Letters to GT students
1.
Your request for a new cheque book has not been heard properly, and now you have problems managing your finance; paying bills and doing similar transactions.
Write a letter the Manager of the back, describing your position and demanding an explanation on why your request for a cheque was not heard. You may include details on your: A/c No., type and dates of requests you had made.
Begin your letter: Sir,
2.
While checking the bill of a shopping you have had, you came to understand that some articles were charged more than MRP. This is a gross violation of consumer rights.
Write a letter to the Officer in Charge, State Consumer Rights Cell. You may include particulars of the purchase, and request action and demand compensation.
You may begin your letter as: Sir,
3.
Being one of the members of the local council, you feel that the funds allocated for waster management in your place is too inadequate, and there is need for immediate funds to meet the expense of the ongoing project.
Write a letter to the funding agency, State Local Administration Department, stating your position and requesting funds.
The Accounts officer
4.
Of late you understand that your newspaper comes late everyday. Upon enquiry you realize the the paper gets late because the newspaper boys spend a lot of time for inserting handouts and leaflets in the newspaper.
You are aware that this is against consumer rights. Write a letter to the Chief Editor requesting immediate action so that you get your paper in time.
The Chief Editor
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
1
The rich are able to enjoy all the luxuries available in the world, but the poor are becoming poorer and poorer. Some people are of the opinion that the rich should be taxed heavily to offset the needs of the poor.
• Do you endorse this view? If yes, to what extent?
• What suggestions can you have to make the poor better?
2.
There is a view that road accidents could be controlled to a greater extent if road infrastructure is streamlined to meet the rising number of vehicles on the road.
• Argue for and against this view.
3.
Controlling population is the responsibility of all for the well being of all.
• How do you look at this view?
4.
It is increasingly felt that under populated nations have the responsibility to share their extra resources with over populated economies.
• How good is this idea in your opinion?
• Do you think such an arrangement has some disadvantages?
Jaypeesdoc. 12/12/010
5.
People living close to digitally advanced environments are found to be enjoying better living conditions thanks to the opportunities such environs offer.
• How far is this true in your place?
• What effects does digital divide have on a given populace?
The rich are able to enjoy all the luxuries available in the world, but the poor are becoming poorer and poorer. Some people are of the opinion that the rich should be taxed heavily to offset the needs of the poor.
• Do you endorse this view? If yes, to what extent?
• What suggestions can you have to make the poor better?
2.
There is a view that road accidents could be controlled to a greater extent if road infrastructure is streamlined to meet the rising number of vehicles on the road.
• Argue for and against this view.
3.
Controlling population is the responsibility of all for the well being of all.
• How do you look at this view?
4.
It is increasingly felt that under populated nations have the responsibility to share their extra resources with over populated economies.
• How good is this idea in your opinion?
• Do you think such an arrangement has some disadvantages?
Jaypeesdoc. 12/12/010
5.
People living close to digitally advanced environments are found to be enjoying better living conditions thanks to the opportunities such environs offer.
• How far is this true in your place?
• What effects does digital divide have on a given populace?
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Respect quotient between parents and children: what makes it? Intelligent controls or enough freedom?
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
Respect quotient between parents and children: what makes it? Intelligent controls or enough freedom?
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
Respect quotient between parents and children: what makes it? Intelligent controls or enough freedom?
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
Respect quotient between parents and children: what makes it? Intelligent controls or enough freedom?
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
What decides the respect quotient that exists between parents and children? There are several factors of course. When it comes to intelligent controls and enough freedom, I tend to endorse the latter one based on single point. Let me prove it.
My argument favouring freedom is that it is freedom that leads to responsibility. There is a popular quote which goes like this: Freedom is responsibility” . The idea contained in such a pithy statement is exactly applicable here in this respect also, because only when there is freedom, there is room for responsibility. The sense of responsibility one comes to acquire all by oneself on the grounds that the freedom one enjoys has a serious other side, too. That is responsibility.
Obviously, this responsibility leads to obedience. Obedience gets generated out of respect. Let us take the case of our freedom of expression. When we enjoy it, we are bound to let others enjoy it too. That is, we have to respect the freedom of expression of others as well. So is the case with the freedom given to children with regard to respect quotient. This, in my opinion, is a two way process. Parents need to give enough freedom to children and children, in turn, have to respect their parents. This happens the other way round too. Parents have to respect their children and identify the amount of freedom they deserve.
All said, there is a little room for controls as well. Control, as we know, is not liked by many. So it is the case with children. However, if parents are intelligent enough, they can easily control their children without making them know that children are controlled. If at all they come to know that they are controlled, the respect quotient that exists between them, thanks to the freedom they get, will see that children simply take it as it is.
Concluding it, what I feel is that it is always wise to be free with children. However, there are times in a child’s or parents’ life when there will be need for controls. The condition is whatever controls parents impose, that need to be intelligent.
Jaypeesdoc. 10.12.010.10.55 am
Some social scientists say that poor nations need to enact a law enforcing minimum number of children a family can have, and thereby enabling the State to withdraw support for the additional child/children in matters like education, employment and healthcare.
Essay 010
• How far can you agree with such a law?
• Do you think it is right to withdraw support for all additional children?It is a matter of great concern that population is increasing phenomenally in third world nations. In such a state of affairs, a law on population control is timely, and I find it agreeable to a greater extent. But, I cannot support the provision that the State can deny support to extra child/children.
Rising population is no good anymore. There are several different measures being implemented to curtail population growth. But the impact of such measures is not visible either. Therefore, a law on minimum number of children is timely and worth considering. Firstly, when people come to understand that State wouldn’t support additional children, there would be change of attitude towards having more children. And there will be visible changes in all walks of life thanks to stabilizing population rates. For example, this law is already in force in China, and there are evidences to prove that it works in there.
However, I find it difficult to support State’s denying support to extra child/children. My one and only argument against this idea is this, that the factors that make a family have a certain number of children are more powerful than the provisions of a law. For example, social status, gender preferences, personal likes, family obligations and so on would make parents go for more children. Undoubtedly, such children would come to millions and no welfare State can ignore their well being. Therefore, simply cannot endorse such a provision.
So, to conclude it, a law on minimum number of children is good in many ways, but the State has to support additional children conditionally. If this is done, a law on small family norm would have greater number of takers in the days to come.
280 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Essay 010
• How far can you agree with such a law?
• Do you think it is right to withdraw support for all additional children?It is a matter of great concern that population is increasing phenomenally in third world nations. In such a state of affairs, a law on population control is timely, and I find it agreeable to a greater extent. But, I cannot support the provision that the State can deny support to extra child/children.
Rising population is no good anymore. There are several different measures being implemented to curtail population growth. But the impact of such measures is not visible either. Therefore, a law on minimum number of children is timely and worth considering. Firstly, when people come to understand that State wouldn’t support additional children, there would be change of attitude towards having more children. And there will be visible changes in all walks of life thanks to stabilizing population rates. For example, this law is already in force in China, and there are evidences to prove that it works in there.
However, I find it difficult to support State’s denying support to extra child/children. My one and only argument against this idea is this, that the factors that make a family have a certain number of children are more powerful than the provisions of a law. For example, social status, gender preferences, personal likes, family obligations and so on would make parents go for more children. Undoubtedly, such children would come to millions and no welfare State can ignore their well being. Therefore, simply cannot endorse such a provision.
So, to conclude it, a law on minimum number of children is good in many ways, but the State has to support additional children conditionally. If this is done, a law on small family norm would have greater number of takers in the days to come.
280 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Keeping children away from the clutches of deadly habits like drinking and smoking is primarily the responsibility of their parents.
Essay 006
• To what extent to do you agree or disagree with this?
It is parents who need to keep their children free from health hazards. But the fact remains that there are limitations for them, because, children are a lot so exposed to extreme temptations that there are chances for them to forego their parent’s controls. Still, the onus is on parents themselves.
I strongly feel that that it is parents who hold the key to keep their children away from substances. This is more so when parents these days are much more occupied with the pressures of life. This in turn leaves children with more parents-free time. The best thing they can do is that they themselves need to be free from all bad habits so as to be models for their children. Together with this, they can keep a healthy relation with their children. This way the warmth of the relation would make any child comply with their parents words. The onus thus falls on parents’ shoulders.
However, there are limitations. Even if parents are successful in convincing their children of the deadly effects of substance abuse, there are chances for taste-testing and trying-for-once instances. Children are such that many of them hardly idenitify what is right and what is wrong. Besides all these, they are vulnerable to temptations and pressures. These pressures may range from friends to heroes to peers to macho behaviours. We cannot blame children, for they are children.
In short, though the ball is the parents’ court, it many not be possible for them to strike it right always. There are other social and governmental agencies that need to work in unison so that our children are made immune to habits and health hazards.
275 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Essay 006
• To what extent to do you agree or disagree with this?
It is parents who need to keep their children free from health hazards. But the fact remains that there are limitations for them, because, children are a lot so exposed to extreme temptations that there are chances for them to forego their parent’s controls. Still, the onus is on parents themselves.
I strongly feel that that it is parents who hold the key to keep their children away from substances. This is more so when parents these days are much more occupied with the pressures of life. This in turn leaves children with more parents-free time. The best thing they can do is that they themselves need to be free from all bad habits so as to be models for their children. Together with this, they can keep a healthy relation with their children. This way the warmth of the relation would make any child comply with their parents words. The onus thus falls on parents’ shoulders.
However, there are limitations. Even if parents are successful in convincing their children of the deadly effects of substance abuse, there are chances for taste-testing and trying-for-once instances. Children are such that many of them hardly idenitify what is right and what is wrong. Besides all these, they are vulnerable to temptations and pressures. These pressures may range from friends to heroes to peers to macho behaviours. We cannot blame children, for they are children.
In short, though the ball is the parents’ court, it many not be possible for them to strike it right always. There are other social and governmental agencies that need to work in unison so that our children are made immune to habits and health hazards.
275 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
“It’s fun; someone’s misfortune”
29/01/2004. Jayaprakash. As narrated.
She must have been a different woman. Else, how could she wade off all these men passengers and go this front and find a niche-like room for her in this crowded bus of this evening. She stood towering to the ceiling of the bus; Built like men. The whole complement of the bus was looking at her. She seemed she knew it as well. She cared not. She bothered not, and she sounded not that differentiated either.
I didn’t find it awkward when I found this lady looking at a carry bag and smiling at it. I didn’t find anything fishy when she looked at all confidently and kept on standing. It was on, the bus, taking in and off passengers at various stops. And as it was nearing the nearest bus station, it was getting empty, or I would say, it was becoming breathable inside. Not many were to be added to the complement from that bus station.
What I did find embarrassing right after the bus left the second station was this; a lot of empty seats including the one three-seater, which got empty by two passengers leaving the side-seater comfortably day dreading notwithstanding, the lady was found undecided whether to sit and where in not to. And then this lady sat on that seat leaving that man in his own world. And she sprang up as though she was sitting accidentally on a live coal.
The towering woman started taking still more towering a proportion right after she sprang up from the seat.
Hei, what is wrong with you. Who do you think you are? Who do you think I am?
Ladies cannot travel safe in a KSRTC bus? You have no other job but this; to pinch and stroke lone and levelheaded ladies? I have been observing you since long. And the moment you got a chance to, you showed what you are and are upto. Stupid.
Do you know who I am? You don’t have someone female back home? Look aged still.
The ears and eyes of all passengers got stung on her and her tirade. The poor man, who had been sitting and daydreaming looking outside, woke up to find this lady lampooning. And he felt something fishy in the whole affair, for the lady was lurking at him.
Are you taking on me, lady?
Who the hell had been sitting in this seat when I sat in it a moment ago?
See, madam, I have nothing to do with what you point at. Ask anyone in this bus what I did. I didn’t even notice you shared this seat. I was really slumbering.
No, you stop it. I know you well. Why you? I know you folk very well. You’d sit like sleeping and slumbering, and would send your insensitive parts prying at the privates and properties of ladies. This is what you are all traveling for in these crowded buses.
Barring a few passengers’ suppressed reactions and not-so-surprised looks, there was nothing seemed to be happening. But I could not but go to the details of that lady. Because her wordings on her experience sounded calculated.
She was not that attractive. Nor was she advanceable behaviourally. The way she cut a figure inside the bus was a little short of an ordinary passenger. I thought. I had been looking at her face and expressions right from the stop she got in. And she was also seeing me. She gave me nothing as to mark her differently, barring her smiling at a carry bag, though. But this scene? Reprimanding a man of 40 plus years for nothing noticeable sounded to be a little extra-ordinary to me. I even went into checking whether she was normal. The bus had covered a lot by this time; but she seemed going straight with what she had been doing, vomiting her imaginary problem and indignation at that man of her choice. Was she making an imaginary case? I was in the dark.
Wasn’t she finding a little comfort by posing that she is, though that well-built and not-that-womanly-looked, capable of inviting the prying hands and ogles of middle aged men? Was she not telling me too that it was not that easy to be a woman among these skin-sucking men? Were these passengers not giving her the impression that she was not worth pursuing? Had she been harassed? Or Had she had a hand in this affair? My investigative faculty went out looking for clues.
Is it not psychological to be behaving like a woman inaccessible to all and sundry; all the while cutting and presenting herself to be exactly so accessible and thereby finding an auto-contact-remedial-mechanism being implemented willfully so as to become what she actually wanted herself to become; and virtually unable to be; and all the while remaining to be one and only one who knows about that inability much more than anyone else? Was she indulging herself a little by exposing herself as one who is not worth shunning?
I had got storm-brained by my own brain when the bus was about to reach its destination. And she wanted the bus stopped. While she was leaving the bus, someone was throwing a comment.
Ei, take this too with you. She is short of one like you, it seems.
I was really unlucky that I missed the rejoinder for this statement.
She walked down the bus and after responding to it. One can imagine how would she have responded to that comment. She had been responding so vociferously to no comments at all.
And then one passenger said that she had been working at Trivandrum and been traveling everyday in this route; and none of her day was different from what she had us all to have it today. She is not normal.
Really? Not normal? I came to know it with a shock. For, I had been observing her for long; her going animated with an inanimate carry bag; her standing among men; her cutting so-confident-a-figure; her sitting and not sitting when there were seats innumerable and so on. What if she took on me? It sent tremors down me.
The rest of the journey was hilarious; everyone was making this or that comment on the misfortune of that lady; a fellow being; a better half of someone; a counterpart; a mother of a few children; a good neighbour of a locale; a part of the society; a member of a workforce; a citizen; a voter obviously; a home manager and a breadwinner. And many more was she, I knew.
I felt sad. I felt disturbed. I felt my normal composure abnormal; for these so-called normals were all behaving really abnormally when they got an unfortunate being at hand. Are we, the normal, including me, really normal? Is she not better than many of us; for she has no intentions vile and vilifying?
When are we going to be normal men and women? A question easier asked than answered. “It’s fun; someone’s misfortune”. It’s commented; and I got a little relief, for I had wanted to reiterate that comment; or did I do it in between? I know not. For, I haven’t been normal since then. May God help her!
End of the text
29/01/2004. Jayaprakash. As narrated.
She must have been a different woman. Else, how could she wade off all these men passengers and go this front and find a niche-like room for her in this crowded bus of this evening. She stood towering to the ceiling of the bus; Built like men. The whole complement of the bus was looking at her. She seemed she knew it as well. She cared not. She bothered not, and she sounded not that differentiated either.
I didn’t find it awkward when I found this lady looking at a carry bag and smiling at it. I didn’t find anything fishy when she looked at all confidently and kept on standing. It was on, the bus, taking in and off passengers at various stops. And as it was nearing the nearest bus station, it was getting empty, or I would say, it was becoming breathable inside. Not many were to be added to the complement from that bus station.
What I did find embarrassing right after the bus left the second station was this; a lot of empty seats including the one three-seater, which got empty by two passengers leaving the side-seater comfortably day dreading notwithstanding, the lady was found undecided whether to sit and where in not to. And then this lady sat on that seat leaving that man in his own world. And she sprang up as though she was sitting accidentally on a live coal.
The towering woman started taking still more towering a proportion right after she sprang up from the seat.
Hei, what is wrong with you. Who do you think you are? Who do you think I am?
Ladies cannot travel safe in a KSRTC bus? You have no other job but this; to pinch and stroke lone and levelheaded ladies? I have been observing you since long. And the moment you got a chance to, you showed what you are and are upto. Stupid.
Do you know who I am? You don’t have someone female back home? Look aged still.
The ears and eyes of all passengers got stung on her and her tirade. The poor man, who had been sitting and daydreaming looking outside, woke up to find this lady lampooning. And he felt something fishy in the whole affair, for the lady was lurking at him.
Are you taking on me, lady?
Who the hell had been sitting in this seat when I sat in it a moment ago?
See, madam, I have nothing to do with what you point at. Ask anyone in this bus what I did. I didn’t even notice you shared this seat. I was really slumbering.
No, you stop it. I know you well. Why you? I know you folk very well. You’d sit like sleeping and slumbering, and would send your insensitive parts prying at the privates and properties of ladies. This is what you are all traveling for in these crowded buses.
Barring a few passengers’ suppressed reactions and not-so-surprised looks, there was nothing seemed to be happening. But I could not but go to the details of that lady. Because her wordings on her experience sounded calculated.
She was not that attractive. Nor was she advanceable behaviourally. The way she cut a figure inside the bus was a little short of an ordinary passenger. I thought. I had been looking at her face and expressions right from the stop she got in. And she was also seeing me. She gave me nothing as to mark her differently, barring her smiling at a carry bag, though. But this scene? Reprimanding a man of 40 plus years for nothing noticeable sounded to be a little extra-ordinary to me. I even went into checking whether she was normal. The bus had covered a lot by this time; but she seemed going straight with what she had been doing, vomiting her imaginary problem and indignation at that man of her choice. Was she making an imaginary case? I was in the dark.
Wasn’t she finding a little comfort by posing that she is, though that well-built and not-that-womanly-looked, capable of inviting the prying hands and ogles of middle aged men? Was she not telling me too that it was not that easy to be a woman among these skin-sucking men? Were these passengers not giving her the impression that she was not worth pursuing? Had she been harassed? Or Had she had a hand in this affair? My investigative faculty went out looking for clues.
Is it not psychological to be behaving like a woman inaccessible to all and sundry; all the while cutting and presenting herself to be exactly so accessible and thereby finding an auto-contact-remedial-mechanism being implemented willfully so as to become what she actually wanted herself to become; and virtually unable to be; and all the while remaining to be one and only one who knows about that inability much more than anyone else? Was she indulging herself a little by exposing herself as one who is not worth shunning?
I had got storm-brained by my own brain when the bus was about to reach its destination. And she wanted the bus stopped. While she was leaving the bus, someone was throwing a comment.
Ei, take this too with you. She is short of one like you, it seems.
I was really unlucky that I missed the rejoinder for this statement.
She walked down the bus and after responding to it. One can imagine how would she have responded to that comment. She had been responding so vociferously to no comments at all.
And then one passenger said that she had been working at Trivandrum and been traveling everyday in this route; and none of her day was different from what she had us all to have it today. She is not normal.
Really? Not normal? I came to know it with a shock. For, I had been observing her for long; her going animated with an inanimate carry bag; her standing among men; her cutting so-confident-a-figure; her sitting and not sitting when there were seats innumerable and so on. What if she took on me? It sent tremors down me.
The rest of the journey was hilarious; everyone was making this or that comment on the misfortune of that lady; a fellow being; a better half of someone; a counterpart; a mother of a few children; a good neighbour of a locale; a part of the society; a member of a workforce; a citizen; a voter obviously; a home manager and a breadwinner. And many more was she, I knew.
I felt sad. I felt disturbed. I felt my normal composure abnormal; for these so-called normals were all behaving really abnormally when they got an unfortunate being at hand. Are we, the normal, including me, really normal? Is she not better than many of us; for she has no intentions vile and vilifying?
When are we going to be normal men and women? A question easier asked than answered. “It’s fun; someone’s misfortune”. It’s commented; and I got a little relief, for I had wanted to reiterate that comment; or did I do it in between? I know not. For, I haven’t been normal since then. May God help her!
End of the text
Symbol of all aesthetics
06/02/2004
“Man on the Moon” was the banner heading that day and I was hardly 5 years old and my impression about moon was nothing different from Ambilimaaman (uncle moon) and his mysterious ways, which were being transported to us through our elders of old who had a rare flair for keeping kids quiet and calm by showing us this golden platter that went the way of all that was mobile, wading through patches and haystacks of frozen cloud; the show of which used to cut in our minds an impression of this ethereal personae sitting bowed on the back of that tusker of the highs and moving with his head waving majestically as if the elephant that was carrying this Ambili is smaller than the Ambilimaman; who in turn is being requested by us children to bring a few things on his way back from the highs; the unbroken crystal bangles found in the hands of that coy damsel who sits in the aerial mansion; and just for that we children simply went quiet and obedient; and onto such a personified moon did man go?
Yes, man went to moon, hoisted a flag up there, made somersaults and went up and down weightless, took pictures and things many that I still do not believe (there is a school that they believe that the moon mission was a make-believe catering to the American Ego, and man never went to moon); facts at times are more difficult to be digested than fiction, I feel.
What all creations we have had of this moon who is capable of deciding the destinies of the ones down; it creates and controls tides-both spring and neap- (we are taught), fluctuates the moods of the mentally challenged, dictates terms and conditions to the farmers; even the seasons take their moods and make in tune with the shape and show of this particular star of heaven; who was God to us; playmate; one with whom we went places during night; the brightest and coolest of all lights; a canoe up on the move, a dish of gold; a vehicle of those gods; the sign of strength and weakness; symbol of all aesthetics; light of all beautiful shadows; and for us children he has been a being capable of becoming whatever incarnations we wanted him to take up to satisfy our wild selves and their adventurous musings spiced up by the back up of those stories and myths we ourselves had got acquainted with by our grandmothers and elders, the main recreation for them those days was not to keep us children story-told, rather they wanted to do this or that as part of their daily life; and the same wanted them to keep us somehow settled out in the open, no matter whether it is day or night; and if the latter is moony, great, that there are stories galore all the while; stories of some mystery they seemed to have born with so as to make children of all worlds enthused by the ways of his coming, taking shape, going, and giving shapes to the very shape of their minds; the storehouse of mischief and monkey-business the children all over the worlds are still famous for and the parents all over the world are not at all fed up with. It is great to be ‘moonmooning’.
Once I was told by my father that the shades, patches and shallow places that we see on the surface of the moon were the aberrations that the chariots of Gods inflicted on it while they got engaged in holy wars waged to settle disputes of the contenders of various powers. And the lunar eclipse was the climax of one such battle fought between the forces of the heavens, the resumes of them are still Greek to me; and I have never tried to go into the details of the job descriptions, profiles and portfolios of these Gods and their retinues.
It is this wary attitude towards the ways of Gods and the inherent interest in finding this Kindest of all stars in human proportion that makes me still-in this age- not to believe that 35-year-old headline, Man on the Moon. If ever man lands on one moon, it is not going to be on the moon we children know, no matter how old we are, no matter how reasonable the explanations are and the details yet another headline of this magnitude is going to bring, no matter when. Moon is of children as he has always been. Words. 765.
End of the text. 8 Sentences
06/02/2004
“Man on the Moon” was the banner heading that day and I was hardly 5 years old and my impression about moon was nothing different from Ambilimaaman (uncle moon) and his mysterious ways, which were being transported to us through our elders of old who had a rare flair for keeping kids quiet and calm by showing us this golden platter that went the way of all that was mobile, wading through patches and haystacks of frozen cloud; the show of which used to cut in our minds an impression of this ethereal personae sitting bowed on the back of that tusker of the highs and moving with his head waving majestically as if the elephant that was carrying this Ambili is smaller than the Ambilimaman; who in turn is being requested by us children to bring a few things on his way back from the highs; the unbroken crystal bangles found in the hands of that coy damsel who sits in the aerial mansion; and just for that we children simply went quiet and obedient; and onto such a personified moon did man go?
Yes, man went to moon, hoisted a flag up there, made somersaults and went up and down weightless, took pictures and things many that I still do not believe (there is a school that they believe that the moon mission was a make-believe catering to the American Ego, and man never went to moon); facts at times are more difficult to be digested than fiction, I feel.
What all creations we have had of this moon who is capable of deciding the destinies of the ones down; it creates and controls tides-both spring and neap- (we are taught), fluctuates the moods of the mentally challenged, dictates terms and conditions to the farmers; even the seasons take their moods and make in tune with the shape and show of this particular star of heaven; who was God to us; playmate; one with whom we went places during night; the brightest and coolest of all lights; a canoe up on the move, a dish of gold; a vehicle of those gods; the sign of strength and weakness; symbol of all aesthetics; light of all beautiful shadows; and for us children he has been a being capable of becoming whatever incarnations we wanted him to take up to satisfy our wild selves and their adventurous musings spiced up by the back up of those stories and myths we ourselves had got acquainted with by our grandmothers and elders, the main recreation for them those days was not to keep us children story-told, rather they wanted to do this or that as part of their daily life; and the same wanted them to keep us somehow settled out in the open, no matter whether it is day or night; and if the latter is moony, great, that there are stories galore all the while; stories of some mystery they seemed to have born with so as to make children of all worlds enthused by the ways of his coming, taking shape, going, and giving shapes to the very shape of their minds; the storehouse of mischief and monkey-business the children all over the worlds are still famous for and the parents all over the world are not at all fed up with. It is great to be ‘moonmooning’.
Once I was told by my father that the shades, patches and shallow places that we see on the surface of the moon were the aberrations that the chariots of Gods inflicted on it while they got engaged in holy wars waged to settle disputes of the contenders of various powers. And the lunar eclipse was the climax of one such battle fought between the forces of the heavens, the resumes of them are still Greek to me; and I have never tried to go into the details of the job descriptions, profiles and portfolios of these Gods and their retinues.
It is this wary attitude towards the ways of Gods and the inherent interest in finding this Kindest of all stars in human proportion that makes me still-in this age- not to believe that 35-year-old headline, Man on the Moon. If ever man lands on one moon, it is not going to be on the moon we children know, no matter how old we are, no matter how reasonable the explanations are and the details yet another headline of this magnitude is going to bring, no matter when. Moon is of children as he has always been. Words. 765.
End of the text. 8 Sentences
Letters five
1.
You have had several bad experiences from your cable provider: and your requests for remedy remain unanswered.
Write a letter to the service provided stating this, and warning him that you are going to snap the connection unless the problem is addressed immediately.
You may write:
Poor cable connectivity: Registering complaint
Dear service provider,
2.
You have plans to visit a distant place of which you have no idea. Write a letter to your friend who you met in your schooldays, and request him to help you out in your trip.
Begin like
Dear friend,
3.
Imagine that you are a member of an environmental organization. Write a letter to GREEN, the global environmental organization seeking certification for your small organization. You may include details like, history, activities, major achieve- ments etc.
You may begin like
The CEO, GREEN India chapter
Sir,
4.
Of late, you understand that many small children are turning towards unhealthy habits. Write a letter to the health authorities, citing a few examples of such cases, and requesting the ministry to run an urgent awareness campaign on health hazards of bad habits.
Begin the letter
Hon: Minister,
1.
You have had several bad experiences from your cable provider: and your requests for remedy remain unanswered.
Write a letter to the service provided stating this, and warning him that you are going to snap the connection unless the problem is addressed immediately.
You may write:
Poor cable connectivity: Registering complaint
Dear service provider,
2.
You have plans to visit a distant place of which you have no idea. Write a letter to your friend who you met in your schooldays, and request him to help you out in your trip.
Begin like
Dear friend,
3.
Imagine that you are a member of an environmental organization. Write a letter to GREEN, the global environmental organization seeking certification for your small organization. You may include details like, history, activities, major achieve- ments etc.
You may begin like
The CEO, GREEN India chapter
Sir,
4.
Of late, you understand that many small children are turning towards unhealthy habits. Write a letter to the health authorities, citing a few examples of such cases, and requesting the ministry to run an urgent awareness campaign on health hazards of bad habits.
Begin the letter
Hon: Minister,
Dear friend,
Letter 2
How are you doing? Do you remember me? I am your old friend Carl writing from far end of this world. How are things up there Carl?
Carl, this letter is to make a rain check if it would be possible for you spare me a little effort in connection with my trip to your place where I happen to have an interview in the second week of next month.
Since your place is absolutely alien to me, It would be a great help if you could brief of the place I am going to be. By the way please not that I am traveling alone and I have to return on that day itself.
Kindly arrange in such a way that you meet at the nearest railhead and take me to a decent hotel, and, of course, you could direct me to the office I am supposed to be in for the interview. I will be traveling by Island express on 15/12/010, and the arrival time at your station is 8 am the following day.
I hope you wouldn’t mind my request for this favour.
Bye, see you soon.
With kind regards
Jay carry
Letter 3
Sir,
Let me introduce myself first. I am the secretary to our local environment club called ALL-IS-WELL This club is going to celebrate its third anniversary this month and we would like to make it a great event wit a lot of action.
As part of the same we would like to get our club certified an environmental organization of global repute. We are aware that the India chapter of GREEN is the right certifying authority, and it is great ambition that a representative of GREEN visits our club and evaluate the activities we are engaged in.
We have been actively engaged in several awareness campaigns, education programmes and road-shows on a regular basis. I am proud to record here that our club has been adjudged the best by the State Ministry for Environment. Needless to say, our club has come of age to be certified by an international authority.
Therefore, as Secretary to the club and I am honoured to have written this letter of invitation requesting you to certify our Club. Please do make it. Our address, contact numbers and route map are attached.
Looking forward to meeting you in person
With regards
For
ALL IS WELL
Secretary
Hon: Minister,
Let me introduce myself. My name is Radson Ray, a resident of a busy township in the state of Rambo.
I am writing this letter inform you of a very serious social problem that, I am afraid, is going to grip the youth of our place sooner than later.
Of late, children and youth of this township are turning towards unhealthy practices like drinking and smoking. This has been going on for some time. For example, now it has come to a disturbing stage that they have a hang out downtown where they can avail all types of habit forming substances. I am sorry to say the local police are unable to do anything against it.
You would agree that it is a dangerous development. Therefore, I request you to take immediate measures to run an awareness campaign aimed at the youth of the place. This may be held at schools, public places and through the media too.
I strongly believe that education is the best way out. Please do the needful.
Looking forward to hearing from you positively at the earliest.
Faithfully,
S/d.
Letter 2
How are you doing? Do you remember me? I am your old friend Carl writing from far end of this world. How are things up there Carl?
Carl, this letter is to make a rain check if it would be possible for you spare me a little effort in connection with my trip to your place where I happen to have an interview in the second week of next month.
Since your place is absolutely alien to me, It would be a great help if you could brief of the place I am going to be. By the way please not that I am traveling alone and I have to return on that day itself.
Kindly arrange in such a way that you meet at the nearest railhead and take me to a decent hotel, and, of course, you could direct me to the office I am supposed to be in for the interview. I will be traveling by Island express on 15/12/010, and the arrival time at your station is 8 am the following day.
I hope you wouldn’t mind my request for this favour.
Bye, see you soon.
With kind regards
Jay carry
Letter 3
Sir,
Let me introduce myself first. I am the secretary to our local environment club called ALL-IS-WELL This club is going to celebrate its third anniversary this month and we would like to make it a great event wit a lot of action.
As part of the same we would like to get our club certified an environmental organization of global repute. We are aware that the India chapter of GREEN is the right certifying authority, and it is great ambition that a representative of GREEN visits our club and evaluate the activities we are engaged in.
We have been actively engaged in several awareness campaigns, education programmes and road-shows on a regular basis. I am proud to record here that our club has been adjudged the best by the State Ministry for Environment. Needless to say, our club has come of age to be certified by an international authority.
Therefore, as Secretary to the club and I am honoured to have written this letter of invitation requesting you to certify our Club. Please do make it. Our address, contact numbers and route map are attached.
Looking forward to meeting you in person
With regards
For
ALL IS WELL
Secretary
Hon: Minister,
Let me introduce myself. My name is Radson Ray, a resident of a busy township in the state of Rambo.
I am writing this letter inform you of a very serious social problem that, I am afraid, is going to grip the youth of our place sooner than later.
Of late, children and youth of this township are turning towards unhealthy practices like drinking and smoking. This has been going on for some time. For example, now it has come to a disturbing stage that they have a hang out downtown where they can avail all types of habit forming substances. I am sorry to say the local police are unable to do anything against it.
You would agree that it is a dangerous development. Therefore, I request you to take immediate measures to run an awareness campaign aimed at the youth of the place. This may be held at schools, public places and through the media too.
I strongly believe that education is the best way out. Please do the needful.
Looking forward to hearing from you positively at the earliest.
Faithfully,
S/d.
Five questions: 07/12/010 ajaypeesdoc
1.
It is generally expected of parents that they should keep their children away from the clutches of hazardous habits and physical abuses. However, in today’s world of free access and limitless possibilities, parents can hardly do anything about it.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
2.
It is generally argued that children pick up bad habits and tendencies because they are influenced more by several external forces than by their immediate family ambience.
• How is this situation getting reflected in your place?
3.
The respect quotient that exists between parents and children is determined more by a sense of freedom than by controls of any dimensions.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
4.
Some people believe that intelligent controls determine the respect quotient that exists between parents and children, whereas some others are of the view that it is enough freedom that does the job.
• Which view do you support and state why?
5.
There is an argument that it is children who suffer the worst of changes: both social and cultural.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
Ajaypeesdoc.7.12.010
1.
It is generally expected of parents that they should keep their children away from the clutches of hazardous habits and physical abuses. However, in today’s world of free access and limitless possibilities, parents can hardly do anything about it.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
2.
It is generally argued that children pick up bad habits and tendencies because they are influenced more by several external forces than by their immediate family ambience.
• How is this situation getting reflected in your place?
3.
The respect quotient that exists between parents and children is determined more by a sense of freedom than by controls of any dimensions.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
4.
Some people believe that intelligent controls determine the respect quotient that exists between parents and children, whereas some others are of the view that it is enough freedom that does the job.
• Which view do you support and state why?
5.
There is an argument that it is children who suffer the worst of changes: both social and cultural.
• How far do you agree or disagree with this?
Ajaypeesdoc.7.12.010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Letter one
I am a subscriber to your cable network and my number is 234.29988, located at Barbey lane, third block.
I am writing this to inform you that, of late, my cable connection gives me constant problems with regards to sound quality, picture clarity and regular airing of certain channels.
I have reported this case many times by telephone, and a few of days back, I met one of your service engineers and told him of this persistent problem. Though he had promised me immediate repairs within a day or so, I have not received any kind of attention from your side.
So I am forced to record here that, unless I get my cable fixed within 24 hours, I would be forced to withdraw my subscription and go for a new service provider.
And please not that it would not be possible for me to pay the last bill of your subscription on account of your being poor in service.
Awaiting your immediate reply
Faithfully,
Subscriber # 234.29988
S/d
I am a subscriber to your cable network and my number is 234.29988, located at Barbey lane, third block.
I am writing this to inform you that, of late, my cable connection gives me constant problems with regards to sound quality, picture clarity and regular airing of certain channels.
I have reported this case many times by telephone, and a few of days back, I met one of your service engineers and told him of this persistent problem. Though he had promised me immediate repairs within a day or so, I have not received any kind of attention from your side.
So I am forced to record here that, unless I get my cable fixed within 24 hours, I would be forced to withdraw my subscription and go for a new service provider.
And please not that it would not be possible for me to pay the last bill of your subscription on account of your being poor in service.
Awaiting your immediate reply
Faithfully,
Subscriber # 234.29988
S/d
Letters five
1.
You have had several bad experiences from your cable provider: and your requests for remedy remain unanswered.
Write a letter to the service provided stating this, and warning him that you are going to snap the connection unless the problem is addressed immediately.
You may write:
Poor cable connectivity: Registering complaint
Dear service provider,
2.
You have plans to visit a distant place of which you have no idea. Write a letter to your friend who you met in your schooldays, and request him to help you out in your trip.
Begin like
Dear friend,
3.
Imagine that you are a member of an environmental organization. Write a letter to GREEN, the global environmental organization seeking certification for your small organization. You may include details like, history, activities, major achieve- ments etc.
You may begin like
The CEO, GREEN India chapter
Sir,
4.
Of late, you understand that many small children are turning towards unhealthy habits. Write a letter to the health authorities, citing a few examples of such cases, and requesting the ministry to run an urgent awareness campaign on health hazards of bad habits.
Begin the letter
Hon: Minister,
1.
You have had several bad experiences from your cable provider: and your requests for remedy remain unanswered.
Write a letter to the service provided stating this, and warning him that you are going to snap the connection unless the problem is addressed immediately.
You may write:
Poor cable connectivity: Registering complaint
Dear service provider,
2.
You have plans to visit a distant place of which you have no idea. Write a letter to your friend who you met in your schooldays, and request him to help you out in your trip.
Begin like
Dear friend,
3.
Imagine that you are a member of an environmental organization. Write a letter to GREEN, the global environmental organization seeking certification for your small organization. You may include details like, history, activities, major achieve- ments etc.
You may begin like
The CEO, GREEN India chapter
Sir,
4.
Of late, you understand that many small children are turning towards unhealthy habits. Write a letter to the health authorities, citing a few examples of such cases, and requesting the ministry to run an urgent awareness campaign on health hazards of bad habits.
Begin the letter
Hon: Minister,
Friday, December 3, 2010
Some people say globalization causes brain drain as developed nations increasingly exploit human resource from around the world, whereas some others say it leads to mutual global gains as the world is able to make better use of brains for the well being of the whole humanity.
Essay 070
• How do you look at these two view points?
Globalization is an international arrangement reached among nations of common interests for the benefit of all. But there is heated discussion on the views that rich nations are causing brain drain on the one hand, and on the other, it is an adjustment for mutual gains of all.
When it is looked at from a brain drain angle, it is an undeniable fact that many rich nations are making use of the brains from poor nations. For example, a great number of scientists working in the NASA and various research labs of the US are scientists from third world nations. The technological and financial superiority enjoyed by such rich nations is made possible greatly by human resources from the rest of the world. Though these resources are paid handsomely, intellectual property cannot be equated in terms of money.
On the other hand, it is also indisputable that great amount of human resources is being wasted in poor nations for want of opportunities. For them, today’s concept of global village comes handy and many of them find great chances for employing their intellectual properties and expertise elsewhere. Of course, their contributions to the rich economies are likely to percolate to other parts of the world. For example, mutual transfers of know-hows. So exploiting brains, wherever they are from, is a better proposition than under-utilizing or not utilizing them at all.
So it is right to conclude that globalization offers both opportunities and inconveniences. But, if the member nations could exploit the opportunities for the betterment of the whole world, a few inconveniences could be sorted out. So it is a win-win for all.
285 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Essay 070
• How do you look at these two view points?
Globalization is an international arrangement reached among nations of common interests for the benefit of all. But there is heated discussion on the views that rich nations are causing brain drain on the one hand, and on the other, it is an adjustment for mutual gains of all.
When it is looked at from a brain drain angle, it is an undeniable fact that many rich nations are making use of the brains from poor nations. For example, a great number of scientists working in the NASA and various research labs of the US are scientists from third world nations. The technological and financial superiority enjoyed by such rich nations is made possible greatly by human resources from the rest of the world. Though these resources are paid handsomely, intellectual property cannot be equated in terms of money.
On the other hand, it is also indisputable that great amount of human resources is being wasted in poor nations for want of opportunities. For them, today’s concept of global village comes handy and many of them find great chances for employing their intellectual properties and expertise elsewhere. Of course, their contributions to the rich economies are likely to percolate to other parts of the world. For example, mutual transfers of know-hows. So exploiting brains, wherever they are from, is a better proposition than under-utilizing or not utilizing them at all.
So it is right to conclude that globalization offers both opportunities and inconveniences. But, if the member nations could exploit the opportunities for the betterment of the whole world, a few inconveniences could be sorted out. So it is a win-win for all.
285 words
Ajaypeesdoc
Many developing nations have been able to convert what social scientists call brain drain to brain gain over the years.
How far do you support this view point?
I agree with your views on Brain drain into Brain gain Dr.Manmohan Singhji. The problem of brain drain may be tacked in three different ways
1. Reversing the brain drain
2. Making use of our scientists while they are abroad
3. By controlling and regulating the migration of our scientists going abroad.
Reversing the brain drain
In countries like USA the position is becoming increasingly difficult for Indians to get employment or retain the existing position. The time is therefore opportune for bringing back the Indian scientists. It is not as though India could afford to bring back every Indian but at least where there are well defined and relevant national tasks we should attempt to bring the scientists where their talents and training could be matched with the tasks.
But before we do that it is good to understand the psychology of our scientists abroad. It is not that the Indians abroad do not want to come back to our country in fact quite a few with a brilliant record have returned with special skills and experience which have been put to good use. But some come back and also left disillusioned. Why is this. They say it is not the lack of comfort or salaries that drive them away but it is the environment lacking in challenging opportunities lacking in the required degree of flexibility freedom, flow of thought that suffocates them. There is also lack of proper system for ready recognition and rewarding of merit. What is called for then is a change in our approach a change in our vertical hierarchical system of management and a change in environment that would permit bringing the best of our men.
Measures to encourage the reverse
Given the change of attitude in our research agencies we should do the following to get back our scientists:
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR maintains a Live Register of every scientist abroad with full details of his special skills training etc. This has to be continuously updated.
Specific agencies and Indian embassies may keep the Indian scientists abroad acquainted with the latest developments in science in India and also the varied avenues of employment potential.
Measures to derive advantage from those who settled abroad
The second question is how to take advantage of our scientis while they are still abroad.
The educational technical and research agencies may invite the Indian scientists like any other foreign visitors as Visiting Scientists for short periods and while they are in India they may be treated as guests of the laboratories and local expenses paid for.
Indian scientists coming home on leave who are specialists in relevant fields are also welcomed to spend a few weeks or months in an appropriate national laboratory as our guests. In special cases they may be paid for their travel expenses or sponsored under the scientists exchange programme.
Similarly the industry may consider inviting technologists and engineers as consultants for short periods.
Once the Scientist works as a visiting professor or scientist he develops affinity to local institute keeps in constant touch with it and feeds it with the latest advances in the subject as well as arranges to supply specialty chemicals equipment spare parts etc.
Regulate the outflow of Scientists
In a democratic system control of mobility is not acceptable. Further for a young scientist going abroad means a period of adventure and expending his horizon which in turn, has its own advantages. However in countries like Japan the scientists do go abroad but come back because the conditions at home are made conducive to their quick return. It is here we have to look into. Relationship between human resources and behavior of economies may be moulded by social system and the pattern of education. The pattern of education as obtained in India today is not relevant to the countrys needs.
By Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore AP SILICONINDIADOT COM
How far do you support this view point?
I agree with your views on Brain drain into Brain gain Dr.Manmohan Singhji. The problem of brain drain may be tacked in three different ways
1. Reversing the brain drain
2. Making use of our scientists while they are abroad
3. By controlling and regulating the migration of our scientists going abroad.
Reversing the brain drain
In countries like USA the position is becoming increasingly difficult for Indians to get employment or retain the existing position. The time is therefore opportune for bringing back the Indian scientists. It is not as though India could afford to bring back every Indian but at least where there are well defined and relevant national tasks we should attempt to bring the scientists where their talents and training could be matched with the tasks.
But before we do that it is good to understand the psychology of our scientists abroad. It is not that the Indians abroad do not want to come back to our country in fact quite a few with a brilliant record have returned with special skills and experience which have been put to good use. But some come back and also left disillusioned. Why is this. They say it is not the lack of comfort or salaries that drive them away but it is the environment lacking in challenging opportunities lacking in the required degree of flexibility freedom, flow of thought that suffocates them. There is also lack of proper system for ready recognition and rewarding of merit. What is called for then is a change in our approach a change in our vertical hierarchical system of management and a change in environment that would permit bringing the best of our men.
Measures to encourage the reverse
Given the change of attitude in our research agencies we should do the following to get back our scientists:
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR maintains a Live Register of every scientist abroad with full details of his special skills training etc. This has to be continuously updated.
Specific agencies and Indian embassies may keep the Indian scientists abroad acquainted with the latest developments in science in India and also the varied avenues of employment potential.
Measures to derive advantage from those who settled abroad
The second question is how to take advantage of our scientis while they are still abroad.
The educational technical and research agencies may invite the Indian scientists like any other foreign visitors as Visiting Scientists for short periods and while they are in India they may be treated as guests of the laboratories and local expenses paid for.
Indian scientists coming home on leave who are specialists in relevant fields are also welcomed to spend a few weeks or months in an appropriate national laboratory as our guests. In special cases they may be paid for their travel expenses or sponsored under the scientists exchange programme.
Similarly the industry may consider inviting technologists and engineers as consultants for short periods.
Once the Scientist works as a visiting professor or scientist he develops affinity to local institute keeps in constant touch with it and feeds it with the latest advances in the subject as well as arranges to supply specialty chemicals equipment spare parts etc.
Regulate the outflow of Scientists
In a democratic system control of mobility is not acceptable. Further for a young scientist going abroad means a period of adventure and expending his horizon which in turn, has its own advantages. However in countries like Japan the scientists do go abroad but come back because the conditions at home are made conducive to their quick return. It is here we have to look into. Relationship between human resources and behavior of economies may be moulded by social system and the pattern of education. The pattern of education as obtained in India today is not relevant to the countrys needs.
By Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore AP SILICONINDIADOT COM
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)