Mr Chandru (name changed) was quite a character, he worked in the media for more than 10 years and was a planning director for an ad firm in UAE He took a sabbatical for 5 years, learnt music, visited countries and learnt yoga.. An old colleague of Chandru insisted he come back to media and act as an independent consultant for the firm he was heading. And so, he was back in action. I had to meet him and had to update him on certain planning related stuff.
“Do you smoke?” he asked.
“No” I replied, “I do drink but” I told just to ensure he doesn’t think am too much of a innocent kid.
“I think you should smoke too, when you are 40, you realize you ought to have had more fun.” I was blank.
“You know research is all humbug...
Its like this, a researcher had whiskey and water on Day 1; he had a bad hangover the next morning. So the next day he had vodka and water, he still had a bad hangover next morning, the third day he tried rum and water, the hangover still seemed to be there. And so he concluded, ‘since I had water all 3 days and I had hangover all 3 days, water causes hangover’”
I laughed in agreement. What he said was true, When you look at correlations and patterns, common sense takes a kick, many a time.
And then the topic shifted to mythology, Mr Chandru seemed to be an authority in Mahabratha and Ramayan “See, Krishna gave this bhagvat gita gyan to Arjun in the battle field right, lets do some numbers here, there are 700 verses, each verse atleast requires 2 minutes to recite, so make that 1400 minutes, (that’s 24 hours) does this mean when the war was happening around them, these 2 were busy discussing the truths of life for 24 hours non stop??, who are they bull-shitting?? And the kurukshetra war had 21,870 chariots, 21,870 elephants, 65,610 horses and 109,350 foot soldiers (source wiki), what the hell was Indian population then? The entire Kurikshetra battle field cant hold more than 10,000 people even now.”
I went back wondering what to take home from the day. This guy just made mockery of research,. Ofcourse research isn’t all that bad, without looking at the past, and understanding what we really are (which is research) one cant move into the future.
5 comments:
You know, at times I wish I was older. Around 40-ish. When 20-ish people start listening to all I say in awe. But then, I realise that I have to spend another 15 years being stupid before I can become that.
Good read. Would like to meet this Chandru chap. Seems quite interesting.
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You know, at times I wish I was older. Around 40-ish. When 20-ish people start listening to all I say in awe. But then, I realise that I have to spend another 15 years being stupid before I can become that. Good read. Would like to meet this Chandru chap. Seems quite interesting. PS: word verification: conced
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