“Great Minds Discuss Ideas,Average Minds Discuss Events,Small Minds Discuss People”-Eleanor Roosevelt
Indian Politics works on the fundamentals of sovereignism, secularism and socialism set by the Constitution of India. These principles of governing, aspired to make the nation a welfare state, a place where government plays the key role in the social and economic upliftment of its people. A state where the leaders don’t work for themselves but the people whom they represent. Such ideality and purity in leadership was expected by the Constitution of India, when it became the sole guiding force of the world’s largest democracy back in the year 1950. After over 68 years of independence, it is high time that we review the condition and find out how close are we to ‘the ideal’?There are large numbers of incidences that occur in India that tell us that some of our politicians have not accepted this notion of united India.Though their election speeches begin with the slogan of ‘Unity in Diversity’, what follows is politics based on religion, caste and regionalism. There have been instances where such hate speeches and arousals have led to violence which incurred huge losses to general people.Now, the question that arises here is, what has led to this situation? Is it the politicians that are responsible, or is the people who are to be blame? The fact to be considered while answering this question is that the politicians must be using such vote bank tactics recurrently only because it was working for them. That means that it not only the politicians who are responsible for this situation. All of us, in some form or the other get influenced by factors that don’t really matter if general good of the people is our prime concern.The solution to this problem is what can be called as the politics of ideas. The people must vote only for those who don’t focus on past events or actions of other people but have ideas to solve the current problems. It doesn't mean that we shall not learn from past events and actions of other people but it’s important that after learning from those we must deliberate on the learnings and not on the events or people. While this idea has been present in the hypothetical guidebook of voting since ages, the enlightened youth of India have the capacity to make this a reality.It can’t be denied that some of our leaders are already working on this principle and are putting in huge efforts to make India prosper, it is high time that the people of India (especially the youth) create the ambience that this changes from being a rare quality to a general norm for our politicians.
The Politics of Ideas
1949 AND 1950: IN THE HISTORY OF INDIA
After
the independence movement and the post- independence troubles of partition, it
was time for India to build a nation where people remain in power, where the
government is run by the people and for the people. It was also necessary for
the political leaders to ensure that the basic principles of democracy are not
compromised either by the present government or by the governments that came in
future. It was the time for the birth of the soul of Indian democracy in the
name of the Indian Constitution.
1949
saw the nationalization of Reserve Bank of India, an important player in India’s
financial matters. Tripura became a part of the Indian State and India became a
part of the Commonwealth of Nation in the same. Apart from this, a big leap was
taken forward by the birth of the Constitution of India. The Indian Constitution
was adopted by the Indian Constituent Assembly, an indirectly elected
constituent body meant to draft the Constitution of India, on 26th November,
1949. Two months later, on 26th January, 1950, the constitution came
to force replacing the Government of India Act, 1935 as the governing document
of the Indian Territory. In the same year, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the iron
man of India, died on 15th December, 1950
Indian
Constitution
The
Indian Constitution forms the bases of the Republic of India. The constitution
came to force on 26th January, 1950 as a remembrance to the Purna
Swaraj Declaration of 1930. The constitution of India was drafted by a
constituent assembly composed of the prominent men in the Indian Independence
Struggle. It represented every part of
the country and every section of the Indian Society, a step which was important
to draft the constitution in awareness of the ground realities.
With
the coming of Indian Constitution, Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first
president of India and Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru the first Prime Minister.
1948- In the history of India
The newly born Republic of India was
months old when it entered 1948, a rather eventful year in the history of
India. After 200 years of slavery, India was sovereign and ready to proclaim its
existence in the globe. In was in this
momentous year when India confronted the aggressors from Pakistan in the first
Kashmir War. The princely states of Junagadh and Hyderabad joined the Dominion
of India which earlier insisted on being independent or joined the dominion of
Pakistan. While these events mattered much, the biggest event to take place in
1948 was the assassination of the declared father of the nation and the man behind
Indian Independence, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Assassination of Gandhi
Assassination of Gandhi on 30th
January, 1948 was the biggest event of 1948 and a poignant event in the history
of India. Mahatma Gandhi was shot at a point- blank range from a .38 Beretta
semi-automatic pistol when he was standing on the steps of a building going for
a prayer. The chief- assassin of Mahatma Gandhi was Nathuram Narayan Godse, a
pre-eminent hindu nationalist form Pune. It was a planned murder, for there were
previous attempts to kill Gandhi conspired by Godse. The main line dividing
Gandhi and Godse were Gandhi’s principles of non-violence. While Godse and his
companions were against partition of India even at the cost of blood-shed,
Gandhi desired non- violence over anything else. There were 4 previous attempts
to kill Gandhi, with Godse involved in three of them. In the first attempt of
25th June, 1934 the chief conspirator remains anonymous.
In the events that followed, three
convicts were tried and some of them executed. Vinayak Damodar Sarvarkar- an
Indian Freedom fighter and revolutionary was also arrested but later released due
to lack of evidences. Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte (a hindu activist and entrepreneur; the second conspirator) were sentenced to death while Gopal Godse (brother of
Narayan Godse) was sentenced to life imprisonment. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and
the sons of Gandhiji insisted on overruling the death sentence of Godse and Apte as the man
whom they killed was against violence in any form but the verdict did not
change. Violence followed in Pune (hometown of Godse) and the rest parts of India. The
violence took anti- Brahmin form as most of the conspirators were Maharastrian
Brahmins. Rastriya Swayamseva Sangh (RSS) a pro hindu party was banned as the
main conspirators were believed to belong to the same party.
The
aftermath of the conspiracy says that the assassination of Gandhi was none but
a clash of ideals of two people of different beliefs. Gandhi, a non- violent
leader was killed by Godse who clearly was an apostle of violence believing
blood as the ultimate conclusion.
This
was the first year of Independent India, the year when the moral fiber of
Indian Independence left for heavens. The years that followed was the first
year of India without their Bapu.
65 Years of Indian Independence
India
has a history of many thousands of years, a nation where one of the earliest
human civilizations lived. This piece of land, called the golden bird, was
ruled by many but in its history of over 10000 years it never invaded any other
country. The Sultans and the Mughals, the Rajputs and the Nawabs ruled this
country and only contributed to make it more diverse and even better. This
multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and secular state was ruled by a band of sailors
from an island called the Britain for over 200 years. It was 15th of
August, 1947 when this state became free from the shackles of slavery, to be
ruled by the people in the years that followed.
India, a big player in the history of human existence is rising again to global prominence.
It has been 65 years of growth, development, happiness and definitely freedom.
Men and women have lived in this part of the world the way they have wanted to
and that is what we call democracy. India, the largest democracy has shown the
world what it means to ruled by people. Built on the strong foundations of the
Indian Constitution, the second most populous nation in the world has brought together
people from different religions, caste and creed, and tied them with one knot
of unity.
A
pool of valued engineers and doctors testing the limits of science; and a
nation where traditions still live in the heart of its people, India has made
the two ends meet. A land where cows are worshiped and nature is preached, culture
and traditions never end in India.
In
the 65 years that the Republic of India has lived, the bruises of some injuries
still remain. The bloody partition of India and Pakistan will be remembered on
every Independence Day, in the name of every person who could not breathe the
air of free India. Over 1 million people died in the riots that followed the
partition resulting in blood and tear all over.
While
many Indians have lived their freedom to their fullest, there are people who
still suffer for basic necessities of food and shelter. These slaves of stomach
demand for their freedom too.
Let
every Indian make this Independence day, not only a celebration of the past but
resolution for a better India.
In
the blogs that follow, we look at the events and processes that changed the
face of post-independence India.
Wishing
you a Happy Independence Day.
The End of a People's Movement
The
End of a People’s Movement
5th of April
2011, Anna Hazare rose to public recognition when he sat on a ‘starve till
death’ strike against the widespread corruption in the country. People saw in
him the hope of a corruption free India, and participated in it with the
fullest of their verve and enthusiasm. After the strike at Jantar Mantar, New
Delhi on 5th April, a series of hunger strikes followed. It seemed
that the stubborn government had finally bowed in front of an old man and his
thousands of supporters. Jan Lokpal Bill, a Civil Society formed, edition of
the Lokpal bill which is believed to root out corruption from the nation was
finally considered by the standing committee of the Parliament. But as time flew
the Jan Lokpal was struck in between nothing and the Civil Society believed
that they were cheated by the Government.
The episode of the
hunger strikes ended on the 7th of August,2012 at the same spot
where it all began i.e Jantar Mantar. The Team Anna pronounced that it was
worthless to waste time on hunger strikes while the insensitive government
would sit silently. After ten days of hunger strike of the members of Team
Anna, it was decided that this people’s movement would have to take a political
form. Speculations began that ‘Team Anna’ would now be ‘Anna Party’. General V.
K. Singh, the ex-army general stood with the team Anna and addressed the people
by saying “All you have the power to change the society. With that magic wand,
you have to end corruption.”
While Team Anna did not
make it clear if they will form their own party or find other ways to feed the
best people into the parliament but it is clear that the team which kept
distance from active politics have jumped into this tricky game. In the
language of the Team Anna they will be looking to find a political alternative
to the Congress Party.
The response to this
decision of the Team was mixed among the supporters of Anna Hazare. While some
activists of India Against Corruption voiced their discontent against the
decision; many supported this calling it Final War Against Corruption.
Political Parties welcomed Team Anna into the political arena and made it clear
to the team that a tough road lies ahead.
Time only can decide
whether this was the end of a people’s movement or the birth of a new political
movement which will build a new India.
You can put forward
your views at www.facebook.com/finalwaragainstcorruption.
Indian Boxers at London 2012
Champions
aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside
them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they
have to be a little faster, and they have to have the skill and the will. But
the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali
India is fielding the largest boxing contingent for London Olympics 2012,
with 8 boxers standing in the ring with the Indian flag. 7 men and a woman
boxer MC Mary Kom will form the Indian boxing contingent.
Boxing is the field in which India has performed considerably well in
the past 4 years. While Vijender Singh, the Olympic Bronze Medalist from
Beijing 2008 will be the flag bearer and the poster boy of Indian Boxing
Contingent, women boxer and 5 times World Champion M C Mary Kom is a serious
medal prospect for India.
The Indian boxing team has a perfect mix of experienced campaigners as
well as young blood. Experienced campaigners like Vijender Singh and Mary Kom
will provide the guidance to the young players like Shiva Thapa and Vikas
Krishan Yadav who have made it to the mega event at the small age of 18 and 20
respectively. Boxers in the name of Manoj Kumar, Jai Bhagwan and Sumit Sangwan
have the zeal and gusto to stand tall in the medals tally and improve India’s
overall performance.
Medal Hopefuls in the Boxing Arena for India
Vijender
Singh- This 26 year
old boxer has showcased his ability in the 2008 edition of the games by winning
a bronze medal in the middle-weight category; he will surely want to change the
color this time. After the performance at Beijing, he went on to win bronze
medal in World Amateur Boxing Championship and Bronze medal and Gold medal in
the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games 2010 respectively. Vijender Singh is
surely the Brand Ambassador of Boxing in India and gold in London will be
valuable for him and the sport as well.
M
C Mary Kom-
Mangte Chungneijang Mary
Kom, 29 year old boxer from Manipur is the senior most member of the Boxing
contingent. The five time world champion will be the favorite for the medal in
the flyweight category of Women’s Boxing in London 2012. Though the star boxer
will not be contending in her usual light flyweight categeory in London the
Bronze medal winner from Guangzhou Asian Games 2010, she will still be a tough
challenge for the opponents in Flywieght category.
Indian Boxing is certainly on a rise but there
is still a long way to go. Young boxers like Shiva Thapa may not be the
favorites in this edition of the Olympics; they will surely rise in the years
to come. It’s the time when the every player puts his best foot forward and
wins a medal for India.
Hockey- The Sport with Golden History
Can the sport with the Golden history turn back the Sands of Time and reclaim the lost glory in this year's London 2012.
They may have failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics
2008. They may not be the best team of hockey in the World and they may not be
the favorite team contesting in the Hockey Field of Riverbank arena in London
but the boys with the curved sticks are sanguine about their destiny in London
this year. Bharat Chetri the Indian
Captain when asked about his thoughts on leading the side in London 2012 said
that it was sad not to have qualified for Beijing 2008 and having made it to
London his team is up to make up for it. All the other members of the team are
absorbed in the same feeling of optimism.
India currently is ranked 10th in the world and
expecting a walk through by the Indian team in the competition would be asking
for much but a enhanced performance by the team will surely be an inspiration
for this reborn hockey team. A glorious past and a desire to prove itself, Indian
hockey will be more than motivated in the Olympics this time. Hockey has always
been compared with cricket in India and will continue to be but a good performance
at the centre stage of sport can bear out to be beneficial for the sport’s fate
in the nation. Cricket might seem dwarfed in front of Hockey at the world’s
prospects but one won’t deny that it is something more than a sport in India. This
is a chance for hockey to move out of the shadows of cricket and prove its existence.
Playing against the top teams of the world would be
challenging for this hockey team but as it is said in world of sports, everyday
is a new day. India has had a glorious past in the field of hockey. Winning 11
medals with 8 gold medals, Indian hockey had shown its gut and glory to the
world in the past. Though this team, now, is dependent on foreign coaches for learning
the modern techniques, the proud descendents of Dhyan Chand can stun the world
any moment. Bharat Chetri in a television interview said that if his team plays
to its planning and all the players put in their 100 percent in the team then
there would be no big trouble for them to reach the semi-finals.
India in London Olympics 2012 is placed in Pool B with
Germany, Netherlands, South Korea, New Zealand and Belgium. Indian Team would
be instigating its campaign against Netherlands which is ranked third in the
world. Though rankings don’t support India’s chances, hockey is never played on
statistics. India was clearly the best team in the Hockey Qualifiers held in
New Delhi as they not only defeated teams they bet them with margins. Present
form of this hockey team and the wishes of 121 million people would certainly
help them start on a high note.
Indian Hockey team for London 2012 stands as.
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Reserves
Sarvanjit
Singh
Kothajit Singh
Lineup Courtesy- Wikipedia.org
Stage Set for India to Shine in the London Olympics
People say that the team for London 2012 is the best team from India for Olympics. But the question is can this team put up the best ever performance.
After four years of the
mesmerizing Beijing Olympics 2008, the sporting extravaganza and the mother of
all sporting events is good to be back. London, this time, would be the centre
stage of the world of sports. While China showcased its gut and glory in the
XXIX edition of the games, over two hundred nations would be contesting for the
same this time. 10,500 athletes, 302 events in 26 sports and an expected
audience of over 4 billion, London 2012 promises to be much more than just a
sporting event.
India will be visiting this
mega fiesta with many wishes and wants. India’s performance in Beijing was the
best of the Indian contingent in the history of Olympic Games with one gold and
a couple of Bronze medal, 2012 promises to be much more. The scholars of the sport While the Beijing show was more of an encouragement for Indian athletes, London could be the place where India rises in the world of sports. The likes of Vijender Singh and Sushil Kumar have paved new paths to success in their fields of sports. Boxers were being carved out from young talents like Devendro Singh and Shiva Thapa when Vijender Singh won a bronze for India in Beijing. When a Sushil Kumar toured from an ‘akhada’ in Baprola village to the podium in Beijing, many others living in unknown corners of the nation were motivated.believe that the Indian Contingent for London 2012 is the best contingent ever. The number of serious medal prospects is higher this time as compared to the other Indian contingents in the past. 80 athletes, who have proved their worth at the global level, will be contesting in 57 events belonging to 13 sports categories, with the only aim ‘going for gold’.
Besides the talent and the
hard work of the players other factors also support India’s chances for this
Olympic. Commonwealth Games came to India in 2010 and brought with itself the
necessary infrastructure and equipments to train athletes in the best possible
ways. The government has spent considerable money to bring foreign coaches to
India who acquainted the players with the latest technique of the games. A mix
of experience and young talent is the recipe for success in any field
specifically sports which is evident in this Indian delegation.
London 2012 may be the next
step for India to move from being a Cricket playing nation to a multi-sporting
nation. This is also a chance for sports like boxing, hockey or wrestling to come
out of the shadow of Cricket and prove their individual existence. The Indian
national anthem playing at the sporting arena is wished for, and 121 crore
people are waiting for shining medals. It is then when we call India Shining.
Let the Sport Grow
In India, many cricketers have become billion
dollar babies but national team players of other sports like Hockey struggle
for survival.
Now
let’s talk about one another sport; the proud national sport of Indian
State. The glory brought by this sport
to India is incomparable to any feat in any other sport. Even India’s favorite
sport, Cricket would take years to reach that level. Winning 11 out of the 20
medals India has ever won in the Olympics, this sport has registered India’s
name in the world of sport. But the story does not end here. It was the Moscow
Olympics 1980 when Indian Hockey Team won a gold medal and this was the last
time Indian Hockey won any big tournament. 1980s was the time when two sports
were deciding two different fates for themselves; cricket grew with India
winning the ’83 WC while hockey moved back.
This
was the story of two sports with contrasting fortunes. Here is the question to
be asked Why? Why the hockey team of world beaters could never stand back on
its feet? We don’t ask that cricket must be banned in India to support the
national sport; we ask what cricket did which hockey failed to do? Or is the
reason that India is no more interested in hockey and its cricket that they
want to cheer for? This excerpt from the newspaper The Times Of India published
after India qualified for London Olympic answers the last question- about fans “What does hockey mean to India? Just ask
those who danced into the night as their team beat a feeble French side 8-1 in
the final at the Dhyanchand Stadium. Remember the tears and the smiles on
those ageing men that took hockey to the highest echelons and then painfully
watched it die slowly in front of them. Remember how their faith was restored.”
The
real problem Indian hockey is facing is poor administration and lack of
support. While Cricket moved to a private governing body in the name of BCCI,
Hockey still remains another government run committee getting minimal if not no
attention. How can we leave sport administration to ministers, who most
probably never played. Don’t we need professional and experienced players to
run the sport, which they know? The difference is clearly visible, the BCCI is
organizing domestic leagues to encourage young talent and let the cricketers
make money on the otherhand the stubborn Indian Hockey Association is
threatening player of banning them if they played in a league like the World
Series Hockey.
Even the players who come to play Hockey are playing
because they want to play for their nation unlike cricket where money and fame
waits for you. The treatment received by both Cricketers and the men with
curved sticks is different. While a gradeA cricket player is contracted for Rs.
1 Cr.; a national level hockey player hardly makes 10- 15 Lakhs a year. Looking
at the condition of hockey, even 15 Lakhs is hard to believe. This is all a reflection of poor management.
Hockey
is the pride of the nation.We don’t mean to defame or criticize Cricket, we only
want to ask the people of a nation so passionate about sports; why is its
national sport in danger of survival. We ask the youth to stand and cheer for
the sport which has brought laurels after laurels for India. We ask the youth
to stand in support for the boys of that Dhyanchand whom the world portrayed
with as a man with four arms and four sticks. Only our support for the sport
will force sponsors and managers to help this sport. Let the Dream Revive.The Blurred Line between Faith and Blind Faith
India
is a multi-dimensional nation. Describing India’s one prospect or describing
one section of India can’t define India. While one India is exploring every aspect
of Science through experimentation and reasoning the other India, in this 21st
Century, is still fighting from unexplained superstitions and blind faith.
Through superstitions people are harming themselves and blind faith is
mistakenly understood as faith.
Faith
is just a belief that nothing is unachievable and it inspires individual to
strive for the good. It’s a belief in one’s own self and a trust on the
miracles of hard work which in turn is God. But blind faith is dealing with
destiny which in the sense is insane. People do things which scientifically and
logically are impossible and this is blind faith and superstition.
Many
Babas and self-acclaimed incarnations
of God have successfully exploited this and have made a business out of it
which is the bigger problem. Many Babas have recently been in the news who have
made hundreds of Crores out of this, an amount that all of their followers
could never dream to have. People are blinded by blind faith that they are not
able to demarcate between God’s magic and a devil’s trick.
The
main reason behind blind- faith is lack of education and scientific aptitude
among people. This is not a problem of a nation or a community this problem has
roots at the individual level. Samuel Smiles, a Scottish Author and Reformer
said “Superstitions are based on ignorance and there is no place for
superstitions but in the darkness. The best way to remove superstitions is to
educate the people and give them light of reason. A true knowledge of Nature and God will take
the place of blind beliefs and false traditions and this only can /should be
the death-knell of superstitions.”
Education
remains as the only way to cure the society from this disease of blind faith.
Any wo
Let
the rays of faith inspire our thoughts; and not the darkness of blind-faith
determine our actions.
Human Capital Flight- Brain Drain
Highly Skilled individuals from India are choosing foreign countries
as an arena to showcase their talents. But how is it affecting India?
The dictionary meaning of
Brain Drain says that Human Capital Flight or Brain Drain is the large scale
emigration of a large number of individuals with technical skill or knowledge.
Brain Drain along with being a problem itself is a reflection of all other
problems prevalent in India. It can’t be said that Human Capital Flight is an
obstacle to the development of India but certainly it has contributed to a
slower pace of development. The problem of Brain Drain in India is not a new
born but an age old problem of the 1990s or earlier. The biggest contributors
for Brain Drain are believed to be better lifestyles in the host nation and
better opportunities for progressing. While India has failed to provide the
best opportunities for the most fertile minds host nations have lured them for
their good. Brain Drain has not only deprived the nation of the better ideas
and innovation it has had direct economic effects as well. Statistics reveal
that the brain-drain of software engineers alone costs India $2 billion a year.
The total amount lost from every field of human capital threatens to be enormous.
In a recently released report from the Union HRD Ministry about fee structure
in IIT s said that an average of 8 Lakh is spent on every student for a 4-year
BE course against the meager 2 Lakh paid by the student. This means that for
every student that studies in the IIT and moves abroad to work for MNCs there
is a loss of 6 Lakh rupees. 
Though Brain Drain is a
serious enough problems it’s not all about bad. An interesting statement made
in the period of Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s rule said that it’s better to have brain
drain then to have no brain in the drain. This meant that although through
Brain Drain but its good those individuals are getting employed. Our visionary
ex-president Sir A P J Abdul Kalam said that the 25 million Indians abroad
going for wealth creation who have a strong connection to India is a gain for
us. In a globalised market, people will come and go. Many foreigners will come
here too. Experienced individuals working abroad when return back bring with
themselves new ideas to work which is a big boon.
These benefits do not mean
that brain drain does not need to be tackled. Work has been initiated in this
field but there is still way to go. Government must generate the work
environment and provide the infrastructure necessary to ripe the crop India has
sown. It is also important for the individuals to remember what all the land
has given him. We must remember that we are indebted by our land from the
moment we take our first breath. We must pay back a small fraction by working
in the nation and for the nation. A beautiful India is waiting…get up youth,
it’s all yours.
Bachelor of Corruption
Formally, a person’s intellect was indicated with degrees such as BA,
MA or PhD but in today’s India there are more corrupt than intellectuals. So,
is it the time when we give degrees of corruption to the deserving ones?
Present day India has many
people who have successfully passed their exams of corruption and believe me
the toppers have performed fairly well. Putting a whooping amount of Lakhs of
Crores on their examination paper of bribery and scams the toppers have broken
all the records. As a token of appraisal the toppers were interviewed by the
media, hand-shake by the police, and were offered a free visit to the elite
‘Tihar Jail’ till their lawyer came with Migration Certificates oops I mean
Bail Orders. If someone has performed such great feats it’s almost essential
for us to give them recognition or a degree in a suitable Convocation Ceremony.
Summing, there is no rating in our nation of who is how much corrupt; this
degree will help us do that too.
Let’s start with school
level, anyone who is caught in a scam of a Lakh Rupees or less, gets minimal
media attention and a visit to the local jail, must be offered a degree of
Intermediate. Around 45 Lakh students appeared in the 12th Board
exams this year, so the students with Intermediate of Corruption would be
nearing that number.
Bachelor’s degree must be
offered to someone with a corruption of 10 Lakh or less. Students completing
their Graduation in Corruption would include Bachelor of Corrupt Sciences
(equivalent to BSc), Bachelor of Commercial Corruption (B. Com) and Bachelor of
Art of Corruption (BA). Bachelor of
Corrupt Sciences would include doctors involved in cut practices, men approving
faulty designs for buildings etc. Bachelor of Commercial Corruption will be the
one who tamper official records, increase the prices of products bought with
govt. money to fill in their pockets etc. And Bachelor of Art of Corruption
will be offered to all those who find new and innovative ways to cheat, ways
which can’t fit in the rest of two.
The people with corruption
amounting to 10 Cr. would be offered Master’s degree. These people would be the
powerful people of the corrupt society viz. politicians.
The most elite would be the
ones involved in scams above 10 Cr. Naturally there will be a few of such
people and they will be offered the degree of Doctor of Corruption and
Philosophy.
Corrupt people who fall ill
just at the moment when the police come to take them to jail would be offered
the degree of Bachelor of Corruption and Medicine (equivalent to MBBS) for
knowing the skill to fall ill at the best time.
And the ‘greats’ who come
out of jail even after their guilt is proved would be offered Bachelor of
Corrupt Laws for their outstanding work to trick the court.
Is Bollywood out of Ideas?
Hindi Cinema Industry in India has become a
multi- billion dollar industry but is riding on the horse of sequels and
remakes. Does this industry so self-doubt that putting a new idea on screen
seems suicidal?
It
has been rightly said that India has two passions, cricket and cinema. May be
due to this reason the Hindi Cinema Industry commonly known as Bollywood is
becoming bigger day by day? But is it becoming better?
What’s
needed now is a bunch of movies that not only provide quality entertainment but
make the people think too. Sequels and remakes might be earning a handsome
amount but the film-makers must not wait till the audience to get bored.
Stop
serving us old ‘Cocktail” in new bottle and contribute to sort out nation’s
‘chinta’ instead of doing ‘Chinta ta ta’.
Chase Your Passion, Not Your Pension
In a youth focused blog it was almost mandatory for us to bring light to one of the most troubling challenges that the youth face in their lives–, which is choosing a career. Choosing a career is one of the decisions that not only determine our professional life but also the personal life we are going to live for the rest part of our life. There is a dilemma in the mind of youth of whether they choose a secured career with enough bank balance or the career of their dreams which sometimes may just ensure two square meals. Under parental pressure, expectation of society and many other forces youth choose the former and let their passions die.
"Chase your passion, not your pension", said by Denis Waitley, an American motivational speaker and writer is what the youth need to do. Many a time youth fear to step out of their comfort zone and hence they choose a career that seems the most favorable assuring a secured bank balance. This is mistakenly regarded as success in life. But in reality a man can never be a success if he is not in the pursuit of his dreams.
Men in the world have followed their passion and have failed but that has never made them repent for their choice of career because if you really like doing something, then you always know that you will be successful a day or other. Following your passion is not having an occasional hobby. No. Passion consumes you, and it's impossible to not talk or think about it. In a blog called, “The Art of Non-conformity” writer Gretchen Ruben says it gracefully “The problem with pursuing a job for the money is that in most cases, the big money comes only if you achieve a certain stature or goal. If you don't hit that target, you don't get the money – and you haven't much enjoyed the time you've spent in pursuit. If you follow a passion, you'll enjoy your life as you're working to achieve your goal, so if you don't hit it, you won't have spent all that time in vain.
A generous example of men who have pursued their passion is Mr. Chetan Bhagat – A best-selling author and a much loved youth icon. Mr. Bhagat being an IIT- D, IIM-A product, and employed in a bank in Singapore could have had all the worldly pleasures (looking at the handsome money the bank pays to its employees). But after working for 10 years at the bank, he risked it all and chose his passion to write and today the world knows him better than any investment banker working in Singapore. May be that's why he is our youth icon.
Denis Waitley while addressing a group of recently graduated youth said, “A job is something you do for money. But a career is something you do because you're inspired to do it. You want to do it, you love doing it, and you're excited when you do it. And you'd do it even if you were paid nothing beyond food and the basics. You'd do it because it's your life.”
Choose your passion as your career. The quest for happiness and prosperity by pursuing your passion is worth a shot. Imagine how life would be when you can‟t tell the difference between work and play
Dying Spirits- Into Youth Suicides
Youth, who are believed to be the future of the nation, are losing faith when a single moment went against them. We ask Why?
It’s the moment when a mother sees the dead body of her beloved son who couldn’t face the bare truth of life, it’s the moment when a father sees his dear daughter lose when things went against her, and it’s the moment where life dies.
The world lives on the principles where the fittest survives and is this reason why some youth who face one atrocity in life decide to end it? Is it that they feel that they are not fit for this highly competitive world? Why
one failure makes youth take steps which not only affect them but many around them? Is the feeling so humiliating and intense that dying seems a better option than life?
Today, the youth of India form one of the most vulnerable and psychologically fragile groups, who on one hand are expected to be the leaders, the backbone of tomorrow’s India while on the other hand they form a browbeaten and baffled cluster. But the question here to be asked is whether the problem is in the individual or the system is responsible for youth losing faith in life. The answer is both. Lack of self-belief and a system where only winners are accepted has spurted the cases of youth suicides. If we clearly observe the problem of youth suicides there seems to be a common reason for youth suicides in India. There is a cluster of suicides when there is a season of results or admissions. Does this mean that we must stop taking examinations or admissions to premier institutes must be offered on first come first serve basis? NO, the problem is not with the examination or the admission procedure the problem is in the way our society thinks. Today in most of the houses of India parents decide what their child has to do rather than letting the child decide what he aspires to be. This imposed target starts to haunt the child, parents start overestimating the child, there is competition among friends and there is pressure from teachers, which indeed intensify the fear of failure and in the end the child collapses.
Suicide rates in India are alarming enough to attract the attention of the government. A report released by the Ministry of Health in 2006 says an average of five and a half thousand commit suicide every year. Official report says that student suicides increased by 26% in the five years from 2006 to 2010. These stats make it prerogative for the government to take concrete steps by incorporating changes in the education system, which already is initiated. Vice-chancellor of Ambedkar University, Delhi said “The examination system and the selection process for institutions of higher education weigh heavily on young people. The volume of students passing out of the school education system and vying for admission to tertiary education has dramatically increased over the years, with competition levels increasing too. At a time when higher education can result in social mobility, the stakes are very high. Today, there is a greater link between employability and higher education.” A change in the system may certainly increase the opportunity of students and hence may cause lesser suicides. But along with system, parents are also responsible for this serious problem to a considerable extent. Psychiatrist Dr. Sanjay Chugh said told Times of India, “An inadequate system, coupled with lack of proper social support, pushes students over the brink.” “If a child's parents do not add to the pressure that the education system puts on him, chances are his stress levels will never cross the threshold for suicide” he added.
Though the Government has come forward to protect the dying future; parents, teachers and the victims themselves must cooperate. Teachers and parents must find signs of depression in students and help the one who are the needful. Parents must limit their role to mentors and not masters in deciding the career of their child.
Parents must encourage their child to perform well in exam but should not highlight this as the deciding point between life and death.
Suicide attempters must think and rethink if it is the last way to solve the problem. They must understand that in the process of killing themselves they are killing various relationships such as a father, a mother, a sister, a brother and a friend. One must understand the value of life and believe in the miracles it can perform even after failure in some exam. Killing is not the solution.
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