Sushanth's prophetic comments!!!

"I have always maintained that the first n foremost thing the present ISA committee has/had to do was create a platform where the 2 C's (Community and Committee) can interact directly. A platform, which could be a forum or a blog, through which any comments/criticism/opinions/suggestions can be exchanged transparently (the censors and brokers could be excused here). I wonder how the present ISA committee members get feedback from the community regarding the various events the ISA plans? It would be interesting to hear the answer from the horse's mouth.

All said and done i understand that each of us can come up with different ideas and opinions about how the ISA could be run better but its not possible to incorporate all those ideas and suggestions and more importantly i don't think anyone here in manhattan has the time to sit through all those ideas (unless he's a varun or a sushanth.....or a satya, who have nothing better to do than browse the internet ALL THE TIME!!!)

PS: Looks like these days EVERYONE is picking on the ISA for its faults (its becoming a hobby, i guess). Its so much easier to find faults than to try and do a job properly. Why don't we give those poor chaps a little break and let them do what they think is right."


This comment was made by Sushanth last November in response to an article I wrote in this blog. At that time when he made the above comment, he was neither planning to contest in the ISA elections nor he was too enthusiastic about working for ISA. Things took a different direction and Sushanth found himself being ISA prez.

"..When I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning."-- M.K. Gandhi

The first thing that Sushanth commented was that the Indian Community does not have a platform where they can share their ideas. ISA has started creating separate webpages for every event that they organize, created a new forum where people can post their views and started (will expand this idea) involving more people for organizing events.

I believe his 2 C's (Committee and Community) idea will succeed eventually. (By the way, why can't the ISA make "2 C- Committee and Community" as their new motto!!!).

He also made a comment about people not having time to go through all the comments and feedbacks from the community. From what I have seen and have heard, the new ISA committee spends almost all their time going through the comments and feedbacks...(Most of the viewer hits in the forum is because of ISA committee's frequent checking of posts :))

The last thing he said was to support ISA, which we will...

"We will support ISA...but we will also criticize!!!"

Enjoy your tenure!!!

Good Luck!!!