LITERATURE

We must literature not only as a piece of interesting long story written and told by a person while he spent sleepless nights in those days of his craftsmanship which you proudly hold in your hand and depict boldly purposefully to other passers by as the symbol of your affluence or being elite. Just think of the labour involved in bringing out that piece of work which is today in your careful hands. It is undoubtedly, a work that has consumed the writer. His physical and mental store has opened all the closets while it was in its making. He has kept a record of daily happenings around him and has not blind folded himself to the events occurring in his society. He has been given the food for his thought by one of us or not to mention by most of us who are or were his contemporaries. Our politics, eave-teasing, irrational approach to life, a cool support to the corruption, a quiet acceptance of nepotism and such other ill-traits of the people only surviving in the society have been the recipe for the writer. He has just picked one of such many items or the ill-traits prevalent in the society and has given an imaginary plot so that none feels hurt but probes into the matter.

Its therefore very true that a writer only shows the mirror to the society. His writings one day become the stock of archives and still they do not lose the power to bring out the real face of the society as would have been existing in the days of his creation of the particular work. If we make a careful study by devoting at least sometime of our hectic schedule to reading of such a work by a writer, we would only be able to validate our views of the society and then a small spark somewhere in the corner of the heart at least would kindle and utter perhaps only a feeble cry to get the society free of such shackles as is blinding it to human values. A spark neglected can burn the fire but a spark noticed at the right time can light up torches which can take us from ignorance to knowledge thereby making our life peaceful and happy.

Environment

Beautiful Earth

This beautiful earth should remain as it is, nay, it should remain as it was. Yup that seems to me a far better statement. We have been doing injustice with the earth in several possible but certainly devastating ways. We have polluted the river water, poisoned the lake and pond water, carbonised the air, tirelessly created treeless forests and what not. And all that only for our selfish reasons!

In a study, it was revealed that the developed nations consume natural resources three times more than the developing nations. So, it brings me to conclude that the pollution, destruction and devastation caused by three men of developing nations is equal to the such hineoous act committed by just one man of developed nation. Its time when we gave a second thought to our selfish motives which have somewhere caused an irrepairable loss to the earth and the climate of the earth. What do we after all plan to leave behind if we don't check ourselves at least now when the water has surged neck deep. The future generation will not have the pleasure to be a part of this planet. They may repent their birth, reading the history books which would tell them all about the trees, free potable water and that water was colourless or bluish and that every country barring the polar ones had three to four climates which changed at regular intervals and people breathed fresh air enjoying the climatic changes.

The high time is here. There is no wait to curb our actions which are changing the climate of the world and only aggravating global warming, the disease of the climate. Friends, we must rise on this day and join our hands to keep our earth a suitable place for the people to live in.

Maharashtra Elections

Will the card of Marathi Maanush work in this year's Maharashtra State's election? It is beyond understanding as to why should this card work? A native of Maharashtra does not get his bread by shouting that he is a Marathi Maanush. Cool! Its a state which contains a megaloplis like Mumbai, the commercial capital of our country and people here are not at all worried about such cards as do not fetch their bread. Here, I know, people have to work hard and harder still to earn a meal for the family and the self. Nobody has time to think of all that. Besides, a major chunk of population of Mumbai is elite and educated, which has risen itself above such petty issues as have neither helped nor would sustain their life. This class is making new global contacts every minute, carving a niche for the self and the nation in global market. It talks of big challenges and adventures into tech arenas and forums with fluent English as their mode of communication. Does this section communicate in Marathi any more? Then what force is left behind to give any impetus to create a feeling of mother tongue in them!

Its high time when people should rise above petty issues and contribute to the growth of the nation. People around the world are looking at us; we must rise and do whatever little we can do in glorifying the path of India's progress.

IIT-JEE

Many students have a deep rooted feeling that they do not stand to succeed in IIT-JEE if they have not been doing extremely well in studies in Classts X to XII. IIT-JEE requires an analytical approach and it is quite different from normal studies. To have optimum success & avoid failing, one has to develop excellent temperament besides knowledge of the subject and problem solving skills. Yesterday I met an IITian from IIT Roorkee who held a B. Tech (Industrial Engineering) degree and he said that to achieve this, one should follow the following guidelines:
• Be clear in your goal and have determination to achieve it. Always think of getting into IITs/other top Engineering Institutes. Develop your own plan to produce desired results.
• Do not dilute preparation of any topic because of any factor etc. Unlike school/board exams you cannot score in IIT-JEE without reaching a certain level of proficiency.
• Mere understanding of a concept is not adequate. You have to learn to apply these concepts in solving tricky problems. Problems in IIT-JEE are not direct application of a single concept. Many IIT-JEE problems involve more than one basic concept.
• Develop your analytical skills. Do not give up solving a problem after one or two attempts only. It is only by doing and trying to do difficult problems that you can improve your analytical skills.
• You have to optimally use the time available upto IIT-JEE. This would also mean realignment of your extra curricular and sports activities etc. Realise that the time available in a day is still the same.
• There is no dearth of books and problems available. A.C. Verma can be your one choice. One has to draw boundaries and concentrate on quality rather than quantity. It is possible to prepare a topic by doing 30-40 problems only, if you try to solve them completely by yourself. This may involve devoting half an hour or one hour or may be even more on a tricky problem.
• Carefully revise concepts and again solve those stumbling block problems you faced during your preparation.
• Take several tests in right environment. Join a good coaching institute. A good and authentic institute may not charge you more than Rs.10,000.00. These are a must to convert your knowledge & skills into marks. This alone will make a difference between success & failure, a good rank & a bad rank. On the other hand your preparation can be very weak and hollow even if you have attempted more than 200 problems on the same topic in the same time, thereby devoting much less time on difficult problems and leaving them as doubts to be cleared from your teachers.

Mumbai

Mumbai attacks are shameful for the country. They have left everything devastated. Valiant soldiers of different forces lost their lives. I salute each soldier and his parents. They allowed us to sleep in peace. We were sure that they have cordoned off the enemies and they will not let them escape without getting a fire on their face. We felt safe and relieved. But equally worried about our brothers and sisters who had been kept as hostages by the attackers. What did you get? What was your aim? Don't you know that you will never succeed in breaking the Unity of India. If not, at least realize now. You just can't break our strong determination to fight the evil.

The law makers of our country seem to have no concern with the tragedy that struck on us. They seem to be busy in churning out a political mileage from the sad event. What are you doing now? We elect you all and send to the Parliament not to sit in AC chambers and while away the precious time which we have given you. Why were no strict policies enforced, why were not some stringent remedial measure adopted, why don't you tighten the system, why can't you think of doing only one thing which needs no money, no bribe and no vote. I think if law makers start doing something not for vote they will get the highest vote. They would also be along with the posters of Sania Mirzas and Abhinav Bindras, Sachin Tendulkars in the room walls of the youngsters of India.

People shouldn't be Lazy

I have seen many young people who try to shirk off their duties because they consider 'rest' as the supreme objective of their life. Its beyond their dignity to serve you or pay heed to ones plea in the first instant. They prefer to keep the pleader like a maid/gentleman in waiting. Dare somebody ask them about their loose approach! They will have some sterotyped comments: 'Oh! O! I just forgot.', 'You'd really told me that.', 'I didn't get you that moment.', 'I didn't know you were serious.' so on so forth. The best part which mcan irritate anyone is that they do it so brilliantly (at least they think it so) that you are not left with any option but to forget and forgive. You also feel that narrating the whole event to him for the second tiime would be a waste of time and you suddenly decide not to speak out to him anymore about your work. There they are! They win and we lose!

I wanna sit back if I'd lost today.