What they dont teach you at Rural Management Schools

We've gone through a lot of sector non-sector debate during college days. After one year, I think its an opportune moment to look back and reflect.

I read an article in rediff, just a few lines honestly written and thought, "How true" It said, Its not advisable to join NGOs looking for a stepping stone for a good career or expecting a stress free work environment far from the rat race of corporates. All that is crap. NGOs are second only to politics in being dirty. I see no exceptions to this rule.

Dealt with properly, poverty is a beast that can be tamed. If you extremely passionate about development and clear about your end results and like Arjuna, can see only the bird's eye, then, you are one of the eleven youth that are, as Vivekananda said, required to turn this country around.

If one strays into NGOs without conviction, one might end up being a scavenger making a living out of poverty, which is what most NGO leaders are doing today.