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Sunday, 7 July 2013

A Mother's Treasure Is Her Daughter...

This post won an 'Award Of Appreciation' in the 'Express Your Love' Contest by 'A Tale Of Two And A Half'
Heartfelt Thanks To Monika Bakshi!

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Love -- The Most Beautiful Feeling among all and the best relationship personified is the Mother - Daughter Relationship. Right from Day One -- Not since her birth but even Nine Months before that since her first feel in oneself initiates the relationship.

They both complement each other in all respects throughout life. As a chubby bundle of joy - giving new degrees of happiness everyday, leaping new landmarks - first word -- Maa!

The best friend in her youth sharing everything & the biggest support in a Mother's senility - A Daughter is the epitome of Love increasing manifold everyday.

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This post is written as part of 'Express Your Love' Contest.

Contest Organizer :- 'A Tale Of Two And A Half'.

Right V/S Wrong --- The Educational Perspective

WHY?

Why is it that since ages, Right has to fight for what he deserves & Wrong takes a leap and obstructs the way?

WHY?

Why is it that the Wrong path always seems to be the shorter one to gain what one shall achieve by hard work to climb the Right path?

I experienced the same in Delhi University last week where I went with my daughter to procure the seat she got by her sheer hard work & perseverance since the last twelve years. Every year we all read about the exuberant increase in the cut offs for all the popular courses in our renowned DU.

Well, fine, that it is becoming really unattainable sort of feat for the students but WHY does this have a lot to do with politics?

The reservation policy wherein 50% seats are reserved, it has become shockingly pathetic that General Category Students stand nowhere. Moreover, the actual needy ones in the reserved categories are not getting the benefit. Mostly, the people who produce the fake caste certificates and mark sheets and the ones whose parents actually earn Lakhs but show themselves as belonging to Non - Creamy Layer are the ones who steal and grab the opportunities in all fields of life. This is increasing year after year. Lots of time and energy is being wasted in locating the fake certificates and genuine students have to waste their precious time due to all these procedures.

WHY is everyone so eager to follow the fake and Wrong shortcut to achieve success in life?

Actually they don't gain success this way. They can only get a degree (if they manage to escape the scrutiny by any means) but when they will jump in the sea of opportunities in the market, their worthlessness will surpass and Truth shall prevail.

Hence, parents, please teach your children to follow the tough but glorious path of hard work and sincerity rather than choosing the easy but dishonorable, fake one so that they can get strengthened and ascend to triumph for their lives ahead.

Friday, 5 July 2013

When You Say Nothing At All...

This post was my second attempt at writing for BlogAdda's WOW! Initiative and was adjudged as one of the WOW! posts. A new achievement. Now, two in a row - The first one being On A Rainy Day...

This prose has also been published at WE as a part of their Anniversary Issue, April 2015.

There's something in the air

Seems to be a hush - hush affair

You go about it with a flair

What's going on in your mind's lair?

When You Say Nothing At All...

Are you trying hard to recall?

Whether you want to spill it or stand tall

It's entirely your call.

To the mind goes a stairway - the eyes,

Are you trying to cook up some clever lies?

Or is it some genuine surprise?

I wonder as my eyebrows rise.

When You Say Nothing At All...

Does it point to the beginning of your fall?

Are you attempting to build around yourself a wall?

Don't stay mum... In your court lies the ball.

I wonder if away from all this you're shying

Or simply for my attention, you're vying?

On silence, are you relying?

Or is there something hidden, underlying?

When You Say Nothing At All...

Is it about some matter big or small?

Or is misfortune going to befall?

All this is causing a gall.

Speak up, for God's sake!

Have you done some mistake?

Why has your perception turned opaque?

Please don't take it for granted... What's your take?

When You Say Nothing At All...

My anxiety starts to take an upward crawl

Have you been through a disturbing brawl?

Oh My! How you've managed to keep your emotions under an unintelligible shawl!

This post is a part of Write Over The Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.

Sunday, 30 June 2013

An Ode To The University Of Delhi -- Our Very Own DU

They call it the Delhi University. Since this year, it is my daughter's turn to have her very own tête-à-tête with this temple of 'undergraduate' learning, she penned down this poem to express her feelings towards this adrenaline - like Admission Rush every academic year -- With A Difference of FYUP this year.

They do not call it DU for no reason

Coming Up With A Very New Programme this season

The Great Indian Academic Tamasha of Admission

With hopeful students accusing their marks of treason

While we've become accustomed to cutoffs shooting through the sky

Also to optimistic pupils' hue and cry

The 100% demon striking DU... Oh My!!!

And to some hearts' hope receding... Bidding Goodbye

Oh! I see...

What worries me is the new pattern of FYUP

Is Mr. Sibal the culprit? The head of HRD!!!... He teams up with Mr. Singh -- The VC
The one behind making us the Guinea Pigs Of The Century!

While the 'Sciences' belong to the North
'Humanities' does it for the South
The Commercites too have a soft corner for the North
It's the campuses I bring forth

We know not what lies ahead
It's just the successive cutoff lists we dread
This education will finally help us earn our bread
Let's look forward to it with hope, on the path which we tread...