Big Fight

The pub assault in Mangalore has raised many doubts in my minds. The moral policing done by extremist grps are questionable. Let me start this way…

It was yr 2001 when I joined the college as a hosteller and it was thought of ragging that haunted me and nothing else. Being an alien in the city I had no option but to opt for hostel as that would be the best place I could think of. Ragging was a known concept to me. I heard a lot abt it during my coaching but SGSITS is the safest place for fresher’s as far as ragging was concerned. There was always an explicit condemnation of ragging and implicit support. When you are at receiver end you condemn it and support it to some extent (condition apply) from other side of table. You will always find the extremist supporter of it as they will always revive the wave of ragging and no one can change their dogmatic thinking.

Similar analogy I can draw in these gory acts going on in the name of moral policing. Whether it is Valentine day mayhem or pub assault, such acts are condemned widely across the country but the convicted were never prosecuted and the implicit support never stopped.
Ragging was the noble concept which lost its sheen over a period on time. So question that remain unanswered are, whether ragging is good if done within the purview of students interest? Is there any sanity in this pub assault? Has pub culture affected the vulnerable section of society?

Good bye 2008.....Welcome 2009

So one more year passed and u r marching towards ur graveyards. If someone ask me if I again want to live my life which I lived 5 years back then my answer would be ‘NO’ , because with each passing year I learnt a lot and each grey hair brings lots of experience to me. I can’t afford to waste all my rich value earning and I don’t regret the life I lived.
2008 passed by with lots of memories. This year I would regards as one of the most eventful year in my life. Some of the incident will have everlasting affect on me.
The year was best for Indian sport starting from Cricket (T20,IPL,Clinching Test Series) , Olympics (Abhinav Bindra and Boxing)and then chess (Vishy) all where memorable and unique achievements.
The most horrifying memories are plummeting stock market, Inflation, Global recession and worst of all terror attacks in financial capital of India, Mumbai.
Every New Year brings some hope and most of the sane brains on this mother Earth try to give deep thinking to their acts, introspect and plan for the future. Now it is high time for some serious resolutions and my resolution for Year 2009 goes here.

1.Take social responsibility at par with ur personal responsibility. Next time when I travel in train/bus or visit places I will be more vigilant.
2.Finance the education of one girl child.
3.Continue to save energy as much as possible.
4.Do not waste food.
5.Keep up reading habit.
6.Avoid casual attitude toward money.
7.Do not let these resolutions to turn into humbug resolutions.

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