Science or Arts: Which is more important ....

From the seventh standard, after knowing the importance of science the scope in the field of science , what science can do for the betterment of the life on the earth as well as in understanding the past and future of the earth; living in the belief that the science is the best subject of all available into this world and the most elaborate one including all the major subjects of today’s curriculum.
And after being a science graduate along with the engineering graduation and studied specifically the science for the last eight years under different discipline my belief should have to become more rigid. But contrary to this, I have realized the arts discipline to be more directly related to the social life. Subjects like philosophy, sociology and psychology which deals with the state of mind, relation between man and nature, needs for liberty, equality, fraternity for the survival of the social life seems more important now. It’s the idea that leads to the invention, it’s the effort that leads to the discovery but it’s the sound mental health of the people that’s make a healthy society which is the mother of all inventions. And a society to be well behaved, there needs the feeling of freedom, equality and many others and all these are well traversed in arts. Life is there before the arrival of these ideas in the form of anarchy and monarchy but the way and condition most of the people were living in those times were very much below the standard. The Renaissance which transformed the medieval history into modern one was very much inspired by the sociological ideas of john locke, Aristotle and many others. Well, this time may be I am exaggerating the facts about the arts or it’s due to the fact that I am a beginner into this. But it’s undoubtedly true that arts is no less important than science.

Engineering Vs Real World

At the institute level, we are taught the best way to solve a problem, the best way to design for a structure taking care of all the failures and all the worst situations. Talking of a simple tunnel project having overburden of tens to thousand of tonnes of load along with the presence of various soft rock pockets present there in.Designing tunnels in such conditions requires lots of effort along with codal requirements and lots of experimentation to be done before proceeding to designing part(leave the construction apart).
Studying all these in the classroom, hearing about all these multi-crore projects in a 10 by 10 classroom seems so fascinating. But coming to real world where working under for companies and where profit is the main motive where the executive officer or the owner more concerned about the time and profits to be made.Reducing experimentation neglecting number of essential boreholes to be made and design the structure on the basis of incomplete ground profile often leads to failure. And as usual after such a havoc, a committee will be set up to enquire into the matter comprising of some beaureaucrates and rock engineering experts where again to get out of that contractors and company owners bribe the committee members to again find the loopholes into the indian codes or into the report itself to get rid of criminal offense.
All the knowledge gained at the institute level get modified in the real world suiting the real situations.

These days........

From the last two months after the end of seventh semester, I have not able to concentrate my mind on a particular topic for say study, relationship or having fun with my friends. Don’t know why I am feeling like this but never before in my life I have felt so empty from inside. Or may be because from the last two months I started thinking after every little glimpse of environment and surrounding around us, pondering over the condition of the people who are not so lucky to have a decent life standard or to the millions of girls whose every childhood dream related to fly and glide freely in the clear blue sky of this globalised world. Or may be due to the thoughts that why we become so indifferent to the needs of others especially those ill-fated children and young clad beauties when we become able “to contribute in making their life livable if not paradise. Or may be due to lots of travelling I am doing these days which exposed me to the real Indian society and it’s life rather to the confined lavish 365 acres of my institute. Or may be because what happening in my near surroundings that after seeing all the above, finds my colleagues more indifferent to all these, their ignorance about our country india about our society or about our future, their negligence their lack of interest to respect the feeling of others.
Well, may be it’s not their fault it’s because the small world they have seen around them it’s because they never step out of their saloon. Don’t know why but I personally feel that travel is must for a youth who has got established in life and travelling not only to hill stations and beaches for fun but to the hard working people of the hills who have to waste a ton of energy just to get a kilos of food, interacting with the fishermen of those beaches who never fears to put their life on the mercy of sea to feed their children, who are the first on the receiving end of the nature’s fury and last on the list of getting benefits from the govt. Travelling and lots of travelling that can transform them or atleast change their attitude towards life.

Price rise or the reason for slowing of economy growth

Always in the belief that the price rise is going to effect the poor sections of the society in the most devastating way. And quite true to this belief the reality is happening right now here in india.
But the more true fact is that it's not affecting the lowest section of society but to the country as a whole. Rising prices led to increase in the money spend per capita consumption of the citizens of india. With the increase in expenditure in fulfilling day to day needs, they are going to demand for more wages either from the private sector or the government sector. And India which is thriving on the foreign direct investment to fund most of it's projects as well as establishment of manufacturing units by major fortune 500 companies and the sole reason they are migrating to indian subcontinent is the low cost incurred in production which is due to low labour cost.
Now with the increase in price of the basic commodities this low cost factor is going to disappear and what happen next everyone can predict........

Visits

From the last two months, I was unable to focus on a particular event or an occurrence to be written as a blog. But in the last 20 days after re-reading the visits of foreign dignitaries from various continents comprising of the presidents, PMs to country head of the heavy-weight nations of those continents came to the feeling of evincing my cerebrations on the visits.
First counting on the list of dignitaries, US president Barack Obama visiting in the first week of December went back with $10 billion worth investments in American market for creating jobs (as this is the main news covered by most of the media); then arrived the German chancellor Angela Merckel; then came French president Nicholas Sarkozy and finally the year is going to end with the arrival of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. Well, it seems quite obvious from the viewpoint of rising and prospering India; centre of attraction for most of FII and a promising market for foreign companies as well as for low-priced production activity. And every developed nation is trying to harness the benefits from India in overcoming the slowdown brought in by the Mortgage bubble of 2008. While the Europeans are trying to overcome from the debt crisis the EU is going through.
That was one aspect of looking all the things, coming to the other one which is shadowed by the above reasons is the trade for arms and ammunitions. With the growing economic and GDP of India and aspiring to be one of the key player in the international arena including the fight for a “permanent member” in the UN security council; being powerful is another pre-requisite which also adds to reaffirming the India’s position in south-east Asia alongside China. India who has signed defence deals worth $40 billion in the last two years and is undergoing to make the largest reform in its defence since independence and is supposed to make another $160 billion deals by 2015. And most of these visits to India are more or less concentrated towards getting those lucrative deals.

How different are we from our politicians....

Here "we" refers to college students like me. Although it may be applicable to others also but having no experience of their profession, i can't write about them.
Whenever, we heard news related to non-functioning of parliamentary meetings because of noisy parliamentarians on a particular issue or absence of these public representatives in those meetings; we used to react very aggressively and condemning them for their actions (which are worst than just condemnation). But are these activities different from ours of bunking classes, trying every tooth and nail in canceling the classes and tutorials. The only difference in my opinion is the scale size, they are doing it at national level and we are doing it at college level. The aim is same they want extra time for their controversial activities and we on the other hand want to be enjoyed in that surplus time. Just like we feel bored in attending them, they might have the same feeling, after all we all are Indians.

Race against casteism

Few weeks earlier, read about the miserable life of the Congo women chafed between the conflicts of the warlords of Africa in New York Times magazine; thanks to the Shannon (USA) atleast doing something for them from behalf of the humankind by running “Run for Congo” organisation collecting fund for their rehabilitation. Most of the women lost their families there; is one such woman who has lost her one leg in an ambush by the army of warlords, who killed her husband, raped her repetitively in front of her children and shoot her eldest son for his refusal to eat the flesh of her mother.
Situation is no different in our nation too, such insane offences are done in our society too in the name of casteism. At one time dalits are burnt alive at their home in Haryana and other time this heinous crime is done in the name of honour killing where young blooming couples are murdered in the name of honour. These are just some of the cases that came into light by media (atleast doing some fruitful works too). Beside these, there are numerous other unheard and unspoken cases which are buried in the throat of flourishing new generation; who sometimes are forbidden from living a cherishing life with their loved ones because of this casteism. What to say of the poor uneducated when the educated graduates of 70s and 80s are inseminating the seeds of hatred for opposite castes in their wards. Development in the name of community is a different idea and preaching hatred to opposite castes on the basis of their dids of the past is completely unethical.
Talking of reservation in higher education, due to the protests against reservation some are with the conception that it’s the upper caste who are opposing the reservation because they don’t want to see lower caste as par to them. And some others are with the conception that some lower class who are well developed and equipped are getting advantage of this. To counter the above, the concept of creamy layer was introduced. Still their hatred prevails. Leave this bloody debatable topic, talking of some general related to our life. When a young graduate either an engineer or a doctor or a journalist or even a normal high class teacher asks for love marriage form his/her parents, the same moment first question fired back is “What his/her caste”. Loads of argument given by them to support their will against the relationship, either on the name of past experience or on the name of society. That love, that feeling of freedom, that passion, that urge to control the world comes from the same education that they dream for their children. It’s true that our past is not justifiable, but we cann’t make our future from the happenings of past. We have to build a better future, a future for mankind not for caste, a future where our children don’t have to suffer what we have to.