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Unity in Adversity

Announced at 9 am. To be carried out at 9 pm. For 9 minutes.

Yes, the call has been made and by none other than the Prime Minister of the largest democracy of the world.

Going through Twitter, I came across many who had different expectations from the most sought world leader of present times, ranging from condemning acts from the Tablighi Jamat to announcing punishments. The stringent steps towards treating all offenders have already been announced by the PM long ago and have been reiterated in past few days again to the Chief Ministers of all states of India. Yet, we had people expecting the same thing, which really makes one think whether people are living in the present fast age or are from some snail world (daily soaps’ world), where same things are repeated thrice a day and are watched all three times with same interest.

Firstly, while we live in our small world revolving around our families and our places of work, those in authority have higher tasks and the man who heads them all certainly has much more on his plate than being a repetitive script reader; he has to work and manage, monitor and administer and above all, protect all of us.

It is in the very context of this protection that I see a few lily-livered people crying and criticizing Mr Modi for not speaking about the misbehaviors of Tablighi Jamat members in his address to the nation. Very weak people are seen wailing and weeping despite so many measures taken by the govt. A high success rate across the world has already been recorded by India and yet we see pessimistic people spreading their depression to others instead of standing strong.

Had Mr Modi not given orders for strict action against those offenders, I’d have been disappointed. But he has already done that. Had he not let it slip out to the general public (because leftist media will never report such criminal incidents if the doers belong to Muslim community), we would’ve never come to know that it happened. But, he has always let it out in front of public to make them understand the gravity of situation they are in. But Alas! Some people love to blame rather than read deeply into his acts.

A few observations:
-> Tablighi Jamat members do not use electronic devices such as TV, phones, etc. So for them, it is only manually that they spread their messages. Hence, the reach of their message to infect all non-Muslims would reach them through you, if you keep talking about it on all media where other Muslims can read /watch it. Hence, it’s best to not keep talking about it and certainly not expect PM to talk about it on national TV while addressing masses.
-> Masjids have been closed forcefully, so spreading of the disease has been controlled there.
-> People violating any of the restrictions are being booked under law.

Tablighi Jamat members have been extremely dedicated to spread their infection and harass the staff treating them, with an evil motive to force the staff to refuse treatments to one and all. Their obscenity reached levels where they roamed naked in the premises in front of female staff. This has been taken up very strictly by the centre and am announcement has been made by CMs of two states, UP and MP, that the offenders will pay a heavy price.

Considering all of the above, it was only required that the PM must NOT mention the incidents and help the Jamat spread news of their obscene acts to masses. Mr Modi acted as he should.

Secondly, there are reasons to support the belief that thoughts help people and thoughts destroy. Positive thinking helps while negative thinking ruins. With the spread of such negative news about Jamat cheapsters making obscene gestures and harassing the staff, people would start losing hopes in an already perilous situation. Yes, highly perilous because we are dealing with a disease that doesn’t allow people to die in the arms of their loved ones and doesn’t permit one to weep on the chests of their beloved deceased even for the last time… Not even pay last respects and for the good of the living, not even allow last rites…

A negative outlook descends on people adding all of the above and hopelessness doesn’t remain far away. Depression too speeds up. Such compounded negative feelings of “all is lost”, “We can’t be saved”, etc should be arrested at all costs and Mr Modi did just that. He found a brilliant way of making us feel positive and better. A way that needed very little from our side and gave us a lot of hopes. Hopes when we see others light diyas in their premises, the feeling of togetherness in isolation. A beautiful act of Unity in Adversity.

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Vidya: A Rarity in India – II

In this short second part of the series, I write about the past and current Education system in India and shall squeeze in most of the essential aspects.

Vidya, the Sanskrit word for Education, has been of prime significance to India since we’ve known civilization. In fact, Civilization is directly linked to Education of a human, irrespective of gender, age or caste.

Once a powerful and helpful solution to our problems, the present day Education has been thoroughly contaminated by the enemies of this country.

It has become necessary to highlight how the older education system was a most progressive system in the world.

Vidya, the Education, consisted of various different shafts, ranging from cooking to masonry to warfare to spirituality. It was not restricted by anything else and was given based on one’s natural abilities. Thus, four Varnas were established, based on finesse and a set of qualities generally observed in groups of individuals.

Varnas were a high organizational invention, through which an individual would be taught a trade as per his qualities and strengths and not forced to work on weaknesses because weaknesses do not make one successful, strengths do.

Thus, the ones who loved to draw were moulded into fine artists , those who loved fighting into warriors and those who loved research were given enough space and time to help the society. The latter were known as the Brahmans, a Varna that has been demeaned like none other throughout British written history.

There were a set of people who loved to work with stones and those who admired paint brushes and those who loved and lived to cook! Musicians and singers would never demonize the dancers just because the former couldn’t shake their legs the way the latter did. No one called the dancers as discriminating against the musicians and singers. They all enjoyed their trade and used their skills to the best of their abilities.

Our country could progress, when the rest of the world was still thinking that earth was flat, only due to such a high classification system based on merit and skills. There was no favorism and no need for it either.

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Vidya: A Rarity In India – I

Shree Ganeshay Namah| Param Guru Shree Veda Vyasay Namah

Education has been a subject of great importance in progress of mankind. In this first part of my series, I shall highlight 7 points that deal with a few practices that have been encouraged by UPA I & II govts and which have proved to be harmful to the actual progress of citizens of India, from the bottom most to the top most flaw in that order.

7) Promoting Students Till STD VIII –
There are three categories of students – Scholars, Average and Poor. Each one can be evaluated only on basis of their performance, just like we are assessed in our offices during appraisals. While we get incentives and perks based on the bell curve, the student’s only incentive is his/her marks and percentage score. A simple question from me can answer all your queries on this point – Will you work hard if the only incentive that you can obtain is removed? Think about it.

6) Compulsion Of All Subjects Till STD X-
The next rule in Maharashtra is that, while all subjects are taught, marks of any five can be counted (SSC board). This is a very absurd rule, for night as well let the student choose the subjects beforehand instead of choosing the marks later to show himself in good light. This also discourages students from paying attention to subjects of interest and whole focus shifts on scoring marks. My question will again answer you – Will you ever know your interests in such a system?

5) Not Punishing Students –
This is the most dangerous of practices introduced by UPA. It removes any seriousness from a child, as he knows he will get away with all his mischief without accountability. This also makes teachers less interested in teaching, as they have no freedom to correct, scold and punish students. Such students grow up to find themselves very weak, as they can’t take any rejection or opposition having faced none for 15–16 years of age and mostly end lives abruptly, as we’ve been seeing a rising number of suicides in past years.

4) Giving Grades Instead of Marks –
This further discourages all scholar students to work hard. They know that even if they toiled hard they would get A grade, which others may also be given by teachers to show their schools in good light. That brings me to my next point.

3) Competition Between Schools –
This was encouraged by UPA govts in order to ensure that systems changed from corrective, into submissive. Yes, teachers were being made submissive to students to get good scores, scores of average students we raised to show the school better than its competitor and this went on and on. The end result was exorbitant increase in fees with hardly any effect on the results.

2) Regular Outrage About Syllabus –
Media was well bribed and used by UPA in all its tenures, even for downgrading education. Articles about how tough the syllabus was and how students had started committing suicides for to tough syllabus and tough checking, were regularly written, without being validated; there was no social media then and there was no way to verify whether the news were correct or not. Parents were scared to the hilt and brainwashed by media that the syllabus was very hard. So they kept cribbing, completely unaware that it was the easiest and thus submitting to the trap of UPA.

1) Easy Paper Pattern –
This was made easiest, to such an extent that students of two decades ago would find copying from textbooks tougher than the present paper patterns. Paragraphs were given and students had to find and write answers. 20 marks were reserved by school and all students got fill marks there, with few exceptions. Now, if students gets so many leakages s/he turns 15-16 years of age, they will be not pay attention to what is being taught in classrooms, as they only have to read passages and will get most of the answers. This, they waste their golden period of developing any seriousness towards any task, trade or studies. Memory takes a break as they don’t even have to memorize much to get good scores.

I try to keep my articles short, so that people read till the end. I shall add more points, as there are many, on this aspect in my third article, for the second will show you the difference between The World Leader Bharat and Education of Present Day India.

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