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!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
the idiotic movie
Friday, January 8, 2010
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Answer Please
(published in the college magazine of the Physics Department in its 2009. To view this please visit http://kmcollege.com/colleges/notes-tut/112718052010131540.1.pdf on pages 26-29)
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With due respect to Darwin’s theory, I have always felt great difficulty in accepting it. I could never ignore the striking distinction between us and all other creatures of earth. Physically and structurally it is said that we are at the end of the evolution-chain. We are made to notice the gradual change in the structure of the creatures placed in this chain. But why it is that there is no such gradual change in the mental strength of the creatures on our earth? Chimpanzees are understood to be just before us in this chain and attempts are made to show that brain-wise they are closest to us. But is this statement true for each creature placed in this chain? Can’t we notice a catastrophic shift in the mental strength of human beings from all other creatures?
With due respect to Darwin’s theory, I have always felt great difficulty in accepting it. I could never ignore the striking distinction between us and all other creatures of earth. Physically and structurally it is said that we are at the end of the evolution-chain. We are made to notice the gradual change in the structure of the creatures placed in this chain. But why it is that there is no such gradual change in the mental strength of the creatures on our earth? Chimpanzees are understood to be just before us in this chain and attempts are made to show that brain-wise they are closest to us. But is this statement true for each creature placed in this chain? Can’t we notice a catastrophic shift in the mental strength of human beings from all other creatures?
What evolution???
What I notice is that the human beings are quite different from all other creatures of earth. Only we need clothes! Only we need cars! Only we need factories! Only we need electricity! Only we need pens! Only we need fans! Only we need cinema! Only we need guns! Only we need nuclear bombs! Only we need fridges! Only we need air-conditioners! Only we need ovens! Only we need fuels! Only we need papers! Only we need telephones! Only we need plastic! Name a single creature that needs even a pin! In fact, use of technology and learning from research activities separates us from all other creatures on earth. But strikingly, that is what goes against the nature!
And this is why there is another big ‘only’ with us! We are the only ones who try to imbalance nature!
What I notice is that the human beings are quite different from all other creatures of earth. Only we need clothes! Only we need cars! Only we need factories! Only we need electricity! Only we need pens! Only we need fans! Only we need cinema! Only we need guns! Only we need nuclear bombs! Only we need fridges! Only we need air-conditioners! Only we need ovens! Only we need fuels! Only we need papers! Only we need telephones! Only we need plastic! Name a single creature that needs even a pin! In fact, use of technology and learning from research activities separates us from all other creatures on earth. But strikingly, that is what goes against the nature!
And this is why there is another big ‘only’ with us! We are the only ones who try to imbalance nature!
Are we destructors???
We are the only creature that is not satisfied with what the nature has naturally given us. We want more even if it comes at the cost of the nature. Population growth creates burden on earth but remarkably only in the case of human beings.
Sometimes I think that probably human beings are planted on earth and that is why we are unfit to live here. We fight to live here somehow. Are we destined to destroy earth and lives on it? Aren’t we working in that direction? Most of our technological developments are in fact our fight against the nature. What is medical science? Even that is our fight against nature? Why do we want to fight against nature to stay longer on earth and create another imbalance on earth? Only we are the cause of greenhouse effect! Only we are the reason behind global warming! None of the other creatures can be blamed for developing weapons of mass destruction!
We are the only creature that is not satisfied with what the nature has naturally given us. We want more even if it comes at the cost of the nature. Population growth creates burden on earth but remarkably only in the case of human beings.
Sometimes I think that probably human beings are planted on earth and that is why we are unfit to live here. We fight to live here somehow. Are we destined to destroy earth and lives on it? Aren’t we working in that direction? Most of our technological developments are in fact our fight against the nature. What is medical science? Even that is our fight against nature? Why do we want to fight against nature to stay longer on earth and create another imbalance on earth? Only we are the cause of greenhouse effect! Only we are the reason behind global warming! None of the other creatures can be blamed for developing weapons of mass destruction!
Who are we???
Whereas other creatures seem to be adjusting well with not only the life but also the death planned for them on earth, we are satisfied with neither of them. Whereas others behave as if they are on earth just to live their life, we want to enjoy and extend our stay here! Whereas others give the impression that they are here with a purpose that goes beyond their life on earth, we are entirely ignorant of any other purpose. One who does not know the entire dynamics and purpose of our lives and beyond, can only take a ‘Kalidas approach’ of cutting the branch on which he hangs!! In the absence of any knowledge of the purpose of our stay on earth beyond our lives, we are here ultimately to destroy earth!!
Are we all here serving some sentence given somewhere else beyond the known boundaries of life? Are we in a prison? Are we already in a hell or heaven? Something is missing.
Whereas other creatures seem to be adjusting well with not only the life but also the death planned for them on earth, we are satisfied with neither of them. Whereas others behave as if they are on earth just to live their life, we want to enjoy and extend our stay here! Whereas others give the impression that they are here with a purpose that goes beyond their life on earth, we are entirely ignorant of any other purpose. One who does not know the entire dynamics and purpose of our lives and beyond, can only take a ‘Kalidas approach’ of cutting the branch on which he hangs!! In the absence of any knowledge of the purpose of our stay on earth beyond our lives, we are here ultimately to destroy earth!!
Are we all here serving some sentence given somewhere else beyond the known boundaries of life? Are we in a prison? Are we already in a hell or heaven? Something is missing.
Do you have answers???
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Cattle-Class Debate
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Who got hurt by the 'cattle-class-remark'? The fact is that those who understand merely the meaning of these ‘words’ never got hurt. A miniscule of our population who belong to the ‘cattle-class’ of a plane-journey is feeling the bruises left by the sharp edges of the words that Mr. Tharoor used. Only this class knows the way this phrase is used by the people of the developed country. But those who cannot afford to be even of that class are not bothered. The whole print and visual media and all the channels today took pains to remind the ‘rail-class’ and ‘bus-class’ that what idea Mr. Tharoor would be having of these classes if he thinks such of the economy-cattle-class. Let me tell them that they need not tell this to them since these classes know from ages that they belong to the ‘insect-class’. Nobody would feel agitated by this well known ‘revelation’. The ‘cattle-class’ wants the support of ‘insect-class’ in condemning the statement since they are in a miniscule minority. But unfortunately (for them) the 'insect-class' know their worth. Nobody needs a reminder to recall the differential compensations routinely announced by the concerned minister when a bus meets an accident, when a train accident takes place and when a plane hijacking occurs. It was the ‘cattle-class’ along with the ‘elite-class’ for whom the deal was made in ‘Kandahar’. It is anybody’s guess as to what would have happened even if only ‘cattle-class’ were present on the flight. The plight of the ‘cattle-class’ is that they were thinking hitherto that the ‘insect-class’ was in fact the ‘cattle-class’!
It is the media that is these days running our country. Due to this an opinion gets undue attention over another opinion not only because of the merit of the case. Media in India, is working like ad-campaigners. It is first decided by them that what is to be given attention and then all of them start beating the same track. I am yet to see the media remaining aloof when the gay community-verdict is discussed. I am yet to see a balanced approach from them whenever Mr. Narender Modi is mentioned in any context. I have always seen the media clearly taking a side when views about RSS and its Parivar are discussed. It is the ‘elite-class-gays’ and the ‘cattle-class-gays’ who are listened to while a discussion takes place. Those who sit in the opposition to this verdict invariably belong to the ‘insect-class’ and never get a proper representative for their views. Who does not want board examinations? In our system it is the examination-marks that is often used by the ‘insect-class’ to show their supremacy over the ‘cattle-class’ and the ‘elite-class’ combined. Now they want to use their class-identity to off-set a difference that may exist between two same-grade students. It is very clear that the ‘cattle-class’ and the ‘elite-class’ are heard by the media when they want sex-education (meaning ‘education-for-sex’) in schools whereas the ‘insect-class’ who wants sex-education (meaning ‘education-for-no-sex’) is never given their due attention.
Media is on the same side as that of the ‘cattle-class’ and they are going to win the battle irrespective of what the ‘insect-class’ thinks of the whole issue.
It is the media that is these days running our country. Due to this an opinion gets undue attention over another opinion not only because of the merit of the case. Media in India, is working like ad-campaigners. It is first decided by them that what is to be given attention and then all of them start beating the same track. I am yet to see the media remaining aloof when the gay community-verdict is discussed. I am yet to see a balanced approach from them whenever Mr. Narender Modi is mentioned in any context. I have always seen the media clearly taking a side when views about RSS and its Parivar are discussed. It is the ‘elite-class-gays’ and the ‘cattle-class-gays’ who are listened to while a discussion takes place. Those who sit in the opposition to this verdict invariably belong to the ‘insect-class’ and never get a proper representative for their views. Who does not want board examinations? In our system it is the examination-marks that is often used by the ‘insect-class’ to show their supremacy over the ‘cattle-class’ and the ‘elite-class’ combined. Now they want to use their class-identity to off-set a difference that may exist between two same-grade students. It is very clear that the ‘cattle-class’ and the ‘elite-class’ are heard by the media when they want sex-education (meaning ‘education-for-sex’) in schools whereas the ‘insect-class’ who wants sex-education (meaning ‘education-for-no-sex’) is never given their due attention.
Media is on the same side as that of the ‘cattle-class’ and they are going to win the battle irrespective of what the ‘insect-class’ thinks of the whole issue.
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