Who merits RESERVATION???

Reservation in India is a much debatable topic and in right sense too. You give reservation to one community and the others feel left out or betrayed.
The problem is that we, the youth of India, also think from our heart rather than our head, precisely what our politicians want---Divide and Rule policy.

The question then arises is, do we need reservation or not. Well the answer is YES and NO.

YES--- because India is a vast country with serious socio-economic divide. 5% Indians control the money in India. This divide was spotted pretty much at the time of writing our constitution by those learned men and hence they provided for reservation to BACKWARD CLASSES. And that is precisely where reservation should be given. To people who are economically so weak that they can't afford two square meals a day. Unfortunately our highly-arrogant and ignorant and rather vote seeking politicians converted CLASS to CASTE and begun the war that has literally torn apart our youth.

NO--- because reservation on the basis of CASTE has no merit. If even after 60 years of independence and many decades of reservation has failed to uplift the backward castes, then it will fail to uplift them in future too. In the northern india millions of OBCs and SC/STs are actually millionaires who have enough money in their coffers and also enjoy reservation. Similarly a general candidate has to be rich or economically sound has no scientific backing. Poor are poor irrespective of caste.

The only divide between human beings that should merit reservation is ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS and not religion, or caste. Unless we the youth of india put our fingers in the eyes of the politicians and show them what should actually happen, we are going towards a real sad phase--- BECOMING A BIG (UN)HAPPY FAMILY OF BACKWARD PEOPLE.

I joined the Gym...... Well Almost !!!!

Having taken birth in a bengali family may have its disadvantages one of which is you tend to grow a pot belly which shows that you love to eat food without any regard to your health. And same with me. I had a pot belly which had been growing steadily along with my weight which stood at 82 kg. With a height of just over 5 ft 7 inches I was a good 15 kg overweight and that I started to feel on my lower back.
Well after one such phase in which I had to be bed ridden for quite some time, my brother and parents decided to send me to a Gym !!! ( I was not married then)
"A Gym!!!!", my jaws dropped. "What will i do in a gym?". I asked protestingly. I am made of lazy bones and going to a Gym was nothing short of a nightmare for me. More so because with it would get affected my food habit too. "No, I am not going". I said sternly.

The next evening I was standing outside BABA GYM, a local one out here along with my brother. My protests usually never bear any significance and that was the reason I was standing there.

The Gym trainer was introduced to me by my brothr and the guy instantly knew why I was there. He told me to get warmed up. His prescription of warm up was: 10 minutes on a treadmill (I almost lost my jaws to it after I fell on the rotating path of the machine), 10 minutes on cycle (I was happily cycling when the trainer came and raised the difficulty level to the maximum; could hardly rotate the paddle after that), 10 minutes jumping with both knees near the chest (couldn't do even one as m=none of my jumps were high enough), 15 pushups (was flat after 2 and half), 15 crunches ( didin't do it at all as nobody noticed) and a jog around the gym. Well you can very well understand after my body warmed up what would have happened to me.

I some how escaped citing that it was the first day only and I don't wanna fall sick. !!!!

The next day the trainer was even more harsh. This time he asked my to cycle and do treadmill and then asked me to run up and down a staircase 10 times. The staircase was the same one through which everyone would climb into the gym (the gym was in the basement).

The first two times I ran up and down at my top speed (what big mistake!!!) on the third lap my breath went out of control but I survived. Fourth and fifth lap I don't remember. By the time I was into my sixth lap my knees started to shake and my body started to shout for water and rest.  but i persisted. Seventh and Eighth were shear pain. On the ninth lap my knees and legs started shaking violently, my throat got dry, my hearth was thumping against my rib cage and would have come out had the rib cage not been there. Finally as I started upwards on the tenth lap I reached the top of the stair, near the door, and went through it to reach the road. Kept running, or rather jogging, to the end of the road. Took a rickshaw to my home. Reached my block, got down near a juice corner, has two large mango shakes and staggered back home.

That was the end of my GYM......


It was three years back.
Now I am better off. My weight is now around 94 kg !!! a whooping 25 kg overweight. And my potbelly won't allow some of my favourite trousers to fit on me.

And the daily howl of protest has begun again. GO TO GYM. And guess what this time my wife is after my life.

And I know last time I lost 300 rupees as I ran away after one day only. I don't want to lose 3000 this time. But I can't resist going to GYM as well.... God saves me.

Weakness

How many times have you punished someone for speaking a lie? How many times have you punished someone for not doing what you wanted him or her to do? How many times have you punished someone for calling you by names or hurling abusive words at you or being selfish ........and the list goes on????
Many times. Isn't it?
Then welcome to the largest group of hypocrites who ever roamed on this earth; we human beings.
Why I said hypocrites? Because we are ready to lie at the drop of hat but can't withstand one lie told to us. Because we can do n number of unlawful things against other but can't stand one against us. Because we are ready to have a relation outside marriage but cannot accept our better halves doing the same. We human beings by nature are bloody hypocrites.

And unfortunately, I am also one of them.

We generally judge people so easily; we are ready to punish people for their mistakes without realizing that we also posses the same weaknesses. So how can we punish someone for mistakes we always commit; for weaknesses we all posses? This is something beyond my understanding.

Popular Misconception !!!

That day I just happened to ask a very simple question to a group of people. And I was really startled to get the answer.
The question is as follows.
A child in a snowy region created a SNOWMAN out of snow(obviously). Now this kid wanted the snowman to last as long as possible so that the snowman should not melt easily. He sought help from two people (lets say) A, and B
A:- Drape the snowman in a jacket from head to toe and it will not melt.
B:- A has gone crazy. If you drape the snowman in a jacket the snowman will melt and so just keep it in open and it will last long.
My question was: Whose option should the child take? A or B?

Amazingly enough, if I asked this question to 100 people, 96 of them answered that the option should be B. Most people were and are of the opinion that draping the snowman in a jacket will warm the inside of the jacket thereby resulting in rapid melting of the snowman. Rather is it good to keep the snowman in open.

The real answer is as follows.

"A" is correct. The snowman should be draped in a jacket. The thicker or multi-layered the better.The reason is that jacket or woolens create an insulation around the body. This insulation prevents the outside heat from entering the body but at the same time it doesn't allow the inner energy to escape too thereby creating a thermos flask type condition. This prevents the melting of the snowman as it remains virtually unaffected by the outside fluctuation of temperature.

This is the same case when you must have seen that ICE Chunks by the ice vendors are always covered by saw dust or thick rough clothing.
Some people may say that we feel warm inside the jacket but that warmth is the body warmth and not that the jacket is creating its own.


But a simple question like this threw up a viscious challenge of looking at the popular misconceptions that plague science and day to day life too.

Aliens Ahoy !!!!!

Recently I was asked this simple questions, " Do aliens exist?".
Unfortunately there is no simple answer to such a simple question. Only suggestive answers which strangely work both in favour and against the very notion that WE MIGHT NOT BE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE.
Let us look how.
The Universe (I mean the observable universe) is around 14 billion light years in radius. Now let us look at the exact numbers that you and me can comprehend. 1 light year is approximately 9.5 trillion kilometers or 95 followed by 11 zeros or 9500000000000 kms. And the radius of universe is 14 billion times this number which is like 1400000000000000000000000 kms. This distance is roughly onr thousand billion times the distance between earth and sun. Phew!!!!!
And this is just the radius. Now if we ASSUME the universe to be perfectly spherical then the volume of the universe will be approximately 42000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 cubic kilometers. Pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww!!!!!!!

Well that I suppose is enough rough mathematics. Now lets come back to some logic.
In such a huge observable universe our solar system is just a dust particle in the entire deserts of the Earth. This Universe contains approximately a thousand billion galaxies each containing a hundred billion stars which adds up to around 1000000000000000000000000 stars of which Sun is just one star. Many stars have planets around them and they might have different chemistry working there.
In such a big universe where stars abound and planets too, how can we assume that Earth is the only planet on which Life can exist?????

In my personal opinion Aliens can exist and may be. they do exist.
But i am not sure. We have never been contacted by aliens before. Or DO WE THINK SO??? More about alien contacts in some other blog.

As of now I can only say that just because we can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Aliens might as well exist because the sheer size of the universe defies the logic that they don't exist.

I Pay, You Teach !!!!!

There was a time, not in too distant a past, when teachers had exalted position in the mind of students. Today, that respect seems to have been lost. Reasons galore. From not PASSIONATE teachers to surge in monetary power of students and their parents and many more.
Today a student can SLAP a teacher in front of the class and gets away with a REPRIMAND. A teacher is left humiliated, thinking why is s/he teaching at all and whom?
A friend and fellow teacher was left shocked when a class 6th students told her (about her br***t), "INKO SAMHALKEY RAKHO; FATKEY BAHAR AA RAHEY HAIN" (Keep them in order, they are bursting out). She could never go inside the class and teach those students again. Less than a year later, she left. And that guy went scot free with a REPRIMAND and COUNSELING and completed his schooling from that very school.  Had it been in the school where I studied (ST. Pauls Academy) and in my time, he would have been rusticated immediately.

There are other schools in the vicinity where I live and teachers are treated worse than peons.

Money and Power, Media, Court, Child Rights and Populist Governance are responsible for this state of our education system.

Once I had failed more than 70% students on my class in a Unit Test and I was pulled up by our Principal (where I was teaching) and told that, " Our CUSTOMERS cannot be treated like this....". Read CUSTOMERS not STUDENTS. The students look at teachers with an  "I PAY YOU TEACH" attitude. AS if teachers are their bonded slaves.

As a teacher who is passionate towards his subject, I keep an eye on things and analyze everything. it pains me to see that discipline is fast vanishing from our schools. We are heavily borrowing education policies from the western countries where too much liberalization has resulted in GUN TOTTERING KIDS in schools and incidents every now and then of a student going on a killing spree. Are we headed the same way??? The recent killing of a Chennai teacher inside the school premises and that too inside the class kinda confirms the fear.

I think only future will tell what is going to happen to our already decaying and highly brittle education system. Let us pray that common sense prevails.

Nobody is a VEGETARIAN.

I have nothing against PURE-VEGETARIANS except for the logic they give for considering themselves to be PURE VEGETARIANS. 

How about trillions of Potatoes, Cauliflowers, Raddishes, Tomatoes, Corn, Rice plants, and the unending number of plants that we cook and sometimes eat raw??? They also have life the way fishes and other NON-VEG stuff have?? Only because plants can't express them does it mean that they don't feel it or are we human beings pretty happy telling ourselves that they are of lesser consciousness and hence can be chomped up as and when we like them??? In a way we all are non-vegetarians how so ever some of us shout we are not. The day a child is born it starts its life with Mother's milk which carries MOTHER'S ANTI BODIES, MICROBES, and ANIMAL PROTEIN AND SATURATED FATS which are definitely not made by plants. And then some people go gaga that they are PURE VEGETARIANS. What hypocrisy !!!!!!!! How about HONEY ??? Made from Flower nectar (the only plant stuff), and enzymes from the insect BEE. And ya not to forget SUGAR. We are literally eating animal and human bones aren't we???

And if MILK is vegetarian then the EGGS released in the market for consumption is also VEGETARIAN because it doesn't involve killing as those eggs are unfertilized.

I mean I don't understand the stupid logic of so called PURE VEGs that anything that doesn't involve killing is vegetarian. Plants are killed at a higher number than animals and we all know that plants have life too and yet plant eaters are VEGETARIANS.

Sorry my PURE VEG friends, but I am not convinced that you are worthy of being called PURE VEG because even PURE VEGs are NON VEG as it involves more brutal killing.

As simple as that.

Run man run

My friend Prakash has always been a funny guy. He lives in Faridabad, a NCR town and was my college mate. But trust me he was one funny character I have ever known. But what he did on that particular day, I will never forget.
We were going to Chattarpur temple in Delhi. We both had this love for temples and artistic places and since we both didn't have any girlfriends, at that time, so we were like more or less free to roam around on our own. You see having girl friends (for girls it is boy friends) is like having a baggage on your shoulders. Wherever you go, it goes with you.
Well, we boarded the bus from Anand Vihar ISBT (Inter State Bus Terminal) and took the middle seats near the window. The day was pretty nice. Partly clear sky, a slight breeze, and a clear mind and heart. I was enjoying the trip when the bus suddenly stopped mid way. Two elderly, fat guys climbed up the bus and asked to show our tickets. We were travelling in a DTC bus which being a government owned bus was subjected to ticket checking and anyone caught without tickets would get a 6 months behind the bar.

The guys came up and announced, "Those not carrying tickets should come out of the bus immediately.". Prakash asked me to come along with him out of the bus. We both didn't buy tickets for that trip. In fact we never used to buy tickets. That day was no exception.

We climbed out of the bus and stood in a line of 7 other guys who were travelling without tickets. I was the 8th and Prakash the 9th one to be proscuted. One of thhose ticket checkers was standing at one end and the other was giving us some "challan" papers. Suddenly a bus went from in front of us. Prakash shouted, "Run man run". Before I coould realise anything I and Prakash were running towards the bus with the two ticket checkers at our pursuit. But then we were younger and fitter than them and caught the bus and climbed on to it. But then as luck would have it, the bus stopped at a red light almost the moment we got in. Before we could run out the two ticket checkers were already there.

They got hold of us and literally dragged us out. We were standing on the road like two criminals. Onlookers surrounded us and the two ticket checkers were panting for breath. Then one of them got out a booklet and asked us to pay 5000 rupees as fine or get ready to go to jail for atleast a year.
Prakash asked, "Why should we pay? we did nothing wrong. "
TTE, "You did nothing wrong? First you were caught without any tickets. Then you ran away from us. And you say you did nothing wrong? Travelling without ticket is a punishable offense and you will pay for it."
Prakash, "Ok I agree we don't have tickets but we do have the student bus passes which allows us to travel in any government bus in Delhi."
The ticket checkers were caught unaware as we both pulled out our student passes from our pockets.
Theri jaws dropped as they looked at each other, bewildered.
One of them asked, "Then why the hell you came out of the bus at the first place??"

Prakash replied, "Becasue you only said that those WITHOUT TICKETS should come off. We did."

The man, "Then why did you run??"
Prakash, "Because we were getting late and saw a bus going that way."

The man, "Why did you make us run??"

Prakash. " we never invited you to chase us. that was your wish."

Onlookers who have been watching all this split into laughter.

The ticket checkers went away grumbling. In the mean time the other 7 guys who were caught along with us, gave the officials a slip in the entire commotion..



Till date I laugh at the thought of that day when Prakash made those men look like ultimate fools by his sheer wit and humor.