INDIA, THOU ART PAINED !!!!!!

Life takes a different form for every single creature, here on Earth. This means everyone has a unique definition of life, meaning billions of people having billions of opinions about life, the gift of God. For me, if life is enjoyable, a mammoth of sweet dreams or something which has always been good to me, to my companion sitting next to me whom I haven’t asked about it yet, it might be a horrifying experience ever since he was born, something which he would like to put an end to as early as possible, if freed from responsibilities he is burdened with. So, by now, I believe you must have realized how versatile our life is. Ranging from the breathtaking ambition of Ambani Brothers to become the richest duo of the world to the most pitiful and heart rending site of a laborer working 12 hours a day on a factory site just to make sure his small children do not sleep hungry stomach that night, yet again, we see how life takes different shapes for different people, though everyone was born equal.

Something that really saddens me is that everyone in the world is talking; we are holding assemblies, high profile summits, attending which spends most of the tenure of any leader, anything and everything that could project “the ministry is working”. I hope you, my readers are wise enough to decide how far these so called “problem analyzing summits” are able to sort out the abominable problems we are dealing with or are yet to face, thanks to the technological advancements and the movie 2012 that did make me yell out “Would it be this tragic???”. In case you are a conscious citizen, I hope you are one; you would be aware of the recently concluded “Copenhagen Summit” which stressed on the climatic problems prevailing in the world, the main reason being the global warming, as the scientists suggest, which may eventually lead to a disaster. It sounds ironically ridiculous to see United States keen to pressurize India to stick to what it seems to agree to, at the summit. Under these circumstances, when India needs to reduce carbon emissions which means reduction of industrialization, we can think of a reduction in the already developed Indian sector namely the so called “high profile lot” but, how can the rural India, which covers almost 70% of the country’s area, be able to fight against this, when millions of people still depend on the daily wages that they get after a full days’ work, near the furnace, in a steel factory, to cite an example. A reduction in industrialization means less number of industries which leads to lesser employment and more poverty. The capitalists who have legacies of such money making ventures won’t even feel a pinch if they have to close down everything and confine themselves to their comfortable, well air- conditioned homes which they have innately possessed. But what about the poor section, where will it go? It is simply, the situation of the rich becoming richer and the poor, poorer.

In India, we claim that we are the strongest democracy of the world (I don’t understand how).Do any of our leaders do anything they can to hold this honor, they have falsely adorned (in my opinion).Miss Mayawati spends lakhs, maybe crores, to set her own statue all through the state of Uttar Pradesh and on the other hand complains endlessly of no funding from the Centre. Just imagine, had she spent that amount on the development of her own state, she would never have come up with the worthless idea of dividing U.P into two, Purvanchal and Bundelkhand. At the same time, hunger strikes (Ref: Telengana Issue) have become a child’s way to get his/her wishes fulfilled. I am really pissed off with the state of affairs in the country, the political instabilities, the poverty, the aristocracy coupled with the  “don’t care” attitude of the rich, the brain drain, the gruesome mentality of the leaders, competition and last but not the least, the fear of 21^st December, 2012.Actually speaking, it’s we, the people and our freaked out mentality, that aid to this anarchy. We ourselves don’t know where we are heading towards. Being a student, I myself feel we have no time to think or appreciate the existence of so many things around us. Everyone is busy in his/her own affairs without knowing as to what would be the result. The cause of this could be credited to the sense of competition that we have been nurtured with, since childhood. The race to power, success and fame has overpowered our sense of reasoning and decisiveness. We seem to have forgotten the moral values which used to be showered on us during the “Moral Science” classes of our primary schools. The reason being, we studied even this particular subject just for the heck of fetching marks. Basically, there exists a problem with our very educational system of India, in which we are burdened with loads of knowledge without taking into consideration, whether the knowledge is being taken in its real sense or just being gulped in. I really enjoyed the movie “3 Idiots” in this regard, though many other excerpts of the movie were quite unnatural (in my opinion).In fact, the system of exams needs to be reconsidered in the Technical education Sector. At this stage, when we need to widen our technical skills, we are busy arranging notes, cramming and mugging up stuff before exams, thanks to Om Xerox(Mitians know better).Can’t we have a system of education in which stress is laid upon application rather than mere learning which seems to be worthless in the long run? Today, when the world is so competitive, we need to forage for ways to give ourselves an edge over others. Hey guys, let’s become “capable”, success is bound to follow (courtesy: Mr.Wangdu).

You would be wondering that, till now, I’ve kept on beating around the bush and haven’t disclosed my true intentions as to why am I writing this. I hereby proclaim that the Indian in me is vexed and perplexed with whatever is going on in the country and the world. I don’t have anyone nearby, whom I could share my feelings with, it was then I thought reaching out to you people and sharing my ideas would be a better idea than just keep introspecting and repeating to myself “What the hell is happening”. I know not many of you can do anything after reading this, as I hope most of you do belong to the student community as I do, still, even if I am able to stir a single heart, I am successful.