i was in iit recently for my kvpy interviews and made a lot of observations. some relevant,some important and some utter bullshit.but i decided to put then down.and i hope many people will learn from them .........
1.iit is a foodies worst nightmare.the food there is among the worst you can find in the world.the paneer is liquid or in some undiscovered state of matter.idli,sambhar,dosas,,,u name it and the mess have left no stones unturned to make a screw-up of the delicacies.and how many days can u survive on pizzas and hotel food.10 days 15 days max...then u get fed up of it.with so many funds going why cant they cook up something nice?i got a theory of my own.if the mess at iit makes nice food,people will actually start eating instead of gobbling the food.this can cause more demand resulting in more production.the cooks will have to work more to cook more food.therefore its better to cook bad food and avoid unnecessary hardships and saving the supplies.
2.there is a misconception that iitians have an excellent life.hostels,living with friends,excellent sports facilities,huge campus,.........but its just novelty.after 4-5 months of the campus,no one goes to these sports facilities and gym .forget that,the student don't even talk to any other fellas
there is absolutely no social life in iit.this is the precisely why iit has festivals at such a large scale.
the festivals make students interact with people and improve their pathetic mental state.the daily routine of students there is wake up ,go to college,sit on computer ,eat, and sometimes study...no other activities.no wonder obesity cases have been springing up and suicide are occurring at iit.
iit students have become zombies.their lives are sucked by the Internet.god help them!
3.i also saw the textbooks and subjects which they use.the mumbai university and iit has almost the same subjects and even some same textbooks(those people also refer balguruswamy).then where does the difference lie.why is iit 100 times better then mumbai university.the difference lies in the mentality of the students.the students there learn for knowledge.they apply what they learn.they got to the core of the subject and learn because they want to.if they learn microprocessors they will try to do something with microprocessors.they update their knowledge.the people at mumbai university study for marks,people study for placements.even the professors here encourage this behaviour.we never apply what we learn.we just want go pass this four years.and the few people who actually want to learn something are suppressed.at the end of four years the student of m.u.cant even make a radio.robots to m.u.means a wooden plank and 2 motors...kids have better toys yaar....while iitians can actually design a fully autonomous robots.
during my stay i realised that how pathetic this mentality is and i decided never..no matter what the pressure,to go into such a mentality and become a stereotype engineer.i also want people to ask themselves...do you study for knowledge or just marks????
i had my say....my rest observations can be obtained by meeting me first hand...also u r free to discuss about this if you want to...
good night and good luck
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Saturday, December 01, 2007
ragging rage
dedicated to serpentine;
Indu Antos, promising student and a keen violinist, painter and poet, was 16 when she died after being ragged in her college in August 1998.
Nine years have gone by and Indu’s parents haven’t got justice against people who had harassed and traumatized her. Indu’s father C L Antos was a management consultant but now all his time is spent fighting in courts and her mother is still in shock. Indu Villa in Chalakudy town of Kerala is still in mourning.
Indu studied in the Class XI in Mumbai's prestigious Sophiya College. Her parents got a call on August 4, 1998 that their daughter had died after falling off the third floor of the college hostel.
Indu had been in the college for 14 days but in that short period she had written home that she was being abused and harassed by her seniors every day. C L Antos says Indu’s letters mention that she was forced to dance naked, smoke, take drugs and take part in “sexual perversions”.
“She complained and on her behalf I took up this matter with the authorities twice or thrice. That was a mistake. After I complained, Indu was summoned in front of the principal. The people Indu had accused—Melissa and company—of ragging threatened her. That day Indu called me and said she was ready to leave the college,” says C L Antos.
Indu last called home on August 3 and a day later she was dead. Sophia College, which has the backing of the Church, said it was a suicide but an autopsy confirmed she had 27 injuries before death.
Indu’s diary says Melissa D’Souza, a final year B.Sc. student, and Greta Collasco, a Class XII student, had ragged her. The High Court accepted as Indu’s diary as her dying declaration but that didn’t lead to arrests. C L Antos’s only victory was that the court ruled that Indu was murdered.
“Society has made us orphans; Sophia College has made me an orphan. She was the light of my family and now she is gone,” says C L Antos.
Ragging begins in schools
Sridhar would have understood the Antos family’s tragedy if he hadn’t lost his sanity after being savagely beaten and thrown off a train by school bullies.
Sridhar, 22, was a Class X student of the National School in Tambaram, Chennai, five years ago. He abruptly stopped going to school one day and would lock himself up in his room and not talk to anyone.
He left home after lunch one day and was found hours later in a hospital with a hand cut off. It was then that his family came to know that Sridhar had stopped school because he feared bullies who ragged him every day.
The day he was found in the hospital the school bullies had caught him near a railway station and beat him up after pulling him inside a train. When the train started moving, the bullies threw him out and Sridhar fell on the tracks unconscious.
Thirty minutes later Sridhar woke up to find his hand ripped off and a train speeding towards him. He was bleeding but managed to pick himself and walk to a station.
Doctors later found that he had lost hearing in one ear too.
Sridhar lost his mind after that day. A promising young man now mumbles: "I don't like my name; Manoj is my name. Tamil has destroyed me—Spanish, Italian all good. They laugh at Tamil” and keeps asking his grandmother what happened to his arm.
Any mention of school or books gets him agitated. "I don't want to go to school, don't like it," he says.
Sridhar’s tormentors fled Chennai after that day and the police has now closed the file. His grandparents, who look after him, are old and unaware that their grandson is severely traumatised.
Indu and Sridhar’s tormentors were young but psychologists have long warned that ragging or vindictive behaviour is becoming common in schools.
“There is no age for this. We have got cases where the ragger was eight,” says psychologist Aruna Broota.
Don’t crib, don’t snitch School or college, obscure institute or prestigious IITs and IIMs, ragging has become a norm. In 2003, over a hundred new students or ‘freshers’ were stripped naked and paraded in the corridors of IIT Delhi’s Kumaon Hostel.
ragging has taken on a “sexual connotation” and a “pathological connotation. “You are trying to torture somebody by forcing him to undress, pulling his private parts—you are trying to ridicule somebody and you absolutely enjoying torturing.”
Rajendra Nikunj was a student in smit college and was harassed and tortured for six months.
Nikunj, who lives in Bhopal, almost went insane and it took him three years to recover from the trauma. “They used to forcibly take us in the rooms and beat us,” says Nikunj, who hinted he was molestation too.
Nikunj’s father, Ran Mohan Ram, admits he knew his son was being tortured but asked him to continue at the college for a better career. “I kept telling him to do whatever they asked him to. After all his future was at stake,” says Ram.
Nikunj was in psychiatric care for over two years and changed college after recovering. “I wish that in future no student faces or suffers what I had to go through,” he says.
The Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission ordered a probe into the case, but Nikunj and his father gave written statements to the enquiry denying any incident of ragging. Ram says he doesn’t want his son's trauma to play out in public.
And its not just parents, even students are wary of reporting ragging cases. Akshay, an undergraduate student, too believes that one must not snitch.
“If you do that, for the next few years you will be known as a person who snitched. I think your self-esteem and respect in the college—all of it—would go for a six. There is a social stigma to complaining about ragging,” says Akshay.
It’s no excuse Hostel space is considered to be a completely private domain. The biggest mistake a fresher can make is to complain to authorities, like the warden or the principal, who are considered outsiders.
Ragging cases are increasing because of this don’t-snitch mentality. Andhra Pradesh has reported the highest number of ragging cases (23) in the last years out: 21 cases were made public a landmark Supreme Court ruling on ragging in 2001. In UP, 21 out of 22 cases have come in the last six years. In West Bengal 19 ragging cases have been reported after the 2001 ruling.
The common excuse for ragging is that it helps break the ice between students but that argument is now considered indefensible and the Supreme Court has forbade the practice.
Some campuses now ‘break the ice’ between students through induction programmes and counselling. IIT Kanpur has a proactive induction programme that makes new students feel at home, not humiliated.
IIT Kanpur’s programme 'ensures' a 'zero-ragging' environment and asks seniors to be friends and mentors to new students. But such peer interaction is rare in other institutes. The Supreme Court’s ruling holds institutions accountable for ragging, so though colleges may warn students there is no guarantee that trouble-makers will be kept at bay.(dont ask me whether its working or not,,,u all know the answer)
T Bhaskar Rao, president of the Sri Lok Bandhu Educational Society, says his educational institutes are very serious against ragging and have committees to keep a watch. Rajendra, 18, wishes Rao had been as sincere last year. Rajendra joined a course in the Thandra Paparaya Engineering College, which is run by the Rao’s society, in Vijaynagaram in 2005.
Nine days later, Rajendra’s life was ruined. Drunken seniors took on Rajendra, angry that he had not turned up for a ragging session. An ugly fight started and Rajendra slipped off the roof and fell on high-voltage power cables. He lost a hand and damaged a leg.
The incident occurred five yrs after the SC judgment and three years after his own college had constituted an anti-ragging committee. “When I was in hospital some parents told me how they lost their children due to ragging. Seniors cut off a student’s ears. Many families were too poor to do any thing against culprits,” says Rajendra, who has now left the engineering college.
Ragging hasn’t defeated Rajendra though. “I've lost my hand and I have a damaged leg but I have decided to cope with the situation. Everybody has 100 percent but I've only 50 percent. But I will continue to utilise that 50 percent and aim for 100 percent,” he says.
People say ragging is harmless fun—it wasn’t for Indu, Sridhar and Rajendra.
Indu Antos, promising student and a keen violinist, painter and poet, was 16 when she died after being ragged in her college in August 1998.
Nine years have gone by and Indu’s parents haven’t got justice against people who had harassed and traumatized her. Indu’s father C L Antos was a management consultant but now all his time is spent fighting in courts and her mother is still in shock. Indu Villa in Chalakudy town of Kerala is still in mourning.
Indu studied in the Class XI in Mumbai's prestigious Sophiya College. Her parents got a call on August 4, 1998 that their daughter had died after falling off the third floor of the college hostel.
Indu had been in the college for 14 days but in that short period she had written home that she was being abused and harassed by her seniors every day. C L Antos says Indu’s letters mention that she was forced to dance naked, smoke, take drugs and take part in “sexual perversions”.
“She complained and on her behalf I took up this matter with the authorities twice or thrice. That was a mistake. After I complained, Indu was summoned in front of the principal. The people Indu had accused—Melissa and company—of ragging threatened her. That day Indu called me and said she was ready to leave the college,” says C L Antos.
Indu last called home on August 3 and a day later she was dead. Sophia College, which has the backing of the Church, said it was a suicide but an autopsy confirmed she had 27 injuries before death.
Indu’s diary says Melissa D’Souza, a final year B.Sc. student, and Greta Collasco, a Class XII student, had ragged her. The High Court accepted as Indu’s diary as her dying declaration but that didn’t lead to arrests. C L Antos’s only victory was that the court ruled that Indu was murdered.
“Society has made us orphans; Sophia College has made me an orphan. She was the light of my family and now she is gone,” says C L Antos.
Ragging begins in schools
Sridhar would have understood the Antos family’s tragedy if he hadn’t lost his sanity after being savagely beaten and thrown off a train by school bullies.
Sridhar, 22, was a Class X student of the National School in Tambaram, Chennai, five years ago. He abruptly stopped going to school one day and would lock himself up in his room and not talk to anyone.
He left home after lunch one day and was found hours later in a hospital with a hand cut off. It was then that his family came to know that Sridhar had stopped school because he feared bullies who ragged him every day.
The day he was found in the hospital the school bullies had caught him near a railway station and beat him up after pulling him inside a train. When the train started moving, the bullies threw him out and Sridhar fell on the tracks unconscious.
Thirty minutes later Sridhar woke up to find his hand ripped off and a train speeding towards him. He was bleeding but managed to pick himself and walk to a station.
Doctors later found that he had lost hearing in one ear too.
Sridhar lost his mind after that day. A promising young man now mumbles: "I don't like my name; Manoj is my name. Tamil has destroyed me—Spanish, Italian all good. They laugh at Tamil” and keeps asking his grandmother what happened to his arm.
Any mention of school or books gets him agitated. "I don't want to go to school, don't like it," he says.
Sridhar’s tormentors fled Chennai after that day and the police has now closed the file. His grandparents, who look after him, are old and unaware that their grandson is severely traumatised.
Indu and Sridhar’s tormentors were young but psychologists have long warned that ragging or vindictive behaviour is becoming common in schools.
“There is no age for this. We have got cases where the ragger was eight,” says psychologist Aruna Broota.
Don’t crib, don’t snitch School or college, obscure institute or prestigious IITs and IIMs, ragging has become a norm. In 2003, over a hundred new students or ‘freshers’ were stripped naked and paraded in the corridors of IIT Delhi’s Kumaon Hostel.
ragging has taken on a “sexual connotation” and a “pathological connotation. “You are trying to torture somebody by forcing him to undress, pulling his private parts—you are trying to ridicule somebody and you absolutely enjoying torturing.”
Rajendra Nikunj was a student in smit college and was harassed and tortured for six months.
Nikunj, who lives in Bhopal, almost went insane and it took him three years to recover from the trauma. “They used to forcibly take us in the rooms and beat us,” says Nikunj, who hinted he was molestation too.
Nikunj’s father, Ran Mohan Ram, admits he knew his son was being tortured but asked him to continue at the college for a better career. “I kept telling him to do whatever they asked him to. After all his future was at stake,” says Ram.
Nikunj was in psychiatric care for over two years and changed college after recovering. “I wish that in future no student faces or suffers what I had to go through,” he says.
The Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission ordered a probe into the case, but Nikunj and his father gave written statements to the enquiry denying any incident of ragging. Ram says he doesn’t want his son's trauma to play out in public.
And its not just parents, even students are wary of reporting ragging cases. Akshay, an undergraduate student, too believes that one must not snitch.
“If you do that, for the next few years you will be known as a person who snitched. I think your self-esteem and respect in the college—all of it—would go for a six. There is a social stigma to complaining about ragging,” says Akshay.
It’s no excuse Hostel space is considered to be a completely private domain. The biggest mistake a fresher can make is to complain to authorities, like the warden or the principal, who are considered outsiders.
Ragging cases are increasing because of this don’t-snitch mentality. Andhra Pradesh has reported the highest number of ragging cases (23) in the last years out: 21 cases were made public a landmark Supreme Court ruling on ragging in 2001. In UP, 21 out of 22 cases have come in the last six years. In West Bengal 19 ragging cases have been reported after the 2001 ruling.
The common excuse for ragging is that it helps break the ice between students but that argument is now considered indefensible and the Supreme Court has forbade the practice.
Some campuses now ‘break the ice’ between students through induction programmes and counselling. IIT Kanpur has a proactive induction programme that makes new students feel at home, not humiliated.
IIT Kanpur’s programme 'ensures' a 'zero-ragging' environment and asks seniors to be friends and mentors to new students. But such peer interaction is rare in other institutes. The Supreme Court’s ruling holds institutions accountable for ragging, so though colleges may warn students there is no guarantee that trouble-makers will be kept at bay.(dont ask me whether its working or not,,,u all know the answer)
T Bhaskar Rao, president of the Sri Lok Bandhu Educational Society, says his educational institutes are very serious against ragging and have committees to keep a watch. Rajendra, 18, wishes Rao had been as sincere last year. Rajendra joined a course in the Thandra Paparaya Engineering College, which is run by the Rao’s society, in Vijaynagaram in 2005.
Nine days later, Rajendra’s life was ruined. Drunken seniors took on Rajendra, angry that he had not turned up for a ragging session. An ugly fight started and Rajendra slipped off the roof and fell on high-voltage power cables. He lost a hand and damaged a leg.
The incident occurred five yrs after the SC judgment and three years after his own college had constituted an anti-ragging committee. “When I was in hospital some parents told me how they lost their children due to ragging. Seniors cut off a student’s ears. Many families were too poor to do any thing against culprits,” says Rajendra, who has now left the engineering college.
Ragging hasn’t defeated Rajendra though. “I've lost my hand and I have a damaged leg but I have decided to cope with the situation. Everybody has 100 percent but I've only 50 percent. But I will continue to utilise that 50 percent and aim for 100 percent,” he says.
People say ragging is harmless fun—it wasn’t for Indu, Sridhar and Rajendra.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
reflections on words
world weary ,i decided to put some cool quoted up on display for now.blogs coming up pretty soon.till then reflect on the quotes.------------------------
Einstein was right. Time is relative to the observer. When you're looking down the barrel of a gun, time slows down. Your whole life flashes by, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you could live a lifetime in that split second
There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?'. When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you. It would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.
the past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it's like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off.
The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you peice it together, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free.
Throw the rules out the window, odds are you'll go that way too
The rain was comin' down like all the angels in heaven decided to take a piss at the same time.
When you're in a situation like mine, you can only think in metaphors.
When entertainment turns into a surreal reflection of your life, you're a lucky man if you can laugh at the joke. Luck and I weren't on speaking terms.
Your past has a way of sneaking up on you. You'll hear broken echoes of it everywhere, like a bad replay. You'll get mad at everyone for reminding you about it, even if it's all in your head.
Death is inevitable. Our fear of it makes us play safe, blocks out emotion. It's a losing game. Without passion you are already dead.
The trouble with wanting something is the fear of losing it, or never getting it. The thought makes you weak.
The genius of the hole: no matter how much time you spend climbing out, you can still fall back down in an instant.
Closing your eyes forces you to look at the darkness inside.
All this time we got the fable of Sleeping Beauty wrong. The prince didn't kiss her to wake her up. No one who slept for a hundred years is likely to wake up. It was the other way round. He kisses her to wake himself up from the nightmare that has brought him there.
I'm hard to remember, but I'm impossible to forget.
There's genius everywhere, but until they turn pro, it's like popcorn in the pan. Some pop... some don't.
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good night and good luck...
Einstein was right. Time is relative to the observer. When you're looking down the barrel of a gun, time slows down. Your whole life flashes by, heartbreak and scars. Stay with it, and you could live a lifetime in that split second
There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?'. When you look back and see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you. It would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.
the past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it's like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off.
The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you peice it together, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free.
Throw the rules out the window, odds are you'll go that way too
The rain was comin' down like all the angels in heaven decided to take a piss at the same time.
When you're in a situation like mine, you can only think in metaphors.
When entertainment turns into a surreal reflection of your life, you're a lucky man if you can laugh at the joke. Luck and I weren't on speaking terms.
Your past has a way of sneaking up on you. You'll hear broken echoes of it everywhere, like a bad replay. You'll get mad at everyone for reminding you about it, even if it's all in your head.
Death is inevitable. Our fear of it makes us play safe, blocks out emotion. It's a losing game. Without passion you are already dead.
The trouble with wanting something is the fear of losing it, or never getting it. The thought makes you weak.
The genius of the hole: no matter how much time you spend climbing out, you can still fall back down in an instant.
Closing your eyes forces you to look at the darkness inside.
All this time we got the fable of Sleeping Beauty wrong. The prince didn't kiss her to wake her up. No one who slept for a hundred years is likely to wake up. It was the other way round. He kisses her to wake himself up from the nightmare that has brought him there.
I'm hard to remember, but I'm impossible to forget.
There's genius everywhere, but until they turn pro, it's like popcorn in the pan. Some pop... some don't.
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good night and good luck...
Monday, November 26, 2007
AN APPEAL TO READERS
please suggest to me some topics to write about.if they appeal to me i will surely write bout them and we can even have discusssions about it.
headbandin' frenzy
this one is for all the metal fans out there...keep headbanging!!!!
Metal is not a genre of music which you bang your head to.. It's not what others (outsiders) think: just distorted and high music with (sometimes) weird or odd vocals.. It's not even close! Metal is one of the most genre's of music that is thought through, in both music and rhythm.. It's another world which takes you away from all the agony and pain you go through.. It also expresses the inner feeling of one's self.. People get metal wrong!! And judge it from the outside perspective.. They think it's all about Satan, hell and other related topics. I do not deny that most of the amazing songs consume those as lyrical themes.. But we must also remember bands which consider beauty, love nature, politics, war, life experiences and other related subjects as lyrical themes.. Metal is metal, death or thrash! Black or power! Speed or doom! Gothic or industrial.. (Etc)! Metal is passion. Metal isn’t just music. Not just looks and actually not looks at all! Metal is a life style, just like a religion! It's something you stick to and get attached to! It is actually really hard to understand! Just to point something out, Satanism is not a part of metal, neither "created" by metal heads.. Metal heads are normal people, except deeper, compassionate and smart.. They are poetic and have a great sense of music.. Metal is a world of feeing and emotions.. From depression to bliss! From love to loneliness.. From nothing to everything.. It's what speaks your mind. Metal is also known as overwhelming, as when someone becomes metal or interested in the beauty and glory of it, it over whelms him.. But by time, he'll snap out of it.. No matter how harsh and violent some of the lyrics might be, most of them have a deeper meaning. Example, when someone is hurt and insecure, that person hides all those feelings with words of hate and strength.. What really pisses me off is poser and wannabe's(1 gbs) which see things and do them without knowing what they mean.. They don't know what they're even listening to, memorize a few genre's and bands.. Wear black all the time and call themselves metal heads!! They're metal from without, not within! You don't even have to dress black to be metal or Goth! You can wear white for all I care! But if you're metal from within, that's all you need! It's all from inside of you.. You can never be it if it's not from inside of you.. And if it's just from without, then you're a poser or wannabe! Yes, the truth at last!! What I despise about people (posers, wannabe's and outsiders) is that if they don’t get metal, they make up their own explanation, assumes things, believe whatever they made-up, don't bother to seek and learn the truth and if the truth was said they would say it was a lie; depending on posers which they think are real metal heads to prove their point! No one really gets metal! Which off course are shallow people. Metal is an [not necessarily] an underground society.. Where all REAL metal heads are equal to one another.. Off course judged by not only the knowledge of metal itself, but also politics and other important issues that others do not consider necessary! Unfortunately metal is the most unappreciated, the most misunderstood, deep and interesting yet! Though ignorance is what makes it seem so evil, dark, Satanist, melancholic, depressing ever. Metal is like love, where people abuse it! Thus, we who are a part of it, suffer the consequences of other's arrogance.. A world far from reality, metal is known to us as heaven.. Where all the physical and verbal abuse just disappears.. Where all the hate and despite that's triggered up on us doesn't matter.. Where communication and medication of the soul is encountered and conquered.. And to some, an escape from reality.. it is a commitment that'll dwell till eternity, not the looks which posers focus on, but the soul, the spirit, the life that's in it.. We listen to metal because we feel it.. Others don't listen to metal because they do not even get what a word means! And defiantly don't feel it!
Posers and wannabe's point at others ,which most likely are real metal heads, and call them the poser or wannabe's to keep the attention from them.. They listen to metal to seem different.. To have the attention they don't have, and frankly all that is just pathetic!! All I can say to all posers, wannabe's and outsiders is: "If you don’t get metal, don’t judge or talk about it, for you are to stupid to commit such an act.. And if you are not metal to begin with, then don’t try! Stop posing and trying for it is all worthless, and you will not win in the end! If you don’t feel it or if its from without you, just cut it out! Because if you are not something to start with, then you never will be! And if you don’t have the heart for it, then its just a dream that'll never come true!!" If you are a real metal head, my heart is filled with gratitude and I am absolutely am proud to see people like that... And all those/you posers and wannabe's sop posing and trying, it's just pointless. And all you who aren’t metal, don’t judge before you know, for you are ignorant and pathetic to us..
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
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Metal is not a genre of music which you bang your head to.. It's not what others (outsiders) think: just distorted and high music with (sometimes) weird or odd vocals.. It's not even close! Metal is one of the most genre's of music that is thought through, in both music and rhythm.. It's another world which takes you away from all the agony and pain you go through.. It also expresses the inner feeling of one's self.. People get metal wrong!! And judge it from the outside perspective.. They think it's all about Satan, hell and other related topics. I do not deny that most of the amazing songs consume those as lyrical themes.. But we must also remember bands which consider beauty, love nature, politics, war, life experiences and other related subjects as lyrical themes.. Metal is metal, death or thrash! Black or power! Speed or doom! Gothic or industrial.. (Etc)! Metal is passion. Metal isn’t just music. Not just looks and actually not looks at all! Metal is a life style, just like a religion! It's something you stick to and get attached to! It is actually really hard to understand! Just to point something out, Satanism is not a part of metal, neither "created" by metal heads.. Metal heads are normal people, except deeper, compassionate and smart.. They are poetic and have a great sense of music.. Metal is a world of feeing and emotions.. From depression to bliss! From love to loneliness.. From nothing to everything.. It's what speaks your mind. Metal is also known as overwhelming, as when someone becomes metal or interested in the beauty and glory of it, it over whelms him.. But by time, he'll snap out of it.. No matter how harsh and violent some of the lyrics might be, most of them have a deeper meaning. Example, when someone is hurt and insecure, that person hides all those feelings with words of hate and strength.. What really pisses me off is poser and wannabe's(1 gbs) which see things and do them without knowing what they mean.. They don't know what they're even listening to, memorize a few genre's and bands.. Wear black all the time and call themselves metal heads!! They're metal from without, not within! You don't even have to dress black to be metal or Goth! You can wear white for all I care! But if you're metal from within, that's all you need! It's all from inside of you.. You can never be it if it's not from inside of you.. And if it's just from without, then you're a poser or wannabe! Yes, the truth at last!! What I despise about people (posers, wannabe's and outsiders) is that if they don’t get metal, they make up their own explanation, assumes things, believe whatever they made-up, don't bother to seek and learn the truth and if the truth was said they would say it was a lie; depending on posers which they think are real metal heads to prove their point! No one really gets metal! Which off course are shallow people. Metal is an [not necessarily] an underground society.. Where all REAL metal heads are equal to one another.. Off course judged by not only the knowledge of metal itself, but also politics and other important issues that others do not consider necessary! Unfortunately metal is the most unappreciated, the most misunderstood, deep and interesting yet! Though ignorance is what makes it seem so evil, dark, Satanist, melancholic, depressing ever. Metal is like love, where people abuse it! Thus, we who are a part of it, suffer the consequences of other's arrogance.. A world far from reality, metal is known to us as heaven.. Where all the physical and verbal abuse just disappears.. Where all the hate and despite that's triggered up on us doesn't matter.. Where communication and medication of the soul is encountered and conquered.. And to some, an escape from reality.. it is a commitment that'll dwell till eternity, not the looks which posers focus on, but the soul, the spirit, the life that's in it.. We listen to metal because we feel it.. Others don't listen to metal because they do not even get what a word means! And defiantly don't feel it!
Posers and wannabe's point at others ,which most likely are real metal heads, and call them the poser or wannabe's to keep the attention from them.. They listen to metal to seem different.. To have the attention they don't have, and frankly all that is just pathetic!! All I can say to all posers, wannabe's and outsiders is: "If you don’t get metal, don’t judge or talk about it, for you are to stupid to commit such an act.. And if you are not metal to begin with, then don’t try! Stop posing and trying for it is all worthless, and you will not win in the end! If you don’t feel it or if its from without you, just cut it out! Because if you are not something to start with, then you never will be! And if you don’t have the heart for it, then its just a dream that'll never come true!!" If you are a real metal head, my heart is filled with gratitude and I am absolutely am proud to see people like that... And all those/you posers and wannabe's sop posing and trying, it's just pointless. And all you who aren’t metal, don’t judge before you know, for you are ignorant and pathetic to us..
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
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the inconvenient truth
i may get a lot of hate mails for this...but have to write it..its a sensitive topic and people shouldnt get me wrong.i am not anti islam nor do i blame muslims for anything.infact one of best friends are muslims.but this is the truth and my intepretation about it...
It is almost one year that the Sachar Committee report has been published and created so much noise in and out of media. The seven member high level committee constituted by UPA government and headed by Mr. Rajinder Sachar gave a comprehensive and widely accepted report on the socio-economic and educational condition of India’s largest minority community i.e., Muslims. As was expected this report generated public debate but was unfortunately masked by that of Indo-US nuclear deal. It is an achievement of UPA government, which must be appreciated. But, what has it done since the report has been published?
Unfortunately, so far the government has failed materialize any of its recommendations as has been the case of many such reports. The report has been hailed by most of the parties except for Right wing BJP and its patron RSS, which labeled it as a yet another appeasement policy by the Congress Party.
The truth is Sachar Committee report is the first systematic study of Muslims in independent India. The committee mainly dealt with core issues related to security, equity and identity of Muslim community. It sought detailed presentations from 13 states across India about the perceptions about Muslims; the size and distribution of the population; indices of the community’s income, health, education, poverty, standards of living etc. The report concludes that the condition of Muslims is no better than that of OBC’s and not worse than SC’s and ST’s. To sum up; their overall socio-economic condition is abysmal when compare to majority population.
How severe is the contrast? In India Muslims constitute 13.4% of the total population, almost equal to total population of Pakistan. But read the following figures as reported by the committee. Only 4.9% are represented in government jobs, 3.2% in elite Civil Services, 3.4% of its population has completed graduation whereas it’s 15.9% for Hindus; its average literacy rate is 59% whereas national average is 64.5%. Other figures also speak of the same situation.
But the fundamental question is; why they are in so a pathetic condition?
Let us be prompt. We are fortunate to have a largely peaceful Muslims in India. Yes, there are unfortunate incidents in our national history, but there is always an unseen hand behind such perpetrations. Yes, they are always caught in many crimes, but the problem is socio-economic rather than religious. But see the other side of the story. Who is your favorite bollwood hero? Who’s your favorite musician? Who is your favorite cricketer? And favorite tennis star? Majority answer would point to a person for this community. How did these people achieve these things? Why then its large proportion suffers from social and economic illness.
Are Hindus responsible for Muslims’ sorry state of affairs? The answer is a big NO. Is there any instance of Hindu rulers ever humiliating or discriminating against Muslims prior to 1946? The fact is we were ruled by Muslim kingdoms from the time of Mahmud of Ghazni to Aurangazeb.
Even this assessment will not satisfy the question, as these rulers were mainly despots and cared little about their subjects.
The answer lies with the community itself; their culture, their practices, their social orientations, their inclination to segregate from the mainstream and to a large extent to their narrow outlook and over affinity to religion . This may seem little harsh but my personal experience may quell some skepticism.
The problem lies mainly with the rural Muslims. Who when not able to make living , migrate to cities and form large proportion of people dwelling in urban slums and pose newer problems there. The popular perception about Muslims is that they prefer madrassas to schools. But the fact is only 3 – 5 % of Muslims prefer that. Why then is their children are uneducated and illiterate?
I studied in a government aided school . I can hardly recall 6 or 7 Muslim students out of 400 plus in my school days. In fact we din’t have a single Muslim friend in my whole class. But how does it explain the core problem?
Yes, the answer lies here itself. My school, popularly called st.pius is one among hundred such schools in India. They are funded by maharastra state Govt and provide free and best education in India to students. I was one lucky among them. But why did my Muslim friends did not make it then? There was absolutely no discrimination against them anywhere. The school from which I passed was a modest school which took Rs-500 per year. I remember that some Muslim families spent double the money on Mutton and chicken per week but didn’t send their children to schools. If family was or is not inclined to educate their children, where it is easily accessible even to the poorest families, how come social and economic empowerment is possible?
Only good education can save them. It also applies to other sections of the society. Today their children are caught picking pockets, quarreling on the streets, committing petty crimes. Who is responsible for this?
It is almost one year that the Sachar Committee report has been published and created so much noise in and out of media. The seven member high level committee constituted by UPA government and headed by Mr. Rajinder Sachar gave a comprehensive and widely accepted report on the socio-economic and educational condition of India’s largest minority community i.e., Muslims. As was expected this report generated public debate but was unfortunately masked by that of Indo-US nuclear deal. It is an achievement of UPA government, which must be appreciated. But, what has it done since the report has been published?
Unfortunately, so far the government has failed materialize any of its recommendations as has been the case of many such reports. The report has been hailed by most of the parties except for Right wing BJP and its patron RSS, which labeled it as a yet another appeasement policy by the Congress Party.
The truth is Sachar Committee report is the first systematic study of Muslims in independent India. The committee mainly dealt with core issues related to security, equity and identity of Muslim community. It sought detailed presentations from 13 states across India about the perceptions about Muslims; the size and distribution of the population; indices of the community’s income, health, education, poverty, standards of living etc. The report concludes that the condition of Muslims is no better than that of OBC’s and not worse than SC’s and ST’s. To sum up; their overall socio-economic condition is abysmal when compare to majority population.
How severe is the contrast? In India Muslims constitute 13.4% of the total population, almost equal to total population of Pakistan. But read the following figures as reported by the committee. Only 4.9% are represented in government jobs, 3.2% in elite Civil Services, 3.4% of its population has completed graduation whereas it’s 15.9% for Hindus; its average literacy rate is 59% whereas national average is 64.5%. Other figures also speak of the same situation.
But the fundamental question is; why they are in so a pathetic condition?
Let us be prompt. We are fortunate to have a largely peaceful Muslims in India. Yes, there are unfortunate incidents in our national history, but there is always an unseen hand behind such perpetrations. Yes, they are always caught in many crimes, but the problem is socio-economic rather than religious. But see the other side of the story. Who is your favorite bollwood hero? Who’s your favorite musician? Who is your favorite cricketer? And favorite tennis star? Majority answer would point to a person for this community. How did these people achieve these things? Why then its large proportion suffers from social and economic illness.
Are Hindus responsible for Muslims’ sorry state of affairs? The answer is a big NO. Is there any instance of Hindu rulers ever humiliating or discriminating against Muslims prior to 1946? The fact is we were ruled by Muslim kingdoms from the time of Mahmud of Ghazni to Aurangazeb.
Even this assessment will not satisfy the question, as these rulers were mainly despots and cared little about their subjects.
The answer lies with the community itself; their culture, their practices, their social orientations, their inclination to segregate from the mainstream and to a large extent to their narrow outlook and over affinity to religion . This may seem little harsh but my personal experience may quell some skepticism.
The problem lies mainly with the rural Muslims. Who when not able to make living , migrate to cities and form large proportion of people dwelling in urban slums and pose newer problems there. The popular perception about Muslims is that they prefer madrassas to schools. But the fact is only 3 – 5 % of Muslims prefer that. Why then is their children are uneducated and illiterate?
I studied in a government aided school . I can hardly recall 6 or 7 Muslim students out of 400 plus in my school days. In fact we din’t have a single Muslim friend in my whole class. But how does it explain the core problem?
Yes, the answer lies here itself. My school, popularly called st.pius is one among hundred such schools in India. They are funded by maharastra state Govt and provide free and best education in India to students. I was one lucky among them. But why did my Muslim friends did not make it then? There was absolutely no discrimination against them anywhere. The school from which I passed was a modest school which took Rs-500 per year. I remember that some Muslim families spent double the money on Mutton and chicken per week but didn’t send their children to schools. If family was or is not inclined to educate their children, where it is easily accessible even to the poorest families, how come social and economic empowerment is possible?
Only good education can save them. It also applies to other sections of the society. Today their children are caught picking pockets, quarreling on the streets, committing petty crimes. Who is responsible for this?
anecdotes and scraps
recently i saw a head of a dead deer hanging on the wall of one of my friends house.i asked him why he hanged it.he was like"its such a beautiful creature u see;"....yeah sure,i find my mother really beautiful but i have no intentions to hang her dead head.i just fail to get your brilliant logic of things
recently everyone in first year engineering experienced what is called as 'submissions'.and boy what a bloody nightmare was that.i must have used more ink in those few days then i did while writing notes in all lectures.i was pondering what the hell is the use of all these submissions.everyone knows that everyone copies the assignments and journals,so the purpose of revision and knowledge is not served.instead the time wasted in writing these stuff could have been used to study....maybe submissions are the revenge mechanism used by teachers.."you bunk my lectures,i will see you during submissions"the teachers get a pleasure seeing students sitting in class and library ,scraching nibs on the paper.thats the only time library i sfull of students and alive.a sudden surge of respect grow among students for teachers....i congratulate the teachers for thinking and implementing this revenge mechanism...revenge is sweet...
also these submissions provide income for colleges in terms of junk and raddi.the moral of the story is...we screw the lecturers case for 6 months and he gets back at us in 1 week...a fair trade;
recently everyone in first year engineering experienced what is called as 'submissions'.and boy what a bloody nightmare was that.i must have used more ink in those few days then i did while writing notes in all lectures.i was pondering what the hell is the use of all these submissions.everyone knows that everyone copies the assignments and journals,so the purpose of revision and knowledge is not served.instead the time wasted in writing these stuff could have been used to study....maybe submissions are the revenge mechanism used by teachers.."you bunk my lectures,i will see you during submissions"the teachers get a pleasure seeing students sitting in class and library ,scraching nibs on the paper.thats the only time library i sfull of students and alive.a sudden surge of respect grow among students for teachers....i congratulate the teachers for thinking and implementing this revenge mechanism...revenge is sweet...
also these submissions provide income for colleges in terms of junk and raddi.the moral of the story is...we screw the lecturers case for 6 months and he gets back at us in 1 week...a fair trade;
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