Never trust the system!!

In a land where the gun weilds more power than a pen, students, who are pushed into the throes of a mafia-ruled community, must understand that negotiation skills and business ethics taught in school do not take into consideration situations when your life is endangered. Text books teach that what is ideal and it can probably used in "laboratory conditions"

Moreover most of our folks live a protected life at home, protected life in school and (as far as I can see) the iim students rarely interact with the "local" life around. So trust and belief in the system comes naturally to each one of us. We trust our school, the people in it, the employer that comes in for recruitment, the job and the people around us. The moment any force interrupts it, we believe that if we act in accordance with the system, we will be protected by it.

We just witnessed that it is not so! The system does not always come to our help, and especially when we need it the most. I am not going to suggest being unethical or being unfair on the job. Evaluate what consequences each of our activities can have, assume the worst and see if the system would stand by you, in case of the worst. I think that now a fair assumption is that the system will not do that and we are on our own!

With condolences to the family of S Manjunath - a man who believed in the system.

Encouraging every IIMC-ian to sign the petition ....