacre case

Nov 27, 2004: Returns as Union coal minister after getting bail in the case

March 2, 2005: Quits Union cabinet, sworn in as Jharkhand chief minister

March 11, 2005: Steps down after losing confidence vote

Jan 29, 2006: Back in Cabinet

Nov 28, 2006: Quits after conviction in Shashinath Jha murder case.

Aug 22, 2007: Acquitted in the case

Aug 27, 2008: Sworn in as Jharkhand chief minister

Jan 12, 2009: Quits after losing the Tamar by-poll

The person inflicting the humiliating loss happens to be one from his own party peer. Even his record is so maligned , that convicts charged with Rape, Murder and Dacoity would be having a glimmer of hope of returning to the civil society.

Our "GURUJI", is a quintessential power monger who has lost all the sanity and morality to pursue his goals of clinging to power. It is a matter of immense humiliation , disgrace that it our lot to ruled over by such devious scoundrels . It is even more worrisome that political compulsion is preventing the justice play truant to the course of law.

Why I am Happy to Not get to IIMA

Not getting to IIM , Ahmedabad though not delibrately has been a fabulous thing that could happen to me . In its trails it has bought a change so urgently needed . It has led to an image makeover , an evolution of cognition beyond the realms of excellence and some hard grounding to the vacillations and vagaries of life.

Coming back to the point(s), the list is limited , but I shall make every attempt to stretch it for my merriment......

• At such a ripe age , exposing myself to the rigour of academics would not only have been harmful , but fatal likely. Though hard work never killed anyone but why take chances.
• A new wave of education is emerging in India of campuses that are virtual, where the cart is kept before the horses. I can proudly claim to be an output of the system. Having spent , squandered (more appropriately) in India's finest sprawling campus at Roorkee, a change should be welcome .
• John Milton's Paradise Lost , it is better to reign in Hell than to Be Reigned in heaven , aptly captures the mood to be counted among the best without laboring much.
  
• With the economy in recession, it would have put more pressure or categorically put more humiliating to not manage a High Paying I- Banking dream job , that from the very outset seemed improbable considering my limited abilities. I will now at least reason to stand my argument a chance to sustain logic.
  
• Not having a campus comes with its set of merits. And one that begets your attention is the relaxation to arrive late in lectures albeit TPG, RG. An inveterate ritual for me , it would have landed me short of attendance in WIMWI every now and then.
• Cost consideration, also support my involuntary decision to not get through WIMWI . With tuition fees set exorbitantly, it would have strained my limited resources to fund my MBA that increasingly is losing its sheen thanks mainly to the crookedness of once mighty but now defunct i-bankers of the ivy leagues.
• Not being the very best , compels you to learn how to prevaricate. It is a different experience altogether to stand your ground despite yourself being not convinced of the flimsy nature of your argument. It is one of the most important lessons , which only not going to WIMWI could have taught me.
• At my current institute , it dawns upon you how age is fast catching up with you when the majority of the class would not have seen the light of the day while I was on the verge of abanding suction milk bottles to be taken over my milk teeth. It makes you sombre , responsible and above saintly of the lot.
• In WIMWI, I would have severely missed the City of Joy , whose attraction goes beyond the intellectual stimulus to the hormonal erotic stimulus the ever dapper looking , exquisitely dressed bong babes provide in glittering streets and corridors of City Centre of Kolkata.