IAS classes

Since the past few days, I have been attending a coaching class for the preparation of one of the most, or rather the most coveted jobs in india - The Indian Administrative Services. I always had a feeling in my mind that I can learn new things very quickly and I know at least a little of every thing in this world. But believe me, it didn't took much time to get the glass broken and all confidence spilled out. When did Chandragupta Maurya rule India and how many foriegn ambassadors visited His court and how many years they lived- these alll were the topics on which the first day class was concentrated.It was a history class.

I had joined the classes a few days later than the start of the batch and so lagged a few topics. Just a few months back,I was in the electronics lab getting frustated in between the LEDs and the non-working compnents of the entire lab. And now I am here with non-working components of mine memory cells.

Next class, immediately after History, started the human anatomy and all the aspects of human reproduction system, nervous system, skeltal system and the blood groups were taught within 2 hours. And don't go over the words Two hours : It was worthy of a detailed whole day lecture.

The very thing is that there is really no limit to what an IAS officer knows. He has in depth contribution in medical, economical, social, technical and all those aspects of life and society that you can imagine of. Not elongating much, What I feel now is that I should end this right here and start mugging up the day history. Good Bye for now.

Enjoy :)

Freshers to Farewell

That was also a time when we had to take permission to enter in the college , and now is the time when we are forced to leave the college.The farewell party is now over, it's time to say good bye.

I remember my past days when we all were new to each other and it took many days to remember even the faces, forget about names. And when some new Friends came in life , life seemed to be such a fun.The hunt for reasons as to why got late in class , reasons for why last minute assignment submission. Everything appeared to be a counterpart of one or the other reason.

Really missing those days. The farewell party had a movie show in which photographs were collected by the juniors, of our various moments in college and truly, by the ned of the show, I too felt that we all are going to miss something or the other in the college. Niether this time will come back nor such time will ever be encountered in future, What is passed is now a past and can't be traced back.

Personally, I will remember my last year of the college. It was a year that had a lot in store for me. To be true,that year makes everyone involved in controversies,fights and everything. And just like any college buddy of mine , I was also involved in all these stuffs. The fights, the bunks and all the things finally leading to a job. I had not dreamt of anything more than this from life. I got my three years wastage of college life compensated. At the start of the final year there was a feeling that there is nothing to be remembered of the college time , but this single year changed the way I lived. I will be missing the competitive environment that was getting developed in the college for excellence other than highest marks in exams. It was a competition in practical application of what we learn in classes. I will miss all the friends of mine who had the tendency towars the tech-fests as that is something I liked the most.

Miss u all friends........

I am really gonna miss this place

I am gonna miss my college dayzzzzzz

उसको जुदा हुए भी ज़माना बहुत हुआ
अब क्या कहें ये क़िस्सा पुराना बहुत हुआ

ढलती न थी किसी भी जतन से शब-ए-फ़िराक़
ऐ मर्ग-ए-नागहाँ तेरा आना बहुत हुआ

हम ख़ुल्द से निकल तो गये हैं पर ऐ ख़ुदा
इतने से वाक़ये का फ़साना बहुत हुआ

अब हम हैं और सारे ज़माने की दुश्मनी
उससे ज़रा रब्त बढ़ाना बहुत हुआ

अब क्यों न ज़िन्दगी पे मुहब्बत को वार दें
इस आशिक़ी में जान से जाना बहुत हुआ

अब तक तो दिल का दिल से तार्रुफ़ न हो सका
माना कि उससे मिलना मिलाना बहुत हुआ

Gandhi - Did He really exist any time ? I doubt...

"Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth."

- Albert Einstein,

Statement on the occasion of

Gandhi's 70th birthday (1939)

I don't know of you , but for myself , I am helpless. For me , anyone of the name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is just as imaginabile as the mythological characters of any religion . We personify such people on the basis of thier description given in the books which in turn are the reflections of the mindset of the authors.We have the complete epic Ramayana , which describes the character of Sri Ram as the ideal man.In the way of these descriptions , certain incriptions are there to define the expected behaviour of how an ideal world ahould be.Now how is all these stuffs related to the topic ???

The underlying explanation is in fact a question. Have we stated and broadcasted the Gandhian principles in the same way as they were in the mind of the originator. There have been several approaches to the meanings of those principles.There have been numerous books,magazine articles , movies and God knows what-what over this Gandhigiri. Everyone has added His/Her own intellectual in defining these principles.They all are an appreciable effort.But much in the same way that the mythological characters are not acceptable to our minds, such principles also become out of human acceptance - or in better terms , the situational acceptence.At least in the current scenario of the world,it becomes really very tough to belive that such actions took place in anytime of the history.It can never be a single platform effort in the society to make such things possible.We have to make seriously large scale efforts for developing a society which the Gandhian principles dreamt of , and such a sytem's existence would only had made the principles come true.That is the thing that's going out of the brain.

How come he achieved all that ? Did he really achieve that ? If such things had ever ever been in action , why we are so exhausted in making efforts for achieving it ? Either they were wrong who described such things , or we are wrong in making the efforts.People who have seen Gandhi , they are stillalive , so the former one is obviously true that Gandhiji lived , He existed once. Now  what becomes the second obvious thing is that , we are wrong.

Just making movies , or writing articles or posting on blogs ( like me ) will not do the thing. We will have to be honest with our individual efforts.We will have to have the feeling that when He can , why not I ? I f we get frustated with the system , there are many examples who have revolted against it. Now when we can revolt for a personal cause , why not we may revolt for a social cause too . When it comes on ourself , we can cross any boundaries . Why those boundaries become so strong in social cause where the opposite should have occured. Anyone can do it anytime .Think of ittttt .

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Regionalism

“All the others whether majority or minority who cannot compete and win, they create silly causes such as Regionalism, Religionalism and casteism.”

– Charles Darwin (The theory of evolution).

Globalism is out, regionalism is in, despite a bad rap from some pragmatists who say it could lead to a world of hostile trade blocs. On the other hand, it might just be a needed source of dynamism that can further economic integration. Like "globalization" in the 1980s, "regionalism" has become the buzzword of the 1990s. But regionalism is a term that is overused and widely misunderstood.

Almost anyone who writes or talks about business today has something to say about how we are lurching, drifting, or dashing toward regionalism. Globalization, although no one could define it, was generally regarded as positive. But views on regionalism are much more divided. Some say regionalism results in the fragmentation of markets and countries, that it arises from resurgent tribalism and leads to a world of hostile trade blocs. Others, however, argue that regional trading arrangements, such as the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement or the North American Free Trade Agreement, are a desperately needed source of dynamism in today's global economy, and that inhibitions to further economic integration can best be overcome at regional levels.

Is regionalism good or bad ?

 As Humpty Dumpty said in "Through the Looking-Glass," "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." The answer depends on what we mean by regionalism. Regionalism if is healthy then it could start a competition that would fuel development. But the underline is that competition needs to be healthy. E.g. If New Delhi can switch to clean fuel and control pollution then the question arises, 'Why not my city?'. If worked systematically more cities can be cleaner. Regionalism doesn’t mean only to divide the states and cities into boundaries of common interests and personal means.

If we talk of our own nation , the formation of states along linguistic and ethnic lines has occurred in India in numerous instances since independence in 1947. There have been demands, however, to form units within states based not only along linguistic, ethnic, and religious lines but also, in some cases, on a feeling of the distinctness of a geographical region and its culture and economic interests. The most volatile movements are those ongoing in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab). How the central government responds to these demands will be an area of scrutiny through the late 1990s and beyond. It is believed by some officials that conceding regional autonomy is less arduous and takes less time and fewer resources than does meeting agitation, violence, and demands for concessions.. For all this we must have strong and sensible center government.

Quoting from a recent news article in Times - “Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray's recent outburst against Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan's loyalty towards his native place (Uttar Pradesh) has raised several eyebrows. While it drew strong retaliation by Jaya Bachchan and Amar Singh, many objected to Thackeray's opposition to the celebration of Uttar Bharatiya Diwas and Chhath Puja in Maharashtra. Barely a day after clashes between supporters of Raj Thackeray and Samajwadi Party workers in Mumbai, two unidentified youths threw bottles at Bachchans’ residence in Mumbai.”

Regionalism is an unpleasent feature of our political system.Regionalism arises , when people of a particular region develop intense attachement towards their own region on the cost of national conerns. To develop regional conciousness is not wrong in itself but when such a tendencies give rise to ideas of seperatism from the India Union , it adversely affects the national intrest. A feeling of neglect often causes seperatist feelings . The central government ought to give the adequate attention to all the states and refrain fron interfering in the affairs of the states. In fact the centre should respect the identity of each state and at the same time develop a co-coperative attitude towards them.

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