Sakshat Jhoot. $ 10 Laptop a "WHITE" Lie.
Around six months back this news piece speculated that India is developing a $10 laptop and also a low cost access device. And see the speed of research and development that within six month our HRD minister even unveiled it. And wow! just after first look at this device you want to shout. What a lie and man see the color. It's actually a BIG WHITE LIE and nowhere near a laptop. The name couldn't have better "Sakshat Jhoot" which means total lie.
Kaun hai Garibon ka dushman? Kaun hai jo baar baar garibi ka majaak uda jaata hai? Kaun hai jo bhagwan ke darbaar mein khade hokar bhi jhoot bolta hai, logon ko dhokha deta hai? Well, who is this publicity crazy guy who doesn't even know the difference between $10 and $100 and for that matter the difference between a storage device and a computer? It's none other than our honorable HRD minister whose hunger for publicity has made India and Indian technology a laughing stock in the western and Indian Technical press.
His claim to fame is the famed Indian project of 10$ laptop which was finally unveiled in Tirupati (Bhagwaan ka darbaar). This is an excerpt from what our press reported about the unveiling function.
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Arjun Singh had an interaction with the vice chancellors of the remote states like Jammu and Kashmir and Manipur to prove the point that the device will be able to bring about high quality networking among the various institutions of higher education and also increase the skills of e learning of the students in rural areas. (Source - Rediff.com)
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Out of the three things mentioned about this device - high quality networking among various institutions of higher education, increase the skills of e learning and most importantly the 10$ price tag is all a big bad joke played by minister and his office. The western media was surprised about this project whose details were made public without even a feasibility analysis. Well due to some publicity hungry people the target population is confused and the whole bunch of media is reporting it as a big joke played on student community. Wo to IIT and IISC involve they so maan bhi gaye nahin to pahle se pata tha ki kya hoga.
Anyways, this is election year so you can expect some nuisance but something of this magnitude can come from the stable of this old timer only. His humor is well known but what is sad that this episode will bring a bad name to the partner institute like IIT Chennai and IISC Bangalore. I don't understand the compulsion to go public with the prototype which looks like a cigarette case with cables attached to it. Huh made for each other. I want to laugh at the audacity of same people who go on to put it on record that some components were developed by students. I agree, it do look like a prototype that we use to present during annual model exhibitions. And most of the engineering students know from where the components come from. "Kanhi ka cement, kanhi ka roda, Bhanumati ne kunwa joda" kind.
And our elite press whose technical knowledge comes out very well with this episode. None of them had the modesty to dig deeper into the device, the technology and into the press release. It seems that they published verbatim whatever was handed over to them even before the minister(s) started their bhashan about how this machine will change the life of Indians.
Well everyone is laughing now and those who will see the device will definitely laugh too. Meanwhile one thing is sure that some very very senior people do not differentiate between $10 and $100 and also between a pen drive and a computer. Well, a 2 GB pen drive is available for Rs 200 now (5$). Download a portable free Operating System from web. Install it on a pen drive and it becomes your Government of India laptop at half the price and double the memory.
Next is what?
A 20 $ scooter? Arre bhai kya hua jo tumhe tyre, engine, piston alag se lagana pade, aakhir scooter ka frame bhi ko bhi to scooter hee kahte hain" Kyon Vice Chancellor Sahab? Theek kahe naa?
Chalo! Jaane de jaane de thodi hawa aane de.
Kaun hai Garibon ka dushman? Kaun hai jo baar baar garibi ka majaak uda jaata hai? Kaun hai jo bhagwan ke darbaar mein khade hokar bhi jhoot bolta hai, logon ko dhokha deta hai? Well, who is this publicity crazy guy who doesn't even know the difference between $10 and $100 and for that matter the difference between a storage device and a computer? It's none other than our honorable HRD minister whose hunger for publicity has made India and Indian technology a laughing stock in the western and Indian Technical press.
His claim to fame is the famed Indian project of 10$ laptop which was finally unveiled in Tirupati (Bhagwaan ka darbaar). This is an excerpt from what our press reported about the unveiling function.
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Arjun Singh had an interaction with the vice chancellors of the remote states like Jammu and Kashmir and Manipur to prove the point that the device will be able to bring about high quality networking among the various institutions of higher education and also increase the skills of e learning of the students in rural areas. (Source - Rediff.com)
----------
Out of the three things mentioned about this device - high quality networking among various institutions of higher education, increase the skills of e learning and most importantly the 10$ price tag is all a big bad joke played by minister and his office. The western media was surprised about this project whose details were made public without even a feasibility analysis. Well due to some publicity hungry people the target population is confused and the whole bunch of media is reporting it as a big joke played on student community. Wo to IIT and IISC involve they so maan bhi gaye nahin to pahle se pata tha ki kya hoga.
Anyways, this is election year so you can expect some nuisance but something of this magnitude can come from the stable of this old timer only. His humor is well known but what is sad that this episode will bring a bad name to the partner institute like IIT Chennai and IISC Bangalore. I don't understand the compulsion to go public with the prototype which looks like a cigarette case with cables attached to it. Huh made for each other. I want to laugh at the audacity of same people who go on to put it on record that some components were developed by students. I agree, it do look like a prototype that we use to present during annual model exhibitions. And most of the engineering students know from where the components come from. "Kanhi ka cement, kanhi ka roda, Bhanumati ne kunwa joda" kind.
And our elite press whose technical knowledge comes out very well with this episode. None of them had the modesty to dig deeper into the device, the technology and into the press release. It seems that they published verbatim whatever was handed over to them even before the minister(s) started their bhashan about how this machine will change the life of Indians.
Well everyone is laughing now and those who will see the device will definitely laugh too. Meanwhile one thing is sure that some very very senior people do not differentiate between $10 and $100 and also between a pen drive and a computer. Well, a 2 GB pen drive is available for Rs 200 now (5$). Download a portable free Operating System from web. Install it on a pen drive and it becomes your Government of India laptop at half the price and double the memory.
Next is what?
A 20 $ scooter? Arre bhai kya hua jo tumhe tyre, engine, piston alag se lagana pade, aakhir scooter ka frame bhi ko bhi to scooter hee kahte hain" Kyon Vice Chancellor Sahab? Theek kahe naa?
Chalo! Jaane de jaane de thodi hawa aane de.
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