“Jugaad”, though unnoticed, this six-letter word has become the integral entity of our modus- operandi, and to be more precise has been vividly dictating our lives. Jugaad has become the order of the day! In context to our IITD lives, it is all what we do to get a bewitching “B.TECH” degree (obviously not for all those who find the ACADS interesting!) when we would conclusively and proudly proclaim IITD as our “alma-mater”.
Be it fetching the hard-to-find class notes the night before the brain-killing exams and staring at them till the dawn breaks, or be it Jugaading assignments just a few seconds before the submission ultimatum, or be it convincing the caretaker (for getting your favourite room) or the fuming profs on your delinquency (and in the worst of the cases when you are eligible for a DISCO!) or be it arranging certis for your so called ultra-important “RESUME”. You can’t negate the fact that ““Jugaad” is prevalent everywhere!”
A lot depends on your individual perspective of Jugaad. For you it might be a veneer to pass through the loopholes of the system or in more exaggerated words “DEFYING THE ADVERSITIES”. It is a neo-innovation of accomplishing a task under the harshest of constraints. It is what the popular technocrats called “FRUGAL ENGINEERING” i.e. developing something viable even from scraps. Do you know why India maintains the staggering figures of about 8% GDP growth rate in spite of its poor and under-developed R&D base? The answer is quite simple! Our corporate leaders are exceptionally good at Jugaad. Jugaad is an amalgam of creativity, master manipulations and might even comprise of unethical steps. Had Guru bhai not Jugaaded cloth-mills in the name of spare parts, he had not been able to transform his enterprise into an MNC even in his four generations (you would get my point well if you have watched the movie “Guru” or if you are a fair fan of Dhiru Bhai Ambani!). It’s a remedy to kleptocracy!
Jugaad is not preponderant just in our nocturnal-style of fetching marks (though most efficient if you see it as percentage of marks achieved per minute allocated to studies..lol!) but also in every other spheres of life. That is how 26% of Indian population feed their families! Jugaad is ubiquitous and undoubtedly unavoidable if you want to be at par with the pace of the world or even try to be a little bit more optimistic. We all are intimate with the grim scenario of the Common Wealth Games 2010, even then we tenaciously believe that our reposing and inefficacious bureaucracy would Somehow JUGAAD this upcoming mega event!
Conclusively, Jugaad is the very essence of our lives (in the language of the programmers the CODE of our life function) and an one-word answer to a lot of our successes. Jai Jugaad!!
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