Let my INK SPLASH

                Avinash shouted back on me for what I advocated then, breaking the quietude air amidst us. "Abe yahi sach hai yaar, why are you getting so patriotic?" good part of me replied to placate him.

It wasn't for the first time we lighted the fire between us on a social issue. Living with a 'jaagruk' roomy often makes it possible. Yet, this time it was me with some concrete statements to throw at him. Let me tell you, you are a part of 3rd Largest Educational System of the World. Did I hold you in awe? For the record, this is true and was well highlighted in a daily newspaper. Yes, we hold the third standing position on the stage with China and the United Sates joining us in the line ahead. However, the elusive top isn't strong enough to fade the irony that we educate only half as many people from the university age group as China does. You must have heard about the 'Times Higher Education' current 2011 polls, those which question of mere existence of quality education on Indian grounds. Yeah! you can for a while feel proud and condemn me boasting about the ranks of IIMs, IITs among top 100s of the world but to rectify your notes those stats are rusted. It was long before in 2005 and 2006. No Indian name was tagged below the huge figure 500 in 2011 by the same body of London. So let your pride rest in your pocket. Moreover, the number of Noble Laureates that our nation has seen so far is like a drop in the sea for such a large Educational System.

 

                I made Avinash finally silent and I can even make you stumble. The report of National Association of Software and Services Companies lists 85% graduates of general education and 75% of Technical Education unfit for employment. Haha... puzzled to fathom how much are you suitable for a job? If not, you will in the near future. The lack of numerous single university systems has lead us this way and we have gone so far that even chest-beating cries of the Indian students now won't even touch the eardrums of our 'Educated Netaas'. Can anyone find a reset button so that we can refresh and restore the quiescent system? It doesn't need a committee of experienced old minds to understand what ails our current educational system. The answer is well known but big enough to swallow for the bureaucrats; those who run the money-engines for our corrupt netaas. Secure a respectable score of 93% in board exams and you will find yourself eligible for the Ivy College of US but you will be ditched by the Delhi University. Yes, we can be proud of our quantity but have to keep our heads down while defining the quality.

                What's even more perturbing is how we are bound to rag pick whatever is being thrown by our Gurus. No 3 idiot team must have been able to make them see the corrosion they are reinforcing. Certainly, there are roadblocks to deal with but it is a professor who can only guide a student through them. What we are left with is directions to steer our life clear of innovations or otherwise we will be holding big zeroes in exams. There's no-one to cure us, the victims of Indian Educational System, who are taught 'to be an employee' rather than 'to be an employer'. 

                The time waits to see an Anna rising for it and I'll pray for the same. Till then keep the tag tight on your forehead: "Hum hain chaupat RAJA"

"Oh bhai! jara side hona...", he said taking the bald part of his head out of the car window. It was a black honda city I guess which rested somehow beneath his clumsy fat belly. I was near the Subhash Chauraha waiting for the college bus to get back to my hostel room. But going to civil lines always features some incident like the one above pouring more strength to the animosity in my mind. His request may be simple but was filled with lot of arrogance. He went off speeding amidst the traffic at the chauraha while I still stood with burning eyes there.

College weekends are the only days when we can give our feet the tatse other than the usual ones- classrooms and hostels. I am sure mine feels lot delightful while thumping on the marble floors in the PVR or inside the Big Bazar. Do the feet enjoy alone the treat? Ah! Not at all, my eyes too participate by focusing the pretty feminine charm those show up in large numbers especially on the weekends in the city. Allahabad has got nothing else except its history, the Sangam and Civil Lines to feel proud of and so the latter most is the best hub to watch the fashion show well displayed by the two genders of the society on the weekends. J Okay! I am done with the background; now let's proceed to the main part.

Hmmm...so I was there still waiting for my bus. 20mins still left making room for a little roam around beside the city busiest roads. The 'animosity'- what is it all about? Well it is about the pain that drops on my head like a big anvil every time when I find myself to be small. You see it is since I recognised that I belong to a middle class family. Now do not misinterpret it as if I am cursing my family background (be  with your common sense)! But, I curse every bigwig who poses him\herself to be a bigwig. I know the truth and the world around them know it too, that they are breathing in a high class environment with a car, with a bungalow and with etc. etc. but what to boast about? Don't they have brains to notice we all have the same 27% oxygen (don't go on figures) to live in? They do, but still they find it sensible, I don't know from which part, to behave like a moron in front of the society. Even you may feel like bribing them, for making them to speak to you most of the times, like their self speaks only to the high class. And whom do you consider the real butchers of our nation's language? Yes they top the list. Don't deny, you have the examples, don't you? "Oh shit! Honey it's so disgusting over here"- bloody morons. Walking on the road and taking the keen observant out of you will surely add some more examples for your diary. I have many of them; the space over here is not enough.

Honk honk! And here comes the bus to end this ruminating city road walk of mine. I can swallow that uncle but being modest I swallowed my anger. I wanna work hard in my studies (to be in my car one day) not to be one amongst them but definitely to set an example for those who lose their original self and roam around wearing the attitude, for those who roam around with Hindi language suffocating in their heavy pockets, for those who easily forget that they are still a human being.

                Don’t worry, am not writing any news over here to hold your heart beats, but I am sure the same banner does shoot every second, now and then, on your TV screen. Sometimes the effect is from back to front or they shoot it at the bottom. In fact at moments the two words dominate the whole screen even.

This magic tool is just one amidst the numerous others, which aim at making the current news market more & more exaggerated in terms of looks. No one cares about the contents of their shop and all of them sprint in the race to be the best, merely forecasting the whereabouts of their shops. Gone are the days of news on DD-National, a quick 30 mins review of the nation’s health, more delightful. To the point and to speak in brief was the goal of our older news versions. And now the new comers barely have some brain to focus upon proving themselves to be a total waste of space. India wins the World Cup and every newsroom file bundles to publish in the context. It looks like the reporters get a leave for 2-3 days on such occasions and such interesting answers they supply to us to the most ‘important ‘ queries:

“India ka World Cup jeetna aapke lie kitna maaene rakhta hai?”

‘Important ‘ queries, aren’t they? May be not for us, but the common mass to whom they are put for, yes they are for it’s the only platform where a common face can show itself without any efforts on the TV. I must say the best explanation of a situation is well described by the reporters at such mega headlines only.

I wish their sensibility can feedback to their selves then and there to make them sensible. I don’t say the winning moment is not of any worth but in the row other parts of the nation are crying too and that’s what a news channel should bring in focus. Even the VIPs can’t sleep quietly-

God! And in the same way the successive days witness headlines with no roots and no wings-

“Breaking News: Dhoni abhi abho apne ghar pahunche hain...”

‘World Cup’ is not the only issue, which is made fun of with all above craps, it is just a little current one where I saw the blathering as above.

I am sure my most elders miss the same old DD-National half an hour news without any nonsense interruptions and without any advertisements whereas now-a-days the rubbish adds overshadow the major portions. I only wish the news media grows more discernibly.