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On Nov 28, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > Srini RamaKrishnan [28/11/11 14:46 +0100]: >> idea of holistic development, and most quiz heads I met were these >> answer spewing, buzzer tapping monsters on stage who seemed to *ahem* >> lack other skills. > > ha ha yes. among quizzers on silk, for instance, samanth is only a > published author and successful journalist. mahesh murthy is a vc among > other things, then there's udupa, me, sumanth srivathsan, ashwin .. no > shortage of people holding down regular jobs and hanging on silk. > >> I also grew up without the oversight of the traditional Indian school >> system which seems to hop up normal kids into competitive tiger kids. > > Not all that many of us were tiger kids. Lots of chennai quizzers seem to > have been the misfits of PS Senior / PSBB (so exactly the opposite of the > ideal PS kid who aces his IIT, IIM, etc) >
