Always be Selfish and MAD

Just like every other child, I have always been a fan of those bed time stories which our grand parents used to narrate during childhood days. Years have passed; things have changed; people have moved; still that eagerness to listen to those stories never seems to fade away. As I was pondering about it sitting in a chair, my mind slowly started to narrate one inside…

Once upon a time, there was a donkey which lived in a village. Getting up in the early morning, carrying the load and following its master’s order used to be its routine. The donkey was pretty much occupied and enjoyed this routine. 

Days passed… The donkey started to develop a friendship with a buffalo and a dog who were also living nearby. All the three became so close that every night, they meet each other to chat.

One night, the Donkey was extremely tired because of the heavy load and was ranting about the same. Suddenly the buffalo stared at the donkey and started to laugh… Both the Donkey and the dog were clueless. The buffalo was like, “Did you look at your face in the mirror? You are too ugly, lazy and not fit to do any other work. That’s why your master continues to load you with this mundane work on a daily basis”.

The Donkey was shocked to hear this comment and felt bad. The buffalo continued to laugh loud and the donkey couldn’t bear it anymore as it started to leave the place.

It went to its sleeping place and lied down. But somehow its mind was not peaceful. Being ugly, being lazy, not fit for any other work - these were the phrases lingering inside its head. As it turned right, suddenly it got afraid seeing the dog lying next to it. The Donkey was like, “what are you doing here”???

The Dog replied, “I know what you are thinking now inside your head. The same buffalo said similar nauseating statements about me last week and spoiled my peace too. It is when I learnt a mantra from a saint, who helped me to be at my peace”.  The Donkey was furious to listen to this and at the same time it felt curious, “Mantra? What is that?”, asked the donkey.

The dog replied, the mantra is “Be selfish And MAD”.  The Donkey was taken a back. It looked at the dog and asked, I thought you are telling some mantra to be happy and peaceful. What’s this selfish and mad, the puzzled donkey stared at the dog. 

The Dog told, wait a minute. Whatever people say around you should not matter at all. You should know what your self worth is, what your capabilities are, and what your weaknesses are. There is no one better in this world to judge you than yourself. Once you have that self introspection, you really will not be affected by these external noises.  That is what is meant by being self(ish) oriented. 

And whatever you do in your mundane life, at the end of your life, you should be mad (Make a Difference). Just doing something routine like others and passing the life is not going to help anyone. You should make a difference in whatever you do, irrespective of how small it is. 

If you are following these two qualities of being selfish and mad, there is nothing you need to worry about, explained the dog. 

The Donkey didn’t utter a word. It silently went to lie down. Suddenly, the donkey can feel a heavy hot water rain. Puzzled what it is, I woke up to realise it’s the hot coffee my niece poured on me, while I was napping in the chair…

Mind realised that there are many such buffalos surrounding each one of us in real life. And you won’t always have a dog to teach any mantra too. Instead of being a depressed donkey, it’s upto us to look upto the dog(god) in ourselves and say, “I will be selfish and mad”, no matter how many buffalos make noise :)

Who is that "She"?

Well, 2020 has started with a bang and by the time I write this, we have already gone past a quarter of it. Like how a T20 match brings in a surprise and tension element with every passing ball, every passing day keeps surprising us with something or the other.

Breaking news has become our daily alarm tone. Quarantine days has become our most used hashtag. And waking up minutes before to only sit in front of the laptop with coffee cup has become our daily dosage. 

But, hold on. Can we just rewind us to the old normal days and think about our mindset for a moment…? 

We are generally occupied with the thought process that only we are working hard day and night, chasing the strict deadlines posed to us and the “She” staying at home is casually enjoying the day, isn’t it? Well, we can’t deny this completely.

“She” wakes up early every day to only ensure that we are not getting late to our office;

“She” gives us a call to check whether we ate or not/when are we going to start home and we just cut the call saying “In a meeting; will call back”, but never called back;

We wait for the week ends to go out for movies, shopping, beach etc., but “She” is always given the mundane work of weekly wash of clothes;

We enjoy our team outings, success parties and recognition's thrown out at us for successfully completing the projects but always end up blaming the “She” for a pinch of salt/sugar missed out;

We keep a log of the extra hours we have worked during our performance reviews but there is no such concept of working hours “She” can afford to say;

We get paid for what we work and yearly bonuses for our better performances but “She” is always treated as a zero salaried employee.

We can’t deny that we haven’t done all these… Right?  But, as there is a saying, “Time teaches everything” we tend to understand now how difficult and dreadful it will be for the women to stay home all through the day catering to our daily needs.

We understand now how stressful it is to keep doing the monotonous work on a daily note.

We understand now that being outside is not a tough job, but being at home is.

We understand now how cruel isolation is and how it would feel to not get recognized. 

Probably, as they say, “Every cloud has its own silver lining, one good thing this COVID has brought out is the realization of what big blunders we all have been carrying inside our mind till now. And now it’s time for us to pay back. Your “She” can be anyone. Your mother; Your wife; Your sister; or Your grandmother. Anyone who has been sacrificing her daily wishes and desires just to ensure that your work schedule is not getting disturbed and you are well taken care of. And what are you gonna do for that "She"?

Take a minute and think!!

Keezhadi Excavation Findings

Will you believe me if I say, whatever the history we studied long back in our schools is going to change completely..?

Yes. You read it right. Continue to read further.

It is from the recently released initial set of findings from the Keezhadi excavations which is going to rewrite the entire civilization history, which we all have been taught of. And, for those who don't know, Keezhadi is a small village around the borders of Madurai district near the banks of vaigai river.

We all have been told that the oldest human civilisation has developed from the areas of north western parts of India surrounding the Indus valley.

But do we know that the recently released findings of keezhadi dates back to the same period of Indus valley civilisation?? Yes. The findings show many linkages which connects to the oldest claimed Indus valley civilisation.

And the next big revelation is the usage of Tamil brahmi during these periods which further dates back the existence of Tamil language making it the oldest language. (Note: Till now, only Sanskrit has been mentioned as the oldest language in our syllabus and not Tamil)

There are other findings as well relating to the type of vessels, ornaments, living types etc..

The findings have been under rated to the core by both the media's and people.

The reason behind this article is not to purely dwell upon the dominance of the Tamil language or civilisation. But to know our roots rather than longing why no Tamil movie is sent as India's entry for Oscars.

We know that we have been deprived from the pride that our roots deserve but at least let's make our future generation to know these things and that can only happen when we start speaking about this in social media's rather than debating only upon movie reviews and reality shows.

'Indus valley civilisation is the oldest human civilisation', we read.

Atleast, Let our future generations read, Vaigai valley civilisation is the oldest human civilisation!!

THE ART OF FAILING

It was a late tiring day at office. Time was almost nearing 11 in the night, as I was waiting for my cab to arrive. The mandatory meetings, constant skype calls, ever increasing to-do-lists, never-ending action items, iterated discussions, Balance sheets not tallying, cash flow mis-match - huh..! What not..? – A ruckus was running inside my mind and one of my hand started to shiver. Thought for a moment, Iam going to faint. Looked down, to my fortune, it was my vibrating mobile. Picked up the phone. “Sir, cash thane?”, driver on the other side. Yes, I replied. Everywhere, this cash flow problem exists, my mind whispered inside.

Cut down 5 mins from then, into the cab. The driver entered the OTP, switched off the inside lights and started the ride. It was a whole lot of darkness surrounded, both inside and outside. There were showers starting to pour. The music player was chanting Kolaveri song, and the leisurely made rhythm somehow was rightly accompanying my sluggish mood.

Started surfing the net. People were fighting with negative hashtags being trended, against their anti stars. Came out of it as my mind was already tired of the rumpus going inside.

The Playlist started Rowdy baby next. I closed my eyes lying back to the seat. My mind started to ponder through..

Why do people spread negativity everywhere...??

Why do people are always interested in offending others…?? And finally,

Why do my Balance sheets always don’t tally…??

But, to my bad luck, I was able to get answers for none. Opened my eyes to see Thalappakatti passing through. And rains have started to smash as well. Just when I was thinking to call my mom asking her to get an umbrella out, remembered her, telling me to eat out and come. So, asked driver to stop by a near by restaurant for a take home parcel. Driver stopped at a restaurant. It was pouring heavily outside. Was hesitant to get out in that. After a bit of time, opened the door, and started rushing to the hotel entrance. Into the hotel, the clock’s were turning near to 12. Pin drop silence. Ordered my food. Turned back to witness a delivery guy sitting over, earphones plugged in. Seeing me, he removed his earphones out. Till then, I don’t know I was in for a shock in next 2 mins. Yes. Came to know, he has done his Master’s degree and working here Part time as he could not find a proper job. Further came to know, his friends/relatives who used to be good to him once were mocking him for what he is, now.

Master’s Degree.. Regular job from 9 to 7. Part time job from 8 to 2 in the night. Lot of humiliations and hatred. Just when I could not imagine what was going around, his parcel came. He took the Parcel. I told him its raining heavily outside. He smiled and said, “Let it come. I can manage”. Kept the parcel in his bag. Plugged his ear phones again. Put down a cover in his head. Said me Bye., and started walking to his bike casually in that heavy rain.

5 mins from then, my parcel came. Picked it up and ran into the cab. Cab has started. But, inside me, the words he uttered was running on loop, “Let it come. I can manage”. Well, not only for rains. That is how we should take the humiliations and challenges coming in front of us, as well. Somewhere, my mind was telling this to me.

Got a call from my mother as I was about to reach home. “Rains are coming heavily. Shall I come out with an umbrella?”, she asked. Without my knowledge, the words came out, “Let it come, I can manage”. Within a few moments, driver stopped the car on my street side and switched on the lights inside. The darkness has gone, atlast, both inside and outside. And Rahman's Saregame song was being played in the radio, “Mistakes are the secret of success….”. 

Paid cash to the driver and started to walk off.  Some how, inside, things started to look easy. Thoughts started becoming crystallized and my balance sheets started to get tally!!

Life's LKG Lesson

It was a bright sunny morning outside. But,as usual his room hasn't still got out of the dark dusky coldness yet. Credits to the 18° air conditioner and the curtained windows.

Life is not moving the way he wished. No job. No money. Dependency on family. Age 25. No respect among peers, relatives, neighbours. Fear of experiencing one more failure. Loneliness. Social anxiety. All these haunts were loudly screaming inside his mind one by one.

His mind choked. He was questioning himself, Why all these pain and problems only for me. But there was no response.

A sudden cut off to his running thoughts. His ears started paying attention to a 3 year old kid crying loudly outside. He went out to see why, improptu in a hassle way. The little one was crying as it doesn't want to go to school. His parents were busy preparing him for school without paying much attention to him crying. He went near the boy. Laughed at him and asked him not to cry. Said, you are not the only one going to school. Everyone of your age is undergoing this. only if you undergo this, your future will be good. That 3 year old kid was paying deaf ears to his speech and was busy concentrating to cry. In fact it has increased its voice after his speech. The time clocked 9, The little one's mom gave a 5 rupees chocolate to the boy and stared. The kid closed its mouth. stopped crying and started to school not taking eyes off from that colourful chocolate wafer.

The child's attitude has hit his mind. He came inside his darky room. It was too cold inside. He lied on his bed. The outside scenario was flashing through his mind. Without his knowledge, his mind started to connect this to his present situation. Something provoked inside him. He started to think. "I was crying before in this room. The little one was also crying outside. I thought I am the only one getting all this pain. Even the little one was crying vigorously akin to that". Now, his mind was urging him to relate what he told to that kid.

His mind started to bridge the connecting dots. He re collected the words uttered to that kid.
"You are not the only one going to school. Everyone of your age is undergoing this. only if you undergo this, your future will be good". There was a sigh of relief which his mind was experiencing at that point.

Sometimes in our life we cry and feel bad thinking about the current problems and pain in our life just like that kid. GOD will be calmly watching all these not paying much attention to our problems, just like the parents. But just when the clock ringed 9, when the right time comes, GOD also throws a 5 rupees chocolate wafer( self realisation and oppurtunities) to everyone of us. And All we need to do is to make use of it instead of worrying and keep passing our present in the memories of the past.

There was an exuberant amount of unknown happiness filled inside him. His mind was constantly uttering the words.

"You are not the only one going to school.
Everyone of your age is undergoing this.
Only if you undergo this, your future will be good".

Not able to control the cold, he removed the window curtains and covered all around him. At last, there was a feel of warmth inside him. And at last, there was a ray of brightness flashing through the room. :)

96 Movie

As obviously difficult it is, for an employed, to leave the office early on a weekday, after much chaos started from office. Adding to this existing tussles, rain tortured me till the theatre. Finally got into the theatre minutes before the show, with my totally drenched laptop bag.

Straight into the title card credits, there flashed a thanks note to the Nature. My mind was slowly forgetting the hiccups running inside and started clocking the big screen on what #96 is to offer.

Everyone here wishes to be problem free and  happy but no one really is(Atleast whomever I know). To my surprise, there is one such  called Ram enjoying his life happily(Atleast in movies) following his passion, eating whatever he likes and especially not thinking too much. Just when my mind started to believe that he is that hypothetical man without any problems, the letters he writes in the seashore hinted something. Camera slowly started taking off, out focussing the letters he wrote. May be out focussing his problems as well.

We are thrown into the humongous world of Deja-vu reliving the nostalgic memories which everyone is sure to be packed with. This is not the type of movie where you go expecting a high in the interval and climax .Rather there is always an high (eye) on the reality check.

There are so much of sentiments, the movie carries inside. There are so many types of emotions handled. There are so much of pain shown inside. But the biggest credit is none of these will soak you in tears. Rather it will make you strong and throws a different perception to the way we look at what life is all about.

This film is one such which has not taken the liberty of being just a movie and ending the proceedings but rather imprints in everyone's soul a day's life of Ram and Jaanu.

Done with the movie. I was not able to say anything on it. Beginning Title credits flashed a thanks note to the Nature. And the ending title card also flashed a credit to the Nature. Yes... It is for the nature of Ram, inside my heart.

Came out of the theatre. Again it was raining heavily. The same rain which was pouring when I went inside. But it was not the same me who went inside.

Reached home and news was going that the Weather department withdrawn the Red alert issued. My heart smiled and murmured, "This Red alert can never be withdrawn❤".

ARUVI - All is Well

It’s been a long time since I posted a write up here and that too about a movie. And to be specific, this is the first time Iam writing a long post on a movie. To put it as a disclaimer, this is not a movie review (Still didn’t reached that level and not interested to do that as well) but just a pure evacuation of questions provoked in my mind after watching the movie, ARUVI.

Yes. Iam not able to get rid of it and was constantly thinking what the director has really intended to convey through this film? Why this movie has received such rave reviews, awards and recognitions? My mind didn’t accept the fact that I like a movie because majority people liked it too. Of course, this is not a mainstream commercial drama where the entire movie goes along with a single theme. In fact, I have even been asking some of my friends as to why they like this movie. But there were no readymade answers made available for me. Well, that has what made me to think a little bit deep into it about this movie. Thanks to Sunday for giving me some time to do it.

Aptly suiting to the title, the movie flows in multi layered directions adding to it, the non-linear narrative and the sudden revelations and by the time we think what the movie unfolds, we reach the climax. The flamboyant title character ARUVI (Need not be gender specific here) has strictly conveyed some life rules which needs to be designed and reserved with us throughout our life.

To start with, the movie pre-dominantly conveys only one message. Learn to live your life independently. Don’t depend on others. Because, we don’t know when that others will become strangers in our life. Like how a full stop is used in a Para to make the sentence meaningful, even life requires a full stop to certain people to make it meaningful. We should not worry about the full stop made, rather be happy that it will lead to the start of a new sentence.

Life will become easier when problems are viewed with a sense of humor. The satirical scenes will not only make you to laugh rather question yourself that, when there are people with so much of problems in their life who are still happy, what you are facing is nothing at all. It altogether throws a diverse standpoint on the way, life is to be viewed.

In fact, the ending scene where the lead character was proposed by a boy question you to think that whatever happening in the current era in the name of love is not the real one at all. Love is something which must be felt on someone without any reason, without any expectations, without any benefit in return. If you can list down the reasons why you are loving someone, believe me that is not love at all. It is called like.

Nowadays, leading a happy life means changing your social network DP’s once a week, partying with friends, going on monthly tours etc. The movie even touches upon this. Real happiness does not lie in captivating things from others rather lies in giving things out to others. That cannot be explained rather than be felt.

You need not be serious even when things are not going as per your wish in life. In fact, you must be happy because if everything happens as per your wish and you are not at all struggling in life, you have not gone into the real-life phase yet. You are like in the phase of a kid whose wish will always be fulfilled by its parents.

When life throws dis-appointments at you, rather than bending down to it, stand up and convert those negatives into positives. The only one place where impossible has a real meaning is in the dictionary. In our real life, there is nothing called impossible. It is just lack of involvement. Your habits are designed prima facie by your friends and for this movie too, the story takes a U turn (which we may not even know at that time) only because of a friend. So, be extra careful when accepting friend requests.

Having said all, Aruvi (Waterfalls) metaphored to life here will look good when we see, but the force it penetrates can be handled only with rock-rollicking calm happy helping mindset. With this, I can positively say that ARUVI has joined with Mayakkam enna to convert my list of favourite film from singular to plural.

De-coding the characters G S and T in GST – A funny debate

Ever since the evolution of the ideology to integrate the entire indirect taxes into a single tax network, GST has been making the news and with the President’s assent, the effect of the same has manifolded multiply that it is hitting the daily newspaper headlines and Prime time slots in Television. Touted to be the India’s biggest tax reform post independence, this Act captures all the necessary elements of an action hero even before its implementation.

Well. Getting into this write up, we are normally accustomed to various debates over the GST happening all over televisions, newspapers and other media forums, but for a change, what will happen if the characters in the statute itself debate with each other claiming themselves to be a hero.

Yes. This write up is just an attempt into the same, de-coding each of the characters from their own point of view.

1. GOODS called as “The Gigantic G”

2. SERVICES called as “The Superlative S” and

3. TAX called as “The Terrifying T” 

Starting with the “Gigantic G” as the name goes by:

We, GOODS are the tangible elements upon which the entire tax is levied and our importance can be understood just by the priority given to us, as we precede others in the name of the Statute itself. We find ourselves in all the types of movable property except money and securities. We even include actionable claim, grass, crops and everything that are attached to the land.

We are the ones that are manufactured in big industries, traded everywhere right from the big malls to the Kirana shops and we enjoy the physical presence and people love to pay just for using us. We contribute to the Government’s Ghazaana in different forms of taxes and we even get advertised in all the television channels and you cannot even find one place without our existence. Hence, we are the heroes of all, says the Gigantic G.

As the Gigantic G finishes off, now its turn for the “The Superlative S”:

You, GOODS may include all the types of movable property but still you are just an inclusive definition whereas we contain everything else except those falling under you. Thus, we constitute majority of the transactions for the tax base as compared to you.  And you may be tangible, but even the biggest corporates would like to develop their intangibles and we are very happy that we are falling under the same category. You can get money from those who are buying you but we’ll tax the money itself on its conversion into any other mode. You get crushed through those big heavy machines and get stalled in the shop racks whereas we are the opted ones for millions of young graduates and business tycoons to venture into. You are incomplete and have no value without us and thus we form an integral part of your existence. Needless to mention, our importance can be noted just with the pattern of marks in the exams as the Single Finance Act taxing service constitutes for 50% and all the other Acts taxing you, GOODS constitute the rest and hence we are the heroes of all, goes the Superlative S.

After listening to the furious hit backs between the Gigantic G and the Superlative S, “The Terrifying T” takes the centre stage now.

I feel pity on both of you for your opinions on each other, as none of you are complete without me, which can be understood if you simply go by the name of the Statute itself. Iam the base because of which both of you are defined and without me you’ll not even find a mention of your name in the statue. Iam the “terrifying terminator” in the eyes of the people and they just fear on listening to my name and the “thirsty trading a/c” of the Government which wants me to grow bigger and bigger. Even if you both cease to exist, I will still be trending in the form of direct taxes and Iam sure that there will many more ways devised out to introduce me in the un-explored areas. And hence, Iam the un-disputed real hero of all, ends the Terrifying T.

As all the three finished their speech proving points in favour of each of them, now it’s time for the judgement. A movie without an action hero is in-complete and so does the characters in this article. Compared to all of the three, the views presented by the Terrifying T are more practical and hence warrants superiority over others.

But Wait… We forgot the fourth character.

Yes. It is none other than the Act in the GST Act, “The Action hero A”. Even though tax is the fulcrum of the entire discussion, it should be sanctioned by an Act laid in accordance with our Constitution and the power to levy the terrifying T by the Government cannot be subsumed without the mere presence of the Action hero.

We humans tend to easily forget whatever we come across and this article is no exception to that. The introduction part itself states that the Act is the hero but it is those characters in this article, which didn’t notice that and went on debating. And Iam lucky enough because if they have noticed that, then this article would not be available here before you.

Having said all, a movie is not complete without an action hero and you don’t become a villain for me after reading this.

Thank you. J

Distress aka De-stress

Every person in this world has their own stories and problems and you cannot even find one in this universe who lives happily without any problem. A student has the pressure to score more marks than his best friend; an unemployed has the pressure to get placed in a good job; a married man has the pressure to assist his family’s needs and the list goes on like this.

In our life, we are always running towards a target object which may be marks, job, money and so on and in the process, we completely forget the purpose beyond running for it. A boy was standing in the terrace and looking at the sky wondering, how beautiful and happy a bird was flying. But the bird only knows that it is flying high to keep it safe from its enemies as well as to secure a piece of bread for its livelihood. In that process, it forgets that it has been given the boon to fly which is not possible for humans. Just visualize that the boy standing in the terrace is the GOD and the bird is we, human beings. God has given everyone with a unique talent and he is sitting and wondering about how well we are going to use the same. But we in the process of paying attention towards either securing marks/searching jobs/ getting promotions, fails to notice that we are having something unique which is not available to others and end up wasting the same.

A child looked at the sky and asked his brother, why there is no moon today for which, his brother replied that today we cannot see the moon as it is a new moon day. The child started crying and the mother on seeing the same, consoled the child and told, that there is only one day i.e., today where we cannot see moon but during the next fortnight the moon is going to get bigger and bigger. In the same way, today may not be your day but ensure that one day the world is going to acknowledge your efforts and hard work and believe that day is no way far.

And nowadays, it has become a habit to expect the result from a job even before starting it. It is not wrong to estimate the same but at certain times, it is better to do what life gives you without any expectations. In schooldays, we were reading the theories in Physics, Formulae in Maths, Time period in History but we have never thought how it is going to help us in our life or the higher studies or the jobs we are going to undertake. We cannot say that I want to become an Engineer and hence studying Tamil grammar is of no use to me. The thing is that we don’t know what benefits and at what point of time is going to accrue to us due to the efforts we are putting today and we expect to see the results tomorrow itself. And we will start to worry about the same.

 If we have to put the same in costing terms, result is just a by-product upon which we don’t have any control. Our control should be on the process so as to ensure that we are eliminating the process loss to the extent possible, and the by-product will eventually come out. But, we keep on worrying about the by-product and thereby lose control over the process leading to an ultimate collapse.

To conclude, as said earlier, everyone has problems in their life but the magnitude of the same depends upon how one looks at it. There is a saying which goes like “Your determination determines your destination” But it is your perception which is going to determine, what your destination is. It is obvious and easy to note the distress surrounding us but a simple change of a vowel can help us to de-stress from the distress. :)

Everyone’s desire is to FAIL

I know that by reading the topic of the article, most of you would be feeling awkward as to why this guy has titled the article in this way. Wait… Let’s carry on reading the article.. This article is going to pre-dominantly discuss on the two 7 letter words between which everyone’s life is passing through. One is the highly toxicated word “SUCCESS” beyond which everyone is running hard and the other is the often rewarded awful word “FAILURE”. 

Everyone in the world is gifted with the same 24 hours a day. Some people accumulate their wealth and knowledge by leaps and bounds whereas others depreciate what they have in the said time. Your effort towards achieving the target is mainly driven by two factors.

1. Your strategy to achieve the target in an optimal manner and

2. How time responds to your strategy.

The first one is only in our hands and we need to simply forget the time factor. Anyways life is not about finding the Net Present Value. So we can very well ignore it. 

"Expectation is the root cause of misery", a quote which can suit at any circumstance. Here iam not talking out other people’s expectation on you.. It is your perception that other people are expecting from you. Imaging that everyone is thinking you are an idiot is your perception and at the same time imagining you are intelligent is also your perception. There is no role for others to decide about your abilities. Your ability is only to be decided by the attribute you carry with yourself.

Each and every one of us would have put efforts to achieve our target and if it did not yield the expected results, it doesn’t mean the efforts we put are worthless. It is definitely going to help us but the time alone has delayed. Whether success or failure, the same should be remembered only at that moment and we should not take it to our heart. An aeroplane travels at a speed of nearly 500 miles a hour yet the passengers sitting inside will feel as if they are sitting in a chair in their home. And this is how we should take our life also. The speed/aggression to achieve the target should be retained with the brain and we should not take it to our heart.

I should say that whether the result is positive or not, the efforts to achieve the target should be consistent. The only thing is we should not feel regret in our heart at a later point of time. We will know the value of a thing only during its absence. So,the absence of success should make us to work positively towards achieving the target rather than getting distracted by losing our self confidence. And everything in life happens according to our time, our clock. You may look at your friends/neighbours and some may seem to be ahead or behind you, but they are not. They are living according to the pace of their clock. So be patient.

Let me end it up with an old yet worthy story. There was once a king who placed a boulder on the middle of the road. All the wealthy merchants and traders were passing by the road but none came forward to remove the obstacle. Then, a peasant came by the way carrying a vegetable load and he took the initiative to remove the same. After much pushing and straining, he is able to remove the boulder. Below the boulder there was lying a sack containing gold coins and a note from the king that the same belongs to the person removing the obstacle. So, every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve one's condition and let us not keep on worrying about the past.

Thank you!!

Wait... I didn’t told what is meant by FAIL till now… The word FAIL has different perceptions and I think we should perceive it as to “Flawlessly Ascend in Life…” 

Now, I hope that you also will be agreeing with me, that you desire to FAIL… J

CURRENT SCENARIO OF INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

Every creature on this planet is actively engaged in their own life race, starting from fulfilment of their day to day requirements till their aim of achieving the so called life time goals and we human beings are no exception to that. India, the second most populated country in the world with 125 crores of people in numbers, despite having good infrastructural facilities and manpower resources is nowhere near the top rankings as for the education system is concerned.

Why is it so??? This question is the basis for evolution of this article. This article gives a sneak peek of the current scenario of our India’s education system. Come... Let’s find out.

The life cycle of a successful student should start from getting over 90% in schooling, getting into an engineering college/doing a graduation and settling into a branded corporate with assured job. Well, this is the generally accepted life graph formulated by our neighbours, relatives and the entire society surrounding us in order to label someone as “successful”. And the parents are mentally forced by the society to develop their childrens in this standardized format failing which, they will also become prey for this society and the CYCLE CONTINUES LIKE THIS... 

Simple. If all the fingers in our hand itself are not identical, it is utmost idiotic to expect all the students to fit into a pre-defined circle and get labelled as “successful in life”. And hence, it is indeed essential for us to look into this issue from its root cause rather than commenting on a macro angle.

Well... Before going inside, the word "EDUCATION" has been used in this article many times. What does it actually mean? Education is the process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits. This is what Wikipedia says... Whether our educational system puts a tick mark to all the above items??? The answer is a STRICT NO.

Schools, the starting point for any student’s education career popularly tagged as “FIRST HOME” as, nowadays students spend more time here as compared to their home. But whether it works in the way in which it has to work???  Yes… it’s a big question mark.

The primary goal of school education system nowadays is not mainly targeted towards imparting good character, developing inter-personal skills, enabling the students to active application of their mind but, is confined purely to the completion of SYLLABUS within the time allotted and conducting the prescribed number of model tests and extra coaching classes. As a result, students are turned to be mere mark getters and their overall personality development ranks a big ZERO.

The students are not given the freedom to think over an issue, except to accept and memorize the lessons taught and vomit in the exam answer sheets filling up the pages and this becomes even a contest among the students as to find out who has written more number of pages. The brain building fundamental questions such as What, Why and how are erased from the minds of the students and instead given the options YES or NO. The students are trained only to clear their exams with good marks and out of box thinking is strictly prohibited. Over a period of time, students even stop to ask meaningful questions due to fear factor and the same gets buried in their minds without any solution. It is not right to find fault with the schools or the teachers, but the entire system that should be blamed.

And w.r.t sports activities in schools... Sorry... Some people may even argue that schools have nothing to do with sports and often it is treated as an offence/misdeed by most of the parents. In most of the schools, the time allocated towards sports is very much negligible and even that classes are also occupied by the other subject teachers to finish their uncompleted SYLLABUS. And then, we feel envy on other countries like China, USA and Great Britain while seeing the OLYMPICS medal tally cursing our Indian contingent to the core. The training and passion towards sports can only be inculcated in the earliest stages of one’s career i.e., school life and once if it is missed, the opportunity is lost. We need to feel pity only on ourselves rather on feeling jealous on other countries.

And the situation even worsens when they step into college with their irrebuttable presumption that, they have learnt everything, got good marks and coming here only to get a graduation. Of course, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

Despite all these things, if there is one field, where the students get themselves updated with the latest changes happening... then, it is none other the "ENTERTAINMENT" sector. We need to really feel pity on the current scenario of the students focusing more on reviewing the Friday releases and meme creations in social networking sites rather than their career growth. Of course, they are going to tell, "DON'T WORRY BRO... There won't be any questions in exam regarding it"... (GOD ONLY SHOULD HELP!!!😠😠😠😠)

The motive is not to find fault with them but, the amount of pressure that has been put on their shoulders by the entire society is the sole reason for their distraction towards studies and I should say that evolution of social networking sites and modern technologies are leading every one of us in a wrong path. And remember, If we are getting too much entertained, then our life'll become ENTERTAINMENT for others.

Even though there may be a school of thought saying that, the literacy rate in India has developed considerably, the social crimes happening in our society has also increased even more at a rapid rate. This makes us to think where this education system leads us to, when our grand fathers/mothers have lived more happily even without going to these schools and colleges. 

Having said all, now you may think that this article conveys something which is identical to that of the messages conveyed in movies like 3 Idiots (Hindi), Saattai (Tamil) etc., But I think if the same hero-heroine-villain concept itself is portrayed in enormous number of movies, it is definitely worth to talk about an essential important issue haunting our society even if it is identical to some of the movies. Atleast people will get a chance to remember and reinstate in their minds what is happening around in our country’s education system.

While the changes we desire to happen may not happen immediately but still, we can be that ignition to bring out the revolution we desire, at least for the generations to come...

JAI HIND!!!

By 

NAGARAJ S and you can reach me @krishkarnagaraj. 

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