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Jugaadism – An Infantile Disorder

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Jugaadism – An Infantile Disorder Neils Bohr once said that prediction is difficult, especially if it is about the future. Yet, engineers, generals, planners and ruling classes are expected to predicate their actions based on calculated expectations of the future. Jugaad hinders this process in many ways and threatens to make our society a collective myopic failure. It should not be admired and we must not descend into the culture of jugaadism 1 . Like many seductive, but ultimately disastrous, isms of the last century it needs to be buried into an unmarked grave. Jugaad is a neologism arising from the indic ‘to gather’. When the bar is set low, even gathering ingredients is fait accompli . In touting it as a laudable achievement, we not only hold ourselves back from the final finished product but, more dangerously, the very process of seeking the solution. It is the seeking, the manthan ( मंथन ; churning) , that is the backbone of irreversible positive development in a suc