I m reborn

In Dedication to my Guru: SRI SRI

I m reborn...

As you touched me

No .. I m not mimosa pudica

but

Alchemist are you

I was not knowing

But when

A new moon dawned on me

A new sun shone itself on my roof

when

Smile slipped slowly on the faces I see

When

Tears bid adieu

very silently to my dear ones

When

my shy legs started to tap in rhythm

when

I began to catch rains with open palms

When

Death became Shiva 

When life started to sing in my gully

I knew

I m new..:)

Pride n Prejudice : in Nut-Shell

Pride and Prejudice


Mr &; Mrs Bennet

( a woman of mean understanding, little information & uncertain temper).

5 daughters :

• Jane, the eldest, remarkably beautiful.

• Elizabeth: pretty, sensible, quick-witted( for Darcy- she was ‘ tolerable but not beautiful enough to tempt him’)

• Mary, fond of reading

• Catherine & Lydia- ( much pampered by Mrs. Bennet and supported their daughters’ run after army officers) spent most of their time in man- hunting, running after military officers.

+ Young Mr. Bingley ( good looking & gentleman-like) – the neighbour of Mr. & Mrs. Bennet and Sir William Lucas ( father of Charlotte,27,sensible, intelligent, young woman & intimate friend of Elizabeth)

+ Darcy( tall, attractive but proud), Bingley’s friend

+ Mr. Hurst – Bro-in-law of Mr. Bingley

- Ms Bingley & Mrs Hurst- Bingley’s two sisters.

After the Ball, * Jane & Elizabeth talked about Mr. Bingley & Darcy alongwith Charlotte and Darcy was unanimously condemned for his overweening pride.

*Mrs. Hurst & Ms Bingley ( sisters of Bingley) also appreciated Miss Bennet ( Jane &Elizabeth )

* Darcy’s opinion about Elizabeth also changed.. He spoke about the Elizabeth’s beautiful eyes to Miss Bingley, who was, however, displeased with the appreciation for she wanted that Darcy’s attention should be absorbed completely in her.

Jane’s Dinner with Miss Bingley : went on horseback, got wet through before she reached Netherfield – fell ill

Elizabeth started on foot for Netherfield, made good impression on Darcy.Miss Bingley , though, directly or indirectly pointed out Elizabeth’s defects to Darcy, Darcy steadily grew in his esteem. Later, Miss Bingley made herself ridiculous. Elizabeth’s behavior on the other hand,was natural & dignified. She was neither too reserved nor too familiar with the members of the Netherfield family. She knew when to talk & when to be silent, observations were apt & intelligent.

Soon , Mrs Bennet came to see Jane.

Jane health improved- Bingley was sincerely happy to see Jane well.

Elizabeth’s prejudice came against Darcy that, 1. He had ruined her sister Jane, prohibiting her chances to marry Mr. Bingley to whom she loved most.

2. She accuses him of ruining the chances of Wickham’s progress. ( Wickham, the officer- jealous of Mr. Darcy . Darcy, too, in return gave a hint that Wickham was not a good man, Lydia, finally eloped with Wickham in Burghton).

Elizabeth’s Visit to Darcy’s Residence Once in the absence of Mr. darcy, Elizabeth happened to visit his residence and quite contrary to her perception regarding him, she renewed all praises for him from his staff).

Mr. Collins, the cousin of Mr. Bennet, proposes Elizabeth for reasons:

1. To set an example of matrimony in his parish

2. Marriage would add to his happiness

3. It was advice & recommendation of his patroness lady Catherine de Borough

Lastly, Darcy married to Elzabeth,  Jane to Mr. Bingley.

UNDERTAKINGS ( CHARACTERSTICS ) OF BEING iNDIAN

After a dexterous cross-cultural study based upon  five novels, I propose some measure rules and conventions, peculiarities and traits that a person can be associated and identified with; if he or she claims himself or herself to be an Indian, which give him or her a separate identity even if sharing the common dance floor of “cultural allotropy”. I am deliberately writing these traits in the style of the court’s UNDERTAKINGS:

 That, “Indian prefer to marry only once in a life time.”92

If any Indian like Vasu of THE MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI believes that “only fools marry, and they deserve all the trouble they get,”93 we call them “anglicized Indian” or a “cultural allotrope with scientific outlook”.

 That, “Indians discuss things more than any other people.”94

(In support of the above argument, one should travel through the Malgudi Road and should rest at Natraj’s parlour in THE MAN –EATER OF MALGUDI, which is “a sort of cultural hub, a rendezvous, where people from different schools of thought and professions make gathering, chitchat, having a nice pastime and discuss on various topics viz. Nehru policy or Five plans for long hours of a day.”95)

 That “in India everything end (ed)s seeking money.”96 ( This “bribe-culture” of India has become more prominent after the sensational revelation by one of the most reputed business houses of India Ratan Tata group and the Wiki leaks disclosure of Indian black money with Swiss Banks )

 That, “to move up in India one needed good contacts.”97

 That, “when Indians sleep, they really do sleep… No regular bed – time … don’t stir again till the next day begin.”98

 That, “On a (an Indian) train everyone want(ed)s to know everyone else.”99

 That, “Indian take themselves ‘so seriously’.100

 That, “there are no lovers in Indian gardens. Only little heaps of humanity lay here and there.”101

 That, in India, even ‘scrap is useful’.102 (Indians have got habit of collecting and preserving things regardless of its utility which is much against the West’s ‘Use and Throw’ utilitarian society ).

 That, “in India ‘more people … have to die on the roads, if (the) nation is to develop any road sense at all.”103

 That, in India, people respect for “four-wheeler” community ‘or say’ automobile fraternity.”104

 That, a majority of us misinterpret the meaning of ‘a free country’ and ‘fundamental rights’.105

 That, Indians love the music of West, especially ‘Vivaldi’.106

 That, Indians are ‘emotional’107 and ‘sentimental’108

 That, everyone in India smokes.109 ( A recent WHO Report ,2010 also ditto it and states that India is Rank 1 holder in tobacco consumption )

 That, a ‘Cola-generation’ in India ‘doesn’t oil its hair’110 and likes “T-shirts and Colvin Klein jeans ... fast food joints, … motorcycles …, girlfriends (they) could lay anytime … marijuana, even a little cocaine, the singers who won the Grammy awards, … calling rupees bucks … ambition to go abroad (‘to the US of A’)111” and they like “girls in their arse-hugging jeans and T-Shirts with lewd one –liners.112

 That, Indians prefer not to ‘waste food’.113

 That, in India ‘one always argues with any taxi-scooter – or rickshaw-wala on principle’. Otherwise the journey is not complete.114

 That, in India, people love to be ‘English’ but do not forget to abuse English; sometimes as ‘the language of bloodsucking imperialists, they made our hearts weep ...”115

 That, now in India, the young generation loves to ‘wear a tie, use … credit card, kiss the wives of … colleagues on the cheek and smoke a joint, listen to Scott Joplin and Keith Jarret, and on weekends … see a Horror film, or a Carlos Saura…”116

 That, the crookedness of taxi and auto-rickhaw – drivers of all Indians cities (especially of the north) is ‘matchless, almost mythic.”117

 That, in India, “the men sit apart from the women and children ... may be because no one wants to see a man and a woman enjoying anything together.”118

 That, in India, knowing English language ‘gives one … confidence.”119

 That, India should be taken for granted as ‘a nation of saints’.120

 That, most of the elite and privileged Indians find themselves “so underdeveloped as compared to”121 the westerners.

Also, this research has found that most of the westerners come to India either ‘for a spiritual purpose’122 or ‘in the hope of finding a simpler and more natural way of life’123 but all they “find here is dysentery”.124

After passing through a subjugation of more than a couple of centuries, India today has got a whole lot of hexa-and septegenerians who are transfixed in the twilight zone of new changes. As a result, their condition has almost become that of an ‘allotropic’ (that is full of paradoxes). They ‘eat beef too … corned beef sandwiches and wears dhoti and reads the Upanishads in Sanskrit.”125

As a whole, we can say that “there are many ways of loving India, many things to love her for the scenery, the history, the poetry, the music, and indeed the physical beauty of men and women”126 but owing to cultural differences, the westerners put forth their allegation on us to ‘find out (their) weak spot’ and pressing on it.127 The skepticism of the Westerners would probably never end,

“It is very well to love and admire India – intellectually, aesthetically,… sexually…– but always with virile, measured, European feeling.”128

The above novelists have brought out all the specified cases and patches of cultural allotropy with the assertion that ‘India always changes people’ without ‘exception’.

And with pronouncement that ‘India is working towards a new age’.130 and ‘nowhere else (except India) could languages be mixed and spoken with such ease … American and Urdu…131 Indians are ready to hug anything western, beginning it from the names itself (denying the Shakespearean cry ‘what’s in a name’ and supporting the Oscar Wilde’s bunburryism) that is why, we love to be called “August” in stead of “Agastya’132, ‘Sandy’ for Zahira,133 ‘Sindi’ for Surrender Oberoi,134 and let Chidananda re-christened himself as ‘Chid’.135

To present and paint the prevailing cultural allotropy in such wider canvas, all credit goes to our Indian English writers. Much more research works have to be done in the near further that I shoulder on to the future budding researchers to look into the matter so deeply as it is oceanic to dive into.

I have all confidence that my thesis would help expatriates to understand India as far as their cross cultural training is concerned on their new postings in India. Along with the title of a feature news published in “Hindustan Times’, I would also end up my thesis pleading “Kindly Adjust, this is India”136

References :-

92. The Foreigner, p. 100

93. The Man-Eater of Malgudi, p. 34

94. The Foreigner, p. 115

95. The Man-Eater of Malgudi, pp. 7 – 8

96. The Foreigner, p. 43

97. ibid, p. 42

98. Heat andDust, p. 52

99. English August, p. 207

100. The Foreigner, p. 38

101. ibid, p. 175

102. Heat and Dust, p. 125

103. The man-Eater of Malgudi, p. 33

104. ibid, p. 42

105. ibid, p. 47

106. ‘English August’, p. 72 and ‘The Foreigner’, p. 104

107. The Coffer Dams, p. 70

108. The Man-Eater of Malgudi, p. 134

109. English August, p. 28

110. ibid, p. 110

111. ibid, p. 75

112. ibid, p. 71

113. ibid, p. 52

114. ibid, p. 81

115. ibid, p. 159

116. ibid, p. 153

117. ibid, p. 146

118. ibid, p. 117

119. ibid, pp. 59 – 60

120. The Foreigner, p. 70

121. ibid, p. 80

122. Heat and Dust, p. 22

123. ibid, p. 95

124. ibid, p. 21

125. English August, p. 281

126. Heat and Dust, p. 170

127. ibid, p. 170

128. ibid, p. 171

129. ibid, p. 2

130. The Foreigner, p. 38

131. English August, p. 1

132. The little of the novel itself i.e. English August.

133. Heat and Dust, p. 32

134. The Foreigner, p. 191

135. Heat and Dust, p. 24

136. Snehal Rebello, “Kindly Adjust this is India”, “Hindustan Times”, Monday, April 14, 2008.

CAS not enCASHed: Humble teachers, Fumble Adminstrationa

Question1: Should the matter of teachers’ promotional delay be brought in the periphery of Human Rights violations?


Ans (teachers): Yes.

Ans (varsity officials): No

Question2: Should teachers be penalized for the fault or lacunae in our system?

Ans (teacher):No

Ans (varsity officials): Yes

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This is what exactly has been felt by many of the victimized teachers across the state who have been denied their due promotions under the CAS . Ranchi University has made it compulsory to attend at least one Orientation Course and one Refresher Course whereas, in the case of Ph.D. it is mandatory to attend one Orientation program of UGC run at different Academic Staff Colleges as per its Statute framed in the year 2007-08.But varsity officials did not think it necessary to attach a corrigendum in its statute in the light of fresh guidelines issued by UGC just in the next year, i.e., 2009.In its latest letter, i.e., Letter No. F.2-6/2002 (PS) dated 12th March, 2009, UGC clearly states, “ However, the date of participation in Orientation / refresher courses in respect of Teachers……for placement/ promotion under Career Advancement Scheme has been extended upto 30.6.2009.” In the same letter, it is also mentioned that , “ Whenever the requirement of participating in Orientation/ Refresher courses is not fulfilled, the promotion would not be held up…. Financial benefits should be given by the University from the due date of promotion.” Also, Ranchi University officials have shown their immaturity or impatience to draft a rule in the case of Ph.D. holders. Whereas, varsity officials have made it mandatory to attend one Orientation Program, UGC has never issued such guidelines. Instead, UGC in its letter No. F.2-9/97 (PS) very clearly writes, “A Ph.D. holder may be exempted for not having attended one course WHETHER refresher OR orientation courses as regards the eligibility for promotion under the Career Advancement Scheme to Lecturer (Sr. Scale)”.

As a result of this blunder, the cases that have come on the surface are quite ludicrous:

Case 1: Teachers, who have cleared either their NET or have done their Ph.D. or both, have become juniors to those teachers who are neither Ph.D. nor NET qualified, just because they have attended a 4-week Orientation program!

Case2: Those whose due promotion date has been fixed in a later date i.e., with effect from the date of the completion of their Orientation Program, are finding themselves in “No-Man’s land” and are considered ineligible for Reader or Selection Grade promotion.



The real question is not of throwing the ball in one another’s court. The real question is whether these innocent teachers should be left penalized absolutely on their fate? Some officials ask the figure of such cases just to check out the magnitude of the problem. But, once again the answer that dawn on our conscience is what if the number is just one. Injustice done even to one is injustice done to the whole fraternity. But, in this Utilitarian society where figure is more important than the humanity, this is important to reveal that the number of such offended teachers is no less than a hundred. The relationship between discrepancies and Ranchi University is indestructible. The demoralized and humiliated teachers are confused how to save their lost honor. Whether they should go to the classrooms to “build up the nation” or move to the court for the redressal of their grievances? Teachers’ team has pleaded their case repeatedly before the higher authorities of the university but higher authorities are pre-occupied in many ‘other higher projects’. I remember one couplet:

Muh ki baat suney har koi/ dil ka dard janey kaun

Awajo ke bazaaro me/dil ka dard janey kaun

( Who cares to listen to the pain of yelling heart in this insensitive world/ who cares to listen to the marginalized voice in this world of show-biz market )

Semester System or Sinister System

Today I got an inspiration from one of my  nearest friend Nelly and I have been suggested that I should not stop writing. Actually I was not sure that my blog would get a sincere reader. But now I am. Assured that my friend is there to bear with my useless write-ups.. I would keep sending my posts..Also I would follow all her suggestions.....only  if I m really convinced from within..Thank you very much  and my all prospective readers ( know not where they are..!!!)But as the title of my blog goes..VIBRATIONS...certainly it would reach to many others .. but once again who cares if it do not..DUNIYA DI THAIIN2.....
Following is one of my article , designed and crafted for a Newspaper, hence the style is not at all of BLOG-IANS:


Semester System or Sinister system? _








The University Grants Commission(UGC) has instructed all central, state and deemed universities in India to adopt a semester and Choice Based Credit System (CBCS). The system will facilitate inter-institution transferability of students.

UGC Chairman Prof. Sukhdeo Thorat has written a letter (March, 2009) to all the vice-chancellors, informing them about the changes. The universities are now required to adopt the new measures regarding the introduction of semester system, credits for various courses and provision for inter-institution transferability of students. Varsities have been allotted a time period of two years to implement the measures. Now, the Ranchi University is also pulling up its shocks to implement it at PG and Under Graduate level (all autonomous colleges of the region have already implemented this).

The committee has also mentioned that all academic programs like certificate, diploma, undergraduate, postgraduate, MPhil and PhD courses, should be subject to up -gradation or revision to a limited extent every academic year and substantially every three years. The UGC argues, “not only will this endow the academic programs with quality, but also add to their contemporariness and importance”.

The UGC guidelines mention that the ongoing system of examination, conducted at the end of session, has lot of drawbacks and needs improvement. The semester system will encourage and support faster learning opportunities. Moreover, it has the ability to accommodate diverse choices that students may like to have.

But the inside story is quite different from the above. However, it requires the readers’ patience to hold a bit to dig out the real story.

In fact, till date we were supposed to follow the British system of education. The British Raj had left behind a university system in India, which was modeled after their system back home. The student was assessed at the end of each year, for the three-year undergraduate course, where he or she underwent a university-level examination at end of each year to assess the student’s comprehensive grasp of the subject, be it History, English, Chemistry, Biology or Physics. A similar pattern of examination was followed for the two-year post-graduate studies. All this is soon set to change. Needless to say, much against our desire.

So why have the policy makers thought that a semester-style, credit-system for higher education, which is typically an American system of education, makes more sense than the year-end comprehensive examination? That too, 60-62 years after the Independence!.( I wonder if this is not the case of American hegemony in the World economy and the world becoming the Uni-polar? )

After having a bit experience in some chosen few campuses of Ranchi University, the Semester System and related myths have got some fresh light and some shocking facts have come on the “dance-floor” which require immediate retrospection which can either save or alert the ‘potential victims’:

MYTH 1.“There is a very strong feeling among faculty members that the semester-system will make the students more focused and control absenteeism.”

FACT: It NEITHER makes them focused NOR control the absenteeism unless teachers and college administration are responsible enough to do so. Moreover, colleges with disproportionate ratio of teachers and students, such system hardly holds any credibility.

MYTH 2. “The Semester System is also more intensive, so the student has to keep up with what is being taught in class.”

FACT : Quite contrarily,it has marred the continuity of the subject as it remains no more comprehensive and once a semester is over, students tend to forget what they learnt the previous year. Also the internal marking system can be subjective and many eklavyas have all the possibilities to face the music of modern Dronacharyas..”.

MYTH 3. The advantage of the semester system over the end-of-the-year examination method is that it is rigorous. Assignments have to be completed within a stipulated time frame, which helps. In the end-of-the-year examination module, students tend to take their courses a little lightly.

FACT: As far as being its rigorous is concerned, true that, it is…!! interestingly, not for the students but for the teachers. Teachers have to finish the Herculean syllabus in time and then they have to set questions, go for the rigorous invigilation duty and then they have to rush for a marathon relay of evaluation works ( this new Year 2011 was historical for Marwari College, Ranchi as the teachers left their spouse yelling at home and they beat the chill keeping themselves warm by burning their grey cells while evaluating arid answer sheets …no better than shits!!) .

MYTH 4. “Students tend to be much more involved in a semester system and the relationship between the teacher and student is far more personal.”

FACT : Relationship of the teacher and student has nothing to do with the Semester System . Rather, it varies from person to person.

Some pro- Semester academicians describe the annual curriculum as a ‘thali’ and the semester system with a credit-based curriculum as a ‘cafeteria menu’. But , the people who have the experience of having ‘thali’ in dhabas know better its dietary value and its being economic .Undoubtedly, The Semester System increases the expenses of students and it sweeps away poor students to the “unprivileged” colleges.

The Inside Story :

Many of us do not have the ample guts to proclaim the truth that the King is nude. Teachers who try to raise his voice against such aped- system ( I would like to call it as ‘copy-paste’-system), they are labeled as regressive teachers. The inside story is that many of the “progressive” teachers are feeding students with the selected questions, syllabus has unofficially been shrinked to “Mallika Sherawat -limit”, real lecture mode teaching has been buried long back, short and written and “baazaru” notes are in vogue, spoon – feeding has become the compulsion and teachers have to struggle hard to be in good books of students as to save themselves from their ire in case of topic left untouched . As if it was not enough for us, the news that the teachers’ evaluation would be done on the basis of our ‘meritorious’ students’ feedback in the new system have caused an earthquake in the academic seismic zone. This is absolutely shameful. This enforcement of Semester System is just an eye-wash and it does not suit properly to the taste of Indian educational system as it has also been a conclusion drawn in a National Conference recently held in Bangalore.

The government is aiming to aggressively push the Gross Enrolment Ratio to 15% from the current 10% and the setting up of the 30 universities that will have the semester system in place is estimated to cost the government Rs 1,31,022 crore.

What is absolutely transparent that the education system in India is heading towards privatization .Unmindful promotion and packaging of Vocational courses, compelling colleges to go for autonomy and then screwing them for Semester System – all these moves are just to turn educational institutions into a profit-making agency. Change is good but a whirlpool of change at such an unpredictable speed, at times, comes up with cyclonic effect.

Before some more institutions are made victim of this new System, it is high time for the retrospection.

“Let us go then, you and I…mmmh...Eastward Ho!” – abrupt ending? Sorry, gentlemen, I am also a cog of this Semester system. I am used to leave my lectures midway.



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