Soil

Hi all,

Yesterday when me and abbhi had gone to Stamps for coffee (her coffee of course) i met this guy called Dave(I think). The conversation with him ranged from the current Tsunami disaster, to titbits about India to the soil conservation course he TA ed this sem. Apparently, this soil conservation course that he TA ed was a competition course and the maryland team has progressed from the regional level to the national level competition. The national competition will be held in Arkansas (I wonder why arkansas). Anyway this brought abt more talk of Indian weather etc. During the course of the conversation i realized that back in India such topics like soil conservation or meteorology or for that matter Literature are not viewed in the same light as that of engineering or science. Though this could be as a result of the nature of the job market, it is definitely not a welcome trend. I wonder what the government can do to take care of such anamolies!!!(Or is it the governements JOB in any case I wonder).