JNU AND BREEDING OF LEADERSHIP

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The boss had just taken charge in his home town where there was always a group hostile to him. The boss was righteous, efficient and able administrator but seen as rigid at times. The hostile group also had its vested interest. A group of five men from the hostile gang had a very friendly and personal conversation with the boss only to trap him with words of "I agree" for a statement of "should be beaten with slippers".


Within an hour the union that trapped the boss spread the news to the entire nation that the boss said "I will beat the leaders with slippers". There were agitations, demonstrations and finally the boss was removed to maintain peace. The incident is almost two decades old but I still ponder over this as to what wins in the game of leadership and administration.


Whenever I read about Rohet Vemula and JNU issues, I wonder how a truth that may be insignificant as content explodes when it takes center stage. Control and dissemination of information is a very vital quality of leadership and failure here will be the beginning of losing control over situations and administration. Unfortunately in India many of the present opposition parties especially the Communists are experts in propagation of selective and discriminatory facts as news.


Some of the political parties while in power succeeded with failed administration due to their special ability of dissemination of information till the continued failure surfaced bolder and wider. It is sad more so in democracy where an able government is not seen so, due to their poor performance in the art of dissemination while the opposition is very good at it.


The boss (referred in earlier Para) who lost the position got a bigger assignment and took on the same opposition with great success but after two years in hibernation after learning the art of dissemination of information. JNU is the place where much present day political leadership had their incubation. But the current crop of students will have the additional benefit of understanding the power of "Information Dissemination" as a tool for successful Leadership. 


If that happens the nation would benefit with efficient leadership that would also know how to be seen as efficient.


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