Monday, May 31, 2010

Wanna enjoy my Childhood ma!


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Amma, I don’t want to go to school.
I am just a child, Ma. I want someone to tell me stories and teach me. I want to watch tadpoles and butterflies and know what they eat, where they sleep. I want to climb a hill and catch a cloud to see what it is made of.
I want to wait with my hands in the stream and feel the fish swimming.
I want to run with the puppies, sing with the birds, and play with paper-boats in the rain.
I want to lie down on the soft green grass and hear the wind whisper.
Only then I want to learn more about them from the printed word.
Only after my imagination is fired, my thirst to know more has begun, a seed of ‘Why?’ is planted in my brain.
Amma, I feel trapped in the prison-like classroom. I feel my spirit slowly weakening with the monotonous teaching. Often, when I ask a basic question our teachers say, “No time for all that. Let us finish the syllabus.”
I get tired of studying just for marks without pausing to truly understand.
I want to go to the museum with my classmates and hear my teacher explain the stories of the artefacts.
I want plenty of nature trips where real Biology classes would be held.
I want to see colourful videos of volcanic eruptions and deep-sea dwellings.
I want our whole school to visit together the historic and cultural places in my city.
I want to learn astronomy after looking through a telescope once.
I don’t want to just read them in my textbooks; I want to see, hear, touch, smell and taste whatever I can. I want to experience.
Why can’t the school make at least one such trip every year?
And, I cannot stoop down anymore to carry my school sack. My back is ready to break. Why should I carry all the books everyday? Why can’t we have only two subjects per day? Or, why don’t we have lockers like in the Western schools? And, why should I squeeze in that over-crowded auto?
But, Amma, growing up no longer seems to be fun. I see only more of homework, winter projects, summer classes, weekly tests, monthly tests, quarterly, half-yearly and annual exams, external competitive exams, more tests, more competitions, more pressure, more stress…
When can I sing, paint, dance, swim, or cycle?
When I can just play cricket or even hide-and-seek?
What happened to that minimum sleep that you always say a child needs?
Why should I always study, study?
Amma, I am scared of increasing atrocities by untrustworthy teachers, ragging-raving seniors, acid-loving nuts, perverted adults…
Ma, right now, I don’t want to be a doctor, engineer or anything else.
I just want to feel safe and secure, play and learn without any stress before I become an adult like you.
I only want to enjoy my childhood, Ma.



© The Hindu

This article is published in The Hindu on Op-Ed page

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

IDEA from Black to White

The existence of black money in most of the rich people’s asset is glooming. This black money mainly affects the economy of the country. Due to this black money, “Rich become richer and Poor become poorer”. This lack of enhancement of economy indirectly affects every citizen of the country. Due to this black money, people were exempted to pay their taxes. Though there are several Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to unveil the existence of black money, it has been very hard to abolish. Using the new concept of establishing the plastic money under “One Man One Card” system, the possibility of abolishing becomes high. The system not only abolishing the black money but also makes one’s money safer.
The process can be achieved by unique ‘Authentication and Transaction System (ATS)’ along with ‘Personal Accessory Card (PAC)’ using uniquely recognizing human based physiological Biometric technology. Our Authentication system uses iris recognition technology since it has more security and high-resolution images of the irides of an individual's eyes. This Personal Accessory Card is accessible all over the world as similar to the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) technology. The PAC contains Biological data of a person and capital details. The ATS is installed in public places for the ease of accessibility. This ATS should have been connected all over the world through networking in order to access the database of the particular person and the transaction can be done using this system. The bio-data and capital details can be collected for all citizens and a separate database can be created and must be governed by an Organization under the Government of the country. Bio-data contains person’s name, address, iris identification image, unique identification number and blood group. As the system security involve biometric technology, the safety and security is more concerned. Due to this system, cooperated by all senates, the abolition of black money can be done in the converting ‘the currency to the plastic money’ step itself. Also the money becomes more accessible for all citizens thereby indirectly increase the growth rate of country due to proper tax-paying and transparent transactions thereby providing no room for bribe and corruption. But the implementation process duration is too long and depends on the cooperation of all governments and the citizens. Since the process includes involving every citizen in latest technology, awareness and exposure about the technology should be propagated.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Aliens will live in our EARTH

Every incident that is happening at a particular time where time span is very minimum (1/∞) in the universe can be considered to be frame. A particular incident will happen at a particular time all over the time which can be considered to be the frame. For e.g., consider the every incident that is happening in the world is photographed and that photograph is what I call as frame. Every incident at a particular time need to be photographed not at the interval of one second but at the interval of second. For any process to occur, the entire universe including all galaxies must travel from one frame to another. This process of switching over to one frame over the other is called “Positive Frame Travelling” i.e., we are travelling or going forward to the future. Sound good! How about travelling in “Negative Frame Travelling”, which is highly impossible because it literally means that we need to travel “to the past”. Have u ever hear of the word TO THE PAST? Well! Some extraneous energy or power is driving us to move forward from one frame to another frame. Those extraneous energy or power, which had no nomenclature and hence let us leaves to the God.
Technology every day grows exponentially leads to lots developments. However we restrict ourselves that the development in technology should be only on market based and not on intelligence based. But this restriction sometimes needs to be broken in order to find some truths. How about the development of famous machine called “Time Machine” which will make you travel to any year or age you want. This can be regarded as high end technology. Suppose if the technology of frame travelling especially negative frame travelling is determined, then anyone can go to past. Could this be possible? I hope Yes!! There is a place in the globe called AREA 51- A secret Military Operations place of the United States of America. This area is very famous for the existence of extra-terrestrial life called alien. Some Un-identified Flying Objects (UFO) were seen and recorded in the area. You may get lot of results regarding it when you surf.
If we talk about alien, many questions may arise. What are they? Where do they come from? How could it travel to the Solar system especially the Earth? What sort of business is that doing in this undeveloped globe? What is the vehicle it is using to travel here?
Let me make assumptions where it will fit all the questions. I call Alien which literally means that Unknown thing or a foreign thing as the Highly Evolved Living Organism. It is not coming from other part of the Universe but from our Own Earth. It is not travelling across several light years to come-up here but travelling to cross some time frames to reach the present universe. It may be coming to see their ancestors (we). It is using the vehicle which we call as “Time Machine” to reach this present world.
We are the ancestors or that alien. As I said earlier, alien are the highly evolved human which uses the high end technology of time machine to travel to this time frame. So, the alien was formed. The human was Evolved. But in present world, we are still undeveloped human. The human was evolved in the same earth. You can find them after several thousand or million years.