Saturday 28 April 2012

And the World around me sleepzzz...




“O nadaan parindey ghar ajaa”! Mohit Chohan croons inside my headphones. It’s the dreadful hour in a rainy night. I have an Electronics final exam tomorrow and I have this Schilling book lying wide open on my lap. My ballpoint seems to be doing a slow waltz over the paper, pensive and deliberate. Having a feeling of culpability, of not doing it on the right day. The clock ticks like a time bomb, and the hours are passing like minutes.

               I sneeze through my nose, with a pathetic looking face. I feel like I’m the loneliest guy on this planet. So I decided to listen to “Boulevard of broken dreams”. ‘I walk this empty street …On the boulevard of broken dreams…when the city sleeps…and I’m the only one and I walk alone... ’. Relishing the melodious voice of Billie Joe. While the rest of the world around me sleepzzz.

   And so here I am, in a dreadful hour on a rainy night, at my ultimate examination worst. I’m biting my nails, pulling at my hair, consuming my own weight in coffee and generally getting ulcer. I used to die a bit every time I open a book to learn by heart. And my situation tonight is worth deserving. The world is dark, miserable place with smells of dread mixed with instant coffee and happiness is a faint, glittering thing with wings, fluttering at the end of my date-sheet.

I know too well the pressure to perform, the fear of trying and failing. But it’s not that which my anxiety attacks set on a hair-trigger. It’s the choking feeling of not being completely free; the distracting presence of a troublesome itch that won’t go away. Yes it’s the fear of Zahir khan, Ahhhh the fatal and calamitous! It’s the anticipated dread of impending obligations, of no longer being able to stop and feel the quiet joy of smelling the scent of a rainy night as it melts away in a streaming cup of coffee. There’s no safety in numbers. The people who share my misery, my comrades-in-arms, are all barricaded behind monosyllabic text messages. My Facebook homepage looks dead and deserted; my notifications flew away like a butterfly departs the flower. Sleep seems as far away as moon and I’m all alone drifting on a lonely meteor, while the rest of the world around me sleepzzz...

Wednesday 25 April 2012

Is involvement of youth in politics justified?







The most progressive, articulate, inspired, and dynamic segment of the country's population is the student's community. The students being young and energetic, are a bundle of inflammable material, which at touch of a spark ignites into a large fire like forest fire. They, being young have no patience,are lively and malleable.
The question of engagement of the youth in politics is very straightforward. In political affairs the involvement of students in not necessary but their participation is reasonable at some extent.
The first law of students union was made in 1894 in Europe.But student's politics is banned since 1982 due to some crucial events.
Why an ordinary student want to participate in practical politics??? Children entering the arena of politics the the art of public speaking. They learn to be assertive and impressive. This medium is a good stepping stone to the art of leadership. The important and real advantage is that student in these prime years of life gain a lot of knowledge of politics which gives them training to enter the arena as trained politicians.
  Well of course there's nothing without advantages and disadvantages, so does this involvement of youth in politics. Disadvantages outnumber the advantages. firstly, while the students, have primarily entered college for studies they get distracted from their prime objective and become entangled in the dirty game of politics.
The energy and time they use or waster in masterminding political moves, could well be used to study. The entry of politics in the premises of educational institutes has caused many a damage to several students.
                      After studying the pros and cons of students participation in politics, the disadvantages are more damaging than the gains acquired in the sequence. For all the advantages students gain, can as well be achieved so in other ways also and there is no need for their entry in politics.In the end I would only conclude that STUDENTS MUST STAY AWAY FROM POLITICS and retain their interest in studies which alone can help them steer the ships of their lives.
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