Matter of Honour and Pride

Today we celebrate the 60th year of India the nation come into being..!!
26th January 1950 after almost 3 years of the hardwork , dedication , and our constitution came into force.

The panel headed by Dr. B.R Ambedkar compiled the best possible constitution (a combination of various other constitutions) while writing they would have for sure be thinking how this 'piece of art' was going to shape up the course of their land, which they fought so hard to free,to make it into the next superpower in the world, to help it re-again it's long -lost glory to again make it a "sone ki chidiya".

HAVE THEY SUCCEED IN THEIR AMBITIONS??.... were they too over ambitious??
OR
HAVE WE LET THEM DOWN ??

That's what my this post is all about (What's going on in our country, what's ailing us??)

today as i was watching the Australian Open , my brother came rushing into the TV room and said "i want to see the parade" i said "no use there's nothing new to see.. each year they show the same thing" and i can assure you that i wouldn't have been the only person saying that..!!

Why did it come to such a situation..i can't answer this question 'cos it's too big a question to be answered by people like me .. it's a question regarding the whole country !!
Why on some particular dates like 26/1 , 15/8 , 2/10 do we have to remind ourselves of who we are .. why do politicians only on these dates say about the various problems our country is facing :terrorism , poverty, unemployment , fights over religion , high drop out rates , the discrimination against women and so on..!!

In a country of 28 states, 7 union territories, 1618 languages, 640 castes, 6 ethnic groups, and 29 major festivals is it all acceptable .. NO..!!

The problem lies right at the centre

28 States 7 union territories each and everyone wants to carve out a different state for themselves recently we had 3 new sates formed.. now there's a demand for another new state 'Telengana' there are proposals to divide UP into further 3 states for 'administrative purposes'
the feeling of oneness which was so heart warming till the early 90's has just started going down..!!
In south India there's still a raging debate over why should hindi be our mother tongue and why not some other language .. is this what is expected of a country who wants to lead the world..(people still fight over the choice of the mother tongue).
We blame the politicians over this mess .. we say they are bad , corrupt , don't have the national interests at heart ..but answer my one question.. how many of us are willing to take the plunge ourselves..?? How many of us are willing to forgo a lucrative annual package to serve the nation..??

We still fight and yes fight over whether a particular NATIONAL party is too pro a specific religion and anti against the other ..what i dont understand is that when it's major opponent does something for the benefit of a particular religion its called duty in the favour of the minorities..you must be kidding do you have any idea what's the % of these religions in india) and when the party in question does something for our religion its called a religion fanatic party..!!
Thats what i call BIASED opionion..!!

I am NOT here to support one side or the other i am just here to ponder and help you think what has happened to us
when we first think of 15th August what do we get as a reply:kite flying..great is it what our independence day has become synonymous with..!!

What we lack is pride ..pride in ourselves, pride in our rich heritage pride, in our culture and most of all pride in each other..!!
we still have a particular Mr.Bachhan slamming Slumdog for showing India's poor underbelly..??
what's wrong with him instead of howling on Danny Boyle he should take pride in how those people survive..It's just a matter of pride..
Why do we look to the west for recognition..why do we call 26/11 india's 9/11(according to american way of writing the dates).. why do we compare the satyam scam to a similar scam in the west(cant get the name), why do we so die for an oscar(do we really need recognition from the west for our movies)..??

Aren't all these things a sign of what i am saying..!!

Sports event

In my last post i mentioned about the Inter -BBE sports event which was scheduled from 5-10..!!
Well this post is dedicated to the event only..!!
Getting up everyday at 5 coming back at 5 and then dozing off by 8 and sleeping like a log was how the week flew by.
Our college won 5 golds 3 silver and 5 bronze and came 3rd
I personally won 2 bronze (took part in 3 events). The event was held at Ram Lal Anand (E) College near South Campus. We,friends,used to meet near our college and then take a bus(gosh!!) to reach the campus area and from there used to sometimes walk (imagine 8.30-9 in the morning) or taking an auto to reach the college ....wait hang on-2 days we also went in cabs(hang on) not that 10 Rs/km ones.... but those call centre cabs whose drivers after dropping the call centre people back.... charge 10 bucks per person for a distance just to earn a quick buck!!

The college though not in a great shape: cricket field consisted more of rocks than grass and so on.... the college must be given credit and due for hosting such an event , and yes the event was very well organized though there were some glitches like clashing of main events like football , cricket and volleyball in some cases and in games there were cases of 'home advantage' or you may call it cheating (in football and cricket especially)....!!
The home advantage reached to such an extent that we almost walked off in the middle of the semis against RLA(E) and Shivaji DID walk off in the finals (cricket).
I still remember the joke that our team(3rd) and Shivaji(2nd) cracked on the RLA (1st) team that they should consider sharing their cricket Gold with the Umpires.

The opening ceremony on 5th included the march past and the oath taking ceremonies.The refreshments were fine and the only interesting part was that they gave different fruits on 3 days and then repetition lol.

Our college just had around 10 days to prepare and considering that we did a remarkable job
while colleges like Gargi and RLA(E) which were the top 2 colleges in the medals tally were preparing for months and both had coaches for their respective sports.

The motto was the usual of team building, leadership etc..!!

From walking like mad from the college to the bus stop to stopping auto rickshaws and asking them whether they would consider going to Banglaore (ohhhh sorry) Bengaluru.... to chatting up with the ice cream vendor infront of South campus gates to going to keventors it was fun..!!

All in all I would say that it was one week well spent.... enjoyed with friends, cracked jokes,relaxed met new people and yes won medals....!!!!!

Am back !!

Hey everyone after a long gap of more than a year i am back to blogging!!
In the past week only i decided to restart what i left a year back!! A fresh start - from the name of the blog to the address..!! lol
I hope that this new affair with the blog world will be longer than the previous one..!!

I didn't have a particular topic for starting my blog but then i also belive that to start a good thing you don't need a reason so here it is..!!
For now i dont have anything much to say except what's going on with me...well just preparing for the Inter-BBE sports fest (5-10th Jan)
at Ram Lal college, in which all the 10 colleges of BBE will hopefully be taking part(SGTB Khalsa -not sure).
The event comprises of 7 events Cricket,Football,Volleyball,Badminton,Carrom,Tug of War,Athletics,Table tennis for boys and 5 for girls(except football and cricket).
I am going for 3 cricket,carrom and tug of war.
We hope to do well and win alot of events.

Signing off for now biiii