Srini RamaKrishnan [28/11/11 14:46 +0100]:
idea of holistic development, and most quiz heads I met were these answer spewing, buzzer tapping monsters on stage who seemed to *ahem* lack other skills.
ha ha yes. among quizzers on silk, for instance, samanth is only a published author and successful journalist. mahesh murthy is a vc among other things, then there's udupa, me, sumanth srivathsan, ashwin .. no shortage of people holding down regular jobs and hanging on silk.
I also grew up without the oversight of the traditional Indian school system which seems to hop up normal kids into competitive tiger kids.
Not all that many of us were tiger kids. Lots of chennai quizzers seem to have been the misfits of PS Senior / PSBB (so exactly the opposite of the ideal PS kid who aces his IIT, IIM, etc)
