Where Human Is an External Hard Drive…

Krishna came home very tired and irritated. He looked at his watch and it was 6:00 pm. When he had left  home to school, it was 7:00 am and he had been nowhere else but tied to his seat in the classroom except for a few recesses. He sighed very badly and shouted at everybody at home, for his tuition teacher would be  there any minute. Why is he pushed to attend tuition? Because the school teachers do not teach anything and if they do it, they do not do it well and if the students raise doubts, they scold them and make them sit for their  incompetence. Though they did not clear the Teachers’ Eligibility Test the government had conducted a few months back, they still shamelessly bossed around at schools, bullying the children, not doing their duty properly. Yes they have failed. But why has not the government taken any action on them? Why are those unfit people holding on to their seats yet? But that shall be a question to the government. What about Krishna now? When  should Krishna attend tuition classes? Well, it is only a matter of two hours after school, every day in the evening.

What kind of a school is that? Why should he start so early? Is the school too far away? These might be the questions that might arise in our minds. But what was really happening? The school had stopped teaching the IX grade syllabus to the IX grade students where Krishna too belonged and have started teaching them  grade X syllabus and extra time! In our great country, especially in Tamilnadu, education is very important and particularly the end of grade X and the end of grade XII examinations are very crucial. The more marks you  score, the more chances you have to become a doctor or an engineer. Other professions are not even in the list. Even if the child wants to become something else, the parents want their children to be either doctors or engineers. Why? You will get more money!!! – They say. There is no need to understand anything and learn in India, at least if you are in Tamilnadu. All that you have to do is to show the numbers. How can someone get good marks in grade X exams when they have not learnt grade IX portions? Oh! We are forgetting something, you just need to get marks. It doesn’t matter whether you understand what you are learning or not. The parents here, at Tamilnadu love their children a lot. They cannot see them suffer by learning but they should somehow get good marks. So, they would vote any party into power that would diminish the standards of the syllabus and encourage  the teachers to ask solved examples from behind the text book as the questions. If the person setting the question paper changes even the punctuation mark in the question while preparing the public exam question paper, then there are parent teachers’ associations that are ready to file cases against the exam control under “out of syllabus” plea. So it is all about memorising and reproducing and that is what people call in India, at least in Tamilnadu that is strictly being followed. All hail democracy and the government! We have all become nothing more than external hard drives for computers that can store information in memory and exactly reproduce the same.

Oh screw the system I say! What about the teachers? Can’t they at least oppose the system? After all they are the ones who are ru(i)n(n)ing the system. Aha! When they are ineligible for the job, how can they oppose anything? They would not even understand the system in the first place, for their logical brains do not  exist. Who is the root cause of all these stupid problems? PARENTS!  - Simple answer. If you are a parent who is scowling at me right now for blaming you, then think about what you are right now. Don’t you keep telling your kids to either become an engineer or a doctor? Have you not

set any one of these as your child’s target even without his or her knowledge? Are you okay with whatever career your child wants to pursue? Have you ever questioned the government about such a bad system? Have you voted the right person? You are the ones who are setting examples to your kids aren’t you? You claim to be the reason for what your kid is today and what he or she might become tomorrow and only if the kid grows  up  to be a handsome money earner. To you, success has always been earning more money isn’t it? If you are a rich parent who has enough for generations, you might not have such trains of thought or if you are a very poor parent, even then you would not have any such thoughts, for whatever your child wants to be, you would have been supportive. But the majority is the middle class families or as the buzz word goes today, the clan of “Aam aadmi”.

How does this affect the quality of the system and the education in the country on the whole? Well, here it is. There are kids who work as per their parents’ intentions and there are kids who have their own individuality who do not perform well under that amount of pressure that the PARENTS put on them to improve the numbers on the report cards. The former ones are the loved children and the latter ones are not liked by their parents that much. Today, like education, parenting has also become a business. I pay for you to go and attend the best school in town and I want good returns in terms of marks, so that I could tell my peers gladly  about the same and boast about paying so much for that prestigious college or school or whatever it is. Everyone cares for what the others would think about them. What does my child want? What would make him or her happy? What talent has he or she got and how can we help him or her build that? Not all parents think on these lines. Of course there cannot be a world without understanding parents. But India, at least Tamilnadu is one place where this prestige issue of having a son or daughter in medical or engineering college could be seen very commonly.

So how does this affect the quality of teachers anyway? Only those who fail to gain an entry into the engineering and medical colleges, the ones who have no scores on the card and on the bank pass books have to search to become someone else in the society. Yes! There are no entrance exams, critical and logical thinking is prohibited in this state! Yes, if you do not get the marks, if your parents have a heavy wallet, you could become an engineer or a doctor! Everything is based on numbers dude! I have a few batch mates who bought their way  into medical seats and engineering seats. No wonder why bridges suddenly collapse, why treatment fails and  patients die, wrong disease diagnosis, etc. I am scared to even go to a doctor these days. Would he know anything at all? How will I know? So, when both money and marks do not help, parents want  their children  to  go in search of the  next best profession. Since education is the next big business, they say “My child, go  now and get a science degree, get a B. Ed and then join the school to teach little children. Teaching is a holy profession too. In fact, it is holier than being a doctor. They are paying well these days!” So, people who do not have a choice become teachers. Since they are never used to “understanding”, they are unable to make people understand and the chain continues to rust. I am so fortunate that I belong to one of the last batches of students who had at least few inspiring teachers at school and at the university who shaped me up. Now I go to my school, all those teachers I had have either retired or have left the job because it is not that rewarding in terms of satisfaction.

I have no superpowers to change things overnight. Not I have a political or monetary backup to influence those who are capable of facilitating the needed reforms. I am just a stupid ENGINEER who

loves science, stranded in the streets, not certain about anything! Nor can I call myself a crusader and have people behind my back to support my cause. This is a cursed land, Tamilnadu. We are scared about changes. We do not want any alternatives and however ad the present options are, we prefer to be with them. We want a peaceful life. We do not want to experiment with lives. We want it all easy going. No wonder all revolts and riots for any social cause including the freedom struggle had so much effect in this land. We would only change if those so called LEADERS of ours change. When they announced the Teachers’ Eligibility Test, I expected a change, a scrutiny, a reform. But nothing seems to have changed. Is everything a political stunt and nothing else? What happened to the case on the private schools in the state that collected more money from the parents? They are  still happy and collect the same fees. Nothing happened to them. What is change? Where is the way? I  wonder… All those students and parents out there who are reading this, can we bring about the real change and not just talk about it?

Religion Should Be A Way of Life and Not A Way to Ruin Life

India is a country that is supposed to be secular. In reality, we are just trying to be tolerant and not secular. Thanks to the Professor who taught me that Secularism means “forming and running a government without the influence of religion” that I now completely understand that we are the least secular set of people ever. Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam became the president of India only because the then BJP central government wanted to prove that it was not against any religion, especially Islam, even though they have their fair stake in the Babur masjid attack.

 Anything and everything that is simple, is being blown out of proportion if the religion element gets added to it. The one reason that has led me to write this is the recent development on Kamal Hassan's film “Viswaroopam”. The film features a villain who is a Muslim and hence the movie is facing a number of cases under the plea "Anti-muslim". In fact, the movie “Thuppakki” also faced a similar situation. There is one thing that we all must agree to and that is, in reality, the major terrorist groups are all based on one religion called ISLAM and most of them originate from the middle-east or the north-westernmost part of Asia where all the Islamic Republics are crowded together. It was Jinnah and a few other stupid people who wanted the country split into three pieces based only on religion and not to mention the stupid Theory of “New relationship after Divorce”. We are still paying alimony in many ways. 

The movies are not portraying Muslims to be bad. If there is a situation that demands narrating a conflict or a crisis between two nations, one being majorly Hindu and the other purely being Islam, one should go with the story and be happy that the villain is from the other nation and not our own. It is all about nationality damn it! and nothing else. It is Gandhi’s, Jinnah’s and Nehru’s fault if all Pakistanis are Muslims. It is Pakistan’s fault if it produced militants and terrorists out of its womb. Being an Indian Muslim, depicting a Muslim terrorist  should not be bitter at all, as it is a war that is being fought for the country and not for the religion. If being in India and watching films that depict those criminals is bitter, then that person must choose to go and live in a place like Pakistan.

Hindu is the way we native Indians live and we are tolerant to let the other invaders and converted people live the way they like. Islam is not the religion of this nation. Hinduism is! There is no religion that is lesser than the other, unless it provokes unwanted terrorism. The incident where our very own Hindu Home Minister alleged the BJP for unleashing the HINDU TERROR is very depressingly contrasting to what the other people are up to. He is only doing that to prove that he is a so called secularist and that the BJP, his opponents have to be put down and it has got nothing to do with the non-existent love for the nation. He even goes an extra mile to add respect to terrorists and call them with "ji" as suffix! Asshole! People, please get real. We are all teamed up as nations to fight and there is no other system of classification that is healthy or important in the present situation. Why can’t we think about India as a single nation and as nothing else? When are we going to get real, face the real issues with a broad mind and stop halting the judicial and legal systems in the nation by dropping in heavy baggage of unwanted shit??? Can someone file a case against Google for showing images of only Muslims when searched with the keyword "Terrorist"?

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=Hindu-Muslim&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=OTcEUYTqI5C0rAe1hYCICA&biw=1366&bih=641&sei=VTcEUdXkAcK4rAfM5IGIBg#um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Terrorist&oq=Terrorist&gs_l=img.3...80269.80406.14.80578.2.2.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c.1.DOjdjiscLgU&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41524429,d.bmk&fp=1025e31a56deff2b&biw=1366&bih=641

Talking about the religions, one should read the history to find that India was a country that never indulged in any conquests. It was so only because of the religion that was quite straight forward and held people stronger and focused towards greatness and not about killing someone who does not follow what the religion says. It has always been about live and let live. It is really good to be obsessed with god and Hinduism did that to the people really well. If there is something that is going wrong, it is nice to go and talk to THE GOD like a friend and that would help ease up the pain. If there is happiness, again it is time to give credits to THE GOD and not let it go to the head too much and ruin oneself and their relationships, for people generally do not like one who is filled too much with the self. But still, everything has a limit. The main point that I am trying to make here is that we have to fight as a nation and be united albeit so many differences and give sense to the proud slogan we attach to our nation - "Unity in Diversity!". If not, we have to prepare ourselves to be put down by domination, possibly by the USA or by China, if China becomes more powerful than any other nation in the world by several folds. (Which is what the Chinese want right now and they are working together for the same!)

There are even possibilities that they both gang-up on us! So we have to be together as a nation!

If all the Muslims in India take their Muslim role model to be Dr. A. P. J who fought the Pakistani nuclear threat with his "Indian" inside of him and not as a person who practices ISLAM, then there would be no reason to make a great deal about silly things like these.

JAI HIND!

Shy To Claim Your Own Rights People? SHIT!

When a beggar comes begging to us, we look at that person and immediately become judgmental. I have seen that only old ladies and old men or those who have a disability would be given money by the people. Even if someone gives these beggars, some money, then that would mostly be Rs 2 and not much. We think that it would be more than enough? Well, really? What can we get today? A small groundnut chikki costs 2 Rs today and in some hotels, one single idly costs 15 Rs!!!

That is just one side. Here is the other side. I had been to a nearby bakery to get some fresh bread 2 days ago. Two guys, roughly of my age came up to the shopkeeper and asked him to give them each, a bottle of coca cola 200 mL. They asked how much they had to pay and the shopkeeper demanded Rs 12 for each bottle. There are advertisements all around the country that says that coca cola 200 mL glass bottle is now selling at Rs 8 per drink. I was really shocked to see that the boys paid up without even looking at the price tag printed on the neck of the bottle. The slicing and packing of the loaf of bread that I had asked for, was taking some time and I could not stand this ignorance from their part. So i calmed myself down, politely called one of them and explained that they are paying 50% more for their drink.

For the news: http://post.jagran.com/coca-cola-lowers-price-of-200ml-coke-bottle-to-rs8-1329391820


That guy looked a the price tag and told the other one that I was right. I was happy momentarily and to my horror, the other one said that its ok and that they shouldn't ask the shopkeeper about it. They had their drink and vanished. I had a talk with that shopkeeper about this and he told me that generally the bottle comes with an MRP tag of Rs 10per piece and they sell it at Rs 12 per piece and he did not notice that the MRP had dropped by Rs 2! ignorant shopkeeper? Good for him!!! Then I asked him "WHY 2 RS extra?" he replied...."I am chilling the bottle". So, people, what does MRP inclusive of all taxes mean?


I am still unable to digest this that I thought of punching my keys rather than punching those faces!

Who SHOULD save this Nation?

JAI HIND!

I Do Not Know Who To All(o)y With : DMK and Congress Bleed

     If there is something in this world that is devoid of principles, then it is coalition politics in India. The parties are not ready to go by principles and to support the good "RAMA RAJYA". If not for the good of the people, should they not have some self respect and adherence to their own principles?

     For the congress, the AIADMK worked as the most suitable partner in Tamilnadu when it was headed by Mrs. Indira Gandhi for the former and Mr. M. G. Ramachandran for the latter. It worked well even with the leadership changed to Mr. Rajiv Gandhi and Ms. J. Jayalalithaa respectively. Suddenly when it was Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, the present empress of the great nation, India, there was a tussle and the ally broke up. Neither of the two wants to discuss about the reasons behind the same. Then Ms. J. J took seriously to the side of BJP and the Congress fixed itself to the only alternative in the state, the DMK, led by Mr. M. Karunanidhi and his family.

         Everything was so good and satisfying after joining hands with DMK for the congress in Tamilnadu. With the then chief minister Ms. J. Jayalalithaa having tortured the government officials, lost all her Lok Sabha seats to the DMK. Not one sir, not even a single seat was won in her name or her party's name. The Congress Matriarch was so happy to have gotten away from the AIADM Matriarch. 2004 Lok Sabha elections they were and the congress was not a significant majority in the UPA I government. So Sonia and the hence the congress had to dance to the tunes of Karuna. With the DMK back to power, that too forming a MINORITY government with other parties supporting it from the outside (not participating in the government), the next Lok Sabha elections were scheduled. As it was, the people did not vote the DMK to power at the state full confidence and so did the power of DMK diminished in the UPA II, as Congress itself earned a significant majority of the coalition and even now, Karuna wanted the UPA to dance to his (him and his family included) tunes.

But now, Sonia wanted to show her true power. She let the DMK do all the mischief it wanted and when she saw that the AIADMK would come to power, she wanted to change tracks. She wanted to patch up with JJ. She made the government expose and investigate the WORLD FAMOUS 2G SPECTRUM SCAM and staged DMK, as a single party, to have carried out the entire scam while Congress was stain free. She tried breaking the bond, even by arresting the DMK chief's third wife's only daughter POET and MP Kanimozhi and delayed her bail. Still, no use. Jayalalithaa remained and remains till date, keen to not form any bonds with congress, at least until Sonia Gandhi is its dictator. The Tamilnadu state assembly was over and Jayalalithaa replaced Karuna as the shepherd of Tamilnadu and the state's monarch.

Still Sonia was confident to make ties with Jaya as she was sure that if she had to make congress continue with DMK which has recently been earning a bad name from all over the country and from the people of Tamilnadu itself, then she will have to renounce her title of being the empress of India.

As far as all parties are concerned, being in power is the only motto, for if they are not, their scams in their reign would be exposed and if they come back, they could scale up all the scams and increase the rate at which the tax payer's money can be looted. By traveling once by economy class, nothing has changed in the principle Mrs. Foreign Empress.

Now the route is clear for the Ms. JJ led AIADMK government at the state for another three years at least and it can be in POWER (although there is no power in the state), that too with a thumping single party majority and the party is clear about not having congress as its ally. The friendship between the Gujarat CM Mr. Narendra Modi and Ms. JJ, between the Bihar CM Mr. Niteesh Kumar and Ms. JJ, all indicates clarity, while the Congress and the DMK, who both want to be out of the bond have no other choice but to stay along.

DMK hates the communal BJP and Congress, although it has tried its best, could not even divert a single ray of attention from the AIADMK. STUCK without any choice!

As a token of Love and respect the Congress had shown Karuna and his beloved daughter in the recent past under the CBI investigation, Karuna kept the centre guessing about his support to the government to continue and his support for the FDI in retail. With so many congress leaders (not sonia) being sent as messengers, even the PRIME MINISTER (King) was sent by the EMPRESS as a MESSENGER but nothing happened. Finally, the Shameless DMK chief has agreed to support the motion. This is the problem with aged people. They cannot remember anything properly. There are chances that Karuna (unable to do his daily activities without another person's help) might even say DOWN DOWN DMK and I LOVE YOUR JAYALALITHAA MADAM and fall at her feet due to the effects of age on his mind and brain. This is a very bad move to be taken as the chief of a DRAVIDIAN party.

Could the Deal be FDI for Safety of Kanimozhi? Who cares about the Aam Aadmi? In tamil, one calls an Idiot by the name "Maangaa" meaning Aam and I think that this name would perfectly fit us if we continue to let these idiots ru(i)n the nation.

Just because they are out of options and stuck together, GOD knows what would happen. No one cares about the people even as much as the people care about these stupid Political parties!!!

JAI HIND!

Politics a Profession - Nice Idea ?!?!

We all know about the most revered President of India of all times, Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam and his repeated insist on the power of the Youth. We are also aware of the fact that India is a nation with the majority of the Youth in the world and could do wonders within a very short time. Are these just statements that we hear to make ourselves feel good or do they really have any meaning? What do they mean by the youth? Are those children of very old political leaders called youth of the nation although they are biologically grandfathers and grandmothers? Are those grey haired men and women who are stuck with the youth wing for years together, struggling to get their names on billboards at least through the youth wing if not a chance provided by the core political party, the youth of the Nation? Well, a man of 40 with a family and children of his own cannot be the youth representative of the nation, for his thoughts would move into how to make his child and his family rich and powerful. Neither can a man of 40 who has foreign girlfriends but has a celibacy celebrity status should be that. But you turn the pages of Indian media; you would find only these men and women being portrayed as the YOUTH ICONS of the Nation.

We all learn at school that Democracy, from the words of Lincoln, the form of government FOR the people, OF the people and BY the people. But I sincerely feel that Democracy is FAR OFF from the people and is being used to BUY the people as commodities and slaves. Have we misunderstood the crux of democracy? Are those M.L.A s and M.Ps our representatives or our monarchs? Have we forgotten that the power is truly ours? Today, a member of the crowd that sends these representatives to the house gets arrested because he criticises the government or the offspring of a very influential politician in the government, on a social networking site. When there is no right to freedom of expression, can we call this a real democracy? If those people who send the representatives to the house cannot voice their opposition against the representatives, this is not even benevolent dictatorship and definitely not democracy at all, but a carefully planned slavery! If there is one dictator and the rest of the world obeys, then we can call anything that spirals down in the system to be the fault of one person. But today, there are so many dictators (rather gundas) and a group of slaves who elect their own masters. These representatives are seen on posters and hoardings and rarely amidst the public only when there is an election. Where do they go rest of the time when they are not easily reachable in their offices and when they do not even go and sit in the proceedings of the house to which they were elected to? Even if some do, they do not open their mouths except for yawning or gossiping or having something to eat. How many of our representatives have spoken in the houses at least once? Are CIVICS and POLITICAL SCIENCES just additional burden as non-scoring subjects to the students of the country? What do they really learn from them? For about one hundred marks in the exam, twenty goes for internal evaluation, majority goes for learning History and Geography and the student goes about thinking why should I learn a whole series of lessons when only a few questions would come from them? After all, my parents and the society are worried about the numbers that I score from the exams and not what I really know or not? 

The Idea of an “Opposition Party” is yet another headache in this country, although created for good reasons. When a particular party comes out of the government and becomes the opposition, only then that party would project itself as the best asset that the people had lost by casting votes to the other party. Even then, the focus of the opposition parties in the nation seems to be at pinpointing the so called RULING parties and not centred at the development. The RULING party concentrates on attacking the opposition and the vice versa, which then boils down to one thing and that is entertainment under the blanket of running the nation. Instead of opposing the wrong deeds of the policy making party, these opposition parties seem to resort to taking down on whatever policies that the party in power comes up with. 

Whose mistake is this mess anyway? If we still call this a DEMOCRATIC setup, then it is our very own dear mistake. Every problem that we face as a nation ultimately has its roots on the governing body and on the fact that we have not chosen the right people. There are names of leaders both living and dead that we could quote and call to be visionaries. But it is not just in the hands of the leader, but vests within the entire hierarchy. As we move down the hierarchy, the spirit of the leaders seems to vanish and the elements of selfishness and materialism take an upper hand, pushing the people to clean the shoes of those representatives who are supposed to work FOR the people. Are we independent? There are some leaders who are well known to have conspired against the founder and taken their place as party presidents, only to establish a multilateral lineage of their family into politics, power and money. 

A few questions that I have been asking myself since I was 14 include: Why only a few people in politics? What happens to the new ones who come into the picture? Is it someone’s birth right to be the RULER because he or she has the genes of the RULERS? Is the government really made of representative or do we have no choice but to vote for those known devils that tend to RULE us and make themselves rich? Almost all political leaders today have come from a humble background or even have had nothing to eat but scraps but seem to have a lot of money in both black and white and yet are not being punished for the same; is politics the best business today where everything is legal? Do the law and its enforcers even know to spell equality? Are Engineering and Medicine the only career options for the real youth of the Nation? Why do we fear change and struggle to trust the known devils to magically transform into selfless angels? Why is the FORM ‘O’ not an option in the secret ballot? 

The attitude of the people towards politics and the politicians must change. Instead of thinking of politics to be something to shun away from and reserving the most powerful domain of the society for select families to monopolise and exploit, should not we actively engage? Who is the real youth? Is it a group of someone who writes GRE, IELTS, TOEFL etc, flee elsewhere to make personal life comfortable while someone votes in his or her name in the national polls? Should we only fill the coffers of other governments? Should we only accuse the present governance and not actively participate in making a change? Should we fear changes? My dear brothers and sisters please do think. We might travel worldwide in quest of knowledge. But once we have enough, shouldn’t we invest it in our land and make the best use of it? Are we going to take all the money with us when our physical selves depart? Should not we actively engage in politics and bring in a change? Shouldn’t we change the scenario from “Being impossible to get a voter ID on time” to “Being able to drive the government to new heights?” I wonder…