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I detest the spin on "Jugaad" that this article provides. Having lived day-to-day in India I have seen way too many unsafe and potentially deadly "jugaads" ever
by suprgeek 12y ago
I detest the spin on "Jugaad" that this article provides.
Having lived day-to-day in India I have seen way too many unsafe and potentially deadly "jugaads" every single day.
From the CNG Car driver hacking up his Car to use a cheaper subsidized gas tank, to the hospital hacking up their BP monitors to run longer despite failed parts to continual flouting of Petrol storage rules keeping it in tin cans.
This stupid mentality of taking dangerous short-cuts and flouting safety rules in the name of innovation just needs to die. You can escape disaster some of the time but finally you must pay the piper some time.
So while ISRO is indeed a bright spot, the craft they designed in this case was un-manned, not designed to land, and carried on top of the older workhorse PSLV rocket and was more of a technology demonstrator.
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- kamaal 12y agoThere is a big difference between 'Jugaad' and deliberate mistakes. 'Jugaad' can be best translated into English as 'making the best of what one has to deliver stuff'. And that's a very good thing. Heck we even had a subject in Primary school called SUPW(Socially useful productive work) which was basically a fancy name for Jugaad, where they covered every thing from building candles to making door mats with discarded cigarette packs, to building simple engine based toys with rubber band based springs.