PANCHATANTRA – 360 DEGREE
ANALYSIS
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26-Feb-2015 at 6:00 am.
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The students assembled around Vishnu Sarma in the evening and posed their query of the day….
The students assembled around Vishnu Sarma in the evening and posed their query of the day….
Sir! Now a days we are
hearing that students are being asked to report on their teachers. We know of
teachers examining students and reporting. But this new trend appears strange!
Vishnu Sarma smiled and
said -
Good! You can test and
report on me!
Let me explain you with -
again a story from an old classic journal.
There was a king. His
washer-man who also serves as his body masseur, was massaging the king one day.
He was always wondering about the hours of hard manual work he had to put in
every day to serve the Palace and the disproportionately less compensation he
got both monetarily and otherwise. On the other hand, he felt that the Minister
hardly lifts a finger, only commanding others but gets a high compensation and
respect from all. He could not control himself any more and told the king about
his assessment and the purported injustice meted out to him. At that moment ,
there was a commotion out side the Palace and the king asked the washer man to
find out about it.
The washer man went out and
came back reporting that it was a procession going on.
The king enquired “what
procession?”
The washer man went out
again , came back reporting that it was a wedding procession.
The king enquired ”who is
getting married ?”
The washer man went out and
came back reporting that the son of the reputed merchant of the kingdom was
getting married.
The king enquired “to
whom?”
The washer man went out
again , came back reporting that the bride was the daughter of another famous
merchant.
By this time, the Minister
came for his daily briefing with the king. The king then told him that he heard
a commotion outside the palace a little while ago and wanted to know what it
was about?
The Minister went out and
came back in a few minutes and narrated all the details about the procession
and suggested that it is a good development to promote trade and relations with
the neighboring kingdom as the bride’s father is a very famous merchant in the
neighboring kingdom and had a good access to the king there. If the king
permits, the Minister concluded, he will take up the matter. The king gave his
ascent and bade him good bye.
Then the king turned
towards the washer-man to give his response to his submission. When the washer
man exclaimed “pardon me Sir! I understood the difference” and left.
Well my dear that is the
360 degree reporting .
So it is important to consider all possibilities before jumping to
one conclusion. We can call this as 360 degree out-look which is very much
essential in every walk of life and learning too!. It is quite the thing done , when evaluating
marriage proposals , we enquire from all around, that is elders , youngsters,
colleagues etc.. This is also the modern thought in performance appraisal system of
employees to write their confidential reports. Reports are sought from superiors,
colleagues, juniors and the employee too. For example you can give an
evaluation report on your teacher apart from that normally written by their
head or principal . This along with the opinions of your teacher’s colleagues , all taken
together is expected to give a true picture to improve matters. The key word
to be noted here is “to improve matters” that is we should be really
interested in “improving matters”.
It was getting dark and the
students got up to go to their homes pondering over
the moral.
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