AM I supposed to change the country ??? (Part 2) : India Shining !!!, seriously ???

Well, India shining !!! Rings a bell, right. The normal response: "Lol, yeah !!! I remember that. This is the propaganda slogan used by BJP in 2004. People started feeling it. I felt it. Yeah, India was shining that time. But, now, huh ?!? Its done, bro !!!"

At this point, another question entered my curious mind: "Was India really shining at that time or is it that the popular media controls our mind so well ?" Remember the Bharat Uday ad: A milkman using an Enfield motorcycle, mobile communication, doctors, shopping malls, market rise. Does that have anything to do with India Shining ??? They were all consequences of external influences, with a more or less CAPITALIST intention at the background. These things weren't even a part of civic amenities structure by the Constitution. Man, seriously are these guys just trying to find ways to manipulate our sentiments !!!

You may be thinking, why I brought this question up after such a long time of that campaign. Well, today I was walking through a street  and there I saw a group of young motorcycle mechanics having a good time with AngryBirds and FB status updates. This really weird setup put me into a dilemma of whether the continuous Capitalist influence on the Indian society has actually changed the Indian or is it just 

AM I supposed to change the country ??? (Part 1)

The questions that arise most in the minds of youth:

• Am I responsible for the current position of MY country ?
• Am I the one who should actually decide the country's fate ?
• Is it expected of me to work for the country, by the country and to the country ?

The answer, or rather the most prolific understatement: I DO NOT KNOW !!!

The other day, I kept on poking my roommate with the question that what should I do to bring change ? Is it enough to start boiling my views in the internet audience or should I try for something big. Should I send an e-mail to ministries for killing JEE...

He shouted back "Okay, change it. But, then what about your dreams with Goldman Sachs""You wanted to do MS in USA, right ?""You wanted to work as a Robotics Scientist; what about that ?"

Now this got me thinking. We, as responsible citizens of a responsible country, are actually responsible for all that happens !!! So, if I do not go for things now, maybe things will never change ! But, then, the thought of having a stabler life with a high package and moreover the capability to fulfill all your boyish dreams in a jiffy offered a heavy hand. It is like avoiding a full-toss by a 5-yr old kid to try Hit a Six on a Malinga Yorker...

Talking of cricket, a name definitely rocks my mind in the same light, Lalit Modi...
That man definitely changed the way world looked at cricket. IPL, though the concept was plagiarized, the way it swayed away the audience was quite a stunning sight. He had a dream. A dream to change cricket. He did achieve it. But, what happened ultimately ? This guy was framed as a the lone soul responsible for all the ills that crept in the system with IPL's inception...
Here is what wikipedia has to say

" In 2010, Modi oversaw the bidding process and creation of two new teams in the Indian Premier League. Pune and Kochi were declared the new franchises. A Twitter entry by Modi declaring the stakeholders of the Kochi IPL Team allegedly breaching confidentiality agreements led to the resignation of the then Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Dr. Shashi Tharoor.^[62][63]
Modi was then suspended as Chairman and Commissioner of the IPL in April 2010.^[64] A suspension notice and a 34-page letter stating 22 charges of impropriety were served via email to Modi. Modi publicly protested his innocence immediately after the 2010 Indian Premier League Final had been played.^[61]
An income tax department report on Modi has revealed that he holds a silent stake in three IPL teams - the Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab.^[65] Furthermore, there are questions as to whether Modi was involved in match fixing and betting in Indian Premier League games.^[66] He is also under fire for helping his family and friends buy stakes in Indian Premier League teams.^[67]"

( To be continued...)

Kill it now, better its dead !!! R.I.P. IIT-JEE... (PART 1)

It all starts as a small dream in the minds of concerned parents of those children who are good in sciences. But, rarely do people get to realize whether their child really wants it. I am talking of the now-endangered yet highly venerated IIT-JEE exam. Recently, the honorable ministers of India came to a conclusion of scrapping the most iconic process of geek extraction by independent India. Well, my post here is not about the apathy of not continuing it further; rather it is about why it should be killed !!!
Many people may not like the following statement but, the real truth is: the life that IITians lead in IITs is just too different from what it is viewed as. Amidst so many quizzes, exams, assignments; the average IITian is actually left with nothing but an over busy schedule with no time for himself... People may say that it is not true as most of the IITians are very well groomed. My reply to these people is that these aforesaid IITians do not actually pay so much heed to academics and they do other things, which are definitely important, but by bartering their time from acads. And this practice has become so common, that actually people have started to think that IITians are perfect allrounders. If it would not have been for this united act by all students of IITs, again and again, and over the years and hadn't the academic schedule been different; then, definitely the situation would have been way too different. The reason people complain about the standard of students getting into IITs is more or less a repercussion of the same fact.

The IITian college life wasn't supposed to be the way it has become now, and parents sending their bright kids to top instt; even without knowing whether he/she actually wants to study that hard is the only reason. My question to the professors is now that if IITians started living and studying in a manner that most of you suggest, what would be the scenario of his life ? Books, classes, acads, research ! How can you call this college life ??? Popular media suggests something else as college life. We dream of something else and get something else. I am no one to criticize the system, the people or the environment. But, actually speaking IITians live in an environment which can be best described as HELL IN HEAVEN.

The bad part is when you are out of IIT and even worse happens when people start discussing about it. For people outside, they may show respect at first. But, they do not respect you, they respect the hard work you put in at that time while preparing for IIT-JEE. You may go on to refute my statement saying that it was ultimately you who did it. But, seriously look at it with your "real" eyes. You are no longer that same person who cracked IIT-JEE. You are now, all together, a very different person; who loves to admire the fact that he/she is an IITian. Coming back to the people outside, now, that they may have discussed few things about your future and your current position, they narrow things down to the main aspect, the package you are going to draw. But, seldom do they know that its only a very small chunk of students that actually get those dream packages and that too mostly of a particular department. WE IITIANS ARE NOTHING BUT A FALSE REPRESENTATION OF SOME DREAMS OF MIDDLE-CLASS INDIANS...

(To be continued...)