the idiotic movie

Congratulations to HT and Sagarika ('idiot is as idiot does', Saturday January 16, 2010), at last I saw space given to some sensible discussions on the '3 idiots'. The discussion finds true relevance in the current situation when we are noticing some clear design to dilute our school studies (Kapil Sibal's?? vision) and also to wipe out the standard of our higher education (courtesy UGC-cum-Knowledge Commission efforts). While American President Obama urges his fellows to spend more time in the classrooms if they want to compete with Asian students, we are hell bent on aping them and lose our edge in this regard in the name of stress factor. I myself have been witness to the fact that even an average Indian student has always done very well in the West once he/she gets an opportunity. And this is precisely because an average student here spends much more time in studies than they do. Stress due to studies has always remained an urban phenomena in India. In my view, students do not feel the pressure of studies here, in fact they feel pressure for not able to justify their urge in spending time for unlimited fun that is at their easy-disposal in a metro-life. They find it difficult to get time for late-night partying, they do not get time for unnecessary biking and TV viewing, they get little justification for their urge for wasting time and money with their girlfriend/boyfriend in multiplexes, malls, useless video games and restaurants. Still these factors are much less compared to the avenues of fun that the students have at their disposal in the West. It is probably West's vision that if their students are not able to increase their time in studies then at least get the Asian students somehow out of the classes.
'bachpan toh gaya, jawani bhi gayi...ek pal toh hame jine doh' -- this great lyrics tells you that parents of the three idiots were still enjoying their youth while those idiots could not!!!! It was absurdly-funny to have those idiots seen as crying (instead of their parents!!!) that 'sari umra to mar-mar ke ji liye, thoda sa ab hame jine doh jine doh'. I have seen genius students in my more than 20 years of teaching career, but I am yet to encounter one who never prepares for any examination but still manages to top the class. As I understand, a genius of 'Amir'- kind, who is shown to be only interested in learning the subject, goes on to become a very good researcher, he can build a medical equipment using a vacuum cleaner but unfortunately it is only idiotic to show that he tops the batch by writing the answers better than the 4th idiot 'Chatur' and that too when the answer sheets are being marked by professors like Virus!

Women Empowerment!

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I was shocked to see the advertisement (Mail Today, published on December 31, 2009, page 29) showing smiling and pleased-parents while seeing their drunk daughter, dressed in micros, being helped by a driver of a radio taxi to make her reach her home. Ms Kanika Gahlaut (Mail Today, January 7, 2010, ‘fashion addict’ LIFEstyle page 26) has tried to analyse the scene from entirely an extra-intellectual perspective (in a way that avoids attention of the 'pink chaddies' campaigners), but let me admit that I am not afraid of their ‘pink chaddies’ in case they decide to fling this way as I know that they do not need them any way! Kanika, you are missing your own point. Fact is that however liberal you try to become (by asking questions on the relevance of any kind of moral policing) there is always something that can always shock you and make you a moral police as you did in your article by stating what one actually wears (thereby meaning that what one should wear) while going for a drink-party (of course in order to lose their senses). According to my sensibilities, if women think there is nothing wrong in falling-drunk in someone’s lap as long as ‘licking the pavement’ after getting drunk is avoided; if they think that there is nothing wrong in ‘bending over a pot with their fingers down the throat’ as far as they take precautions for not ‘displaying their knickers’ while doing so and if they think that there is nothing wrong in ‘losing their dignity’ if they are doing so without ‘compromising their modesty’, then it just means that they can never agree with somebody who has a problem with all these in their first instances itself. On the other hand how can you be so sure that no women would like to go for the extremes that have been projected by you as avoidable?
Truth is that if (as Kanika means) women think that they will not live to men’s fantasy if they get drunk with all their clothes on, then they just do not know men. Men know that one step will lead to the other. Men fantasise about drunk-woman who can be dressed (undressed?) according to their wishes. If women think that it is they who enjoy while drinking in a party then I must enlighten them that in fact men enjoy more in seeing them drinking. All men, of course those who do not enjoy their family life, encourage women to take up drinking so that they can enjoy their company. These men know that in the name of women liberation and women empowerment they can always make women to live their fantasies while making them realise that they are actually being empowered. These men know that in the name of making artistic calendars, bold movies and happening parties they can satisfy their porno-hungry intents. I can only hope that instead of flinging ‘chaddies’ towards others and dancing-drunk to the tunes of the fantasies of these disgruntled men they just start wearing them.