Once again the announcement, “Pay your kind attention please. Train no. 2345 via Delhi to Kanpur, Kalka mail is running late by 2 hours. We are sorry for the inconvenience”. The announcement disturbed Rohan’s thoughts and made him look around his bench. He smiled, at his fate. This was not the place where he wanted to be today. After a few minutes of glancing around the platform he was back to his memory lane.
Rohan, a tall handsome guy of 17 had just passed his intermediate with flying colors that year. Mostly youth of his age aspire for medical, engineering or commercial fields. But this young chap wanted to make his career in cricket. He had been playing cricket since the age of six and always dreamt to be in Team India. His parents had proved to be the backbone for his aspirations. He wanted to be the best player of his team and with consistent hard work he became the rising star of the under-19 team of Uttar Pradesh. He got to know every possible tactic of cricket at an early age. One more match and he would have become the star. Rather than being excited, he was confident of his performance.
All these thoughts of his performance randomly rushed in Rohan’s mind.
He had given an outstanding performance in each and every match. Everyone, from his team mates to his coach, praised his skills. Today was the much awaited day for him. He had a dream of playing for the Ranji trophy. Rohan got the opportunity to be a part of it. He was selected in the team. But instead of being on ground and playing he was at the station preparing to return home. Everything changed on the last day. One blow and everything was at a halt. He did not expect this. Rohan played all his test matches well and was ready to play and win the Ranji trophy: the trophy which would give him a break into other leading matches and will lead him towards his dream.
Last day all the team members underwent a medical check up and so did Rohan. Every one passed the test.. To read more Please click here
Showing posts with label Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Society. Show all posts
Are you a human or a man?
“A true man is only he who is a man-hus –one endowed with a sense of self-respect. Others are men only in name,” says Sri Ramkrishna.
THE ENGINE whistled and gradually the train gathered momentum. As its speed escalated, people were back to their conversation. While moving their chatter boxes, a man sitting in my compartment made fun of another guy by saying 'tum insaan ho ya aadmi?'(Are you a human or a man?). Everyone laughed at him and their talks continued.
But this very sentence struck my mind and certain questions started revolving around. Is it that human beings have degraded themselves so much that they have lost the right to be compared to animals also? What is the difference between man or a woman and a human being? How much this difference has widened with time? Is it true that we have lost humanity?
Human beings are best known for their attitudes, feelings, emotions and utmost - caring nature. But with the advent of time, the feeling of brotherhood is completely dissapearing from everyone’s life. People have started focusing more on their civic amenities rather on their civic duties.
Man has become a machine with the machine age. Today, none of us is bothered of what is happening around in our locality. People seem to be too busy with their own lives that they are losing social relation in and around their lives. Ms Sharma went to see her neighbour’s mother, who was ill for a few days. But to her surprise, her neighbour told her that she does not want anyone to disturb her by visiting her house. That’s why she never tells anyone about what is going on in her family. An auto rickshaw driver does not show sympathy to the old and fragile couple in his rickshaw and continues to fill up his rickshaw with more passengers. When the auto rickshaw driver was asked to show sympathy towards the old, he bluntly refused by saying that 'I can’t suffer the loss by not allowing more passengers to enter in the vehicle'.
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is,” Albert Camus.
The difference between a man or a woman and a human being can best be illustrated with the same difference that is found between heart and mind. To read more Please click here
THE ENGINE whistled and gradually the train gathered momentum. As its speed escalated, people were back to their conversation. While moving their chatter boxes, a man sitting in my compartment made fun of another guy by saying 'tum insaan ho ya aadmi?'(Are you a human or a man?). Everyone laughed at him and their talks continued.
But this very sentence struck my mind and certain questions started revolving around. Is it that human beings have degraded themselves so much that they have lost the right to be compared to animals also? What is the difference between man or a woman and a human being? How much this difference has widened with time? Is it true that we have lost humanity?
Human beings are best known for their attitudes, feelings, emotions and utmost - caring nature. But with the advent of time, the feeling of brotherhood is completely dissapearing from everyone’s life. People have started focusing more on their civic amenities rather on their civic duties.
Man has become a machine with the machine age. Today, none of us is bothered of what is happening around in our locality. People seem to be too busy with their own lives that they are losing social relation in and around their lives. Ms Sharma went to see her neighbour’s mother, who was ill for a few days. But to her surprise, her neighbour told her that she does not want anyone to disturb her by visiting her house. That’s why she never tells anyone about what is going on in her family. An auto rickshaw driver does not show sympathy to the old and fragile couple in his rickshaw and continues to fill up his rickshaw with more passengers. When the auto rickshaw driver was asked to show sympathy towards the old, he bluntly refused by saying that 'I can’t suffer the loss by not allowing more passengers to enter in the vehicle'.
“Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is,” Albert Camus.
The difference between a man or a woman and a human being can best be illustrated with the same difference that is found between heart and mind. To read more Please click here
Women's contribution in promoting patriarchal system
WE PROUDLY declare that patriarchy is a system, where males are the head of the family and have all the rights of decision-making. Let us give it a thought on ‘what and where patriarchy stands in our society and to what extent does it appeal to our mind and soul’.
Patriarchy is the system that has been followed since the human beings came into existence. It is rarely seen that a women got her basic rights. Sati could be the prominent example of patriarchal system, where women were obliged to shun their precious lives on the pyre of their husbands.
Patriarchy is that bane or curse in our society, which has been deep rooted in the minds and hearts of people, be it men or women. Patriarchy is a system, which men and women have tried to abolish from ages. It is evident that in all the times more men have come forward to take the initiative of erasing this system from the minds of people as compared to women.
Women contribute more in promoting this system as compared to men. Patriarchy starts from petty things at initial level and turns bigger than Hercules with times. A fairly advanced family continues to indulge its daughter child to return home by 8.00 pm, whereas son of the same family has been given all the rights to hang out with his friends till 12.00 am.
Let’s take an example from the reel life. We all are well aware of the television programme Balika Vadhu. It has been clearly shown in it how the grandmother herself promotes this very custom of domination. How she dominates her own children and especially her daughter in laws, on account of customs and rituals, is very clear in the programme.
The Greek statesman, Pericles, once said, “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Antagonists may say that reel life have nothing to do with real life. But we all are well aware of the fact that somehow this reel life mirrors our real life. The readers themselves can judge the basic difference that is still the part and parcel of their lives by answering certain questions.
How many of you have heard mothers telling their daughters to ‘behave like girls’ or ‘this is not what girls do’? To read more Please click here
Patriarchy is the system that has been followed since the human beings came into existence. It is rarely seen that a women got her basic rights. Sati could be the prominent example of patriarchal system, where women were obliged to shun their precious lives on the pyre of their husbands.
Patriarchy is that bane or curse in our society, which has been deep rooted in the minds and hearts of people, be it men or women. Patriarchy is a system, which men and women have tried to abolish from ages. It is evident that in all the times more men have come forward to take the initiative of erasing this system from the minds of people as compared to women.
Women contribute more in promoting this system as compared to men. Patriarchy starts from petty things at initial level and turns bigger than Hercules with times. A fairly advanced family continues to indulge its daughter child to return home by 8.00 pm, whereas son of the same family has been given all the rights to hang out with his friends till 12.00 am.
Let’s take an example from the reel life. We all are well aware of the television programme Balika Vadhu. It has been clearly shown in it how the grandmother herself promotes this very custom of domination. How she dominates her own children and especially her daughter in laws, on account of customs and rituals, is very clear in the programme.
The Greek statesman, Pericles, once said, “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
Antagonists may say that reel life have nothing to do with real life. But we all are well aware of the fact that somehow this reel life mirrors our real life. The readers themselves can judge the basic difference that is still the part and parcel of their lives by answering certain questions.
How many of you have heard mothers telling their daughters to ‘behave like girls’ or ‘this is not what girls do’? To read more Please click here
Hands holding on World Hand-Wash Day today
WE HAVE come across different days that are celebrated around the globe. To add to the glory of International Year of Sanitation (IYS) 2008, World Hand-Wash Day is being celebrated on October 15.
The practice of hand-washing with soap, tops the international hygiene agenda and global Hand-Wash Day spotslights on this important issue.
A mere hand-wash with soap can save thousands of innocent children from death in the country. It may sound incredible, but the fact is that washing hands with soap can prevent diseases like diarrhea, pneumonia, cholera, dysentery, that kills forty one children every minute in India.
The practice of hand-washing with soap, tops the international hygiene agenda and global Hand-Wash Day spotslights on this important issue.
A mere hand-wash with soap can save thousands of innocent children from death in the country. It may sound incredible, but the fact is that washing hands with soap can prevent diseases like diarrhea, pneumonia, cholera, dysentery, that kills forty one children every minute in India.
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Road accident deaths highest in India
“OH GOD! Please let them come back home safely.” From the time our family members step out from home till they return, we echo the same words for our loved ones.
Our country, which is marching towards the development in various fields is not left behind in increasing the rates of road mishaps.
In developing countries, the fatality rates (defined as road accidental deaths per 10,000 vehicles) are quite high in comparison to developed countries. India has recorded over 1,05,749 deaths in the year 2006 as against China’s toll of 89,455 as per latest figures disclosed by the ministry of shipping road transport and highways.
India is estimated to have the second highest number of road accidents in a year, according to World Road Statistics (WRS) 2007 data for 2005. KH Muniyappa, the minister of state for shipping road transport and highways, said that the total number of people killed in road accidents was 94,985, next only to China where 98,738 people were killed.
Tamilnadu and Maharashtra have earned the dubious distinction of having the largest number ofroad accidents in our country, accounting together for one-fourth of the total 3.94 lakh of such mishaps in 2006.
The drivers do not want to give pass to any other vehicle. Everyone seems to be in hurry. Overtaking has become a common practice. And if the drivers hit someone or some vehicle they are so egoistic to apologise we do not hesitate to do such things and feel pride to play the blame game on others.
But is it fair to blame our government all the time? Isn’t it our responsibility to uplift ourselves?
Our country, which is marching towards the development in various fields is not left behind in increasing the rates of road mishaps.
In developing countries, the fatality rates (defined as road accidental deaths per 10,000 vehicles) are quite high in comparison to developed countries. India has recorded over 1,05,749 deaths in the year 2006 as against China’s toll of 89,455 as per latest figures disclosed by the ministry of shipping road transport and highways.
India is estimated to have the second highest number of road accidents in a year, according to World Road Statistics (WRS) 2007 data for 2005. KH Muniyappa, the minister of state for shipping road transport and highways, said that the total number of people killed in road accidents was 94,985, next only to China where 98,738 people were killed.
Tamilnadu and Maharashtra have earned the dubious distinction of having the largest number ofroad accidents in our country, accounting together for one-fourth of the total 3.94 lakh of such mishaps in 2006.
The drivers do not want to give pass to any other vehicle. Everyone seems to be in hurry. Overtaking has become a common practice. And if the drivers hit someone or some vehicle they are so egoistic to apologise we do not hesitate to do such things and feel pride to play the blame game on others.
But is it fair to blame our government all the time? Isn’t it our responsibility to uplift ourselves?
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Citizen journalism as voice of the masses
CITIZEN JOURNALISM has added a feather in media’s cap. Both print and electronic media have taken certain measures to engage people actively in the collating and presenting of news. Due to their limitations, the media tried to cope with the needs of the people by spreading its wings through citizen media.
Earlier, people irked by the lax judiciary and inept laws, had no option other than to wait for justice and their uplift. Elections were the only means through which they communicated with the government. By and by, improvement in the modes of media gave access to the masses. Resultantly, citizen journalism came into existence.
Citizen journalism is the platform for masses to interact with each other by contributing information or commentary on news events. Although citizen journalists are independent, they are bound not to write anything and everything. Now, people need to be aware and take care for those things, which they used to take for granted earlier.
Earlier, people irked by the lax judiciary and inept laws, had no option other than to wait for justice and their uplift. Elections were the only means through which they communicated with the government. By and by, improvement in the modes of media gave access to the masses. Resultantly, citizen journalism came into existence.
Citizen journalism is the platform for masses to interact with each other by contributing information or commentary on news events. Although citizen journalists are independent, they are bound not to write anything and everything. Now, people need to be aware and take care for those things, which they used to take for granted earlier.
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Live and Let Live
“All people are born free and equal in dignity
and rights…everyone is entitled to all freedoms set forth in this Declaration,
without distinction of any kind”, says Universal Declaration..
THE ABOVE declaration is partly true in practice
in our day-to-day life. We have an orthodox mindset by virtue of which we find
many things unusual in our surroundings. Yes, I am talking about homosexuality
and want my countrymen not to turn a deaf ear to this particular issue.
Chapter XV1, Section 377 of IPC, also known as
Anti-Sodomy law, was incorporated into Indian statute by the British parliament
in 1860 and it penalises sexual activity “against order of nature”. It states,
‘whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with
any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to ten years and shall also be liable
to fine’.
Homosexuals have been challenged before the
Delhi High Court. Our country has not yet recognized their rights. They are
subject to harassment by police because of these laws. A previous government
argued that if their rights were recognised, more people could be victimised by
them. So, we have a law instead to victimise gays and lesbians. Before coming
to my point, let’s have a look into the origin of homosexuality which
is ‘not a curable disease’ (as observed by Mayur Suresh, a bespectacled young
lawyer).
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Smile: The Gift of the Gab
HAVE YOU ever noticed the fact that how the most
common thing of the world affect your lives, glitters your personality, adds
confidence and brightens your day. Smile, the beautiful combination of five
alphabets, is the most common and effective language one can speak.
“Smiling is infectious. You can catch it like
the flue, someone smiled at me today and I started smiling too”.
Smile is the magical language you speak through
your eyes and face. Your body language depicts your innermost emotion and this
very language helps you to masquerade your emotions. It is well said that smile
is contagious. To know more Please Click here
Terrorism in the name of jihad
TERRORISM HAS led to an inhuman atmosphere all round the globe. The most popular kind of terrorism that has emerged is Islamic terrorism. With different terrorist associations coming up, our media has propagated new words like ’militant Islam’ (which has been in vogue in the World Press recently) and ’Islamic terrorism’.
We have been grabbed by media, some so-called scholars and of course terrorists whose ideas and terminologies act as spoon feeding agents for our minds. We are unable to see and understand beyond what has been shown us.
Through malicious propaganda campaigns, distortion on the true concept of jihad and labelling of Muslims as barbarous killers and usurpers, some people among us have depicted a horribly ugly picture of Islam in the eyes of the world. The word Jihad conjures up the vision of a marching band of religious fanatics with savage beards and fiery eyes, brandishing swords and attacking infidels.
If we talk about Jihad in the context of the holy Quran, Jihad means striving utmost to achieve an objective in a noble manner. The primary objective being to establish a social order based on the Quranic fundamental principles. All efforts to that end fall within the meaning of Jihad.
Jihad is the name of an organized effort and its rules are defined in Islam e.g. nobody is allowed to kill enemy’s woman, children and the old during jihad, likewise it is forbidden to burn crops or houses. All terrorists do such activities and yet they are called Jihadis.
The very word ’Islam’ means peace and mischief is prohibited in Islam. Thus, it is said: "And create not disorder in the earth after it has been set in order… (7:57; 11:86; 29:37). Do you think mischief and belief in God can go together?
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