Adieu!

"... War's annals will fade into night
Ere their story die."

Welcome, President!

Today is the last day of the conference .. CHEPO6 .. the conference which was so much awaited .. and we have been so much a part of that .. so many exciting days we have had .. so many memories .. incidents, every now and then, kept on happening .. some took us for a surprise .. some opened our eyes .. but by and large we all, I am sure, will cherish the memories ..

And finally, today, we are going to welcome the President of India in a short while .. so many things are happening around in and around the institute as a part of preparation .. the gates suddenly got decored with beautiful flowers and leaves .. armed forces every here and there .. security tightened .. some regular thoroughfares have been sealed .. there is a suspense-cum-excitement involved with this biggest event of the institute in recent times. There is an aura of readiness in the air from very early morning. As if an insitute awakens from its slumber.

Welcome president! Inspire us with your Wings of fire. Let us get enlightened by the Ignited minds.

Answer, my friend!

It is said that after every joyous moments one faces incidents that bring tears to one's eyes.

But at times you never know where exactly you are going wrong.

Yoy feel helpless, looking for a hand to lift you up, to lift your spirits.

You wait infront of the stairs that goes to places unkonwn .. waiting for an answer.

And you keep on waiting .. even the stairs fade away .. your vision gets hazy ..

Is this a sign of development?

Today I was shocked to read the news !

Just a day back I posted something in a nostalgic mood and that exactly said about this topic. The excitement that was there in our school days during the Saraswati Pujas. The boys, in their mid-teens, venturing into the Girls' schools on such days.. these days being so special to them.

And today I came to know that the headmistresses of certain girls' schools felt that their schools become insecured due to too many tresspassers on those puja days and hence took the decision to close the gate of the schools to all 'outsiders'.

This raises two questions before us.
i) The boys these days are not enough civilised and have lost their dignity. The society is becoming more and more unsafe for girls these days. Their behaviour towards girls in general has deteriorated so much that putting a bar on them has become unavoidable.

ii) The earlier generation are yet to become open-minded to forget this discrimination between girls and boys. They are unable to accept all of them to be part of the same community called 'students'. And in a world where this discrimination between these two sexes are getting thinner and thinner some orthodox people are still making the younger generation remember that they are not the same. And as like any other rules forced among the youth the interest to break away from it or deliberately violating the rule is becoming more and more .. resulting in an even insecured society for the girls.

Nevertheless both of these give us a rather unhealthy picture of the society. And raises a question : "ekei ki bole sobhyota?" ( Is it really worthy of calling the progress of civilisation?) Are we really proceeding towards a better future? Or another 'dark age' in the society is not too far away!?