learning and growing

And then you hear dumb things in your neighborhood - " Girls with short hair are modern and more educated." I have serious issues with such people because they are the same people who will say of how some girls are too family oriented and traditional because they choose to work at a place near their house. Such idiots assume that such girls are back dated. But judging by the same Indian standards, don't you think that the highest qualification for any Indian is to stay abroad. That does not make one modern and less Indian. It makes one less Western because you are nothing but a victim of what the society popularly believes in. And judging by the stereotypes, must say- it is very Indian, it is very normal and not at all something that makes one different. Stop judging with your narrow mentality and little knowledge.

Since my arrival in Durgapur, I have been meeting quite a few of my old friends. Talking with them about Life, career, problems, threats, solutions, in a way just tells me about the many days that had passed since the last time I sat on one of those benches in my school, or the last time that I stressed and worried myself over a stringent issue or over a small fight about a useless thing. Those idiotic mood swings and overload of all sorts of creative activities especially during times when you were expected to read the most ,drops a smile in my brain . I still remember mates telling me after our MATHS exam, 'did not you know that drawing the figures in your answer scripts that were already drawn in the question paper would help you fetch more marks?' or ' did not you know that I asked X to invite A,B,C,D on her birthday but not you!' or 'I don't know anything about what I will do next, but smiling inside for it was all planned'. Happy that life has not al...

Our very own 'didi', finally banned riots in Bidhan Sarani. It was more like banning students who found joy in agitations and fights. It has become a trend to protest on streets near a college campus and sometimes people join in even without knowing the cause and sometimes despite knowing the cause they are just one more element of disorder in the crowd, with nothing significant to contribute from their side. I have seen intellectuals talk about such things , but they keep quiet when the name of their campus is involved. Probably they view it as an Utopian land where nothing can go wrong and they fail to see the innumerable raised eyebrows at them. Anyway. Moreover while discussing the education sector in West Bengal a few more things were brought to the notice of our Chief Minister. It was about the excessive amount that a private school often charges as donation from the students and no doubt the best schools of Kolkata were included in the list- like La Marts, Modern High, ...

When you stay at home for a long, long time , you gradually start to realize the comfort you have been missing for so long. Home will never teach you to value your time, to value your food or existence. At home you will never get curious faces all the time. At home, you will never have to make an additional effort to see if someone is interested to be a friend or if someone is secretly plotting against you. Home is where trust is. Home is where you have got real friends. I value home and the very Indian culture of loving it. True that I had learned the best of lessons outside, and still continue to learn many but as they say 'Nothing is as good as home'. Now time to step out of this topic and switch to my favourite topic- human nature. Pretty amazing that people change colors all the time. Sometimes they are too friendly and sometimes they are not. It depends on their needs and let's face it - even I do it to survive, it is the defense mechanism that is common in practice. ...