Children Education- Change???

I used to argue as I used to think that it will take at least 2-3 generations to see a changed India, India with 100 percent literacy, a country with none struggling for three times a day food, where every child would go to school to get the education, a country where everyone has their own thoughts, their own dream and the opportunity to express and achieve them.
May be I was wrong. It seems with the RIGHT TO EDUCATION bill legislated by Manmohan Singh’s government the better India is going to be before us very soon. It gives me a ray of hope and will yield fruits if it takes the right path.
I do see people scared of discrimination in school against the poor and its consequences, but to me the other side fascinates where every child would go to school, for some of them this has been a dream and for some this would have always remained as a dream. The discrimination problem, if exists, would slowly fade and harmonious environment would soon exist. Children are not aware of these discriminations and there are no such things among friends.

It is sad that not all these children will be able to experience all the fun that others have, pay for extracurricular activities like swimming, music, or Spanish lessons and not all these children could pay for tours and picnics but would at least be able to do what matters the most to them, “get education”.

It is now on government to execute the law correctly and schools and institution should cooperate with it for the better. The support of every Indian is required to make it successful. May this bill fulfills the dream of every children to get the education and of every Indian for changed and better India. I wish the best.

MY CONVOCATION DAY in college

It was always been a dream to get hugged by my parents after receiving my Engineering degree certificate on my Convocation. But unfortunately my parents could not make it on my graduation day to my college to see their son declared as an Engineer.

But the day succeeded to remain special one to me (Suraj Sharma) with the REUNION of FRIENDS in the college after a long gap of over 9 months for which we had been longing for and the REUNION took us back to our happy college days..


It was a strange but a wondrous feeling to enter into the college again after a very long time through the gate where we used to hang out after college hours, and walk inside the college slowly feeling the college was extremely pleased to see us back. I was just feeling being in our own place with friends but still felt lost.. A kind of strange feeling couldn’t express it clearly. It was like we were so happy to see ourselves back to the college and then suddenly realizing that we no longer are the students of the college and we have already left the college.

We visited the class rooms where we used to have our lectures, and we were feeling those days when we used to be there to attend lectures just waiting for it to end. We could just wish those days are back again and every one of us could sit in the class and have all those great times together.


We were just ending up laughing remembering all horrible times we had in the class. As every one was in the same mental state, we preferred silence over there, the silence that lecturers used to ask us to maintain and the silence we rarely used to maintain there. We knew we couldn’t be in those rooms for a long time and so came out of the class with a feeling of pain.
Everything seemed so intimate but still so strange. The stair case that leads to the class, the notice boards, the seminar hall, the labs, the temporary staff room where we had good times together with the staffs, the department library, the HOD room, the gate and the plants outside the department seemed to posses lives and were summoning us just to inform that they too miss us as we do. I was perplexed to see how suddenly these lifeless objects seemed so lively and how we developed an intimacy towards them.


We received the certificates and were declared engineers in the ceremony. Right after, we had photo sessions and met friends’ parents who have arrived there to see one of their dreams come true. I could notice a sense of gratification in them for their children and could understand how emotional the moment for them was.

The exciting and cheerful moments seemed to fade slowly as it saw few of the closest friends departing. Probably it is because we all knew life is not going to stop there forever and now it is our time to be responsible and look after the family. Life has to move on and we have got others job to do.
However few of us were still there for one more day when we started feeling pain deep inside the heart to be there with half of the friends gone already and so left the place early morning the next day.
Something in me doesn’t understand that this is the part of life and I am going to face these departures and feel this pain more often in days to come in my life and I need to learn to live with this, as our life doesn’t go the way we wish for and we do not get it the way we expect. Better it is to feel the pain as to live a complete life it is essential to feel all of these kinds of pain which would make us realize the importance of the stuffs that we are going to miss and we have missed and of course it means the stuffs we have got.
I got the opportunity to embrace these moments in my life and it was a lot worth to travel 1400km for 19^th TPGIT Graduation Day and for which I would like to thank TPGIT from the bottom of my heart for organizing such a memorable ceremony for us. Cheer in life.. Happy days Ahead as well..

HOSTEL LIFE

That’s a life. In hostel we live a different life, a life that encompasses every aspects of a life that a human being dreams to live and actually live. In one perspective, it’s completely a different world altogether.

During my under graduation in Thanthai Periyar Govt. Inst. of Tech., I stayed in hostel and it’s the hostel life which made my college days more memorable. Most of the unforgettable college memories were invented inside those walls of the hostel.

It was the day of admission in college when we (me and my dad) visited the room in which I was going to stay, along with my room partners, who were assigned on the same day. It looked strange; the place was strange and so seemed the way of living in hostel for few next years.

As we, human beings, are resistant to change, it takes some time for us to accept the new circumstances and adapt to the new. But in life everything, once happens for the first time and so we could never avoid them. It was difficult but exciting for few days to stay with the stranger friends in a completely different environment. Within few days we were more comfortable with this and started enjoying the new  life. It also saw the departures of few fellow friends before the bond is created and few ones after getting closer. It was just to make us realize what is going to happen in near future. But we never worried about it, to be honest; we never tried to worry as it was awful to imagine the departure then.

We just moved on adding new and new incidents in our list. The ragging by the seniors added thrills to our lives. I used to get excited by ragging where I could take the advantage of less fluent in local language and thus be the spectator in those funny incidents. It was so funny when the mentioned advantage got me in to the same case later and I also became the part in those funny incidents.

It was just the four of us in our circle who hold the record of not getting caught and made to work by the seniors who would get us in to hostel cleaning process. 

It was wondrous experience to get up at 4 am in the morning just to wait for the friends who would be returning to the hostel from their home with varieties of food and sweet items. Everyone would have the same target, as there nothing would be remained within seconds. A quick shower in the morning together with friends will always be missed by everyone there.

Birthdays are always special, but it becomes even more special in hostel. Covering the birthday friend with a blanket and beating him in the dark, and snatching the birthday cake by switching off the lights before it is fully cut, and pouring powder, water on the body of the birthday friend and making him and others take bath at least thrice on the same night are some special memories from the birthday nights.

15 guys in a room writing records till early morning at the last time with music running in background and poking fun at each other now seems like a sweet dream now. The late night discussions would mostly used to end up with more than 10 friends sleeping together in different angles in a small place allotted for 3 students.

Responsibilities seemed to blossom on us when one of the friends among us would feel ill and care by friends never made us miss our parents. I would never forget the night when I had severe fever, slept in arms of a friend who couldn’t sleep the whole night as he did no feel like taking the support of his hand from me and my body's temperature was so high that it broiled him but he gracefully left his hand to support me the whole night without even considering his own sleep as he it is how I sleep at home with my dad and it is the time I needed it.  And providing the stuffs and care when it is needed to others is what we have learnt it there.

To cover a buddy in the group with the blanket and beat him by the whole group was the all time favorite game in the hostel. We never used to mind who the target is. Anyone who gets trapped inside the blanket used to be our target with the single mission to pound him. It was a similar day when I decided to trap one of my close friends who was having a chat with a group of friends. I entered the room with the blanket in my hand and ran to him from his behind in a plan to cover him with a long dive in the table. Unfortunately he moved slightly sidewards after I jumped at him, because of which I fell in the middle of the group with myself covered by the blanket. Now the target was me and that day I received the maximum that anyone in the hostel till date had received.

Breaking of rules of the hostel used to add thriller in our life.  Entertainment would never stop as we used to dance in the room late night and I remember being caught by the seniors once and were made to dance in their rooms later. We have lots of more funny and emotional incidents in hostel.

Every life has to end and so our hostel life. All those entertainments are missed by every one of us now but it had managed to teach us some valuable lessons. It was completely a different life at the exact age of life to live it. It was a hostel life and would cherish those moments the rest of my life. my hostel life. Happy to be the part of the hostel life with my dear friends.Suraj Sharma

Special People

"Life is just like a sea. We are moving without end. Nothing stays with us. What remains with us forever is the memories of some special people who touched us as wave..." 

True . Absolutely true. I just feel that I don't want to live a single life. I want to live lives, different lives, incorporated in a single life I am given.

Just go on living lives , the lives given to you, the life given to others. Just live deep into others life. Understand their lives. But you it looks vague to understand whether you are actually satisfied by the life of yours own.

In life we don't realize How lucky we are, how better we have got it until the point of time when someone comes to you and  makes you realize it. The someone remains special forever to us, who for me understood me and knew what i should be provided to make me realize it. 

SO got a chance to visit SHISHU BHAVAN, where I met Lovely children who have got more challenges than us but still were happy and i would say busy spreading love. Each and every smile of theirs touched me and helped me to realize it. I could still feel their touch and it actually helped me to change the way i used to look my life. I didn't know how few small things are so special to others. 

I do realize that i was given a lot more than many other people and I should be completely satisfied with it and instead of getting disappointed for the things not available to me,  I should be working to achieve them. Its by the special person and lovely special children whom i felt to thank with sincere and deep feelings. Thank you. 

My Special Diwali

Diwali is something which is more special to me and I have always celebrated it with my family. Last diwali was the first time that I was away from my home and family. But here in I got one of the best Diwali I ever had. Students of amity organized to celebrate the Diwali with those children, for whom Diwali doesn’t give much added happiness. We visited an orphanage near Malad with the hope to spread happiness and share their sorrows together. I find that an unparalleled experience being with those children and celebrating.

We had best time of our life with them together with all children by singing, dancing, playing games, exploding crackers etc. We there felt emotionally attached to them, so they did to us. Students had contribution in donating sport materials to them which we believed will give pleasure plating them. Life doesn’t stop when we lose someone whom we love; we have to still live. Such occasion forces us to love those who we have got rather than searching for someone. I found it as an opportunity to learn about living life in difficulties and felt my role for making an harmonious society. The lovely children over there were rich in love and I would say they are so generous in sharing it. We advised them to live their life to the full, study well and utilize the chances given to them, and help each other always. The moments could be understood from the fact that children actually started asking for our numbers to keep in touch in coming days. It was really difficult to leave for home as few kids started crying. We left the place with our heart full of the satisfaction and love for them.

Darwin's Theory - connectivity to Business

        I had been hearing about Darwin’s “Survival of the fittest” since childhood. I had the eager to know about the “origin of Species” and “survival of the fittest”. I had the question like what are they? What is their significance in real life? I was in Delhi during this summer vacation and I had a day to spend in my Dad’s office where I found one book on “Origin of Species”. Oh,  I don’t remember the author’s name. I went through the book the whole day and completed just the half of it. I found it interesting. But I had to leave for my home next day and the reading of book was left incomplete. It describes how the origin of species was formulated by Darwin. It generated even more interest to know its importance in real life and how does it get connected. Is Darwin’s theory relating to extinct species or organisms or connected with business field as well? If yes, then how?

      When we consider an organization surviving in the market, to survive corporate leaders talk to their peers, copy their competitors, and copy each other, and the theory becomes a managerial fad. Do any of these “canned” theoretical solutions really work? In some instances, managerial theory or fad might work; but for most businesses, the pursuit of theories and fads is a prescription for disaster and decay. If we can’t trust the academics, the consultants and the soothsayers, who can we trust? Who, or what, can we believe in? Is there no hope in a world of economic turmoil, chaos and confusion?
      The central question in my mind is: Why do some companies thrive, while others perish? Why do some companies make extravagant profits, while others scrape by on bare subsistence? What is the secret to success? What is the secret of survival? Businesses and brands also compete with each other in a struggle for survival, and collectively tend to operate in ways analogous to natural eco-systems. Is the survival of a business akin in any way to the survival of an animal, a plant or a bacterium? Is it possible that success and survival in the wild might be analogous to success and survival in the business world?
      And here I found J. W. Thomas’s (a Decision analyst) analysis of, ‘popularizing the phrase “ Survival of the fittest” phrase by Darwin’  interesting.            
     Darwin did not say “survival of the fastest.” He did not say “survival of the biggest,” nor “survival of the smartest.” He said “survival of the fittest.” What a strange word, “fittest.”  One might tend to interpret Darwin’s “fittest” (without thinking about it much) as somehow related to physical fitness, or physical superiority, in other words, to “strength.” But, Darwin did not say “survival of the strongest.” He said “survival of the fittest”. There is the meaning of it.
             By “survival of the fittest” Darwin did not mean that the toughest will survive, the swiftest will win, the smartest will succeed, or the biggest will dominate. What Darwin meant was something far different.  Darwin said that the organism that best “fits” its environment had the best chance of survival; hence, the term “survival of the fittest.” The plant or animal best “fitted” to its natural environment, according to Darwin, would be the most likely to survive and thrive.
           So what does all of this mean for the strategy of a business or a brand? It means that the company and/or brand best “fitted,” or best “adapted,” to its environment (its markets, its customers) is most likely to survive, and most likely to flourish. It means that companies or brands not well “fitted” to their markets will not survive long-term. Product improvements and new products are pathways to the future, the lifeblood of strategic survival.          
          I went through a working paper “Survival of the Fittest or Fattest? Exit and Financing truck Industry”, by  Luily Zingales, which challenges the theory and concludes after going through various observations and calculations that, in industries with high barriers to entry,  relatively inefficient firms are very less likely to get challenged by the new and may stay in the market even after the mistakes. Thus competition will not always lead to survival of the fittest. Not everyone would agree to the above one. But I have few sources claiming it does apply to the alien life..          
             In an article "marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species", one of the Nasa scientists said that Darwinian evolution will be the driving force of life anywhere in the universe, and we should use its predictions to decide where to look..
       And every theory is criticized. But as far as I have gone through the different cases it applies to many of the real life cases..          
But for my eagerness in the topic I do have few questions on it.I have some queries on the survival of dinosaurs, why didn’t they manage to survive, being the strongest animal of times, I believe so. Is that they were not able to fit in the changing climate or what’s the reason?
         And my query about human being - will it be able to survive the change; We have been able to do so till date but the rate of change is so rapid these days. Suppose we manage till ice age, what changes are likely to be occurred in us and how are we going to adapt to all change and threats? Will there be total change in our physical structure? I would like the reader to give me the view on it.
Thanks
Suraj Sharma.