"DON'T SIT THERE RELYING ON GOD..."
Pic.: Chetna Shetty T wo days ago, one of my students’ (twelfth-standard, ISC) father had come to meet me. He was really concerned – rather disturbed - about his daughter’s unit-test marks. She had scored only twenty on hundred. Being a Chartered Accountant, and having gone the hard way up his ladder, and, above all, my student being his only child, the father was unable to comprehend how his daughter could score so low on marks… “Accountancy is not the subject to score so low unless one has no hold on the concepts at all, or unless one has not practiced,” the father looked at his daughter and said, “What is your case – are your concepts not clear or did you not practice?” “I did not practice,” the daughter murmured meekly to her father who sounded overwhelming. “I don’t think so,” the father reacted, “Had the concepts been clear, you would have managed to do something even with the help of those concepts.” “I told you, that I have understood the concepts,” the...