the last two months were spent in my home town…rather i should say in my own home.
away from mobile, internet and other communication devices. the days were spent in full
isolation from the outside world. the were spent with my dear mother and sisters.we gossiped all day and watched television serials.
i also went to my village after a gap of many years. people there asked about my whereabouts. it was fun and rejoiced much.
meanwhile i passed the first years and registered for the second year. from here its going to be a tough road. i have to work hard in coming semester very much and i’m upto it!
see you all very soon.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
ok..people! i’m back again.not that, in much style but yes somewhat bubling with lots of ideas.
the word ryoo which is a japanese word means hostel. today i’m here to describe about my life in here. the life here is quite hectic and draining . i dont know why but that may be due to fact that i have become a student again after a long hiatus.
this place is very vibrant and full of life. and it is also a hotbed of indian politics. every thing that has to with national or international politics in the sense that affects the nation and has any “political” value, is the burning topic here. classes are held at ransom someof the time. and strikes are done by students to protest any agenda followed by administration or the national government. this place is full of people from all walks of life and also majority of them are from left wing of the mainstream political parties. they have quiet in a way romanticised this sect of politics. that what they say is grass level of developing cadares. that may be true…in a sense. left wing organisation like SFI & AISA are two main political outfits with large number of followers in the university. but their view is very much skewed and does not reflect the true opinion of the people. they for the sake of following their parent parties do all sorts of opinion building which is wrong most of the time but looks good in a very romantic impractical ways….
apart from politics, the life is good with friends from all parts of the world jamming this university…
Saturday, August 11, 2007
we as a nation are full of people who are die hard braggarts! we never leave a chance to look down at other people or taking a potshot at some innocent person.but we think that we are smart than any other person on this planet.
the other day we had an orientation class at JNU. the teachers were nice and told us every thing that would be needed to survive in the surroundings of JNU.the next day, the president of the student union, Mr. Dhananjay kumar came in our class to give a call for a strike. the strike was called for the breach of agreement by the administration.he said they were protesting for the minimum wages for the downtrodden workers of the university and also for fines and suspension order imposed on some students of the university. it was a spectcle, a very touching gesture..
but when i visited one of the cafeterias at the university gate…namely ganga..the sight was pathetic…cups were thrown here and there…to be cleaned by the poor workers for whom the students were protesting.
i beg to ask a question now…”do the learned students of this hallowed university does have this civic sense to dispose the cups at the proper place the so called dustbins?” ;should not the president, give a call for cleaniness to the unguided students who think they are free to do what ever they like? this dirty scene is at every canteen that lies outside the academic blocks. otherwise, the students are good, accomodating and full of beans !
this is just not the case of JNU, but almost every other part of the city and the whole country. this place only acts as a microcosm for the whole country and society. we do not care to upkeep a place. it seems to me that the attitude of the people is questionable. first they would spoil a place and secondly they would curse people who are just like them!
this has to change…..when you gain knowledge, it must show itself as an application of a fertile brain. otherwise it all adds to zilch. and all these political tamasha that you are conducting is “much ado about nothing”.
after much chaotic and shameful campaign for the election of the president of india, finally madam pratibha patil has emerged victorious.
so india, after 60 years of wait has given the fair sex, a chance to lead the country. but is it really fair chance that was given to the woman of this country. to my mind it is far from the truth to assume this to be true. madam just had this stroke of luck that catapulted her to sudden stardom of the indian politics. neither she was the first choice for this post nor she had the credential to be the president of this great nation. but she had some thing….that we call luck and what a luck, just fantastic. and yes, she was the masterclass masterstroke of the UPA chief sonia gandhi. a concensus candidate that was acceptable to the left.
the left wanted a weak person at the helm, but the congress wanted a man from its rank. Mr. shivraj patil was considered, too strong a man at the raisina. and so, madam pratibha got a chance to shoot the moon. during that process we came to know almost all details of the president designate. some were shocking and very squalid in nature.
for obivious reasons, it is quiet a fact that, whatever the congress and left do, celebrate or anything else, the country is not going to rejoice. we are not going to feel proud, for the fact that, apart from the scandoulous past, she is nowhere near her predecessor .
the glasgow bombing in UK has again brought terrorism on the centrestage of the world politics. there is no denying the fact that it is a most serious problem the world is facing at this point of time.
but again a very small point to ponder in these troubled times is that, one of the fuel, to this terrorism is racism. this thing has been overlooked by most of the observers of the international politics. the detention of dr. haneef mohammed in australia is a glaring example of the racist act followed by the state against individuals of foreign origin who are of different skin colour or of different faiths. this state sponsored racism in the australian milieu is deplorable and open to widespread public unrest throughout the world. everyday a new detail emerges out of that sordid tale of implication of an innocent man . still these shameless people who think themselves morally superior to anybody in this world indulged in these squalid state of affairs to convict an innocent man. the revoking of his visa after being granted bail by a court is shameful act that will belittle, most heinous acts.
no law is bad until you are misusing it, or you are twisting it to profile someone a convict who is otherwise innocent. let the truth prevail, let there be light! catch the rouges and leave the innocent in peace.
the act of the state should be honourable and responsible and not clownic in act to distrupt the public peace .
it all started with a joke. one of my friends, rajan joked to join jnu by giving exams in a very unpopular course, like arabic and persian (that may not be the case); but he thought that competition would be weak.
then, enter ranjan anand, another friend from school days who coaxed me to give the exam.not only that he filled half of my form and also gave rs.20 at the time of buying the form. he also advised me to fill only for arabic and persian. i thanked him a lot and he told him not to worry, and that i would do the needful. he then went on.
now comes the last man who advised me rightly to atleast fill form in one very popular course. now i got the moral courage to do that. although the form was filled only in two subjects, i had to scratch the form and insert the very popular and competitive course japanese in the 1st choice. i did all this apart from public glare, and told them i had filled only for arabic and persian, which they agreed.
the form was filled and every one had the news, but only what i wanted them to know. i shifted from my old room to the new building which just at a few paces from the old. the preparation was still not going on. and i was still with my old habit of moving like a wastrel.
when only one month was left, the my new room-mate, who is also the elder brother of my dear friend madhav told me to study as there was also good fight among students of arabic and persian. so, gradually i started to do the needful. i got the previous years’ paper and stared to solve them first. i started to spend more time on the net than having fun with my good friends. although they complained, but remained gently firm and they got to do things without me also. i also bought a manorma year book 2007 and started reading it. i had no idea about the english course which already was not going well.
the exam time came, i did’nt feel nervous at all. i also prayed everyday that gave me strength from inside and cleansed my mind.the exam date was on my birthday itself. i along with my friend, neeraj thakur went to give the examination. he was there like my guardian….! the exam went almost good but not very best, i had done few mistakes which i had studied, but i was sure to qualify in any one subject apart from japanese because it attracts a very tough competition.
that day during exam ajit also called but i was in examination hall, so, i had to call him later. i told him about the exam and he was also hopeful of my selections.
as the date of result came near, people began asking for the news and i told them it was still not declared and they did not believe me. this continued for three days. then i was trying to get admission in du regular in some so-so college, i was quiet in tension during those days.
after coming from du, i reluctantly came to this cybercafe and opened this site of the jnu.
i saw the results were actually declared. i feed in the data and waited with my breath on hold to see the result. and lo, what i saw made my heart skip a beat. i had already cracked the exam.
this was a story of joke to reality.how is that!
hello everybody out there..! today i feel great to announce that i have been selected for japanese language in JNU !
well i know it is a bit late… but most of the things i’ve done in my life was done a bit late for the reasons that i could never really know myself. so the moment i knew i can do it i was there.
so guys, enjoy and have fun and we shall have great party whenever we meet!
bye for now!
atul kumar bhaskar
india is celebrating its sixtieth year of independence, and various aspects of its development is being looked into!
Prof. Gyan Prakash, who is the dayton-stockton professor of history at Princeton university has looked into the history of india in a column in india today. he has kept his focus roughly between the period of 1940-47. let us revise what he had to say !
the quit india movement of 1942, launched with the august “uprising” in bombay, signalled a mass challenge to the empire. the imperial response was fierce. most of the top congress leaders were jailed and the initiative was passed to the local leaders, students, and socialist activists. much like 1857, the the upheaveal in the gangetic plane took the form of peasant rebellion.student leaders and kisan sabha activists in bihar and u.p. attacked govt properties, uprooted railway lines, and paralysed the administration. gandhi, the apostle of non-violence, declared that violence was preferable to cowardice. india was in upheaval.
nehru declared in april 1946 that the congress would be free to override any previous agreements for provincial autonomy, if it came in the way of the centre’s plan for national development. in jinnah’s eyes, this was proof of the congress’s perfidy. with mass politics firmly in place, discord at the top made its way quickly onto the streets. jinnah call for “direct action” resulted in communal slaughter across northern and eastern india. thousands were perishered between august 16 and 20 in the great calcutta killing. despite gandhi’s call for non-violence, killings continued and united india was now impossible.
it is noteworthy that depite the britishers intention of dividing india, our intelligent leaders who were british bred fell in their plan to divide india along communal lines in their hunger for power. on the other hand we had gandhijee, who also did his acdemics under the britishers, did not think it good for his own progeny. no wonder there is no one from his family in india who we know to be a great leader. think who is responsible for dividing india……!