Thursday, June 14, 2007

Education in India

There are very little things right with the education system in India.

The education should be such that it helps people get a livelihood and increase quality of life. But Indian system at school level teaches only to cram up books and facts, which will seldom directly give them a job when out of school. It helps them only to take admission in further courses. Abnormally high percentages are now a norm at senior secondary/12th level.

After withdrawing courses in sex-education, today a school in Mumbai prohibited girls and boys touching in schools, including handshakes and hugs.

I miss the point. Why highlight the difference between sexes, when the whole world acknowledges equal opportunity & equal responsibility between men and women? Why distract young minds into thinking awkward dos and don’ts when they should be thinking studies?

Sex education that could equip the young generation to protect themselves, in a nation with one of the highest number of AIDS patient and still growing, was withdrawn from curriculum in the name of culture. And now this regressive act of highlighting the girl-boy difference.

There are debates on medium of instruction, culture, and conservative edicts … come on…does no body care about education here….

Monday, June 11, 2007

Universal Studios, Mumbai

My friend recently visited Universal Studios, LA.

We started discussing what if they create a similar studio for Bollywood. When u enter the u will see life size statutes of Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai instead of the following



The tour to the studio will include a college building, with information about the age of the oldest hero who played the role of student there. There will be many trees, with trivia about who ran around then. The cars that hit hero’s mother and the “tattoo-walla” because of whom lost brothers met. And the fan, that hero’s father used to commit suicide, when the world was mean to him.

The shows will definitely include how group dances are choreographed, how heroines are made to look pretty and how the hero’s workout to get those muscles, after which they find it difficult to even wear shirts.

One of the rides will be “Mela”, a crowded area will one have to try to not loose brothers, friends and family members. Another can be “villain ki den” where you need to save your mother, sister and girlfriend.

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Procrastination at its worst….

People have highs and lows in their lives. There are good phases and bad. At this point of time my life is in a Procrastination phase.

I am dodging all work. Things are almost collapsing from all sides and I manage to just scrape through every day without completing any task. One day soon, my life will come to a halt till I so something. By the way, the worst thing is that I am not at all at peace with so many things in my plate, yet, I insist on inaction.

To make the best of this painful situation, I decided to learn about this evil from Wikipedia.org . There are two major psychological causes of procrastination at work and in life which are related to anxiety, not laziness. The first category comprises things too small to worry about, tasks that are an annoying interruption in the flow of things, and for which there are low-impact workarounds. The second category comprises things too big to control, tasks that a person might fear, or for which the implications might have a great impact on a person's life.

Hmmm....

I think its like that black crawling thing in Spiderman 3