The long wait has come to end, at last.The dreaded day we had anticipated for so long has finally arrived.My few friends and I finally got our joining letters from Wipro yesterday evening , much to our relief accompanied by a natural feeling of sadness among a few of us including me, who never had the experience of spending more than a week away from home. As far as I am concerned, neither do I know how to even prepare tea nor did I ever wash my cloths myself! Now the time has come to pay for my so far comfortable life. I will really miss my parents like hell the 1st few months, the same way they will feel my absence. And yes, I will miss my blog too! Lately I have not been posting as much as I should have. Now, its going to get even more rare.The weekends are going to my only chance to post something from a cybercafe.Atleast,not before I get a new laptop or something. I guess,that will take a bit time to happen though.
I am still an amateur blogger, in the initial stages of the learning curve, still trying to learn how to use my blog-whether to pen every interesting piece of thought or memory that comes to my mind, thereby helping myself to get rid of this feelings of loneliness, (which have been a part of my life since times immemorial) or put in place some well structured articles, having some moral in the end. I am still confused about it the same way like I was the on the day when I started writing. Till date, I have hardly got about 10 distinct visitors and even fewer regular visitors. The 2 main reasons that come to my mind at 1st instinct is the lack of awareness of the importance of weblogs(and even reading good novels for that fact)among the people around me and secondly the existence of a significant population in this world who use blogging as a source of income! Its like 5 or 6 out of 10 blogs I visit has some ads of some kind or another splashed across its pages.The more is the no.of ads, lesser seems to be the dedication on the blog’s owner part,as far as the articles are concerned.
One might question, about the relevance of this type of rumblings on my part, in times of a crisis of such magnitude. May be its because of this feeling of frustration and utter helplessness.A thought that no matter how much I rumble, nothing is gonna change, for words don’t speak if they are not read or heard!
Whatever my grudge is, I feel that this inherent laziness that many of us are born with in this country or the presence of a system that makes us lazy in due course of time is one of the many reasons that we are among the most passive people of all!. Till the end of my 1st semester in engineering college I ACTUALLY used to study, keeping in regular touch with the course going on in classes, which gave me some extra motivation to pour over things in more details outside course-curricullum. The thought of finishing a whole subject within a couple of days before exam used to scare me. But this so called Engineering college fever started to engulf me slowly as time went by to such an extent that after 4 odd years I don’t remember much what I have studied so far in my stream of choice, for I had learned the art of studying for exams in 2 weeks or even less than that over these years. We had hailed the tested success of this art in every exam we had faced and sadly it had worked everytime. I once thought that ours is the only profession which preaches this or for that case students of IITs for instance were not our type.Well, I stand totally wrong on that fact today! But when students in medical profession try this ‘2 minutes noodles act’ in their course of study, then there remains no surprise whatsoever that why the common people are being misguided day-by-day with wrong treatments and even the lack of it. Sadly, my father has been one of the victims, cursed, just enough to suffer for the rest of his life, just due to some careless mistakes on part of these shameless people who call themselves doctors!
The ‘bandh’ culture of
After so many incidents of blasts this year which caused causalities in the range of 50-100 , it did’nt seem enough to shake us.Its only when someone entered our ‘homes’ that made us feel the impact. What else other than our lethargic mindset towards life makes us act so late! So far the after-effect had been of sympathy for the families of the victims. Now it has taken the form of anger. A type of anger which we had shown in our closed quarters so far.But now it has come out in open. Whenever I have gone out for a stroll these days, the main discussion which has flown into my ears has been of the just ended tragedy. From the local shopkeeper to people on the streets, everyone has something or the other to tell. Whatever be the main topic of discussion, however irrelevant it may be, it gives me a little relief to see that the people are atleast taking some interest. Really, we ought to do it! To remain unaware of the political scenario of one’s own nation can be called as a type of ignorance of its kind, no matter how much well versed we are with our own business! But unfortunately, most of us have preferred to follow that path of ignorance so far in our life. Be it the recent bomb blasts, the Aarushi murder case, incidents of violence on the Christians or the hysteria around INS stolt valour. The most disturbing and shameful act I have witnessed is the growing rate of rapes and molestations of foreign tourists in our country! Does it justify our ‘incredible
I wonder, when was the last time we had so many people on the streets, shouting against the misdeeds of the government! When did we see so many SMSes on the news channels, throwing across their view on the present imbroglio! Atleast I have’nt seen so much of unified outrage in my short span of life so far. But we want more of it. Not just discussions and slogans, we need to act on our part too. We can’t just carry on with our life irresponsibly. We have to stand up against every visible form of injustice. Whether it’s the incessant loitering around the government offices to get our work done from these unbothered employees or grudging against the miserable state of our roads and its traffic, we have to protest against it! If it requires us to complain against the government officials for their callousness, so be it. We can’t just fight on the road with the other person who has just crashed(very loud word in fact!) onto our car, creating a ruckus all around, thereby throwing the traffic into complete disarray! We can’t just misuse the means to justify the ends. We do need to follow the hard way, not the shortcuts, for the shortcuts prove to be short itself whenever real social problems are concerned. The ethical way is always tough but it always helps in the long run.
Last but not the least, I would like to stress a point again which I had tried to focus on, in a fellow blogger’s comment section about the politicians.I think its high time that politics be treated as a JOB. Thats the only way by which we can stop people with criminal records in making their entry into the business and making it more dirtier in the process.
If the parties concerned do not do so(due to their vested interests), we need to have the right to call the shots, asking for the credentials of the nominated candidate, whom we are going to vote for. Otherwise, we are always going to have some Sharad pawar as the agriculture minister who has little knowledge of that sector as his educational profile shows or a KPS gill,who has almost destroyed our legacy in hockey! I do realize that all these are utopian ideas to think about. But to dream of an actual ‘
