Presidential Elections

After holding office for five years it looks like it is time for Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to relinquish office. Dr.Kalam is a great leader and used his first citizen role exceptionally to motivate the Indian youth. I have been particularly impressed with some of his speeches in the president's website http://presidentofindia.nic.in/. I was seriously expecting him to get a second term but our political parties have vested interests to take care of and so the nation will soon be getting a new president. A few names are doing the rounds, including the Chief Mentor of my ex-company. But my gut is that political appeasement will be the criteria this time.

Meanwhile at school, we just had our Graduate student body president elections. MG won it in what ppl say was a close race. We had an impressive set of candidates in the fray and I think MG's early initiatives forging a wide ranging partnership between the school and his ex-company did the trick. The scale of the initiative is really great(should run into several millions) ranging from research to ELPs to recruitments. Doing all these before people even got time to settle down is really commendable. But at the same time this raises the bar up for him. He has quite a handful to take care and I wish him good luck there. I thought some of the other candidates were very good too, particualrly AP, VR and PS. ISB will offer more opportunities for all these guys and the so far dormant leaders over the next year. So here is one for all the leaders at ISB. Cheers !