जाना था उसे एक दिन और एक दिन वो मुझसे रूठ गया हाय, मुझसे मेरा बचपन छुट गया। और आखिर वो रुकता भी क्यों इस मतलबी, चालाक दुनिया में शायद उसकी कोई जगह न थी मानो इस समाज ने उसका गला घोट दिया हो। अब तो बस तलाश जारी है पुराने बागों, खेतो और मैदानों में ढूद्ता हूँ मै उसे शायद किसी किनारे पर बेठा, कुछ खुरापात करता मिल जाये कंही। आप भी ढुढना उसे, कुछ 3-4 फुट का होगा वो पागल,बेफिक्र नादान तपते सूरज में खेलता हुआ, शायद मिल जाए आपको ही कही और शायद इसी खोज में आप खुद को- अपने बचपन को ढूंड पाये।।
Just for two minutes think about your
childhood and everything that happened in that period. Wasn't it beautiful? Childhood
better called " IDYLLIC HAPPINESS " is something more
to be felt than expressed. Regardless of the age whenever someone muses about
childhood one falls into a trance of inexplicable joy and gets nostalgic
.Nothing can be more warm than recollecting sweet childhood memories and I am
no exception to that kind of feeling .
But there is a thing that
makes me feel uncomfortable - we have somehow lost our childhood somewhere in
this fast moving selfish world. I feel we need to find out that child again-
the lost child that pure, lovable, innocent and careless part of us. I
strongly feel that the childhood is not
merely a phase of life, it is not sth that you pass through and go intact. It
affects you most profoundly and you can
feel that throughout your life. It is an invaluable quality that makes you
laugh without any reason, that keeps on encouraging you to do pagalpan and that makes you sail through this
mean world.
We in the process of competing
for the best have lost so much invaluable that it can't be compensated what we
strove for. We have to understand and encourage
that old pagalpan, laugh with no reason, unconditional love and childlike
innocence. We have to understand that our childhood has a lots of things to
teach us.
So today,
let us all try to relive the memories of our beautiful childhood. Let us
all try to be the same chota sa bacha
(the small child) and look towards the world in a different way. Let us forsake
every tension and the tendency of restless race to be what we are not.
Finally we got first
placement of Mechanical- 2009 batch i.e.Bhupesh
Baskoti. Congrats bro. Tomorrow we are going to witness some more
placements after the result of MARUTI interview. There will be some cheers with
some disappointments. However, as many others, I am not in the probable ones,
so no tension at all. A very strange thing is going on
now, even the most "cool-headed" students of our batch are in
tension. I saw someone with tears after the announcement of TATA MOTORS written exam result . Many of us
are doubting their own caliber and are disheartened. Some of us are giving
reasons for not being shortlisted that are hard to digest even by themselves.
All of us are doing postmortem of last two written exams to find out where
things did go wrong and remedial actions.
If someone have find out how to crack technical written exam please
contact me, that could be a great help to all of us. The most peculiar thing that
I want to mention here is that some of us who have decided not to join any company
are still longing for a placement. Why do all of us seem so desperate to have a
job? A question worth pondering. I think
it is the confluence of parent pressure, junior expectations and an urge to
prove yourself. Have I covered
everything or something is left? Yes, I think it is the pressure of society
i.e. lots of unidentified uncles and aunties. These are the people who stop us
from following our most cherished dreams and indirectly forces everybody to be merely an engineer. These are the people who
affect our life more than anyone else. I must say the parents pressure is a
direct by-product of this societal pressure.
as far as junior's expectations
are concerned, we are somewhat responsible for it. We have created an image
that we, sir/ma'am, are really fhaadu… They expect us to get an early placement, they
wish us best of luck before every
written and as we have to maintain that "self fabricated "image, it
create a lots of pressure on us. In the same way compulsion to prove yourself
to friends, teachers, batch mates, relatives and to you too also cause
unnecessary tension. so, as now more
companies are going to come in future we are confused what to study or to study at all. Things are going to be
tough in the time coming. A piece of advice- don’t expect a lot, do what you
can and have faith in God. May this drought of job end soon and we all get
relieved again…
It
started on the eve of 14th August, 2011 when a student, frustrated for not
doing anything for the nation, decided to do something, something that is
meaningful. He started teaching a child labor who used to work at TIC,
Pantnagar at his own room and when the employer of that shop denied to let him
go to the hostel, that student did something unusual.
Right from the next day, he
started teaching that child at TIC itself.
Then, he persuaded other shop owners to send all child labors working on
those shops for studying. It was unusual because this time someone was not
cursing the system; someone was not begging for a change but was trying to make
a contribution for the desired change.
Aur bas esi trah karva banta gya.. And
today we are 20 students dedicated and determined to work for the betterment of
society. We are working on a no. of projects but mainly we are concentrating on
a good and equitable education to every child irrespective of one's economic
and social status. Our motive is to prepare ourselves for the greater role of
nation building.
A
number of questions are being asked to us that why we, Astitva, are working in
this direction. The answers are simple:
1.Social
responsibility:We all are consuming resources of our nation.
The government and society is fulfilling our daily requirements. So now, it is
our responsibility to give it back.
2.A chain of
inspiring/enlightening must continue:We are the people who are inspired enlightened to work for the society by
someone and we would like to continue this chain by doing something that inspires
others.
3.We are optimistic
and believe in our small contribution:Blaming govt., bureaucrats, police and politicians is of no use. We ourselves have to become an instrument of
change. We strongly believe that only small-
2 contributions made by everyone have the power to improve the present abysmal
condition and materialize the dreams of our great leaders.
4. We all are
interdependent:"If your neighbor is not happy then you
won't be happy for long". For example, we are getting food because a
farmer is in a condition to produce it. And as time is passing things are becoming
more difficult for him and in this way in future we won't have any food. The
same case is with labors riksha puller, hawkers, sweeper so we can't feel
alienated from their pressing problems.
Many students have asked us to be a part of
"Astitva”. Now we would like to expand it and everyone is welcomed.
The people we are looking for:
Many
people appreciate us, but we don't need them. Some are willing to give money
but sorry we don't need them too. We don't need the most intelligent or a
computer geek, we don't need someone who believes that Es desh ka kuch nhi
ho sakta, ya mai akela kya kr lunga, ya es college ka administration system
bhot khrab hai and hum students kya okhad lenge.
The first and foremost thing that
we require is A TRUE INTENTION, WILLINGNESS TO WORK and COURAGE TO SACRIFICE
WITHOUT ANY DESIRE OF RECOGNITION.
Generally,
everyone does have an excuse of not having any
platform, so here is the solution. We are providing a platform to you to
implement whatever idea you have and to give us a hand for the common good. Now it’s your time to take a step on your
behalf for the betterment of society. Let’s together try to make a difference
by doing something constructive and meaningful. We, the Astitva family, invite all
of you to please come forward and at least try to find out what actually it
is... Don't
make an excuse that you don't have time, if you are busy and can't give much
time to it but have an urge to work for society, you are totally welcomed with
your ideas…
We
don't want to stick to only a single problem but to create a more sensitive and
innovative environment in our university at first and in whole nation in the
long run. So at least give a try and let's see what we together can do.
"There
are problems not because of misdeeds of bad people but because of the inactivity of
good people"
BE THE PART OF CHANGE
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Happy one another Independence Day!!!
Hi friends, Happy one another Independence Day! This is the 20th Independence Day of my life time. But unexpectedly I am not happy today. Strange, a person who leaves no chance to portray himself the most patriotic is not happy on the day we get rid of British powers? Ya, I agree with you but the question arises, for what we should feel elated? Is it poverty, inequality, burns of frequent riots, female feticide, illiteracy or inhuman treatment of the poorest of poor and most marginalized people in Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Manipur and Kashmir?
I don’t feel good because more than 300 million people in my country are not going to have enough food even after 65 years of this so called independence. I don’t feel good because today the farmers, peoples who provide us food, are committing suicide every 32 minutes. I don’t feel good because in world’s largest democracy people who elected the politicians are being looted by them (politicians) every day.
And I firmly believe that morally we don’t have any right to feel good because this celebration of power, achievements and much hyped democracy will conceal the most glaring reality of India, reality of hunger, reality of corruption, reality of discrimination, reality of sense of insecurity in our own country.
Today I would like to raise some most disturbing issues of India which are being neglected because they never caused any problem to us, the mainstream, well-off Indians. India is at war with its own people. We are fighting continuously since 1947 with our own people. Be that Kashmir, Punjab, Telangana, Manipur, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand, West Bengal, we “the biggest democracy of world” have or had deployed force to fight with our own citizens and that too for the most backward, deprived section of our society, in Kashmir they are Muslims, In Punjab they are Sikh, in others they are tribal who don’t have anything.
Here are some videos, do watch them. I hope it will help you to see the other face of so called emerging superpower of India.
1. This is about two tribal Indian Soni Sori and Lingaram Kodopi. This is about their struggle and atrocities done by our democratic govt. to all the tribal in India, reminding them again-2 that they don't have any place in our highly civilized society and no right at all.
2. Land of Missing Children - India
this video shows how a country proudly claimed to respect women the most are treating women this is also about how much we are concerned about these people and how sensitive is govt. for the people they are assigned to work for.
3. The whole truth: Kashmir
This video is about "Our Kashmir" - a Paradise which is now bleeding furiously. A would like to tell you that an totally opposite picture of reality is being shown to us, Kashmiri people are not happy with us, they are demanding freedom like we were demanding 66 years before. Today we need to put off the specs of extreme nationality (Ugra Rastiyavad) and embrace the idea of Humanity. Do watch it and then you would be familiar to a new face of our democracy and Indian army too.
Don't think me a pessimistic I am as optimistic as you are, but it doesn't mean that we should't provide any hindrance to the most glaring problems, because for the right solution you need to diagnose the right disease. Please do give your feedback about the whole article..... (Jai Hind, Jai Bharat)
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