A Three Course Meal

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Imagine having your meal backwards. You would eat the sonf (Fennel seeds) first, then the dessert, thereafter the last course and round off with the first course of the meal.

The Dessert

 Our last class was a case study in marketing which Like the sweet savoury got over in good time and left a lingering aftertaste.

The Third  Course

 This was preceded by a lecture by Dr Ratnakar, of the Global hospitas lakdi- ka- pul hyderabad Who came to our class to tell us about how best we could ease into civillian life . Certain home truths about life ,-like spicy condiments used liberally  -its purpose and how a successful life should also be productive opened our eyes to what awaited us beyond the uniform. At last a doctor of medicine... Like home food that bursts into a complexity of tastes on the palate leaving us gasping for breath and at the same time desiring for more, he opened our eyes to a lot of stark  truths in a very precise, gentle, and forceful manner. One had no option but to ask for second helping and to listen to this doctor of medicine who , even at seventy was sounding sprightly bright and optimistic about our tryst with destiny in the civil life . Frequently quoting from the scriptures and mythology which he used as the recipe for driving his points home he underlined the need to be flexible to adopt to the ways of functioning beyond our retirement age . For one and a half hours he held us spell bound with his vast experience frequently dipping into the sauces of his vast experiences. His lecture, like a well cooked dish was educative and motivational at the same time and evoked in us the feeling of our ability to do something gainful with our lives . We are indeed grateful to padmashree jee for having arranged this momentous meeting , A few questions and we were off to tea where he answered our further queries patiently. One thing he stressed was on honesty in our dealings and this is a piece of advice we are not going to forget in a hurry.

The Second Course

Prior to that was Baked fish a favorite of mine. But like getting an unexpected thorn which always took time to extricate and made one pay attention while eating, the next lecture by Prof allamraju also had a lot of twists and turns and subtle thorns -It was back to the curves both negative and positive concave and convex, and straight lines . When she explained to us the consumer theory based on the indifference curves which are restricted severely by the budget line we understood that we always had some control imposed on us on all our actions whether this was self imposed or otherwise. A moment of hilarity ensued, when one of the participants was slower on the uptake and joked that only curves of a different sort were better understood by him....

The First Course

The first course was a tasty appetizer - a start to a gourmet meal...

Economics, I am convinced is as precise or vague -if you like it-as the english language. Nothing is wrong with the way you interpret a particular theory or pronounce your liking for a particular type of food as long as the person eating/being taught can be satisfied- or that was our thought- till Prof Dasgupta got into the act. Her laying out the facts about the issue of employment had nothing vague about it. More than us she was the one who was not satisfied till she got her pupils to understand what it was that she intended to disseminate . We are in safe hands as far as macro economics is concerned....

The day started with a long run and a desperate bid to beat time in getting ready thereafter.......

All in all a gastronomically satisfying and an intellectually stimulating day...