Swachhata Abhiyaan in JNV Nawanagar, Buxar, Bihar by Arawali 'A' Boys

Speech for Students on NVS Foundation Day

Good evening all.

Honourable Member of Legislative Assembly, Dumraon, Shri Dadan Yadav, Respected Principal, Shri Anjum Arshi, kind-hearted parents of students, Members of Parents Teachers Association and my dear friends.

It is a matter of extreme proud for me to stand before you all and express my views. Today, as you all know, we are celebrating the NVS Foundation day and I, Sachin Kumar of Class XII (Science) would like to speak on the topic National Integration through Migration Scheme and Three-Language Formula followed in JNVs.

Migration scheme of JNVs is one step in promoting exchange of students between two different linguistic regions or JNVs. Under this scheme, we have our migration from JNV Darjeeling in West Bengal. The regional language of JNV Darjeeling is Nepali so class 6th to 8th students of JNV Buxar study Nepali as the third language. On one hand, it facilitates the ease of exchanging students in Class 9th, On the other, it strengthens the ties between the students. JNVs provide a rare privilege to see the culture of the migrated state. Right from the time we leave our school on migration, the journey by bus, train or steamer, sending off by the friends and parents and to the point of reception at the migrated JNV fills a new joy and enthusiasm in us. Living there with the local students and staff and at times personal contacts with their parents is a novel experience. We get a chance to learn the language of that place and a delight to savour on the local delicacies. We get a chance to be a part of their regional festivals also. In this way, our mind opens up to the rich culture and varied heritage of this vast motherland. Great thinker and a statesman, our first Prime Minister Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, the writer of 'Discovery of India' in his letters to his daughter Priyadarshini has said that if you wish to see real India, you should travel to far-flung and the remotest corners of the land and meet the local people to know of their culture, traditions, food habits and ways of dressing. Knowledge gained through this means of exchange under the migration scheme of JNVs provide us a pool of information that has great implications on our bearing and personality. It makes us aware in all respects and strengthens our understanding of the concept of Unity in Diversity. 

With all these diversities, we strive to level the differences of caste, creed, colour and religion and help in promoting the national unity. We come under an umbrella which makes no distinction between the people living in different parts of our motherland. In length from the snow capped Jammu and Kashmir to the vast fathomless sea of Kanyakumari and in breadth from the religious Gujarat to the exquisite land of Arunachal Pradesh, we see our people as one. A sense of fraternity and brotherhood finds a new bond that strengthens the loose joints of people who are narrow-minded and only talk of regionalism. A student of JNV is above these petty issues of regional prejudices who constantly endeavours to promote national integration for the betterment of the country and so, we are proud of it.

Thank you. Jai Hind.

Run the Race....

Ready.

You have now crossed the first lap of the marathon that was flagged off by our leaders. This obstacle was not known to the athletes. It was a surprise for all the athletes. But that was a condition. Remember when they were told that they have to run a race and they will find the end a pleasure, that they will see 'good days' at the finish line, they were not told about the hurdles in between. They were not told that they will all have to become Hindus by the 5th or the 6th lap of the race. Poor athletes also did not know that the authorized, white dressed and expert sports officials of the race will be gradually replaced by authorized, saffron clad and novice political officials, who will suddenly change the route of the race and the athletes will know it only when they have reached a point of the race. This will be done to test the BRAINS of the athletes; to test and ensure that the athletes have not become intelligent. Suppose, the athletes showed any signs of intelligence, they would be disqualified from the race.

Steady.

It was also not told that the DA in the form of water will be reduced gradually with the completion of laps of the race. But again the intelligence of the marathon organizers. If you drink more water during the race, you'll not be able to run! Wow! The runners did not even know this!

Go.

The runners also did not know that the runners with the technical knowledge, executive skills and other qualities will not qualify for the race, though they may run along with other runners. They thought that they were more sensible and intelligent than the matric fail organizers of the event.  Hold all your knowledge back which you have got from big universities because you have earned the degree only after paying money which means you bribed the Universities and got the degrees. Remember, our organizers have not purchased degrees, they have been awarded degrees by us when we saw them toiling to submit their thesis on microphones shouting for the rules and regulations of the race and the prizes to be won by all at the end of the race. We saw them sweating and so we awarded them the degrees based on their hard work. Remember, they have worked in real sense and have earned the name and fame not only for themselves but for all the runners because they never do anything for themselves. Remember, they are so benevolent that they do everything for the runners of the race.

This is the finish line but the race will be on.......................

Home - Coming

I don't see any argument in favour of the people who have dedicated their life to 'home-coming' which is the burning topic today. It is sad, may be for me that I am not able to read the minds of the people who have made it a way of their life. 

Where do they get time to do all this from? Is the man so free these days that he has stopped thinking about arranging a meal per day, as he used to do a few years ago? Are these people not working for any establishment and do they not visit their office or complete the long pending works? Do they not even have a rickshaw to pull and earn their livelihood? Are they not even a baba?

Then who these people are........? It will take some more time for me to know about them. Enough. Enough of talking and enough of waiting for the good days to come. We have been told that there is no heaven or hell beyond the last sleep; its all here - wide before us and we experience it before we go for the last sleep. So shall be the view of good days.We will have good days to feel the coming bad days. Its like a sales company which sometimes says that the actual product may vary from the one displayed at the time of delivery. We bought something believing it to be the like we saw but it turned out to be something we didn't see. My! My! Was it a test of our ability to foresee? If so, we failed. We could not sense and saying this at this juncture does not make any sense, at least for another four to five years. Till then happy viewing of what you may like to watch or not.

I wish all our Scooters n Bikes n Cars should break down!

Hi all,

It might sound heart-breaking, a total loss in this busy world to hear me praying for a complete break-down of our automotives (the scooter or the scooty, the bike or the car whichever you possess). Isn't that? But cool down, I've no intention of putting you or even myself into trouble. Right. If not you'll disagree with me only till you have read the following:

It was just like another day, of course not a weekday but an off day from the work. With no much scenic beauty around, no casinos and no spas and no bars or pubs upto a minimum length of 60 miles, there was nothing much to do. With a heavy, bored heart, he surfed through the net and suddenly there flashed an important message from a private banker that they (he and his wife) had to meet the Accounts Manager immediately in order to settle certain pending transaction. It was the last week of the month. Every thousand was a princely sum in the bank account. And this was after all a matter of eight such thousands, sufficient enough to cheer them up.

"Hey! Here is the call we have been waiting for. Finally, they've called us for settling the transaction".

"Wow! So great of you. It wouldn't have been possible without you speaking to the Zonal Office, I know".

"Fine, let me pick the scooter and you get ready and come straight down".

"OK! Just a minute".

He reached for the space under the stairs, puulled the scooter and rolled it down through the ramp. Kicked, again kicked and now kicked for the third time, now brought it to the stand, kicked again, again and again. But why should it have started. It was all determined not to start. They were also running out of the time.

 She was hurrying downstairs. She understood the whole thing. "Leave it, lets walk, otherwise we'll not be able to reach".

He left the scooter and started walking with her. They walked together. Twenty years and probably they were walking for the first time and that too together. Earlier, he had felt her only on his back, whenever, a pit came across on the road, or a speed-braker or a sudden brake to avoid dashing something. Initially, they enjoyed all this but it can not run for twenty or more years. Today, she was walking along with him and so many times they swung on each other while they sped to the bank. At places, she caught him by his shirt and at times, he had to pull her holding her wrist from the speeding and mindless traffic. They were talking, laughing, looking at each other and all this while they were walking. Her body touched his, many a times, and not even once from the back but everytime from the sides. It was a first time experience and sharing. Besides, at many points and crossroads, he had to ask her about the shops. He was not on those roads for the first time but he was on those roads for the first time on foot. He had been riding and driving for last twenty years but did not know many of the houses and the shops on the way. He was so surprised to find all those shops so close by to his house today. Actually, they were always so close to him but he had been overlooking all of them. They completed their business at the bank and again the same exotic and romantic walk began to the house.

Today, for the first time his boring weekend had become a cheerful one. They had taken three hours to get back to home. Had they had their scooter, it would have taken them not more than an hour. Within an hour, theyd have come back. But this walk took three hours and filled so much of romance back into their life that he has not called for his mechanic to set the scooter and he is waiting eagerly for the coming weekend and preparing a fool proof plan to show the cause of making another foot journey to the town. He is also thinking of wilds as his next place on coming weekend but has no reason to explain her about his foot journey. 

Can we pray that he invents some reason to show her and she agrees to it?

KARWA CHAUTH

Karwa Chauth is a ritual and the married women eagerly wait for this day. As the tradition is changing, we hear of some unmarried girls also observing fast on this day and performing the Puja with a hope of finding a suitable life partner.

When we are free......

It is a general feeling that that when we are free we should not work at all, COME WHAT MAY. On the contrary, there is a school of thinkers and management gurus who advice the bad part of what we generally think! They are of the opinion that the free time of a person is the best time in the hand of a person to re-organise his thoughts, re-schedule his calendar activities, and prioritize his obligations to the family in particular and the nation in general.

So, it comes to this that when we are free, we should freely be busy doing things. This helps us to move ahead in a planned way and also it ensures that the days of freedom will arrive very frequently for you to enjoy your life and to revitalise yourself. We may like to get into a pub and forget all by guzzling the stress buster but at the same time the tranquility gained through the stress buster can be utilized positively to chalk out the next day's work. It can be an opportunity to prepare the plugs which can be fixed into the minor and the major holes that we perceive in our near future. This is a sort of peace time which is the time for maintenance of arms for the undeclared war. Preparedness is must so that we can say COME WHAT MAY and sail smoothly even when the seas are high and rough.

Merit and not Reservation

Dear policymakers,

Now we don't need any reservation in this country. We are fed up of this elite treatment "reservation" because we have understood that by providing reservation to us, our talent has been made to lie deep in its dormant stage only. You gave us the reservation and said that if we just go and appear for the examination and come out of the examination hall by writing our names in the answer copies, we will be awarded the degree of a doctor. Initially, we felt glad and kingly but later we realized that it still was the way to demoralize us and not to allow us to raise our level of intelligence. Infact, you wanted us to remain blunt all our life! What a deep-rooted conspiracy!

Thus, I say that we don't need reservation of any type anymore.

What do you think about us and our intellectual level? We can very well compete with the mass (read) the students of other category who do not have any reservation. We know, they have not been given reservation because they are intelligent classes. Are we not? Stop all this political gimmick and evaluate us at par the general students. We will show you that we can excel them.

Reservation has crippled the state of the affairs in our state. Go anywhere, there is reservation. What for? Are we born with a mentally retarded head or what? No and not at all. What is the need of reservation in studies? It is because of this reservation that we have not been able to produce devoted, intelligent, faithful and committed public servants, bureaucrats or the politicians. All of them came through reservation, only to spoil the future of the coming generation. Test the students or the aspirants to various openings at par. No differentiation. If you are so obssessed with differentiation, differentiate us on the basis of the grades, the score, the percent and the percentile. That would give you the real intelligent people in the system who will put their brains together to make the nation corruption free.

For long we have seen everything bad, now its the time to see something good. If you are blind to this epidemic of reservation, there is no way of preservation for this nation. Only the candidates with real subject knowledge, real content, true practical knowledge gained in the school laboratories, honest attempt of the examination, beautiful grades can be the saviours of our nation.

So, give preference to merit over any type of reservation. Its high time for the government to realize the need of making constitutional ammendments to abolish reservation policy in education and service(s). You may limit the reservation policy in Public Distribution System, Quota releases, Indira Awaas allotment, MNERAGA and such other channels. But education does not differentiate between Eklavya and Arjuna. Without any reservation, both of them proved to be good shooters.

SC, ST Representation in Lokpal by Mayawati

The country is going through a deadlock when Anna Hazare has entered his 11th day of fast. If Jan Lokpal is not passed or three issues defined by him are not included for debate in the parliament, the fast is proposed not to end.

The government including the opposition party seems terrified over the issue. On one hand, we have a 74 year old man fasting and on the other we have the corrupt politicians who are afraid as to what will happen to their hidden treasure(s)in the mainland and overseas. These politicians seem to have been caught between the devil and the deep sea. There is no go now. Only one go. Shout in the parliament in favour of the strong Lokpal Bill and get yourself executed. Everything good comes to an end.

Readers can imagine if the culprit is asked to sharpen his own stake for impending execution! But the way to the execution point can be smoothened by our corrupt politicians with the huge wealth amassed by them over the period. So it shouldn't be a matter of worry for them.

The matter to be worried now is the latest backstage cry raised by Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh that SC, ST should be included in Lokpal. Mayawati must know that it has become too much for the people in India to bear any more the 'reservation'. Now, we have started talking about the merit and the talent. No company (MNCs or Indian) will ever uphold your category status and offer you a lucrative package of salary. The time has gone and moreover, it is no time for us to get our vested interests fitted into something that is being done to end corruption. Look out! Very shortly another Anna Hazare (May his tribe increase) may sit on fast against reservation.

At this juncture we should go for constitutional amendment and wipe off all old laws and policies that are so insignificant in the present or do not have any strength or need for the future. Free India from the shackles of corruption and reservation to see a better India in the times to come. Corruption and Reservation are only two damp crackers which will not burst on the day of Diwali. So let us show them sun by removing them from our nation. Hail India and forget not to Hail Democracy.

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