Sunday, December 18, 2005

Shut Up!

“One of the major problems I have faced in my class is to get my Japanese students to speak up and my Indian students to shut up." As told to Mr. Narayan Murthy by a Harvard professor,his friend.

Mr. Murthy adds," We Indians should stop debating and start executing"

As said in "Changing India" a special event hosted by NDTV with Bill Gates and Narayan Murthy as guests in converstaion with Prannoy Roy.

Makes sense doesn't it? We Indians debate and discuss too much, whether it’s the parliament or the TV talk shows. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean that we should debate just for the sake of doing it. Debates must lead to a conclusion.

Start Doing things, rather than just speaking.

2 Voices:

Sudipta Chatterjee said...

Hmmm... the idea is not to shut up but to do something after you have agreed or came upon a conclusion.

anubhav said...

@sudipta: that's precisely the problem sudipta, we seldom reach to a conclusion..the debates keep going on and on...