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CCE - A welcome change in Indian Education
In a rush of 100 day achievement, our Union Home Minister, Kapil Sibal had mooted his team to come out with some revolutionary measures. The result is, abolishing the Board Exams for X standard for CBSE schools. At the outset, the exams are not abolished but made optional. There will be exams and there are changes in the exams. I welcome this change. At the least, someone had initiated the long pending changes. Changes brings with it challenges and challenges forces one to make attempts and I am hopeful of something good churning out of this exercise. Before making a comment on the proposed changes that will effect from 2011, I would like to brief the limitations in the present system and the proposed changes in the new system. The limitations in the present examination system are: Students are evaluated on the basis of marks and not by their ability: It is a better known fact students’ intelligence levels are decided by their memory power and not by the knowledge they had gained. It ...
Karma is one of the widely known Eastern Mystical concepts by the West. Simply put, Karma is a process of Cause and Effect. If you do X, Y will happen. It is about experience and fulfillment of purpose. Karma is not about punishment. The idea that we are punished for sins is, perhaps, a man-made form of social control. In Spirit, there is nothing called absolute right or wrong or Good or Bad. Who are we to decide what is good and what is bad. The great Tamil Poet Subramania Bharati told, nalladu teeyadu naamariyom annai, nalladai naatuga teeyadai oottuga (we are unaware of what is good and bad so, feed me good ones and drive away from me the bad ones). What is good to you might be bad to others. Ahimsa is good but if a lion practiced it how can it survive? We cannot decide what is good and bad as we do not have a universal scale to measure it. The first step in dealing with karma is awareness and acknowledgement of it. Are there any themes that seem to recur throughout our life? Nothi...
Indians in India?
An American visited India and went back to America where he met his Indian friend who asked him, “How did u find my Country?” The American said it is a great country with solid ancient history and immensely rich with natural resources. The Indian friend then asked, “How u found Indians?” ”Indians? Who Indians? I didn't find or met a single Indian there in India.” What? Who else could u meet in India then? The American said, “In Kashmir I met a Kashmiri, In Punjab a Punjabi, In Bihar, Maharastra, Rajasthan, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala I saw Bihari, Marathi, Marwadi, Bengali, Tamilian and Malayali…” ”… Then I met A Hindu, A Muslim, A Christian, A Jain, A Buddhist, but not a single Indian did I meet.” The day would not be far off when indeed we would become a collection of nation states if the present situation continues. It lays with us the people to stop this trend. Let us not encourage parties that put forth regional interest ahead of the nation’s interest. Discourage regional part...
Save India - Vote Congress out
Do you want to vote a man who is a habitual misleader In 1999 while contesting the South Delhi seat which he eventually lost, Manmohan Singh gave a clean chit to the Congress Party and claimed the invisible hand of the RSS in the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots. http://www.sikhtimes.com/news_090299a.html The latter had in fact saved hundreds of Sikh lives in Delhi which was even acknowledged by Khushwant Singh In 2005, he apologized to the Sikh community on behalf of the Congress. In 2009, he welcomed clean chit to Tytler and Sajjan Kumar. The so called master economist with a twin B.A degree had in these 18 years not provided a single theory of reform. In fact, the liberation of the economy came after pawning of India’s gold reserves, thanks to Nehruvian socialism. The NREGA is another of his bankruptcy proposals. Not a single skill enhancing educational-technical skill enhancing measure is included in this program. It simply expects villagers to work as glorified labourers by dig...
True face of Secularism in India
In a book,Religious Politics and Communal Violence(Oxford University Press, New Delhi) a place of pride was given to a person of dubious integrity. I am speaking of none other than Teesta Setelvad whose essay "Gujarat, Crime against humanity" has been included in taht book. In the Best Bakery case, the special court had previouslyt observed that the tutoring of Zahira Sheikh [the prime witness] was obvious. http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_print.asp?id=379118 Now, The fact of Setelvad's diabolical political agenda has been confirmed by the Special Investigation Team responsible for the arrests of those accused in Gujarat riots which has severely reprimanded NGOs and social activist Teesta Setalvad who campaigned for the riot victims. The team led by former CBI director R K Raghavan told the SC on Monday that the rights activist cooked up macabre tales of wanton killings.Besides, false charges were levelled against then police chief P C Pande and false witnesses were tu...
Issues and Elections
Are elections in India contested on the basis of the real issues faced by the common public? If someone is replying yes, then he must the most hypocritical person in this world. How do we define the real issue? Among the population of over 100 crores, can there be one single issue that is acceptable to one and all? This is discussed already in my earlier blog real&politikindia How many of us have genuinely gone through the manifesto released by the parties? Had we gone through, how many of us have raised queries that arose in our mind? Sops after sops were promised and no source of revenue was mentioned. Did we ever worry to question that? Whether one accepts it or not, elections are nothing but selling. The party that is contesting has to sell itself among the public. Obviously, when it boils down to convincing the prospect, marketing techniques are adapted. The political parties are catering to variety of customer segments. The elite class, the middle-class, the media and those ...
Achievements of UPA
Achievements are the measure of one's performance. If we have to ascertain the performance of the present Govt of india, one has to find out their performances. With nothing to boast, this govt had listed many achievements that had no relation of the Govt nor their contribution. A school of thought. Aam Aadmi: If it was garibi hatao decades ago, it was the turn of aam aadmi in the last elections. God only knows that what the govt did for the aam aadmi in these 5 years. The biggest achievement is that the population of the BPL is increased by 20% than what it was 5 years ago. The rich and the poor divide kept on increasing. Not very recently, ex-RBI Governor made a statement that the cumulative wealth of 20 richest Indians is more than the cumulative wealth of 30 crore poorest Indians! Another irony is those who figure in the top 10 richest Indians do not figure in the top 10 income-tax payers’ list. This is the biggest service they did to the Aam Aadmi – to increase their populati...
Barking Dogs
Don’t you think the Varun bashing is going overboard? Is this an issue that needs to be given so much of importance for such an extended period of time? Who is not spewing the venom against their own brethren? What do they want? Nowadays the quality of politics is too low that there is no presence of quality is seen around. I am still at lost to realize in what way Varun’s statement was communal or that invokes violence. All he said that is he will cut off those who offend Hindus or Hinduism. At the outset this is a hypothetical statement. If at all people are reacting to this statement, then they are proving that they are in the process of offending Hinduism and they need protection from the retaliation. In all fairnes, is it not a statement made in self-defense? Equality does not mean that one has to be suppressed to the maximum. The Maharashtra Govt has cleared an amount of Rs 24 crore in various projects for development in just 9 days. What does this imply when the elections are ne...
National Identity
India has remained in the league of developing country for long. One is not sure when it will be in the league of developed countries. Indians are hoping to build India into a super power and the Vision-2020 is geared towards this goal. However, one factor that nags us is the confusion that exists regarding our national identity. We are known for our attitude of craving for recognition from the West or White Race. Unless we get a certification from the West or White race, we term it backwardness. My question is: Will a superpower allow these things? Can we define what the Identity of a nation is? Does it exist or ever felt in India? Perhaps, we felt it only when we watched India playing cricket. Indians are highly competitive as individuals but a total failure as a team. We resemble the Navgraha with each one of us facing at different directions. We also argue that what every individual see is right and the best and persuade others to accept it. After all, why do we need a National I...
National Identity
India has remained in the league of developing country for long. One is not sure when it will be in the league of developed countries. Indians are hoping to build India into a super power and the Vision-2020 is geared towards this goal. However, one factor that nags us is the confusion that exists regarding our national identity. We are known for our attitude of craving for recognition from the West or White Race. Unless we get a certification from the West or White race, we term it backwardness. My question is: Will a superpower allow these things?
Can we define what the Identity of a nation is? Does it exist or ever felt in India? Perhaps, we felt it only when we watched India playing cricket. Indians are highly competitive as individuals but a total failure as a team. We resemble the Navgraha with each one of us facing at different directions. We also argue that what every individual see is right and the best and persuade others to accept it.
After all, why do we need a Na...
The Third Front is an Affront
The election euphoria is heating up. Almost all ordinary news becomes sensational during these days and the people of India are treated with more masala than the news per se. The buzz word for the past one week is the “Third Front”. This front has nothing to do with ideologies but with opportunities. This is a cluster of small regional parties who over estimate their value and has no national image. However, they are pretty good at their regional levels. With the two major national parties Congress and BJP failing to act authoritatively while negotiating seat sharing with regional parties, India is turning more federal which is not a healthy sign. It is an irony that these two major parties put together do not represent half of the House. This number is not likely to increase as these two parties are not given more seats to contest by their small partners. The rest of the house is represented by regional parties who do not know what is meant by national ideology. They represent their ...
FAQs on Voter Registration, Voter ID
If you are a new voter this election, or would like to vote but do not know where to start, this 'questions and answers' report is for you. Even if you are regular voter, there is information here that you could utilize. Who are eligible to enroll as voters? You are eligible for registration if you are 18 years and above on the qualifying date (January1st of the year of preparation of voters’ list). You must be an ordinary resident of the constituency /ward in which you live. What does ordinary resident mean? You are said to be an ordinary resident of the place where you mainly / normally reside. If you are living or working away in a city / town other than the place where you normally reside, you can choose to register either at home or at the place where you are studying / working, but not both! How do I enroll (register) myself as a new voter? Fill out Form 6. It can be downloaded from the EC website ( www.eci.gov.in ). You can access this from any cyber café near your ho...
What if i do not vote?
In continuation to my earlier blogs on the necessity of voting and floating suggestions on the electoral reforms required for a healthier democracy, I am further registering my school of thoughts in this blog in this regard. In India, Elections have become a ritual. Invariably, the voter turn-out on election dates do not go beyond 65% unless something happens similar to what happened at Tirumangalam constituency where the bye-election was held recently. Considering rigging, hardly the actual figures of people turn out to vote would not be more than 60%. What happens to the balance 40% of the voters? Why do not they vote? I am sure the Election commission of India would have thrown some light on this. Perhaps, the political parties also, for whom every vote matters, might have done some ground-work on this. I am not a statistician however; I throw my hat and come out with some figures which might be more or less similar to factual ones. ¨ Out of this 40%, 5% are attributed to people who...
Slavedog beggars
Frankly, I wished no Oscar be awarded to Indians. However, the much-hyped film swept the event and bagged more awards. As usual, Indians went overboard in celebrating this great achievement (?). Invariably, all the media channels covered this event and beamed it repeatedly throughout the day as if nothing else had happened in the world. Newspapers did not leave anything behind. From the first page to last page, details after details were covered. They went on to cover even the minutest of the details happened during this journey. At the outset, why such a reaction? I did not see this reaction from the public or media when Chandrayaan stepped on the moon. Is this an Indian film? No it is not! It is a film of British. May be there were Indians but even among them, majority of them were Indians by origin and not by citizenship. So, why we go overboard on the celebrations? Is not the theory of “judging the best” wrong? Any creative art is an achievement. Loko bhinna ruchihi! Opinion differ...
Protectors or predators?
It is not an exaggerated statement if someone remarked, “Either get indigestion by watching morning news or get insomnia by watching night news!” I can’t say whether it’s a status of pity or a curse which haunts our country that all the news being classified in the similar pattern highlighted in the opening statement. Many a times, in the comments section of my various blogs, it was mentioned that unless we have our people educated, such situations are bound to occur. I had always refused to buy this argument. The reasons are many. One among them is that an Indian Education system does not teach value to the learners. What happened in Chennai High Court two days back is shocking. This is not the first time that Tamil Lawyers are taking the law in their hands. They have done this many times earlier and they are notorious for such acts. Ever since the Dravidian parties climbed to power, the law college is fully politicized and bifurcated centrally. It is a bitter truth that only those w...
Micro Fiction - 55 Word stories - An attempt
Accident (Word Count - 54 Theme – Cheating) Under the water-lorry, the old man is lying with his head broken. The wheat bag he carried is torn and wheat is strewn, some soaked in blood. A young boy collects the non-stained wheat-grains. The lady cries, “You promised to live and support us till he grows up. You cheated me….” ************************* Cheater (Word Count – 54 Theme – Cheating) “Cheater-cock! You said you won’t arrest our man but you did!” “Cool! Had I not done it, I will be thrown out. Your man is safe. We will make sure that investigation stagnates and drag time. In fact, I am not cheating you but my people” having said thus he hung the phone. ******************** Valentine’s Day Gift (Word count – 54 Theme – Cheating) I wish to gift my wife, on this Valentine’s Day. She is so caring, from my shirt’s button to shoe’s lace; she never complain but take pride in serving me. So, I am at this mall where young ones gather. There I saw our neighborhood boy and my w...