India has a funny idea of genius. To too many of us it is the student who aces the 11th grade biology test but can't answer "what is the function of a muscle?", or the merit lister who spent 2 years memorizing the words in all the textbooks. The advertisement of a particular DTH provider is some testament to that. It claims to make geniuses out of your kids if you just stick 'em in front of your TV playing asinine games. It's also pretty ironic that they're trying to project an image of brilliant students while playing a mind numbingly dumb 'song' in the background.
People seem to think genius is something that can be taught, mass and reproduced. I think not. My favourite description of genius comes from an old movie, it goes "Genius is accurate without calculation, eloquent without preparation and.." I can never remember the last part and after going back to check the original quote I prefer my incomplete version, it's symbolic in a way.
P.S: I love the way these blogs are arranged, this way it looks like I've written a lot more than I actually have :)
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