Some people can never forget their place. Mr Pradhan of TATA SONS issued a statement to reflect his true place - a cattleyard...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/B-school-placements-are-like-cattle-fairs-held-at-Pushkar/articleshow/10877001.cms

AHMEDABAD: Campus placements at top business schools are like cattle fairs held atPushkar every year, said Tata Sons Chief (Group HR) Satish Pradhan while addressing the annual national business summit Confluence-2011 at Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad on Friday. 

Pradhan said the campus placements in instituteslike IIMs are like auctioning of cattle at Pushkar mela, where cattle are groomed and painted so that they fetch the best price at the auction. "Just like cattle is paraded and traded at the fair, the highest tag goes to the student with the best performance during the two years (of their programme)," he said. 

I guess that Mr. Pradhan has come to top from some local college like those opened at every corner of the street now a days. Else he should have known that those who enter the IITs & IIMs in India are among the most intellectual brains available in the country. Yes, there is cut-throat competitions to get the job & succeed ahead but thats present even when you enter the organizations i.e. corporate world. That is the nature that one has to crush other to move ahead (Survival of the fittest), but that doesn't makes us eligible to be called cattles...

Comparing the placements of colleges like IIMs with cattle fair is not only rude & unwise but an insult to the Indian education system as a whole. Let me remind Mr. Pradhan that even though it was Mr. TATA's dream / vision to bring a car of Rs 1 lac, but it was the engineers & managers graduated from such colleges only who made that dream a reality.

So, if Mr. Pradhan can't give respect to others, he should look at his back once & will find that he had once traveled the same road that he is criticizing now. He need to mind his words before issuing such statements...