Social Cancer - The Smart Disease!

Before i start writing this post, i would like to say yes,  as the title says , i'm going to take a riot on social media but like everyone else i'm an active member of all the social media applications in the world! Mind you, I'm a victim! I'm hit by these amazing diseases  called facebook-eyetis, 

WhatsApphobia, Youtuberclosis etc... These diseases are not imaginary or made-up they are definitely there but people like me who are in the final stages of it can only understand this! Sad part is, there is no doctor to take a look at this as their fancy MBBS and MD degrees cannot do us good nor there is no health insurance policy that will help your tax benefits - I mentioned tax cause this is the time of the year you have to pay (Tax)  those celebrity beggars whom we all have chosen as we do not know how else to waste money than giving it to a corrupt politician, coming back to the topic.. This is very contagious and comes with the electronic media called Smart phones( I hate Electronics), Firstly it was totally targeting the kids and mainly the teens 16-30's but later it sensed a threat called "parents" and their famous dialogue called "keep the phone and go study" being a smart-ass disease it targeted the elderly too. Now all parents, uncles ,aunties and even grandparents are hooked to the smart disease! Being well versed with the disease i would love to spread the awareness of this issue.

The causes are many like boredom, laziness, status quotient, show-off and no work. Most of it hit the youngsters and the kids.. The boredom is the primary and first stage of the disease, because of boredom it makes people to take a look at the phone and switch on the internet and see what the other bored souls in the world are doing and looking at this we feel good as there are millions of them bored at any point of time! Now this is bad , cause either people are not having something to do or they are not willing to do the things they have to do both ways are not good! keeping yourself engaged is the only way to save your money and time or meeting people who are not boring cause if they are boring then you'll end up taking the phone and checking your notifications.. laziness is the next stage of the disease, though it has some good use like helping people out and connecting people without meeting them but it has major cons most important being making them more lazy! Like Super Star Rajnikanth said , Rich are getting richer and poor are becoming poorer, similarly,  lazy people are becoming lazier but even active people are also becoming lazier and you know what, we should be proud that we are in the time where the world has hit the heights of laziness cause when there is an application which will help you order. deliver, move, pikcup, drop , book and do whatever the other applications can do .. basically they feel bad for you that you have to do some work like booking a cab or even order a pizza ! which is nothing but a click away!! There was a time when people were made salves and forced to do these stuff but now there are people investing money & time and are also ready to be slaves and do these stuff!! That's some crazy thing, right? by the way, the applications name is "Super Text" and it is a start-up from Bangalore, If you want the number please comment below ( I told you, I have hit the last stage of this disease).

The next stage of the disease is a serious one-  status quotient.. Yes, people feel that this disease must not be the same! In the sense the effects and causes are the same but a few people feel that they deserve a better way to get these disease, that is pay more for the phone that gives the disease, something like rich man disease! They pay more for the same disease cause they wanna have a  feel of upper caste disease and want to shine out separately , like pay 50 grand for the same disease when other people get it for 10 grand! The i-disease ( IPhone cause to buy this you must sell your kidney, at least one kidney) Discrimination in disease, ever heard? Yeah this is the one! But honestly some of them buy it for good use, like me ( and no, i did not sell my kidney but it has this effect as if i'm showing off. Trust me, its an amazing phone).The last stage of this disease that i'm suffering from is " No work, When you have absolutely no work in office or college or anywhere for that matter and you're in a city like Chennai and all your friends are in another city like Bangalore and they are all having fun and you are rotting here with nothing to do then not even god can save you ! cause you will invariably take your phone everywhere even to the toilet! social media will be like the dog in the Hutch add and it will be singing 

"You and I in this Social world; 

  Whatsapp , facebook ; 

  You and I, Watching videos on youtube ; 

  You and I in this Social world.. " 

Now all i said was how youngsters and teens get affected but how do parents and all the elder generation fall in this trap ? That is the effect of the damn curiosity and the need of this disease! Parents went from saying " Keep the phones and go study " to " did you check the video of that Thirupathi temple darshan , i shared it to you on whatsapp and on your facebook wall" The disease was invented few years back but then it became major because of this one dude in the United States of America called Mark Zuckerberg! He had an amazing tag line like Maggie, Connecting people over the globe, Now we know what is happening to maggi ! It contains lead apparently and no one knew it for 20 odd years, Its not been that long since social media hit this world but trust me its effects are equally worse! 

I won't say get rid of the disease but i will say reduce the time you get hit by the disease before it is too late keep it like a cold or cough and not like freaking sugar or diabetes and the only way to do so is engage your mind in some productive manner and in some work that keeps you busy for most of the time! Follow your hobbies that you write on your resumes unless you had copied them from someone else's resume! People forget the hobbies and passion once they are into this and feel its just a way to fill up forms or resumes and to answer people when they have been asked! Just give it a shot! Live the life that is been given to you and not creep into others life  and later don't complain about it being bad cause you ain't living it! 

Live free and live your dreams and please stop making Zuckerberg so rich! 

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Vibhu

Last week tonight in the News Hour!

Anyone will be intrigued reading at this title of the  post that i'm writing now. The most powerful weapon present in the Human mind called curiosity will be banging your heads asking and wanting to know what this really means " Last week tonight in the News hour" .. What could it mean ? People who follow the American Media would definitely know the Fox news , CNN etc. they are the oldies of the American news shows but for sometime now they are not watched as much as this show called " Last week Tonight with John Oliver" , this is hosted by the very famous John Oliver. The most watched American news show EVER! Ok, so where is this News Hour coming from ? This is known by most of us, the most watched and the most hated news show in India, The News Hour with Mr Arnab Goswami.. Yes, this is definitely the comparison of the Indian Media with the American Media. I'm not going to pin point ( as my dad asked me not to ) about anyone but would like to show what and how we are lacking from the media, as today media plays a very important role in our daily lives.

So, The popularity and fame of this news show called Last week Tonight is neither because of constant debates nor allowing two opposition party spokesperson to take a dig on their rival party. The formula is simple, One man takes out the most important news of that week , talks about it , sarcasm is the special ingredient and also tries to beat some sense in the viewers. When America faced the Net Neutrality problem like us, this show had caught the attention of all the people in america making them support  for the Net neutrality, which eventually got done. Not only this, many other problems faced had been spoken about and made people think! Most importantly they use media as a tool to give people the correct and the accurate piece of Information. So, the Times now viewers might think isn't this the same thing that the News Hour is giving us? No, absolutely not! Times Now as a whole has gained the popularity for the wrong reasons and indirectly achieving this amazing viewership and that should not be the case! I agree that the topics they bring in and debate about are worth talking or debating about but is that called a debate? In my dictionary that is called shouting and screaming , to all my school teachers who kept saying that the class is like fish market, Ma'am you must watch this show cause this is the ACTUAL fish market!Maximum 8 people are called to talk for an hour!! So, mathematically speaking 8 people can talk for 60 mins so a person gets to talk roughly for 8 minutes but that is mathematically speaking! Practically they get less than 4 minutes so who is gobbling the time? Yes, it is the presenter ! I can't blame him! Cause if you have been in a fish market you would know how tough it is for them to sell, the people are continuously talking not allowing the rest to buy or bargain! Even though it is a bit tough he being the Mr News should be able to handle and give time or at least allow them to talk about it and make a point or opinion. So, in this way the information that should be given to the people is not given and all that anyone can hear would be screams! Mind you, this show does not lack humor! Does not mean that Mr Goswami has the sense of humor but the way the show goes and how people are taking a dig on each other makes it funny(at least i laugh a lot) Let's leave Times Now, CNN is another news channel and i feel they are not there to give the news about things that happen in India and in the world but are there to give us the movies reviews and the celebrity parties and the award shows, the book functions and all the unwanted gala and media extravaganza ! Common, CNN IBN, you can give some news also sometimes! CNN is also the reason why people watch Times now , common at least there is some news being shown! Then there is NDTV, trust me this the best among the lot! There is more news, less gala and parties also no shouting! Now, why isn't this the most watched? Cause they lack something called presentation skills! Now revisit your school/college days, there is always this teacher who knows a lot of technical stuff and are the best at it but he/she who will never be able to catch the students attention cause they do not connect with the students.. this is exactly the NDTV! They have the stuff but they cannot connect with the people of India! We need some drama, some action ,some fun , some romance .. ok no romance i forgot we live in a country where there is RSS ( i can take a dig too, its fun! ) There are so many news channels and shows in India but i have spoken only about these three cause they are the most watched "English" News channels in India.. I'm not taking a dig. I'm not blaming them .. I'm just trying to show you that if these three unite their skills then there is Action from Times Now, fun and drama from CNN and the actual real news from NDTV.. suprising fact is that, Mr Rajdeep( ex- CNN), Mr Arnab(Times Now) and Mrs. Dutt (NDTV) were all working for Mr Prannoy Roy(NDTV) .. So, Now back to the topic , you can ask where is the comparison with the American media and that was just two lines? I cannot go gaga over it cause you should watch it to know how Mr John Oliver give the news! He talks sense, he has got the best sense of humor, he has got the news and definitely got the viewership, not only in USA but world-wide. I'm not here to say that American media is better than ours, I'm just saying that the people who cannot do anything by themselves, I mean, they need us for everything in their life and if they can do something good with one of the most powerful tool called media then we can do wonders! Common Indian Media, let's make the world look at us as the next big thing, let's make the world envy about how good we are and not like how the Slumdog Millionaire showed us to the world to get a freaking Oscar!

 Together , YES, we can! ;)
-
Vibhu 

The Curious Case of Indian Judicial System!

(Ahhh, Feels good to start writing again!! Its been a month since i wrote something new .)
 I wanted to write about two things we have witnessed in the recent past and am sure you all will be wondering why is the post about the Indian Judicial System! I liked the Judiciary system though it has not been that great with many of the decisions i always thought there was a reason behind those judgments they had passed,  but past one month i'm not able to get the actual reason of why or what is the Judicial system looking into when they have a critical cases in hand.... They have one of the best motto : " Let a thousand guilty men walk free but no innocent man must be jailed" this is really good motto but  this is not sufficing , the thousand guilty men should face the penalty or judgement. Walking free is no more a question! I have literally lost the interest of reading the paper because all i can see is murder, robbery , rape , suicides etc. I'm not saying the  accused in these things are allowed to walk free but i'm saying everyone should be equal to the law at least the law should not be corrupt! I'm talking about the Salman Khan- hit and run case and Ms. Jayalalitha's Disproportionate Assets case. Let's see a small detailing in these two cases.

1. Mr Salman Khan - Hit and Run Case :-

I'm a huge fan of Salman Khan just like many others in the country. This case was started in 2002 , 13 years back... 13 YEARS ! The case is as follows, Apparently in 2002 Mr Khan had received a few death threats from a few people and had asked the Mumbai Police for Protection as he is a Public figure, the Mumbai police had spaced out one man whose name is Ravindra Patil, a police constable who was his bodyguard , he demised in the year 2007 due to some "health issues", The case was lingering till his death and once he passed away the Mumbai sessions court had taken his statement into consideration and his statement is as follows "On September 28 , 2002  I was attached to the protection branch and was deputed as Salman Khan's bodyguard and was to remain with him" Patil said they went to J W Marriott , where he was maid to wait outside "They (Salman and Kamaal) came out at 2.15am. When the accused sat behind the wheel, I asked him whether he would be driving the car. He ignored me. The accused was driving the car at a speed of 90-100km/hour. Before reaching the Hill Road junction, I told the accused to slow down as a right turn was coming up. He ignored me again. The accused lost control of the car while taking a turn and drove right on to the footpath." Patil had told the court that the car crashed into American Express bakery and broke its shutter. “There was a lot of shouting and people had gathered around us. I showed my identity card and told the crowd I was a policeman, which pacified them. The accused and Kamaal ran away from the spot. I went to the car to check and saw that one person was seriously injured. There were four others who were stuck under the car.” He, Mr Patil, was the prime witness in the case but there are more witnesses in the case who did give the statement in the court like Mr Moloy Baug who was that night's bartender at Rain Bar who said that Mr Salman and his group of friends had ordered liquor, Mr Rizwan Rakhanngi said that he saw Salman holding a glass full of colorless liquid like water, Mr Ramashray Pandey owner of the dairy near the spot of the accident saw the actor get out of car's front side, Balashankar the chemical analyst who claimed Khan's blood tested positive for alcohol.Also, there are witness who spoke in favor of Mr Salman but i'm not talking about them as it was his childhood friends and brother, according to his brother Mr Alok , he had hugged him at 9.30 am and did not smell alcohol, i know people who drink and i know they can take out the smell in an hour. Is that even a justification ?? More to this if Mr Kamaal and Salman are not guilty then where is Kamaal ? He has been on the run since 2007, Why am i blaming the judicial system ? Cause this case took 13 bloody years to get a verdict of 5 year jail sentence but the suspension of Mr Khan's jail sentence in the case was fast and quick - 2 days! 13 years to get a verdict and 2 days to suspend the sentence??? Is it fair?? The social media went haywire listening to the verdict , his deluded fans were supporting his stand even his colleagues from bollywood were deluded , a few comments were disturbing. This suspension of the sentence will keep reverberating in the minds of the Common man that in our country the rich and the powerful can pull one or two strings and evade law in all methods possible, In this case the Judicial system failed as the guilty is dancing on the road with pretty actresses and getting paid for it and the innocent are dead and a few still recovering from the aftermath of the accident! We Indians have been discriminating in one way or other but that is why we had the law to take its course of action against the men/women who are guilty but the guilty are fleeing by paying extra bucks to the law and creating a huge hole in the Judicial system of the country!

Case 2 : Ms J Jayalalitha's disproportionate assets case :-

Ms Jayalalitha fondly known as AMMA in Tamil Nadu, is the chief of the AIADMK party which is the ruling party in Tamil Nadu, The 4 time Elected Chief Minister created waves at this tenure of hers, doing some back-patting job for the people of Tamil Nadu and deserves complete respect for it the past 4 years of her tenure has been nothing but wonderful but that doesn't mean we forget the dark past of Amma, during her first tenure of 91-96  was accused of misusing the office powers and having properties/assets worth 66.65 crores deposited in her proxy accounts this case took almost 2 decades to come into a verdict after a case filed by Mr Subramaniam Swamy dated ages back,
the case was pushed from Tamil Nadu to Karnataka. because they felt that it might lead to unwanted violence or gundaism Four prominent figures of the AIADMK party including Amma were convicted, others were her "best friend" Sasikala, Ilavarasi and Natrajan. The case took around 18 years to come to a verdict on 27th September 2014 , where all four convicts were put to 4 years of simple imprisonment also Amma had to pay a fine of 100 Crore rupees and her co-convicts were fined 10 crore rupees each this seemed fine as she would not be able to stand for the CM seat for the next 10 years spoiling all her political ambitions, following this she was sent to the prison which would give her a VVIP treatment. Until now I've only seen in movies and American TV show
 ( House of cards ) where people play such good politics and does a miracle to get out of bad situations and bad circumstances but this lady has made me believe in them, Convicted four 4 years, she was in prison for 3 months and then had a plea which got her bail for the next three months and next thing you know she has been let free from the case saying its a math error and she walks out free without paying even ONE Rupee along with her close aides and as i type she is swearing in as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , yet again for the 5th time! Unbelievable !! Though the Karnataka government says we'll look into it and get a  new case on her ,do you think she will come in front of the court for another 20 years ? Maybe even longer? as now she will up her political game! How did this even happen? I'm so curious to know what she  had done, who owed her favors , how many politicians , lawyers, judges , governments are behind this great escape! This gives me the chills when i think what she is capable of next! She is a courageous and a smart woman, no doubt! It's she who brought down the famous DMK , famous for the wrong reasons! This women is the only one capable of building Tamil Nadu or any state in fact! But buying the law and saying a mistake in the Math is such a lame excuse. I'm sure she could have come up with some better stuff like Salman Khan who said he has movies worth 200crores!( this made me fall of my chair) Amma, i did have immense respect to you but once again the powerful and the rich have proved that nothing can stop a person in this country if he/she has any of the two. This makes me , by me i'm speaking for the aam aadmi in the country, wonder is the Judicial system fool-proof ? Also, makes me think that the rich and the powerful feel that they can do anything and escape the law!! The Judicial system has to be up-right! All of us should be taken as one in front of the Judicial system. The discrimination of Rich and poor is very much alive even in here! Where are the Achhe din's that we were promised about ? Will Mr Modi start looking into the most critical matters in the country rather than going abroad every now and then ??

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Vibhu

Save the Internet!

                                            Save the Internet !! 

I know its not a person or a plant or anything that has life from the outside, but it does have a life in the insideYes, Millions rather Billions of people literally live in internet, either work or social media, mostly social media. After the social media platform that opened up, people are just living their life on internet. Though many 

people have said it has more cons than pros it is still of major use, it has evolved from a luxury to a need. 

People have evolved and share things or talk about their opinions and stuff. Now, why am I saying “Save 

the Internet”? Yes, The TRAI ( Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ) have released a consultation paper with 20 Questions spread across 118 complicated pages which they have asked the public to send them an 

email by 24th April 2015. What is this Questions about ? And what is there to send an Email? So, the questions along with an explanation are as follows :- 

1. What is Net Neutrality ? 

Basically, Telecom Operators/ISPs are service providers that provide us , the public, to use or access the internet. I’m sure people know what is Internet and its uses, till now the telecom operators charge us for the internet but the Applications or other uses that the internet provides are free, But now the greedy service providers like Airtel, Vodafone etc are planning to charge for all the apps that are coming free to use. For example, now let’s say I’m a social media fanatic, A person who lives his life on FaceBook, WhatsApp, viber , youtube, snapchat , flipkart etc. I use internet cause these things are free and no one can restrict me, I’m using these by paying let’s say Rs100 for 1GB of internet for a certain speed, 2G/3G. Now , these telecom people want to charge for these above mentioned and also other Applications, you will be paying for the internet and also for these applications! So, you’ll be paying Rs 100/- for internet and Rs50 for WhatsApp , Rs 75 for YouTube, Rs 50 for Facebook etc , So in the place where you spend only Rs 100 for Internet and its services you’ll end up paying Rs 500/- This is ATROCITY ! When the company that is providing these services are not charging us then why should the service provider do so, when he is not providing these applications but just providing the platform( Internet ) which we are already paying for. To make it little more easier, A person earning in this country is paying tax once he is working and Independent, now the government is coming up with breathing tax, pay for the oxygen, Now that’s stupidity cause oxygen is for all and free for all.This is what their plan is now coming to the question, What is  “Net Neutrality”? It actually means, All the sites on the Internet must be equally accessible, The same data cost for access to each site, no telecom licensing and same access speed for all. Do we want that? Is up to you. (All the above mentioned costs are just for example) 

2.What is Airtel-Zero? 

Airtel, one of the leading telecom companies in India which has the highest number of people using their services have come up with an Atrocious idea called Airtel-zero. That is basically, creating free internet by allowing Internet companies to buy data. Why is this atrocious ? Cause they are Splitting internet into two types, One is Free Internet and the other is paid Internet. So, Internet companies that buy this data and the public can use those specific few sites free. But any other sites, other than those who are rich enough to buy the data is all paid thereby restricting few sites which will be available if we are willing to pay for it. For example, if WhatsApp and FaceBook are in the Airtel-zero Program then they are free and can be used without any issues but what if you want to use Skype or Twitter and they do not fall into the Airtel-zero, the answer is simple, pay for it!! Indirectly monitoring the usage of sites and restricting us to a certain few ones, common who would want to pay for a few sites and not pay for few, This is becoming like these DTH services! Total Bullshit! Internet is a place which provides us Knowledge, ( Not those IIN Advertisements , they are just plain Dumb! ) gives us economic and social progress, access to jobs , connecting people around the globe etc. We cannot allow this to be taken away from us, for some greedy telecom companies who wants their profits to hit the space as they have already hit the sky! 

3. How to Save the Internet? 

This is the most important and vital thing in this whole blog of mine! How to save the internet, now you can either sign an online petition that is going on or if you want the best out of this and really want the internet accessible for everything, then please log onto www.savetheinternet.in there will be a tab that says “Respond to TRAI now” click on that, the Answers for the 20 questions is already been typed, if you want to edit you can go ahead and do the same, and send the Email to advqos@trai.gov.in. Just for clarification,I’m not being paid for this marketing thing i have done, i’m just another internet user like you who is concerned! Last day is 24/04/2015! , 7 more days!! Stop wasting time and send the mail! We need internet and it should be accessible for all!

Let us raise our voices, be as one, act as one! 

-

Vibhu  

Something to tickle the funny bone till it hits your head.

Education

As i had mentioned in my earlier post, I am an Engineer and a frustrated one.Many people actually don’t know why we engineer’s are frustrated! Ah, Just kidding only a few don’t know why cause the majority of them are Engineers. Why did i say only a few don’t know cause they maybe Doctor’s or Charted Accountant. Yes, 90% of the Indian population who went to college ended up doing one of these, as Indian parents are too stereotype when it comes to Education and definitely parents want the best for their children but time has

 come to a stage where every 5th guy is an/a Engineer/doctor/CA. We all do one of these as it is a professional course and we wanted to do it, Ok, Stop laughing ! I got your mind voice! Yes, It’s because we are

 forced into this cause “Log kya kahenge” our parents( by “our” i mean 90% of the Indian parents) are more Interested about their children being better than their friend’s children and trust me competition does not start in school it starts in your own Apartment. Oh, trust me! I have faced it myself and i hated that poor girl for

 no mistake of hers! Competition is good but we should realize everyone does not win. Winning is only ONE but whining is rest of the crowd not because they are a bad but they are forced upon on doing certain things that they cannot rather do not want to. So, why do i want to talk about Education? Cause we in India see 

education as competition rather than knowledge and why so is big question mark! 

Now to solve this question mark we don’t require any specific parent or child, close your eyes and pick one of them cause everyone’s story is the same. Indian kids start going to the play school at the age of 3, they

 basically go there to chill, by chill i mean kids way of chilling i.e. Sleeping, eating, playing. These schools are basically to give kids an almost similar atmosphere of school which realistically does not give cause in these

 schools what they learn is only 26 alphabets in english. Which can be taught by their own parents, which 

does not happen as their parents are working hard for the future of their child which was planned once they were born, yes , once the child is born he or she has the responsibility of their parents long lost dream of 

becoming someone, I’m not kidding. If the father could not become a Engineer then it automatically becomes his son/daughter’s responsibility to do so and after a age if they come to realize that the child has other plans ....BAM that child has a sibling(Also, if the mom wanted to be someone else then as only one kid cannot 

be two of them they need another) ! This is like a chain reaction so let’s stick to one child in one family who can try doing what his parents could not finish 20 odd years back. So, as we continue.. After a year in the 

Playschool, parents stand in queue for like hours from early morning to get an application form for school 

admission, for LKG, mind you getting a form and your child into a reputed school is much more harder than getting a first day first show ticket for a Rajnikanth movie( Trust me, It is very tough to get a ticket and you 

have to shell out money like Mr Vijay Mallya) so, once you get your child into the school you pay a fee that even Colleges don’t ask for, around a lac. You successfully get your kid in it by hook or crook or you can 

even sell your kidney for the same.Now it’s time for the kid to suffer, from the age of 4 till the age of 15 is 

just normal exams and quiz and labs exams, viva, quarterly, half yearly and annual exams, when he/she is 15

 its time for the freaking board exams, kids these days are blessed cause 10th boards are optional and 

depending on the scores of 10th they either put the kid in CBSE( Log kya kahenge if you don’t study in 

CBSE cause it’s the most competitive) , state board or ICSE. 11th grade is the most toughest of them all!

 If you scrape through it you are god like! then comes the 12th Grade, the life changer, the kismat teller and what not and definitely every Indian student would have heard this dialogue “Beta, 12th hai, study for one

 year properly and get good grades and college will be fun” Parents don’t do this, you tell them not to lie and you have told the biggest lie possible. I trusted my parents the same and i know what happened in my

 college, It’s just the beginning my fellow engineers/doctors/CA’s. The most annoying part is the routine that hits you when you reach the 12th grade, morning get up go to tuitions, from there go to school sit and study

 for 8,9 hours , comeback home and change and go again for tuitions and then go back home and eat dinner and study again. ( trust me, i feel so proud that i could do that! a convict’s life is much better than this) Once your boards start the whole world will give you one advice“Study well, beta!” Finally when you finish your 

boards and you’ll wanna jump and punch the air above you but you’ll be picked by the ear and taken back 

home cause dude who will write the Entrance exams for a million colleges?? Don’t look back, its only you 

who can write for yourself. By the time you finish all this and think of lying on your couch then its time for 

results baby!! The time when the world is falling in love with your life, Kitna mila, beta? If you have good 

scores then good for you but if you by chance did not get the results that were expected out of you by the 

world at least make sure you beat that kid you are always compared to. If not then sorry bro you are so 

SCREWED! Let’s be optimistic and say you have got the scores that the world expected. You have 20 

days to chill and then comes your college, Engineer’s you were born to be screwed but it takes it time to 

swell on you, once you cross the third year with all the arrears ( Cause, what’s a college life without backlogs!! There is a famous saying in Engineering colleges “You don’t have a backlog then you are not an Engineer!” said by a true Engineer ) Doctors you were born to study unless until your dad is too rich to pay and get 

you a seat. If you have bought the seat then sorry dude, we had only 4 years but you have one and a half more( I’m not mentioning any CAs cause i have no friend who went on to do that.) So, college life is going to be fun for Engineers cause we don’t study and also equally hard cause we don’t study !You will enter the world where no one cares about their Kidneys and Lungs. ( If you know what i mean ) It’s party, fun, get screwed , repeat. Engineering colleges have around 44 exams(varies from a college to another but this is for most 

colleges ) a semester so that into 8 gives us a grand total of 352 leaving the backlogs and the number of time you have written that. Once you are done with engineering you’ll be placed, maybe instantly or maybe after 6 months or even after years but as they all say, you’ll get a job! But only an Engineer knows how tough it is 

to crack one , the one they want!

And life moves on... 

But what is my point of explaining almost the story of my life and my fellow students life? Why is this so

tough? Why is it that a guy/girl should slog so much for a paper that says ENGINEER? What do we get 

other than being frustrated? NOTHING! Trust me, What ever you are studying in your life comes to no use 

later on, yes , 18 years of exams and books and tuitions etc are all just so that you don’t use it later on. 

SO SAD! I feel terrible and i have already forgotten what i have studied even the simplest. Education system is so theoretical and not practical, when it is practical a student will remember even the toughest of the math problems ever. I’m not blaming the education system alone even the parents play a big vital role for it. Why 

should your son/daughter be only one of the above three i keep mentioning? Why cannot he decide his/her 

life? Why do you have to forcefully keep your bag full of ambitions and career choices on their heads just 

after they are born. I’m not saying all are like that but majority of them are. They are all so deluded by the 

slogan “Log Kya Kahenge” What will the world think ? Indian parents are so into this that they never thought what will my child think ?? What does he want to do? He might be good at something else and have an 

amazing talent in some other field but still would be studying for AIEEE and IIT-JEE exams.

 Let’s not think of the Society. Let’s not think of Log kya Kahenge , lets not think of what will he do in life if not an Engineer! Let’s think we’ll be supportive of what you want to be. I blame the society for creating this, the padosis , auntys and uncles everyone! Let’s be the change, let’s allow them to think! Let’s allow them to do what they want!Change the education system? No, change your mentality! Let’s see our new generation in other fields as well. 

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Vibhu 

The Country called India.

The Country called India. 

India, the country which is filled with diverse cultures and tradition and also people from various religious beliefs. Country that has a population over a billion people.The country was a slave to the British and got the Independence on August 15th 1947. The country which have the best of brains in all the noticeable fields. The country with 29 states and 7 union territories. Around 415 living languages in the country. The country that has people visiting from almost all parts of the world. The only country that faces a threat from all the neighboring countries.Also, maybe the only country hated by its own people. Yes, It’s the truth, we Indians are so patriotic during our Republic days and Independence days but that’s just 2 days out of 365. What do we do during the rest 364 days? Crib, curse, cuss and accuse. Yes, this is the blatant truth. Why do i say so? Oh, trust me, you’ll know. 

For everything and anything, we talk ill about our Government,why? Power. They might be good or bad but they are dragged into the ocean of politics where there are only two options, drown into the ocean or just try floating and catching a boat and sailing till you find another place and drown. They are so engrossed in the powers vested in them that they think they can’t be touched by anyone. They are so high on the drug called money that they can’t think of anything other than how to get richer and richer. But they don’t realize that being rich is not the end of their life.Sometimes they are so high(Money as a drug , as referred before) that they are so greedy and want only them to be high and don’t give a damn for the people who can’t even afford 1mg of the drug! I can’t talk more of the government or their doings cause you never know tomorrow I might be banned from writing or using any sorts of technology where i can talk/write about things this freely.Let it be BJP, Congress or AAP or any god forsaken political party all i have to say is Live and let live, even the middle class and mainly the poor. 

Next thing that annoys us is the crimes and criminals, Everyday when you open the Newspaper you can only read things like , murder, theft, corruption, scandals, rapes, honest people being murdered etc.. First question that pops up in one’s mind, does only bad things happen in this country? The answer is no, there are good things happening but what is the spice in writing good things and showing our country can also be well off, the good things are definitely there but you ought to use a microscope cause it takes the shortest space among all, If only India wins a match in cricket then that’s the biggest good thing you’ll be seeing. Why so? Cause the media personnel don’t like being aww-ed at, There is nothing to be debated if it’s a good thing whereas if our country is going to dogs then hell yeah, they need to bend us down and slam us on the back. All the primetime news shows be it IBN, NDTV, TIMES NOW etc bring up day’s bad news as the worlds biggest news, calls up few jobless dudes and literally create a havoc at everyone’s residence with the help if the idiot box. Now they will say they are shedding light on issues, well that’s awesome but stop shedding it everyday only on bad stuff. How many times have you seen a good news been tele casted as the BREAKING NEWS of the day, other than India winning a cricket match or if any Bollywood actresses have got hitched or expecting a baby and i keep stressing on that cause that’s what they feel our interest is in and yes they are true. We show more interest to Aishwarya Rai’s baby than our own. Media should start being open minded and show it all and not showing choosy stuff which they feel would fetch them TRP.

Next thing which definitely unites a few but not all and unites us in the wrong way is our so called caste and religions, this is just same old British gimmick which we still have failed to understand, DIVIDE AND RULE. That’s what has happened between India and Pakistan and if things go this way I’m guessing soon more countries are going to come after al even states speaking the same tongue are bifurcated. This thing has put us down to the extent almost equal to racism. We are racist, not in the means of color but in the means of caste and religion. There is an incident that i have heard from one of my very close friend that happened in our college, Amrita school of Engineering (Yes, i’m an engineer also a frustrated one) Our batch had all kinds of people from all sorts of places inside India and abroad, we all stayed in hostel having the same amenities, paying the same fees and getting the same knowledge(depends only if one is listening to his/her classes) and apparently there was this dude from Andhra / Telengana( I don’t know that guy personally, and yes this is the one i meant when i said states separating) he went around to all the Telugu speaking people and kept asking “ Are you C ?” My friend is a very innocent chap and he thought he was asking people if they are from “C” section thinking this dude is in that section and later it came to his notice that he was in another section all-together but he being the innocent one, thought he liked a girl or someone from there or wanted to shift to that section, later he was asked by the dude himself and he asked him what do you mean and the reply gave him a shock of his ( Leaving the engineering results and exam question papers which was a shock to all the Engineers around the world) Are you C means are you a Chowdhry ( Hope the spelling is right ) It’s a cast in the million castes we have. Look at this, the so called young generation and so called people who will take this country to new heights and the so called New age people who are easy going and the generation that has a fire in them, I say bullshit! If there are 100 like him they will spoil the college , 1000 will spoil a city, 1,00,000 a state and a million of them will spoil a country and what are the odds in a country which has a population of 1.3 Billion people. I don’t think i need to elaborate on this more but this is highly possible as this happened in one of the most advanced and westernized city of India, Bangalore. Not blaming people talking telugu as such but there are a whole bunch of them are still there lurking for an opportunity to boast about their own state or religion , caste or even sub- caste.

Next thing that we Indian’s fail to realize is the poverty that has been ransacking this very country for years, we have the lowest literacy rate for a country of this stature and population, Poverty is killing us, Corruption is in the air we breathe. If the Corruption part is demolished then things might change, they say. Yes, It is a root cause but it’s also because of that the Children are not getting their minimal education, we Indians are smart and the world knows that but when the future of India is on the streets begging and working and striving to live for an extra day without food where is the future other than the grave. The basic needs of a poor are not met, even government run shops that should give the poor the amount of required commodities fail doing so, what do you expect the parents of these children to do, it’s either send them to work or suicide, everyday there are 1000’s of farmers suicide, why doesn’t this come on television ? Cause who gives a shit about farmers, we still get our food , our mom is there to cook. We fail to understand that every grain of rice we eat there is one year of hard work and blood put into it. Not only farmers, even people who do the construction jobs, fishing, animal husbandry, soldiers, etc etc are not receiving the required amount of attention that is required from us or the media or the government. They do their work and get paid lesser than they deserve to be paid. Indian Armed forces put their life in the lines and still have no limelight but if an Actor gets injured in an accident where he was drunk the whole crowd goes bonkers, have you ever thought about people in the border? Everyday they will have to think “will i live tomorrow” Everyday is a question mark for them and why do thy get paid so less when they fight against Pakistan for our lives and cricketer’s of our nation gets crores when they fight Pakistan in a cricket match ? the players are not loosing their lives they will be only loose a game. But we are more bothered by that than this and we bring sports also into religion, famous lines by Indian’s

 “cricket is my religion and sachin is my god” Not that i’m against sachin but he himself will be laughing at these people , yes you love him even i do but he is a player that’s it. We celebrate his birthday and his centuries but have we even tried passing our condolence to the people who stand in the border at least once?

 No! A BIG NO! 

What is my point for writing all this? I’ll tell you, let’s stop the blame game, even i have blamed people today in this very write up, It is in our genes that cannot be changed what have we come to achieve by only playing the blame game? Nothing! It’s time we stop cribbing, accusing, blaming and cussing, its we take up things into our own hands, by this i don’t mean become a vigilante, or form a gang and bash up buses and autos or do a dharna like our Delhi CM, I’m just saying if you find any of these elements start questioning them, media, government anyone, now the social media has come to that extent that i can sit in the US and still support your cause. Fight against corruption, if you have to pay 1000 bucks for Jumping the signal pay 1000 bucks and do not pay Rs100 to escape the chalan cause we all deserve for what we did. If you find people doing wrong stop them and try explaining , If you find underage children working in a place call the owner and blast him or file a case, If you find guys passing comments on girls explain them it’s wrong and save the women of this nation. This country deserves better and definitely the people in this country deserves much more. It’s time we unite not by religion or sports but as INDIANS ,a country that has a heart and now it’s time to show that we also have a Brain. Let’s make the country grow and flourish and it’s not in the hands of 500 people sitting in Delhi but in the hands of 1.2 Billion people stretching from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. 

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Vibhu 

Grow up, India !

Grow up, India! 

Yes, I know its a bit too late! But this is a topic that will never find the grave unless the people of India stand united and fight for the cause of Women Safety. It is the documentary by ( I don’t know if she was famous before this but now she definitely is) Leslee Udwin, a British Filmmaker. It was obviously banned in India but guess what..The Government of India did not know about YouTube which eventually got taken off too! So,

 the whole point of me writing this is not to Debate if the Government of India is right on its stand of banning 

the video nor to ask who the hell is she to take the video. It is about we as Indians, what is our stand and say to this atrocity.?? When are we going to speak up, stand for a cause and fight for change? Grow up, India! 

I don’t think i have to elaborate about the video or its contents, it irks me to even think about it.Trust me, I 

could not sit more than 25 minutes of the video, I was ashamed that most of the men in India are so object-oriented when it comes to women. It has cost us a beautiful, determined , hardworking girl’s life to strike us 

that men are not giving them the equality status,Fuck the equality not even the minimal respect that the

 women in India deserve to get. Now don’t come swarming over me saying how dare you generalize that 

all men are same, I’m definitely not, even i am a man who resides in this same country. I am saying, 80% 

of the men population don’t even give women the minimal respect that is needed, we are being so sexist that we have given them a set of rules and if they abide those rules then they are women and if they don’t then

 they are women but are meant to be raped. What shit is this, India? We call our nation Mother India, Barath Matha ki jai also portray them as goddesses and pray to them in the form of deity and in real life we are going behind them and raping and molesting them! This is so not our Indian culture or our values. We cannot be

 still boasting about the same, right? Grow up, India! 

When i tried speaking about it on Face Book , a Friend asked me what have i done to stop this? He also

 pointed out a much better point of why don’t you go and spread awareness? I would love to do that but

 what is my word to a potential rapist who does not even care about being punished under the name of Law

( That is if at all law is going to punish him)  Why is India not getting in a law which should be strict enough to punish anyone who fails to abide the same? What is Indian Government doing to stop this crime or at least what are they planning to do to stop the same? Awareness can be spread but its like music to the deaf, they cannot hear it! These people should feel the prick , have a guilt and should think a million times before they

 even pass a vulgar comment to the women! Judicial system is going to dogs, We proudly say our judicial system is so good that no good man should be convicted but they have also shown that 1000 criminals can evade the law. Justice has not been given , justice has taken its own sweet time and as the time is increasing even 'the rapes are increasing day by day. The Juvenile in the Jyoti singh’s case is releasing this December, is it okay? If a guy who is underage can think or do something so terrible then think what will be his capability when he crosses his 20’s!! Grow up, India!  

These things will change if we start at the root level, children should be taught in school, at homes and in every public place possible and should not be enlightened with some Bollywood gyan of who is dating who and who is marrying who and Katrina kaif shaking her booty to sheila ki jawani, That is unwanted entertainment (not that i don’t like it ) these matters are showing the kids the wrong direction! When a government has the say to ban edibles(beef) why can’t they try banning these unwanted sequences which portray that women wearing short clothes are prostitutes. In Maharashtra, eating/selling/cooking beef leads to 5 years in prison! But a Martial rape is ZERO, Murder is THREE years, so if you murder a person you have only three years of prison life and if you eat beef you are there for 5 years! Atrocity level - MAX! Following Maharashtra is Haryana they have made it 10 years prison for eating beef! Yes, that’s right these sentences are for EATING BEEFWhy does Indian government care so much for proHindutva models or religious sentiments and not taking a single step for women safety! We have a national anthem that says all of them are brothers and sisters and 

the so called present anthem is all of them are brothers and sisters, but we rape the sisters! Grow up, India! 

Let’s leave Jyoti Singh and other things that has happened in the past! Statistics say 93 cases of rape have been registered EVERYDAY! Let us forget the unregistered cases, that will give you and me a terrible& traumatic nightmare!Not only rapes, there are ladies being molested , going through domestic abuse mental trauma etc. Every 1 in 5 women have gone through either one of this, turn left and right , if you see 5 girls then one of them has undergone any one of this! What are we going to do India? Why has the Prime Minister not even uttered a word regarding this? Why have we failed to unite against our own devils in the country? When is this country going to be developed? But most of all , when are we going to grow up? 

Common India, Let’s grow up!