A warning for students / parents living in / near Dombivali:
There is a guy who claims to be a famous career counselor. he has copy-pasted information from net to create so called "encyclopedias of career". Has written columns in newspapers and has been counselling for last decade or more. But this guy has no clue about the things he talks about. He is a complete fraud.
I saw him at a programme this weekend in Thane where he was a co-speaker. The theme of the programme was "careers in research". Here are a few things he said in the speech based on this theme: "there are no jobs in India", "you can earn 56 times more money (i.e. USD to INR conversion rate) in USA than in India", "you can't learn anything about nanotechnology anywhere in India", "nano means 1 millionth of a metre", "IUCAA is doing excellent work in nanotechnology", "science students can be only servants, so if you want to do good career you should ONLY consider share market or politics". "No successful person ever needed graduation from college to be successful, so education is highly overrated". Every sentence was accompanied by an advertisement. e.g. "my book is available in this shop, this guy runs classes for this, that guy will charge you only this much for this information" and so on.
And I am not even talking about his other rantings which were completely off-topic. About politics (he is an interesting mixture with loyalties divided between RSS, Shiv Sena, NCP and Modi), idea that students should go away to western countries to realise dream of "Akhand Bharat", his claim that boys never make good career (only girls do) etc.
Did not confront him at the first venue as I was too shell-shocked. Tried giving him a fair warning at the second venue in private. However, he made a scene complaining about what right a co-speaker has to challenge him. Organisers tried telling him that he sticks to topic.But he kept his usual track on. So I confronted him during his speech twice publicly and told the students that this guy was misguiding them. He again threw tantrums about perceived "insult of speaker" and accused me of not understanding basis of "freedom of expression". Anyway, after that ugly showdown, organisers showed him the door and cut his name from the speaker list at the third venue.
Can't name him publicly for legal reasons. Contact privately if you need concrete info.
There is a guy who claims to be a famous career counselor. he has copy-pasted information from net to create so called "encyclopedias of career". Has written columns in newspapers and has been counselling for last decade or more. But this guy has no clue about the things he talks about. He is a complete fraud.
I saw him at a programme this weekend in Thane where he was a co-speaker. The theme of the programme was "careers in research". Here are a few things he said in the speech based on this theme: "there are no jobs in India", "you can earn 56 times more money (i.e. USD to INR conversion rate) in USA than in India", "you can't learn anything about nanotechnology anywhere in India", "nano means 1 millionth of a metre", "IUCAA is doing excellent work in nanotechnology", "science students can be only servants, so if you want to do good career you should ONLY consider share market or politics". "No successful person ever needed graduation from college to be successful, so education is highly overrated". Every sentence was accompanied by an advertisement. e.g. "my book is available in this shop, this guy runs classes for this, that guy will charge you only this much for this information" and so on.
And I am not even talking about his other rantings which were completely off-topic. About politics (he is an interesting mixture with loyalties divided between RSS, Shiv Sena, NCP and Modi), idea that students should go away to western countries to realise dream of "Akhand Bharat", his claim that boys never make good career (only girls do) etc.
Did not confront him at the first venue as I was too shell-shocked. Tried giving him a fair warning at the second venue in private. However, he made a scene complaining about what right a co-speaker has to challenge him. Organisers tried telling him that he sticks to topic.But he kept his usual track on. So I confronted him during his speech twice publicly and told the students that this guy was misguiding them. He again threw tantrums about perceived "insult of speaker" and accused me of not understanding basis of "freedom of expression". Anyway, after that ugly showdown, organisers showed him the door and cut his name from the speaker list at the third venue.
Can't name him publicly for legal reasons. Contact privately if you need concrete info.
