The Wish & The Battle Inside

I want to tell you, before I go to bed, that I am a little afraid tonight. Whatever I am or my dream is, might hit the rock bottom, I fear losing, I fear failure. It is still quite easy to keep making money by what I am doing now and not only that, it is secure, I am settled here, this is my comfort zone. But.... but still for once I want to reach out, I want to feel the solace in my heart that I did it, I tried and I never gave up. Will I be able to do that? Can I find some decent people in this institution who respects the value of education? I don't know my own capabilities and limitations completely but I will try not to let my spirit break. I will...

The Indian education system has got enslaved in capitalist society. Among the rat race to acquire a white collar job, our education system is producing more cattle folk than farmers. The educational heritage which imbibed 'guru-shishya parampara' has been destroyed. The Indian Education System whose objectives were acquisition of knowledge, inculcation of social duties and character building is now just focused on wealth generation. A teaching authority and fair-mindedness is lacking in our society. The fascination and craving for knowledge is missing among the students. After volunteering for Teach For India, a thought struck me, I felt compelled and motivated to bring about a change in Higher Education, so that students can be educated rather and not just be degree holders. For I firmly believe that an educated soul is an enlightened soul and are the future of our society. With high hopes I decided to reach out to the educationalists. My first few experiences were bitter-a ...

Lesson's for Manmohan Singh: Don't wait to fight corruption. To wait is to waste time and opportunity.  Don't surrender leadership to outside forces(like Sibbal, Chiddu). Better do something imperfectly than nothing flawlessly. Never reject an idea because its not your way of doing things. You won't be able to eradicate corruption, if you won't begin. Don't surrender your soul to KURSI.  Team Anna's Philosophy: If we do good, people will accuse us of selfish ulterior motives. But we'll do good anyway. Honesty and frankness makes us vulnerable. But we'll be honest and frank anyway. What we spent years building may be destroyed overnight. But we'll build anyway.

Don't miss this one -- Why I'd be Anna and not Arundhati All credits to the author. Hats off.

मेरी ख़ामोशी को मेरी कमजोरी न समझ लेना, जिस दिन मेरा खून चला तुम पानी से बह जाओगे.. मैं चुप हूँ क्यूंकि अभी तक मैं जला नहीं हूँ, पर मैं जला तो समुन्दर में भी तुम जल जाओगे.. मत लो मेरे सब्र का इम्तेहान मत लो मेरे सब्र का इम्तेहान अगर सब्र का बांध टूट गया तो जीते जी तुम मर जाओगे..

Manu – Chairman Sona – Chief Executive Officer Rohit – Sona’s son (the to be chairman) Kapil and Diggaj   – Board members Kalu & Raja – The ex-workers of the factory now in jail (they were found to have duped the factory workers and were responsible for factories recent downfall in market) Hajji – The union leader Aru and Kira – Workers in the union, termed by others as Hajji’s hands. There was no solace for the factory workers in Rohit’s statement, “It was just a minor fire in the finance unit, such minor incidents do happen and we cannot do anything about it. We deeply regret for the loss of the life of the workers though. We will have a board meeting to decide the compensation for the victims; we have our sympathy with the workers.” While there was anger among many factory workers, the families who lost their sole bread earners were not able to check their tears and wails. Aru found something suspicious in the statement, ‘… such minor incidents do happen and we cannot ...

Epilogue: It was pouring heavily today when I first saw him, silently sitting in the garden on a rusted green bench. For a moment it seemed that he was lost in the sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust of the world and after a while he started to shiver. I walked up to him "hey, you should not be sitting here anymore" and he glanced at me with bleary eyes that was the first time when I noticed his face. He looked despondent and fragile. Tears flooded his eyes and he covered them with his hands. He was visibly struggling...... The speech : "The words expectation and hope are separated with a very fine line. Expectations are driven by mental logic and there are particular areas of our life where we should be filled with expectations. Like I expect that I should be paid each month for the work I do. Managers expect that their employees should work effectively and deliver in time. Whereas hope is something that is a wish, a dream sometimes ...