looking back now, I realize how silly the education system was and continues to be.. atleast those in schools and junior colleges. They place so much importance on academic excellence that kids are finding it so darned difficult to hold on to this runaway train! The pace is so blinding, I feel as if I gave the SSC ages back!
Getting an 80-85% then assured one a seat in any good college in the 1st or max. 2nd merit lists; but, today, that sort of number on your marksheet will place you in the league of yesterday's 60-70% scorers.. Its really sad. And besides, these marks hold no water, they're just numbers reflecting one's memorization ability. Nowhere is it clear that academic excellence at age 15 paves a concrete path to success in later-life.
Its high time the government devalued the SSC and HSC exams, made them optional, or devise a system that evaluates a child on his/her own nook of excellence.. how on earth is a 15-year-old supposed to know whether commerce, science, or arts or whatever is their field of future expertise? How can one decide then and there!?
The education system encourages the harvest of students into stereotype streams, making students believe there are only certain things they can be good at, and deciding that for them on the basis of a geometry problem or social science short note.. now thats scripting a crazy tale..
Friday, December 4, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
feuer frei!
how do you remain undetectable to cockroaches and mosquitoes? The bane of every household--multiple clans of these 2 species can wreck havoc and melt the resolve of even the strongest of minds.. the universally hated duo...i, like most, like to eat at my desk, watching some movie, videos, listen to songs, surf the web, whatever,.. and yes, no matter how drab or delicious the food is, the invisible trail of aroma will bring these 2 out of their lairs.. so they say that roaches can survive a nuclear war.
bah! how i wish one could just collect ALL the damned specimens of each, and roast their sorry microscopic arses alive.. mother earth can sure do without these 2 clogging her ecosystem.. no-one needs them.. im sure they dont belong or form any integral part of any life cycle.. they're the nature's version of the appendix or tonsils.. tolerable when unnoticed, a pain-in-the-neck when they start acting up.
roll the mumbai mirror, and BAM!.. and the dead roach elicits a sort of twisted sick form of joy.. as u find yourself think "thats one less creature in this house" but no..u kill one, there's some mamma roach producing a battery of little roaches.. the real terrors are the flying roaches.. u mishit and your chance for the day is squandered.. mosquitoes are like sedated houseflies.. they dont have impressive reflexes.. always floating around disinteresed.. playing with their lives everytime they're in the vicinity of humans.
how i wish geneticists engineer an anti-mosquito gene for roaches and an anti-roach one for the mosquitoes.. divide and rule.. yeah!
bah! how i wish one could just collect ALL the damned specimens of each, and roast their sorry microscopic arses alive.. mother earth can sure do without these 2 clogging her ecosystem.. no-one needs them.. im sure they dont belong or form any integral part of any life cycle.. they're the nature's version of the appendix or tonsils.. tolerable when unnoticed, a pain-in-the-neck when they start acting up.
roll the mumbai mirror, and BAM!.. and the dead roach elicits a sort of twisted sick form of joy.. as u find yourself think "thats one less creature in this house" but no..u kill one, there's some mamma roach producing a battery of little roaches.. the real terrors are the flying roaches.. u mishit and your chance for the day is squandered.. mosquitoes are like sedated houseflies.. they dont have impressive reflexes.. always floating around disinteresed.. playing with their lives everytime they're in the vicinity of humans.
how i wish geneticists engineer an anti-mosquito gene for roaches and an anti-roach one for the mosquitoes.. divide and rule.. yeah!
Monday, October 5, 2009
huddle
it was 8.30 a.m. and it had been pouring all night.. they looked like a typical bunch of strangers from different strata of society huddled under a bus-stop or a parapet of a sandwichwala or a hardware store.
but, unlike humans, these sparrows didnt give disapproving looks or distanced themselves from anyone among them.. they were just there with each other, perched on the window grill, probably thanking the 'gods' who made such grills for their protection during the showers.
but, unlike humans, these sparrows didnt give disapproving looks or distanced themselves from anyone among them.. they were just there with each other, perched on the window grill, probably thanking the 'gods' who made such grills for their protection during the showers.
clutching the rusty iron grill with their tiny feet, 2 in front, 1 in the rear.. shaking dramatically, puffing up into a ridiculous ball-like entity, and then shrinking back to their normal size.. one of them rapidly scratching its belly so fast and somewhat acrobatically.. another content to jus sit there n meditate.. and yet another explaining very briefly to his/her friend how his/her day was going on thus far, criticizing the weather maybe.
i cannot imagine humans like these.. society and the self-created strata have made us indifferent to the other person's interests, feelings, wellbeing.. not that its necessary to be shown.. but, even ants greet each other wen they accidently bump into each other.. we're more likely to pick a fight..wish i was a sparrow.
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