The Caste Chaos

I always loathed the privileges enjoyed by minorities in India without any cause. I was agitated and confounded when I experienced this myself while applying for undergraduate program. This animosity inflated when one of my friends who extraordinarily marched his way up to top 50 students in state but still had to compromise. How does it feel when a minority student with 191/300 gets a seat into one of the finest institution while a talented upper class student with 291/300 won't make it? I was taken aback when I came to know that almost 50% of seats in all the institutions are reserved for minorities.

Now, being born in open caste is as good as crime. You have to make compromises at every stage of life. The privilege system was started more than 50 years back to encourage the development of poor minority classes with financial perspective in mind. This quota system which was initially started for a period of 10 yrs mainly to encourage learning and knowledge has now turned into major hindrance in nation's growth. How can you expect such incompetent people getting into top Indian institutions purely by quota’s aid to fair? Would increase in reservation will do any good? Does getting into top institution make them any better? In fact this quota system is having reverse effect, students belonging to this class study less, and they know how this quota system is there to their aid. When it comes to providing financial reservation which is what started this quota system back then, I totally support that. I would not like if the needy and deserving one's get deprived of higher education just because of inadequate money. But when I look around I find most of the minority class equally well to-do and surely can afford more or less same kind of educational cost. But I am ready to buy that there are people who cannot afford this cost. But providing quota’s in candidate seats won't lead us anywhere.

On the other hand this people always talk about getting categorized. Having a quota system is in itself the root for this categorization. How can they expect to ask for quota’s and on the same hand ask not to talk about this delineation? They talk about treating them indifferently, isn't this quota system another way of treating them indifferently? They would talk about eradicating this categorization but when it would come to increasing the quota, they would be the first one to claim about how they belong to lower class. I would say if they want to eradicate this categorization, than eradicate this system of quota’s and reservation. Let the talent prevail!

But the dark side is this would always remain as an fantasy. I do not see people enjoying this godsend privileges for more than 50 yrs now to yield. And not to mention the breed of parasites "Politicians" who are always ready to milk on such sensitive issue. It's shame to see so called leaders vowed to nation's improvement making mockery of a national interest for personal gain. I wonder why our apex court is not doing anything in this regard, which otherwise does take matter like this one into its own hand.

I am perplexed at the thought of having quota’s in the IIT's, IIM's and private sector as well. This clearly disturbs the idea of India as unity in diversity. Things are far from perfect but we should work together to make this cast system a non issue. I think its time for a Revolution, time for khalbali, an another Rang De Basanti!!

Why Power of S?

Dude..Whats the secret of Power_of_S?

Same question was being asked in past and ever since. I have successfully subsided this sort of questions in past with mysterious smile. But the intention was not to hide the secret but the real reason was that even I was clueless. As far as remember it was random pick by my brains, around 7 yrs back. But I guess, sometime, somehow I did believe that letter 'S' is the strongest alaphabet in English.

Ever wondered how the world would have been just SINGULAR without 'S', or may be just 'INGULAR'. And here are some power words which make 'S' seem even more important - Super, Sky, Speed, Simple, Smart, Smile, Sex, Saturday and Sunday. Even most of Super Hero's - Superman, Spiderman and even first India super hero Shaktiman have names starting with 'S'. And even now if you think this is absurd and senseless than what makes 'S' even more important is my name :)

Now keep on calculation how many times you use 'S' in a day and you will understand..

UA - losing way out?

Two headlines in today's crimson white grabbed my attention:

1. Industrial Engineering Department to be cut down
Why on the earth should they do that? What I inferred was that declining student enrollment was the most critical factor in this decision. Is Institutional Operation pure business now? Should not authorities take some initiatives to increase the enrollment, rather than just cutting the department off? I have not seen any campaign taken in this regard in last 2 yrs. Is it fair on authority’s side to just turn their face away on important aspect of engineering? Does money always outweighs everything else?

2. Feguson Parking lot to be Resident Parking
Ferguson Parking lot is the most widely used parking lot by commuters due to its proximity to ACU, SupeStore, USPS etc. Even though it’s such a big parking lot, still we have to fight to get space in there. And now it’s going to be Faculty/Resident only parking starting this fall. Needless to say all the other parking lots are as full as they can be. So now are we commuters going to find any space in the campus to park?

It is the time for student communities to raise their voices. It is time to show that officials should take students concerns seriously, after all its all about students.
ROLL TIDE!!

An end of an era!

13th May 2006, will mark an end of another era! For most of us here it will end the lengthy, painful spring semester. But for me it will also mark an end of my school life. No matter how hard I try, I fail to supress this fact. The more I think about it, the more is the anxiety - this mixed feeling of excitement, ambition, solitude, urge and loss.

I will surely miss all of my friends, fun, lakes and football mania that I experienced in T-town. T-town, my home for last 2 years provided me with incredible experiences and relaxed life. I would always crave for those camping trips, frequent timepass at lakes, incredible sitouts at Quad and walks at black warrior along with my T-town buddies. I will surely miss all of my buddies. Once someone said, its not about how many people I would miss, on the contrary its about how many people would be able to remember me? that marks the difference.

On the other hand, I am excited about the new professional life waiting ahead for me. The positive transformation that it will bring to my life. Transformation from reel life to real life. This new begin will end the desire, drive and quest that drove me to US. But would this new era be as exciting, entertaining and enjoyable as the last? Would I be happy?

Female Psychology

Sometime in past, I tried to ponder over an aspect of female psychic -"What do they look for in guys?" And definitely it was not that I wanted to master act of impressing girls but rather to understand the root of events that lead me toward this. Being in the field of software engineering, I tried to use one of the handy features - stakeholder interviews. And after asking the same question to some of my female friends and cousins, I always got varied answer. Typically a list of qualities right from good looking to sense of humor. Integrating all, I reached the conclusion that it varies from individual to individual and the problem in itself was trivial. But when it came to selecting the soul mate to most of the stake holders, I found out only one similarity...Money! Strangely none of the stakeholder ever listed this quality in their top 5 expected qualities. And now suddenly out of the blue..it climbs to #1 for most of them. Urrgh....there goes all of the research in vain...leaving one question "How to understand female psychology?". And leading, my already confused brain towards dreaded crash. This will always remain as known bug in my system..

Special note to all of the beauties reading this, please don't start sending me those hate mails. This conclusion is viable only for the given set of specimen stakeholders.

Me and Myself

Well, finally I too entered the blogging world..and what took so long? A war between me and myself...which started 3 months back..

Me: I should also blog..
Myself: What's the need?

Me: Its good way to slip off your thought anonymously to unknown world...plus everyone's doing it..
Myself: Why do you want to share your thought?

Me: I hardly share my thoughts with someone..
Myself: So why do you want to bare it all..

Me: It would be good to let some buddies know about it..
Myself: But you are not attention seeking? and this would do exactly that..

Me: Humm...alrite I won't explicitly tell about it
Myself: Do you have creativity? do you write poems?

Me: If it is required than in that case, I would be lead for untraditional, unrated, random style blogging!
Myself: And what about your english dude? Its below par..

Me: What the heck..Like I care..
Myself: You Suck!

Me: Thank You! Tell me something that I dont know...

So here I go...