Inspired by the original article at http://www.economist.com/node/21528591 on 9/15/11
Amid fears of a double-dip global recession lurking round the corner and EU's worsening debt crisis,the world is now looking eastwards with hope. While the soothsayers have been singing in unison praising China all along,only the current economic context has made the idea catch some fire.
Sir Wordsnotworth, an oxford scholar form the Dept. of Humanities and The-Apparently-High-Sounding-Useless-Studies, in an article for the Chinaman, postulates that the Chinese dominance is going to transpire in two phases.In the first, people immigrate to China and in the second,Chinese go around colonizing. While this is feared to cripple Indian economy, a counter-intuitive Kapil Sibal,union minster for HRD,looks at it as an opportunity,"A while ago we realized Americans needed code and now even my grand mom could write junk to feed their machines. If the Chinese are going to make some humble wishes,why say no? Of-course, you need to do some tweaks to your educational system".In a welcome measure,the AICTE has approved inclusion of new degrees in copyright violation,intellectual property infringement and fast food engineering all under a broader category of bachelor in reverse engineering.Microsoft is patenting a new keyboard design with dozen more of Ctrl,C,X and V keys so as to keep up with new trends in customer requirements.
At the international classical mandarin conference during the launch of his new book "You can copy", the popular motivational speaker Sheev K Ra urged students not to re-invent the wheel time and again.Students who attended the workshop said they finally felt "vindicated". ETS, who administer the GRE, in their recent news release announced the specifics of the new Mandarin GRE (M-GRE,in short). They found the student response satisfactory to the surreptitiously inserted mandarin alphabet instead of the tables and graphs. "The management institutes are not far behind. At Byju's cat classes students are being assured they will be taught mandarin to level way above the Mandarin the Chinese actually use.
"But this transformation is not going to be easy" says Mr Rao, principal of the narayana e-nano-techno schools pointing out the difficulties students face in learning Mandarin. "They often end up confusing the diagrams and the text.Also some keep questioning why the same person was pictured in all the chapters." A stock middle-class parent interviewed at the nallakunta market sounded optimistic about the whole thing. "I am going to prepare my child for the toughest of the mandarin exams from day one. We know it's a long journey,but we have to start someday", she said stuffing noodles and chop sticks in to the grocery bag.
The author is well renowned profligate time-waster.This piece serves as a lab exercise for those who want to master the art.
Amid fears of a double-dip global recession lurking round the corner and EU's worsening debt crisis,the world is now looking eastwards with hope. While the soothsayers have been singing in unison praising China all along,only the current economic context has made the idea catch some fire.
Sir Wordsnotworth, an oxford scholar form the Dept. of Humanities and The-Apparently-High-Sounding-Useless-Studies, in an article for the Chinaman, postulates that the Chinese dominance is going to transpire in two phases.In the first, people immigrate to China and in the second,Chinese go around colonizing. While this is feared to cripple Indian economy, a counter-intuitive Kapil Sibal,union minster for HRD,looks at it as an opportunity,"A while ago we realized Americans needed code and now even my grand mom could write junk to feed their machines. If the Chinese are going to make some humble wishes,why say no? Of-course, you need to do some tweaks to your educational system".In a welcome measure,the AICTE has approved inclusion of new degrees in copyright violation,intellectual property infringement and fast food engineering all under a broader category of bachelor in reverse engineering.Microsoft is patenting a new keyboard design with dozen more of Ctrl,C,X and V keys so as to keep up with new trends in customer requirements.
At the international classical mandarin conference during the launch of his new book "You can copy", the popular motivational speaker Sheev K Ra urged students not to re-invent the wheel time and again.Students who attended the workshop said they finally felt "vindicated". ETS, who administer the GRE, in their recent news release announced the specifics of the new Mandarin GRE (M-GRE,in short). They found the student response satisfactory to the surreptitiously inserted mandarin alphabet instead of the tables and graphs. "The management institutes are not far behind. At Byju's cat classes students are being assured they will be taught mandarin to level way above the Mandarin the Chinese actually use.
"But this transformation is not going to be easy" says Mr Rao, principal of the narayana e-nano-techno schools pointing out the difficulties students face in learning Mandarin. "They often end up confusing the diagrams and the text.Also some keep questioning why the same person was pictured in all the chapters." A stock middle-class parent interviewed at the nallakunta market sounded optimistic about the whole thing. "I am going to prepare my child for the toughest of the mandarin exams from day one. We know it's a long journey,but we have to start someday", she said stuffing noodles and chop sticks in to the grocery bag.
The author is well renowned profligate time-waster.This piece serves as a lab exercise for those who want to master the art.
