India on Wheels !!

There was a time when I was a true follower of the following lines
"Almost all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character give him power "

Some engineer gave the Indians the power to drive and I tell you they have done pathetic..!!
I have yet to see a man or a woman drive the way a car or a bike should be driven.I can really say my Dad is an exception .Anyways leaving him aside ,lets talk about whats happening on the roads.. If you make a donkey drive car it will do better. How many of us have seen the cars meandering right n front of our eyes. How many of us have seen the bike zigzagging as if this was a street act ..Yet my friends we have not even 1 formula one racer and well India on bikes is complete no-no . All these Narayan Kartikayein and so so are to be found on Delhi roads only .
From jumping Red lights to U turns on no turns ,Indians on road are all over the place . An Engineer gives you a flyover and we really know how to make use of it .Use it for late night car and bike races and then end up getting killed or badly injured in accidents .
If urban people are racers villagers aren't doing any better you give them railway crossings and then end up squandering away their life just to save that two mins. I think even Warren Buffet wouldn't be that busy.
How many of us know that the white lines on the roads are not for decorations but actually they are for lane driving ..Sounds Greek right ..I know I know ..
I really wish that our drivers were exposed to some more stringent laws and if not atleast more strict law enforcement agencies.
Anyways drive safely ....

Whats wrong with the Media..!!??

The media is perhaps a contact point between the world and the common man .!! But time has come when we actually begin to question the efficiency of the media..!! How many of us are bugged with the non-sensical news channels.I am sure almost all…

Well the ignition point of this blog too lies there..the thought came after I saw this particular news channel boasts of a breaking news mind you “Breaking News”…Ashwathama is alive ..Gosh this would lead almost all the historians in this country to scratch their heads… and wonder ok are we really talking about the Ashwathama from the Mahabharat Era..

A boy falls in a ditch and over the next 48 hours all the news channel are hovering around shooting pictures rather than saving that poor child .I wonder how do camera men shoot these ghastly pictures because logically if you see an accident you would rather keep your camera down and save the grieved .

Anyways not all the media people are doing this bad. Barkha Dutt is doing a great job.. The Tehelka guy Tarun Tejpal had a good thought in his mind ofcourse though in India even the most corrupted find an alibi and the judiciary system tries its best to save even the worst .Thus Mr.Tejpal having a hell lot of time exposing the worst came as a no surprise to me .

When I was a young boy of say 12 or 13 my parents used to tell me “Son you got to watch the news channels to stay updated “ I wonder what will I tell my son perhaps” Son ,better stay away from the news channels ,because they show you the maximum violence and minimum of relevant news” .I wonder what good can any show like “Vardaat “ or “Jurm” do to the psyche of a young child .No wonder a class 8 kid shot down his own classmate in a Gurgaon school yesterday .

If electronic media is exposing young minds to hell lot of violence and crime ,how can print media stay any far behind . When I was back in St.George’s College ,Mussoorie ,guys used to get the Times Of India for the second page for reasons well known to the Y-Generation.! So well if some years down the line if I have to stop the daily news paper supply to my home, don’t take it as a money-saving measure rather take it as a embarrassment escaping method.!

Today the media can be defined in single word. “Gossip” and nothing else. Gone are the days when a newspaper could bring about a revolution in the country and when the top and the most intellectual minds in the country wrote articles, influential enough to drive men , women and children out of their houses to unite and fight for their motherland.

All that is left on the screens and paper are pretty faces with no substance to hold fort .

Has the world become so non-happening that the media has to resort to absurd news broadcasting to stay afloat. This is a question that the media people need to answer soon because Indian public is not as stupid as they think .Pretty face and flimsy covers wont stay afloat for long . The TRPs will soon be southward bound .So wake up … before its too late ..

As the Curtain falls...

Time goes we say ah !no alas! time stays we go ..only memories remain..its a been a while since I wrote something new ..thanks to the damn damn hectic schedule of the semester exams...

Now all that are left after these 10-11 days are nothing but groggy eyes ..some very tired bodies and not to forget some very interesting memories..

The great Civil Gang-up @ the Chai break @ 10 pm.. Realizing at 12 in the night before Transportation Engg paper that what we have been studying for the last 24 hrs has been a waste of time ..Imagine the cold shiver that runs down your spine.. Chuckles..

CAD was no better…till almost 10pm we were doing our own research work .What in the true words of Dr.R.K.Dutta is “making it click “….Before someone dropped the big bombshell.. Thanks to few dear friends the next few hours were like real spoon feeding ..

Funny seems to be the condition of parents too who ask you after you have slogged for say a day (nobody studies more than that in NIT) “Do you have an exam tomorrow.” ..Poor they ..Anyways not their fault too ..that’s the general state of any Hosteller. . The Curtain Raiser to the Exams were no better..The Pracs..Vivas were funny this time around … In Transportation ..I was bound for the wrong way..Absurd Numbers were dropping off..1355 for a 1370..2025 for a 2055.. Anyways 41/50 didn’t look bad at all in the end ..Though I still wonder how..

Some warriors were the saving grace during the Design Paper ..and I just simply love the IS-456:2000…For reasons well known to the Civil Engineering genre..

But what truly brought the “special” talents to the fore was Environmental Engg..I don’t know what I studied .I really don’t know what he asked and I seriously don’t know what I wrote …but I still managed to fill almost the entire booklet provided… Funny .. as it was nothing but a ‘Ghussi’ paper in true NIT-Lingo..

Anyways I shall be headed home soon ..But before that I better shave..uurrggssss….I don’t want to get kicked out...Chuckles….