I was watching a movie called Swadesh again, it talks about a young man who returns to a village in India, from the comfortable life in the United States, and upon return, sees the pitiable condition of this counrty.
Now, I have always wanted to leave here, and go abroad, and many of my friends, after watching that movie, taunted me about it. But, what are those who stay here going to do?
What is our purpose? Do we have one? We study to become engineers, businessmen, lawyers, we form the layers in society, and help build a beautiful cake. What about those places where society is a fable. Unheard, unseen, and not understood. We worry about an exam that is two weeks ahead, or the car running out of gas, but there ar people who can do NOTHING, but worry about a square meal.
We(as families) live with the comfort of not worrying about where our next meal is going to come from, therefore we dont understand what a life it would be, when the thought, of a eating a dry chappati means eating a morsel too much.
I know people who talk about education as if its our job. We attend classes, colleges, various institutes of supposed learning, to do what? move on with our lives. Then what am i doing different? I just choose to do it in a different place. Just life people move from Infosys in Bombay to Infosys in Banglore.
Who can really USE this educated state of mind? We learn things , applications of the mind, and we do what? work our ass off so that at the end of the day, WE get to live a comfortable life.
but arent we as human beings supposed to help each other??
Why not try to help those who need what we have? There are children out there, who dont know abc, dont know numbers, are so ignorant that no civilized world would accept them.
What good use is our knowledge of the abc's and the tables if we cant help others who dont have access to it, to understand use the power that it holds. for if it wasnt for numbers, we would never have had computers.
I just gave my Electrical networks paper a few days back, now what can i do with what i have learnt? NOTHING...absolutely NOTHING. but if i were to teach a village boy, how to handle current, and voltages, what the best way to connect lights and fans are, what the concept of wattage was, about storage batteries. THEN, he has gained immensly. he can now do his best to get more power out of what little electricity he gets.
Another example, if those people knew, how to treat minor ailments. it would help. they wont have to worry each time the youngest gets a bout of diarrhea. they'll know what to do.
if someone knew how to work the finances, we would be able to set up funds, we would be able to help those who need it most.
i hope u are getting my drift.
The very foundations of our society was build by educated minds, that were tuned to help the other man, not for his/her own needs. and a fact remains that the way we learn today, cant help anyone ever. we are growing into a worthless breed of spawns, that can do no service to humanity, and can only think of themselves.
Education wasnt about gettin money and big jobs, it was so that, life would be easier for all of mankind. not just for one of us.
Just a rant about today's Science in India
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So today I read an article about the state of Science in India written by
Prof. G. R. Desiraju, a professor of chemistry from IISc. Here is the
article.
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12 years ago
1 comment:
whether this post is heart-felt or just a reaction to Gowariker's SWADES only you can tell.
there is more to a society than forming layers and ending up as a cake. society is not the cake, its the oven.
a glance at the history of societies will tell u, a minimal upper&lower class and a maximal middle class propel the society to the greatest of heights. In India, we are falling short of the middle class.
for one, if you cant educate yourself, you can never teach others. the pursuit of knowledge is wisdom and it is above the vagaries of the society.
indeed it is true we need to expand on education and teaching. but how much do you think the Government is investing on Education & Health-care,the two major pillars of a strong society? The Government spends more on elections than on education.
what can we as individuals do? think macro-work micro. have a vision in the largest perspective but work with the smallest units. for EXAMPLE,its better to immediately start teaching a bunch of children than starting to build a huge school and delaying the process. there are many other examples and instances. we just need the guts to implement them.
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