Jugaad - an arrangement or a work around, which have to be used because of lack of resources and/or will power.
Some people here in my university have enlightened my mind with this word by their exemplary performance. A google search on Jugaad gives some positive meanings also, but here I do not intend to mean it positively. For me, it is an act of using people ( by some uncanny tricks ) for your own benefits and getting rewarded for something which you do not deserve. A person who is known for such acts is called as Jugaadu in colloquial Hindi language.
I have been observing few people are getting extremely good grades in many subjects despite of their very little participation in doing things on their own. These people make a network of similar souls and share code, assignments and everything that they could share. Needless to say, they themselves do not put in infinitesimally small amount of time / efforts in making it happen, instead they ask for help to some of their friends ( here literal meaning of friends should not be taken into consideration. Friend for them is someone who can directly share rather give his code without even worrying about the consequences - and their "friendship" could break into pieces the moment a motive is achieved). Few days back, I was extremely agitated by some incidents and wanted to write about it, but my finals were approaching so did not really get time for that. Now that I am free, I will be kicking some serious asses today.
Copying somebody's work and putting it under your name is a crime in itself but many people disagree to this point. Chalta hain, dekha jayega, sab karte hain like statements are nothing but a cowardly act of supporting your baseless points. Someone who puts in efforts and works out things must get credit for his / her work. And somebody who is copying his / her work must get punished, I know I am sounding really harsh on this point but you would think exactly same if you were in my position. The root of this problem goes right into the mentality of human. Many of us (including me) want things to be available easily and readily and do not want to take efforts in making something work. But I think, higher education has offered me a chance to disprove the above statement and I should try my level best to do so. Some people do not seem to mind this fact seriously, though. All of them want to have a very high GPA and a very high paying job, but they want it without taking any pains. A jugaadu in general will find another talented / hard working guy and will do anything to please him / her , cause he / she is the one who is obviously doing all work and our friend is least bothered about it. I am not against making good teams but think everyone should have an active participation in their work if all of them want same grades. Some people are even more worse, they themselves don't know what is going on in their project and somehow end up getting close to 'A', and preach others how easy the subject was and how stupid others are. Such flavor of jugaadu gives me nothing but aggravation.
I would be more than happy if the problem ends here. But alas, as they say one rotten apple spoils the barrel, a jugaadu advocates and attracts someone with similar characteristics. When such people find a higher position in any hierarchy, they start expanding their vicious circle until the system becomes a big, intermingled web of mess. Many deserving candidates get nothing but rejection when such people make their decisions, and that is a serious problem. After that overwhelming incident few days back, I felt some people do not deserve a master's degree - forget about a job in United States.
But one can't help this - there are always some elements in every system who are corrupted and the system is functioning properly only because of some honest people. Fortunately God has given us that much ability to decide where we want to see ourselves.
Whatever - one thing is true - MS is no more Master of Science for me, it's Master of Jugaad !
