Qualiphicason Pleajhe?

Speaking of celebrities. Being in the news and famous is more qualification than youd think. Being a star or a celebrity entitles you to do anything. The most common thing, especially among female celebrities is designing. Fashion, underwearline, clothesline, jewelery, nothing is beyond them. They launch their own lines and ranges and are sometimes able to ensnare a famous chain to endorse their line or launch their designs as part of their own line. How many star wives are into designing stuff from candles to houses to dresses to jewellery? Thats right, almost everyone we know.

As a celebrity you can design houses no question asked. Angles, height, beam support, measurements...who needs them. You can go into brand management, event management hell even real estate development. Goes to show that there is a budding enterpreneur in all of us, we just dont get to exhibit all our talents. Not all of us. Some have to prove it by learning and earning degrees. In India, the courses, topics etc are often irrelevant to the job that we are supposed to be doing. Technical education is a mere technicality. So its really not that different from clueless celebs taking up different careers. I say this about some courses of course which are actually OFF course. Not all.

And being a celebrity is also changing its meaning. You just have to stay in the news and public conciousness for a while. Hell, make a fool of yourself in more than one reality shows and you are a celebrity. To digress a bit, it is the stupid people in the reality shows who make it

interesting. Intelligent people or sensible ones will have a pattern. The higher the intelligence

the more complicated the pattern and it may take a person of equal intelligence to discern it, but

there is a pattern nonetheless. Stupidity on the other hand is marvellous to behold in all its

naked glory. It is erratic and unpredictable. It zigzags and weaves about surprising and stunning you unexpectedly. But then, people who voluntarily appear on these shows cant be all that sensible now can they?

But to get back to the original topic, fame gives you the license to explore new avenues.

Politics is one of the major fields where fame pays off bigtime. It is a field where you dont have

study courses. You of course have courses dedicated to it, like political sciences and whatnot.

But these chappies go on to become proffessors, not ministers. ITs like bullies in the playground i tell you. Few kids get to hit all the swings and roundabouts, see saws and jungle gyms. The rest sit about moping in the dust.