Just a Debate..:)

So I am writing it after a long time, and you'll find me writing to you quite often now, if not everyday. This is a debate which took place between me and my friends on a friend's facebook status. Enjoy while you read the excerpts of it. :)


Status: Can anyone explain why Andaman and Nicobar is given home state advantage with West Bengal for NIT, Durgapur?
 (Here, allow me to use alias for people)
Comments:
Samarth: Rip Logic...Govt. Schemes bhai 
Jane: exactly.
Christian: its because they dont have any coaching centres or that type of culture there and most of the occupied people are bengali.. that's why the home state advantage..
Ronnie: its not my fault they dont have one......will they let me even a free night stay at a hotel for giving away my seat at nit to them...or even my distant relatives.....frankly realising the fact that hard work dose NOT pay off.......
Christian: then who's fault is it? try a bit socialism... there are still people in india who cant afford four to five tutions plus coaching centers.. there are some people who got below than me then still got NIT.. but im not complaining becoz most of them are economically deprived..
Gaurav: but isn't that ironical..?? we're trying progress by giving the downtrodden an opportunity and not actually giving the deserving a chance..?? does 5 tuitions really count if you don't yourself try...?? doesn't it change and economy of "rich and poor" to "all middle class"...?? is that progress..?? individually, it my be a small progress, but look at the bigger picture my friend..  :)
Jane: Yes five tuitions do make a difference to a person who has no resources to study. Who cannot afford books even. Coaching centres do give a upper hand. Many schools were students are trained only for joints and theres no pressure of boards or school does make a hell lot of difference. So I don't find anything ironical here. And till there is individual progress how the hell do you define the bigger picture?
Gaurav: there's individual progress in bringing the downtrodden to the level of general public, but there's an economic and pan social distress when you find that talent is just a liability. Those who cannot afford books, cannot afford colleges as well then. So why give them benefits? Till a certain point, it is okay. when we help them to walk with us. like till its limited to schooling. But what after that? the deserving don't get a job. but just because you were born somewhere where you don't get 5 tuitions a day. You say boards ma'am..?? don't you see the bigger picture? normalisation? You say you had a pressure of boards? but did not it serve you in the end? Why miss, i won't be surprised if you get a better IIIT or NIT than me. You have to chose between joint and boards unless you are some "high functioning sociopath". frankly, i am not one. i fared badly in boards, but i rather chose not to cry over it. that ma'am is irony, bringing the bar down, just so that everyone can go over it.
Christian:u are just good with words.. nothing else.
Gaurav: yes..?? 
Christian: bigger picture? u dont know anything about the conditions of people of india still? just imagine a guy who is just talented as u.. cant afford coaching centers or the materials they provide..
Gaurav: guy as talented then has no right to snatch away "my" opportuity.  just because he's as talented but just with a "poor" tag maybe, and even though i've worked hard with whatever materials i got, he deserves a chance..??
Christian: swap places and think..
Gaurav:  again the same thing...wouldn't this mean we all end up in call centers together..?? just because one who had the knowledge wasn't given a chance and one who didn't have the knowledge was just given a chance cause he did not recieve that "knowledge"..??  swap places..?? why should i..?? just cause i was lucky growing up the way i did..??
Christian:  yeah obviously.. arrey.. just think if they did better than u with the resources u had.. if u were lucky then u dont think they should have been given a chance,, u dont want a fair fight or what?
Gaurav:  i don't understand why is "if" always a factor. they were not born as lucky..reservations and stuff came along in the late 90s'...did not people breathe or eat or live or rise from their bad luck back then..??  you say everyone who has . wasn't it you who once told me to bloody stand up to what you got..??  just because i was born fat and with hyper extended legs, doesn't mean i cannot play anything dude. i'll never have fun watching them. but that doesn't mean i'll give up something i've fought for, for someone who did not even fight..be it for any reason..



So this is a lovely debate that was brought on between couple of friends. Hope you enjoy reading it and also leave your valuable comments. :)
Status credits: Ranadeep Ghosh Dastidar, my valuable genius freind.. :)

The Lamp of a Lady...

So, I have decided to write again. And this time, its about the lady. Often in this country, or maybe even in this world either we tend to overlook the topic or we try not to speak about it. So, here I am, speaking about it. Its not like I am writing about it because my girlfriend was pushing me too much into the topic the girls dominate over boys. She never said so. Basically for two obvious reasons. One, for she doesn't exist and two, for if she ever would, she'd know that I highly respect personal views. So, apparently, we are living in a world, or maybe a country where people are inclined towards a dominant mindset and, lets face it guys, a place where people are more sentimental, superstitious and ancient ideology believers than being logical and practical. Come on guys. Why do you have to bring some kind of shame to the country? I guess we already had enough of it. What would a world be without women? Not much has changed since 3 centuries. Only that, at that time, girls were victims of foeticide and now either we murder them alive for honour or burn their hearts when they come out to this world, which is much more painful than death.
 I really hope that we understand now, that they need respect. That they need security. That they need to feel that we are with them not in front of them. What are you people so proud of. Are you proud of the strength you have? Are proud of the hand you had over the women for all these years? Well, you were the ones who who first cut their hands so that the cannot fight for equality. For the justice they deserve.
They do not need reservations. Frankly, I am against any kinds of reservations. Reservations only means that you are not helping them, but, you are giving them crutches to walk on. What women need now is a support to know how to walk. To be independent in future. No one likes to be in crutches. In plain words, they need someone they can trust. Some one who'd teach them how to walk. Someone who wold not push them to be dependent on crutches.
Women, they want to fight. They want to learn. They want to be among us. They want to walk with us. Not behind us. Its high time we realise that it should not be, "Behind every successful man, there is a woman", but it should rather be, "Behind every successful human, there is another human"
I truly believe friends, that a guy's best-est friend can only be a girl. A girl who'd lend him a shoulder to cry on. A girl, who'd not be judgmental as boys are naturally. Without girls, this beautiful world would be monotonous, grey, melancholic. The day we grow up and treat girls as equals will be the day humanity takes its biggest step toward human peace and prosperity.

"TREAT THEM AS EQUAL. THEY DESERVE IT."

RaNDoM......

Well, I had been on a long holiday i guess. 12th is a hell for students in India. You can not actually complain about it. Cause you know it's gonna decide your future. Well decided to write again this evening. Been of for what? 4 months or so. Now. Its Sunday today. so i decided to throw some light upon the different pieces to the cake. Well, things had been tough lately but came up with really amazing thoughts. Some of which, I'll be sharing today. Lately i had been connecting well to a friend. A friend I made while my stay at Calcutta, India. Also known as the city of joy. Well, talking to this friend of mine, to whom i dedicate today's entry, i came up with a new secret ingredient of the cake. It was, to put it in my words sometime, its not a person who loves you, takes care of you, is your partner,talks to you the whole day, is what you need. sometimes, its the friend, a friend with whom you could talk to, with whom you could celebrate your happiness and cry yet laugh when your friend is sad, without having the tension of what the person will think. Having the faith that no matter what the situation would be, your friend would understand the situation and do the thing that is needed. Cause I have been friends with people who succumb under the fear that sometimes, their innocent stupidity of way of life may hurt the ones they love. So, unable  to change themselves  the live a secret true life and an open "moral" life. India, I guess is one of those countries, where you actually have to go through all this and you'd, at times still not understand, what went wrong. It happens, on contrary with what Oprah Winfrey said "only in India". Cause at the end of the day everyone is made of the same carbon derivative. Cause according to the Christian mythology, we are here from the same Adam and Eve.

Now, another thing I realised just a few days back, is there is a fine line between accepting a thing of moving on with it, or just letting things happen they way they do. We need to realise that at times, acceptance is not just living with it. Its also sometimes going into the thing if its troubling you. Changing it. The sooner you realise what to accept and what to let go, you'll realise that you have started to stay happy.

Alrighty readers....I guess its all for today. Believe me guys, and girls, you are gonna love it when i go to college. Goodnight. Taste the cake.

ENJOY.. :D

A BUDGET SPEECH.... GET AMAAAAAAZED... :D

It is Budget time again and next Thursday the finance minister will address Parliament with a speech which you will never hear except from my auto-wallah : Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Union Budget for 2013-2014. This is a pre-election year and the people expect give-aways and bribes-for-votes . But this is not going to happen in this Budget. So, here is my advice to citizens. Go home; on the way, pick up the garbage that you threw out the window. Wash the street. Teach your children about their duties, not just their rights. Tell them to spend an hour each week on their neighbourhood, learning democratic ‘habits of the heart’. 
India does not owe you cheap diesel, cooking gas or subsidized food. Nor does it owe you free electricity, make-work jobs, loan waivers, or even reservations. The only thing the state owes is good governance. This begins with law and order, as Nirbhaya has reminded us. By the way, none of you stopped to help her on the road. We also owe you public goods — roads, clean drinking water and other infrastructure; plus, functioning schools and health care. After that, it is up to you to work hard, pull yourself up, pay your taxes and make India a great nation. 
A few years ago India was the envy of the world. We were growing rapidly, creating masses of jobs, and lifting millions out of poverty. All this happened because of our reforms. All governments after 1991 kept reforming, albeit slowly, but even the slow reforms added up to make us the world’s second fastest growing economy. The reforms stopped after the UPA came to power because we made a false trade-off between equity and growth. Instead of investing on growth we started spending on the poor. We also stopped approving new projects. This has led to high inflation, low growth, and an unsustainable fiscal deficit, which threatens our nation’s sovereign rating. 
Madame Speaker, our growth numbers hide real misery that has been inflicted upon the Indian people as growth has plunged from almost 9 per cent to 5 per cent. One percentage point of GDP growth means roughly 15 lakh jobs; each direct job creates three indirect jobs; and each job supports a family of five. If you do the arithmetic, Madam, you will find that a four percentage point drop in GDP has brought pain and suffering to around 12,00,00,000 Indians. 
Here are some examples of what went wrong. If we had continued the momentum in road building after we came to power, we might have been looking at a different India. A recent study by Ejaz Ghani and others for the World Bank shows that the highways built or upgraded by the Golden Quadrilateral have brought enormous gains in new manufacturing activity, jobs and productivity within ten km of the new highways. 
Land acquisition has been a problem. But we have made it worse now. To acquire an acre of land under the new Land Acquisition Bill will “take at least two years as the proposal would have to pass through about a hundred hands... social assessment would be carried out and its report would be vetted by an Expert Group... there would be an R&R Committee and a National Monitoring Committee to pontificate over the reports of the junior committees... The bill is anti-farmer and anti-growth , but it is certainly pro-civil society,” says a respected member of the National Advisory Council. 
What keeps me awake at night is that many of our policies have corrupted the morals of our people. When we cancelled loans of Rs 60,000 crores in 2008, a farmer who had just repaid his loan, sadly said, ‘What is the use of being honest? Human society is based on trust. We learned as children to keep our promises and repay our debts. Tulsidas reminded us, ‘praan jaye par vachan na jaye’. Loan waivers wound our moral universe in the same way as ‘make-work’ jobs adulteration of diesel with kerosene, and the vast theft of PDS food. 
The economic rise of India has been the defining event of our lives. But we let it slip. Today I shall promise to push reforms and try to restore the old magic. With this, I hasten to conclude Madame Speaker.

LOVE AND YOUR LIFE

So it was this very fine occasion when i decided to write again. About a topic we are lectured about. About a word that has misconceptions. About a feeling that is thought to be a taboo for a guy, generally under 18, but in some cases or people even under 30. Or shall i better remark it as under the eyes of someone else. I decided to write on this topic as this was the week. I know i may be really small to say something about this topic. But lets try and be real. So, lets start with what i have received from people. Their thoughts on this beautiful feeling called love. So i had this friend in a counselor Rupa mom. I use to call her mom as she used to be like a mom to me. Mom always used to tell me. Love mean commitments. And commitments need to be fulfilled. To all those reading it, its a sincere request, never commit to a girl till you cant be sure of supporting her. Imagine, a situation, go forbid, it so happens that you don't fulfill the commitment of always preserving that sweet innocent smile on her face, would you feel nice, if  you saw your love in the position she is just because you committed to her? Even you wouldn't have stayed in a situation like this. Secondly guys, i believe, there is a misconception  "there shouldn't be any expectations or jealousy or possessiveness in love". I strongly disagree guys. If you never had any expectations then wont you miss the fun in surprises of those expectations getting true in front of your eyes? If you don't feel a little jealous about your love being with someone else then how will she get to know the feeling that someone really fears that she will leave and that someone wants that she remains he forever? If you never were possessive about your love, how could you even say that you possessed her? The feeling of possessiveness arises when you know something is yours and you want it to remain yours. Don't you fear that something you possess will be lost someday if you don't take the pride in possessing it? Today when i write this I mention the names of few people i dearly love. The flower of love doesn't alone bloom in between the fruits of lovers, it blooms between the fruits of every relation.
I love my mom and dad for bringing me up and doing things that are inexplicable with just a mere power of words.
I love my sisters, Kamal Gandhi, for being an awesome fun sister: and Manshi Gandhi for being the biggest live wire critic of my life.
I love my special jerks: Rimjhim Choudhry & Apoorva Sharma  for being almost everything outside my family to me.
I love my favourite jerks: Rishab Praveen Vikas. For everything they did for me. Did you? :P
A special thanks to Rupa mom and Sohinii Sanyal for being my inspiration and giving me inspiration respectively.
A special thanks to everyone. Everyone who has ever made a difference in my life.

FOR LOVE IS LIVING WITH A FAMILY. BE IT WITH ANYONE.

WORDS ARE ALL I HAVE...

A MUST WATCH............ :)

GOD......... have faith in him....

It so happened that I some how came up to read this post and had an utmost desire to share this......... :) ........ so please read and share... remember ... never loose faith...... so here it goes..........

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof: So you believe in God? 
Student: Absolutely, sir. 
Prof: Is God good? 
Student: Sure.Prof: Is God all-powerful? 
Student: Yes. 
Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't.. How is this God good then? Hmm? 

(Student is silent.) 
Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is God good? 
Student: Yes. 
Prof: Is Satan good? 
Student: No. 
Prof: Where does Satan come from? 
Student: From...God.. . 
Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world? 
Student: Yes. 
Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct? 
Student: Yes. 
Prof: So who created evil? 
(Student does not answer.) 

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they? 
Student: Yes, sir. 
Prof: So, who created them? 
(Student has no answer.) 

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God? 
Student: No, sir. 
Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God? 
Student: No, sir. 
Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter? 
Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't. 
Prof: Yet you still believe in Him? 
Student: Yes. 
Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son? 
Student: Nothing. I only have my faith. 
Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has. 
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat? 
Prof: Yes. 
Student: And is there such a thing as cold? 
Prof: Yes... 
Student: No sir. There isn't. (The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.) 
Student: : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold . Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it . 

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.) 
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness? 
Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness? 
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light......But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you? 
Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man? 
Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.. 
Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how? 
Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor.Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do. 
Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir? 
(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.) 
Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.) 
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain? (The class breaks out into laughter.) 
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain,sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir? 
(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable. ) 
Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son. 
Student: That is it sir... The link between man & God is FAITH . That is all that keeps things moving & alive... 

PS: I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. ..and if so...you'll probably want your friends/colleagues to enjoy the same...won't you?.... this is a true story, and the student was none other than......... .. 

APJ Abdul Kalam , the former president of India