Wednesday, December 7, 2011

threat or craze of Job!

Susane is in India under the scholarship scheme of embassy of India in Nepal. She joins the university armored with high morals and greater thought in mind that the sky is limit! The university she is in the capital of the state, at the heart of capital sharing its boundary with airport. The faculties of university are competent and are man of letters with huge seasonings under their belt.
But one thing that was lagging in the university was the importance of post-graduate education and the starve of jobs especially Bank jobs.
On her first meet with one of her classmate, her friend speaks, "I am here only to enter the Bank jobs and this university is merely a platform to wait for me to be picked." Surprisingly she asked, "But why? Why don't you complete yours post-graduate education instead and seek for better options in the same field of study cause you know agriculture is the only field with immense opportunity and we all are damn sure that the feasibility of agri education will never subside but rocket day by day."
Students barely attend the classes and remain in their own room locked up mugging up the facts to score higher marks in the entrance of Bank exam. Teachers, quite surprising though tend to encourage them to stand for the exams except for few. They are supposed to motivate and persuade the students for the further academic studies but in vain. The university administration seems to be feeling proud to say that they are the producers of this many bankers. They seems to be happy with the no. of student leaving study in the middle of nowhere and sticking on with the bank job.
It seems students are skeptic about the opportunity and feasibility of their field of study. 
In  a separate rendezvous her one of female classmates insist on the importance of bank jobs for them,"If we go on and continue the post-graduate studies instead of bank jobs, we wont get the proper match for ourselves. You know what, many of the boys here are all reluctant to join higher studies and in that case marriage can be a give problem and post-graduate studies a burden." She is really true in the male dominant society of Indian sub continent where people still believe that a boy need to be superior in every case than the girl. Oh, it sucks! Another burning question why should a girl thick twice before looking forward to complete her studies? 
A boys in his 3rd semester of Master program is ready to leave his study incomplete and run towards bank. He insists, "My parents do not want me to miss this opportunity of job." "And what about you, do you want to leave study nowhere and go after banks that will suck you up. Don't you have faith on yours own hands and abilities? Why can't you think about the entrepreneurship instead, that yield more money and success. Don't you think you can be more innovative and give more to society and nation instead?" These questions just disappears unanswered.
Now the matter of fact to ponder about is should we be scared of scarcity of job or should we act towards the creation of opportunity instead. One of my professor used to say "Constraints are Opportunities". Its a high time we shed off the phobia of job and start creating opportunities. 
Entrepreneurship is a panacea.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Grave threat



Grave Threat

We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions anywhere, whether from China or the United States or from one of the countries that is burning its forests like Brazil or Indonesia—from wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth. Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation of this global warming pollution reaches such toxic levels that the problem becomes bigger than we can solve. 

Thursday, November 24, 2011

"Her First Class"

Almost two months have passed since Susane joined her class. To the greatest despair the first class is just a day before the mid-term. "Take mid-terms seriously huh, the weightage is big enough to leave scar on yours face" ,they say.
Clock is ticking and it is around 1500 hrs when mobile rings where a friend of her informs her that the arrangements of class has been made and the teacher has asked all the students to reach the department meeting hall by 1600 hrs. With a tinge of excitement and some anger in her face, she runs towards the class. She reaches the class by 1545 hrs where she finds no one at the department but the empty chairs and desk which are encrusted with a layer of dust being the hall out of use for around a fortnight. She waits and waits until she is found by her classmates, together they wait for their first class entitled "Technical Writing". The teacher is never expected to be punctual at his class.
Finally the man expected arrives with a big grin on his face, really trying to hide out the shame. God teach him how to do so! The lecture begins with a lame excuse that he was kept in the dark side and no information relayed about the allotment of the class. He tries to gather some sympathy from students stating being excluded and biased in the department. He uses his own indigenous language for the communication which is just a alien language for Susane. Susane just even bothers to object the use of alien language. Uttering for around 30 long minutes the dumb fellow realises his use of language and ask the class,"Are u all following me? mine language?" 
Holy shit he realizes finally.
Susane replies promptly, "NO,NOT A SINGLE SHIT!"