Today was our last lecture at SDM-IMD. Professor S. Padmanaban spoke on "E-Governance in India: Overview Imperatives & Business Opportunities". I had very mixed feeling about this lecture. He told us a lot about the plans India has to promote online activity across the country. They are in the process of putting all income tax forms online and stationing kiosks in every state, city and village. This is much like the section of “The World is Flat” where Netscape went public and the entire world was able to band together through the internet. I think of this in a somewhat similar way. I don’t believe that it will ever work or be possible (given the illiteracy rate and amount of experience much of the country has with computers) but it’s a great idea.
Later that evening we attended a farewell dinner at the hotel Metropole. We all got dressed up and took lots of pictures. We had an incredible dinner (that included meat-yum). SDM presented us with a mounted group photograph that they had taken and SDM jackets (that jacket saved my life once we got to Chicago!). We mingled with the professors and staff, and then said our goodbyes. All in all it was a wonderful evening, and wonderful time spent in Mysore.
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