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Saturday, June 18, 2011

MARKS.................................................

India won World Cup 2011 . Marks . Anna Hazare is on Fast . Marks . Osama Bin Laden is dead . Marks . Obama is getting fat . Marks . Facebook has notched 17 million users in India . Marks .
The sun may rise from west but parents , teachers and neighbors won't stop asking us "How much marks did you got beta ?? " Examination are a great way of testing student's potential  in academic performance but they are not just enough . Marks do not tell that I am good at web programming and coding , they do not tell that I am an avid reader , they do not tell that I am guy with creative and innovative mind for tomorrow . My real talent and passion is never shown up in the report card for me , it is and will be an alphabet on Report Card , but to whom does it matter what i think ,  all what matters is Marks , weather you care for them or you don't . Why does sports and other co-curricular activities take backyard stop in our route to definition of success ?? Why can't still in 21st century passion replace profession ??  

Kapil Sibal tried to introduce CCE (Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation ) but it now it seems like 'Continuously Crushed Education' where teachers instead of giving REAL-TIME activities pamper students for only 1 motive - 'Marks' . I get to listen many teachers in the class quoting that 'Children If u study like this no wonder what your FA Grades are going to be' . From REAL TIME ACTIVITIES i mean an educative field trip , a visit to an office of a MNC or any sort of activity which includes outing of the student to a new location where he/she can learn through interaction .
Of Course I can sit and talk like Baba Ramdev or Anna Hazare and blame the bloody government for everything but no we need to solve this problem from grass-root levels , we need to see how much contribution we are making to enhance the education system which we are a part of (directly or indirectly) .

The Art Of Commercialization

Art Of Commercialising is nothing more than art of generating revenue, profit and business and Indians lack it. For Example, the backyard form of cricket known as 'gulli-danda' had been played in India a long before but we were never able to commercialise the game, if had done who knows the Cricket World Cup 2011 might have known 'Gulli-Danda' World Cup 2011. This is we were Americans and Europeans come in, they are the new age experts in presenting a simple thing in a sophisticated manner and sophisticated thing in a simple manner as to generate profit and revenue. So putting it overall, I say we lack the art of commercialising, the art of generating money out of nowhere, we are still unable to commercialise the games such as 'Kabaddi' , 'Pachisi' , 'Mallakhamb' . Leave the international level even the coming generation does not know about these games, Still there's a lot of scope of improvement and things could be much much much better . We can have private initiatives ( I have lost my faith in government after what is happening in the parliament right now ) to start ventures in fields like medicinal herbs and shrubs or promoting traditional talent and game or maybe even collecting garbage . Give the job to Americans and they will make a fortune out of it while we will lag behind. Some say (referring to the article of Vijay Ramachandran in Times Of India) the reason is we are less curious, passionate, creative and intelligent than the Americans but I think otherwise Indians are more creative , curious , passionate and intelligent than americans but the thing is we do not show off and at the end that is what matters . How is the world going to know what u r or what you can do if don't show them. We need to use this population, these minds commercially to generate a profit for India by any means possible, we don’t need to be ‘idea copy cats’ (talking mainly of Bollywood and business ventures) , we need to work upon something totally ours .