The Great IIT'ian Circus!
Hello Folks! Pretty long since I
wrote something crappy. Well I was a bit busy these days, doing an internet research on sexually transmitted diseases in Mongolian tribes! First up, I'd like to congratulate all those who've fared well in
their board and JEE exams recently! You've just reduced two years of slogging your ass & not getting laid,
out of the remaining 50-60 years of your life! And I'd also like to thank you all for the amazing response you
gave for my previous blog article, The Football Fanatics! :')
Moving forward, as the world renowned philosopher, Sir Friedrich Nietzsche once said "In near future, there will
be more number of engineers in India, than the number of quantum particles in
Universe." Well, I won't blame him for his absolutely factual and
pragmatic thoughts about India. Never mind!
As per Nirmal Baba's yearly
predictions, there will be around 8 million engineers passing out, by the end
of the year 2020! Whoa! A fucking 8 million! That's just slightly more than his annual turnover!
I still remember when I was in primary school. Everyone back then would say
"Main bada hoke Pilot banunga!" or "Main Doctor banunga" or
"Main Army join karunga" or "Main bada hoke Nalayak
banunga"...err.. I can't recollect if someone said that?. The point is, no
one knew back then what an Engineer is. To be frank, till 8th grade I thought
of engineers as people who drive railway engines & local trains in Mumbai! Yep. I was a retard back
then! :D
But look how everything is changed now! The arcadia of childhood, the most
beautiful phase of our life, is fading away slowly. For example, a 7th grade
kid in my society has been forcefully admitted in some random coaching classes
for IIT, under the name of pre foundation course! Pre foundation? What the fuck
is pre foundation? Sadly, that kid wanted to join swimming classes, as he loved
swimming. But then kids in India hardly get encouraged to take up sports as a
career. Instead they're despised off by
saying "Sports khelega beta? Jaa chup chaap andar jaake padhaai kar pehle!
Bada aaya sportsman banne!" Also, people are rapaciously spending
lakhs of rupees on these coaching classes, just to get that so called 'headstart'. Maybe they should start eating textbooks from 5th grade onwards,
just to get that 'extra edge' over others. As a 7th grader, I still remember
getting excited only about learning the biology chapters known as 'Life Processes 1,2 & 3' (If you know
what I mean). I didn't have any idea of what IIT-JEE is or what Engineering
is until 10th grade!
Kids nowadays days are doctrined and trained to be the typical working class hero. They're
taught to sacrifice their dreams for the sake of being tagged as
successful. They're often encouraged to live a rather monotonous life which
involves getting a good job, a house, a car, a good amount of bank balance and ultimately getting married to a fair looking, 'sanskaari' girl. That's it. Unfortunately, capitalism has taken over
our lives to such an extent that even books like "How To Be Successful In
Life" define success as obtaining tremendous amount of wealth &
becoming rich as fuck! As Indians, we are always proud of our moral values, our
culture, our parampara, our ... well I'm out of all the shuddh hindi terms in
my dictionary! But besides this we often imbibe values such as hypocrisy, women
inferiority, jealousy, greed and hatred in our kids, since birth. Knowingly or
unknowingly, it's still a mystery! It is unfortunate but true. Whenever
someone tries to think out of the box, we just dissuade him, making him feel
absurd. If this trend continues, in near future pre school kids will be taught 'I for IIT' and other alphabetical bullshit!
As far as IIT is concerned, there are almost 12 lakh aspirants of IIT
every year, out of which nearly 9885 make it to this magnificent institute. I'm
not saying there's harm in trying, but it must not be the case that its only thing you're trying for. Its ALWAYS important to have backup options!
Always. I'm not saying this because I couldn't make it there. Try to be
practical, only 9885 candidates out of 1200000 are those lucky asses who make it
there, what about the remaining 1190115 candidates? (I hope my calculation is
correct, as I recently got another KT in Mathematics :p).
Kids these days, who're still unsure of what life is or what they want to be in
life, are forced like herds of cattle, into IIT coaching classes at a very
tender age, when they don't even know what it is. They're forced by their
parents & relatives to think about choosing a career, when they can't even
choose between Chhota Bheem and ShinChan! (BTW, Chhota Bheem is basically a sucks. I had watched a few episodes and I'm just back from rehab.)
My thoughts now ruminate about the wonderful lines said by the great poet, Mirza
Ghalib! "Never write your blog articles so long & boring that people will have to
measure it with a surveyor's wheel then find and kill you later."
So profound, Ghalib saab! I almost cried! :'(
Maybe I should conclude this here by quoting the great Jim Morrison! :)
"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder."
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| Sadly Lennon, the era of seeking happiness is over. We now seek wealth in order to be happy! |
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