Talk of the town n the newspaper...

Pakisthan and Democracy
the need is much more than will... political, military, judicial n what not... maybe the 7% population is right to a certain extend. what Pak need is a dictator with political will for democracy. but when foreign aid is coming in, their goals are shifting away because of the tags and conditions attached with that aid... thats helplessness...

for binding climate target
emission intensity is much more stringent than per capita emission. there India's advantage is the population. the talks of we switching over to renewable and less polluting fuel sources are silly in the sense that it's contribution in percentage might not even cross single digit figure.


when talking about the emission cuts by other countries there are things to learn. all the measures to increase efficiency and going green are just REDUCING the overall effect. majority of the people who speak of climate change maintains their "status" "high" but for what... in the modern world subjects are working hard to get the status of the king. or at least the status of the class upper to them. we have seen Mr.Pachauri and Al Gore "flying" around the globe to make people aware of the warming mechanism. thats only the very obvious and visible contradictions of the new generation thoughts. all these happens in the time when no one like preaching and we very well know that the awareness programs can bring in change only in the long run, especially in the matters related to changing habits and climate change...

Is it just Sex or Materialism as we elegantly put....

the following paras contain my first hand experience and few thoughts and worries...

Right now personally i'm in a not so secured position in any way though i've been given a couple of years more, exclusively to pursue civil service thing. I consider myself just a student n not an independent guy for the simple reason that i'm not settled in life as such with a job. All these make it my duty as to do the learning process well n do all that which would get me to a well settled life. So thats the background...

From my Bangalore days I've been seeing guys desperate for girls. Its the thought that a decent job in the hand and almost full freedom dragging guys into this. It was all about sex for sure. Otherwise those relations would have lasted at least a few years. When I talked to a few they were having the view that its not about sex but the material side is most influencing. They were right. Why should a female of our age settle down with someone in the same age group who are all struggling to settle down in life. Thats where age difference in the case of traditional marriages comes in handy.

In those cases what I want to find out is why these females are experimenting. or is it just the ignorance. or so called stupidity. none of those females involved knows... actually only god knows. initial years is the time when both boys n girls fly around... that time i say sex is the thing. when it is in the up-stairs who on earth can stop someone in the early twenties.

Coming back to the hunt for females... I was happy with the studies from the time I started preparing for Civil Services. With God's grace I could make myself busy with classes, notes, magazines, test n everything. I met a few fine girls over there in Delhi in various coaching centers. I think I was trying to be a psycho student. Ironically[seemed from outside] i was in good company of those 'fine' females i mentioned. There i met real mix of beauty and brains. Smart girls... now i feel i missed the females outside the institute... anyways... There also the students and some my fellow beings were fighting for females. many of them were having a wonderful time away from home... Everywhere the starting point was civils preparation n then combined study...

In Trivandrum i took up my mains this year... This time again i could only be in the company of a few less ordinary people. I believe Praveen and Myself were busy studying and rest of them were good at many things other than studying. Among my female friends those who were serious seemed to do it great n the rest i'm no one to have a say on them. For the the female hunters again the starting point was civils preparation. but it went on n on with free messages, missed calls, calls and deadly n irritating philosophy.

Seeing my friend who has philosophy in his blood made me realize one thing. There are a lot many females who does not think of their own. Those who trust others so easily that they give away their personal details to others. Now i should be calling my friend an expert in lady hunting or i must say that there are a lot more girls who are born stupid, they grow up stupid, they live stupid n finally they die stupid...

to those girls/ladies: please watch movies, serials, at least news on tv... or just read newspapers... be aware of the people around. come out of those stupid thoughts you have... come out of the stupid life you have... be close to your parents. they are the people you must trust... remember the only relation that works out fine without commitment is that of parent-child relation...

PS: God gave me the strength to save it for after marriage. Thank you, God.

and again i wrote mains exam... i have the same feeling as last year that i've done it well. but rationally its just better than that of last year's. this whole thing is so unpredictable that no one can guess anything about the marks. so logically everything is in the hands of god.

last mains i had a very bad fight with math n this time i expected a similar situation with malayalam literature. with god's grace i could attempt everything and only negative thing i could find with my performance in mal was my language. again i can comment on that only if i see the marklist.

something similar is in the case of gs. with 3 markers and 5 markers it was a total surprise. but i tell you the second paper was of UPSC standard. i loved that pattern and the kind of questions asked. simply awesome.

with the suggested chnages startig from the prelims after a couple of years would literally eliminate the role of coaching centres. thats what UPSC wants and thats the illusion they are living with. from the news reports what i could make out was that the refors in the pattern and syllabus is going to help the coaching centres of CAT or some similar test. but again its too early to say something for sure about this exams.

with loads of expectation from UPSC notification for 2010 prelis it's me signing off...

I Wanna Go On n On

No longer I can wait
To kill the truth
That the sun is to shine
And I'm the dewdrop...

The flower, it's just blooming
And I'm there to watch
Why is that I feel
My presence is all she needs...

She is waking up
But it's to see me leaving....

and here i start...

May be I was waiting for this day… the exam went well and I’m back into blogosphere. This year I’m trying to put every possible material related to civil service preparation and our society in total…. To take up this task and to do this regular here I start….

Caste system is on its last legs???

These are the thoughts crept into my mind when I read articles came on the editorial page of “The Hindu” on 8^th and 9^th Jan 2009 by Mr. Markandey Katju, judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Article tries to show the effect of change of mode of production from fudel to capitalistic. The observation of the caste system being destroyed could only be seen as the transition of the “existing form of caste system” into something new.

Technological advancement, people’s struggles and inter-caste marriages that is happening in India is limited to a class of employees rather than to a section of society. This may be generalised only to the metros and IT hubs. One of the prominent features of modern industrial [capitalist] system is the status based on achievement and not ascription. I’ve experienced that this true for a few individuals and that’s it.

The technological advancement we talk about in the modern times is not accessible to all. There are various reasons for this limited reach of technology including illiteracy and lack of awareness dew to that, economically not affordable, lack of flexibility of these modern technologies and inventions which instead of supplementing human efforts changes human nature.

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Difference is a universal truth. The more we talk about differences the more conscious we become. And this leads to opinions of different shapes and sizes leading to bias. That particular perception then causes some form of clash resulting in the failure of philanthropic concerns.

The way out is we and our duty. Continuation of what we are into for ourselves and everyone else… hope you guys won’t take it like “Let there be light.”

Here I’m…

Shifting my base temporarily from Delhi to my home town was exciting enough for me to plan that journey a bit long. The trip lasted from 9^th Nov to 22^nd Nov.

As soon as my mains exam got over on 8^th I started my journey at 4 O’clock in the next morning, i.e. to IIM, Lucknow. That’s only because of one simple reason. How can I not go and see my darling friend even once when he was just 8 hours away from my place? On his recommendation I booked a chair on Swarna Shadabdi Train. It started on right time and the service was almost comparable to that of flights. From the newspaper through the morning tea, breakfast and the comfort ride. But one thing about which I felt very bad. That’s the typical Indian carelessness. People litter around almost everything from the toothpick to the newspaper given.

I had to take a rikshaw from the station as it was a bit far from IIM campus. And snkutty picked me from the main gate of IIM and then I was busy meeting old friends out there in the midst of their placements. I felt so good and free in the too spacious campus, free from all the congestions in Delhi. Next best thing happened in Lucknow was the food. That misseri roti, biriyani and kabab from Ameenabad were very different to my taste buds. I could not stop myself from eating more non-veg before I left Lucknow. The train back to Delhi was half an hour late and the station is a garbage dumping yard when compared to Ernakulam of Thrissur railway stations. Even Bhopal and Nagpur were 100 times better than Lucknow station.

Then I had 2 days in Delhi and I met a few good friends during those days and went for shopping in CP, Palika Bazar, Nehru Place and Sarojini Nagar. And at the end of those two days I donated one third of my books, then packed the next one third and then let the rest with my friend to keep in the safe custody. Packing was done neatly into 3 cartons, 2 bags and my lappy. As I had to parcel my luggage thru RMS before catching my train to Bhopal at 9 I had to leave my place by 6. Now sending that parcel was one of the most horrible ad scaring things that could happen to me at Nizamuddin railway station.

The railway system is so sweet that I had to spend 1000 Rupee total on my 62 Kg parcel as various charges including coolie, stupid and un-necessary packing, unloading charges, parcel charge, loading charge etc etc. I have no idea about the time when some common man can just walk in with his luggage as in the airports and do his booking and make his journey comfortable. Nothing is in place from the coolie to the agents including railway employees. But I could find the employees here in Thrissur very fine and kinda professional. Here they work and they earn unlike their counterparts who exploit. Had I have not known Hindi they would have squeezed at least 3 thousand from me that night. By the way I could finish the parcel business only by sharp 9 and I managed to catch my train on time.

I had the editor of Krishak Jagat next to my birth. He was so cool that he took some time out to talk with me. That next hour he helped me to understand a different picture of agricultural sector in the central part of India. Overall the journey was pleasant and I reached Bhopal station in the morning. My friend, Promil picked me from the station and we reached his place in a few minutes time. We freshened up and he left for his classes. I was left at his place with paratas and tomato curry for breakfast and loads and loads of snacks including 4 types of ladoos, mixtures and fruits. As soon as he came back we had lunch and went for site seeing. We went to see the Upper And Lower Lakes, New Market, Taj-ul-Masajid, Boat Club and the highest point of Bhopal on India’s one of the earliest ropeways. In two days I could not cover more places and I started from there on the second night with lots of snacks which Promil used to bring when we were in Delhi.

The trip from Bhopal to Nagpur… the evening was very cold and I could manage to get only an AC birth for that. And the result was cold when I reached Nagpur. There I had to walk around with an inhaler. I was not sure about spending the three days ad two nights in Nagpur. Dikshit, my good friend and mate, picked me from the station and the good news was that we had the car for entire two days. Dikshit’s father is the Dy. Collector there and he was so cool about everything from friends to studies as we were good sons. That morning itself Sarang, our friend, dropped in and we set to go to Ramtek. Ramtek is a place out of Nagpur city and there is one beautiful temple and a lake with boating facility.

The ride to Ramtek reminded us on the movie ‘Dil Chahta Hai’. We decided to thank god for sailing us through the Preliminary test. We were very thirsty for ‘mineral water’ and we had the will power to control it till we were done with darshan in the temple. One of the things which I loved most was the Varaha murthi there. By the way monkeys there almost pick-pocketed my wallet. And right after the darshan we stopped at the very first mineral water centres and on the way back we stopped at one more motel for another sip. My friends say I drive safer when I’m on ‘mineral water.’ Whatever it is, we reached city and roamed around till 12:30 in the night and went to the lake side called lover’s point. By the time we reached home everyone was asleep and we had a safe entry.

I didn’t know time flying and third day in Nagpur came with the time to say good bye to Dikshit’s family. And very happily they added a few Kgs to my luggage. Dikshit was coming with me to Bangalore and we started. The trip was enjoyable and we got to Bangalore on the next day noon. For me it was a couple of nights with ‘mineral water’ and fag. I was keen to taste my favourite food items there and I wanted to take Dikshit to pubs there. After reaching Rajiv’s (one of my best friends) place we freshened up and went directly to ‘Legends of Rock’ and had a beautiful time there. Our next destination was Garuda Mall and MG road. We had a couple of hours to walk around before meeting Rajiv at JukeBox, Koramangala. The dinner was excellent for it tasted wonderful. May be we should have such food with a gap of few months so that we can enjoy it properly.

One of the good things that happened was putting Linux on my system. Rajiv’s roomie and a good friend of mine, Sujith did that for me. Though I’m not utilizing it to any reasonable extend, I’m proud and happy that I have it and I intent to use it. Literally in those days in Bangalore I was a dying chimney because I was a chimney during my mains exam period. I wanted to meet Arun Selvaneshan, Mithleena, Rekha, Abu and a few other friends. But I could not. After those fairy tale days [only because I can’t live a life like that for more than 2 days. Because I want to be on the track of studies and exams until I’m in service] in Bangalore I started for home with all set to be there for a couple of months.