DID U SAY CIVIC SENSE? (Contd.)

The college takes a lot of pain to keep the large campus clean .Apart from a virtual army of people carrying brooms and brushes working throughout the day ,there are dustbins placed almost every ten yards in the corridors yet, one does occasionally see things littered thoughtlessly on the floor.
Guys go ga-ga over latest bikes – thanks to “dhoom syndrome” ,zooming like a snake through a crowd is what adds to the image of a macho – man I suppose.How many of us give way to an ambulance we see approaching in our rear view mirror? Traffic rules? They are meant to be broken. If I’m hypothetically the anchor of “Sach ka Samna” right now, I think almost each and everyone of us would agree that there must have been one occasion when despite the red light , you didn’t stop and moved on.
And how can I forget the famous Indian “Spitting Tycoons” ,there could be a contest for them something like who can spit better or to a longer distance?
Ughh!!! Have I disgusted you? But how many of us think before actually doing this.I’m reminded of a joke in “Laughter Challenge”,a show aired on Star One –In US you can kiss everywhere but not urinate ,it’s just the other way around here in India.
President APJ Abdul Kalam said in one of his famous speeches, why do we Indians as a whole score so poorly on civic sense?What intrigued him was that the same Indian who let his dog dirty the pavement would not as little as throw a bus ticket on the pavements of Singapore!!!
One of the most important reason for this flaw in our collective psyche is the fact that we are all conscious of “our own importance”.We are just not willing to break the cocoon of “I,me,myself”.Thanks to this,we feel it is all right to create a mess but not to clean it.To make sense of civic sense,bring some sensibility and sensitivity into the whole process.If you do create a mess,clean it up-don’t wait for anybody else to do that for you!!!

DID YOU SAY "CIVIC SENSE"?

Vow!! what a topic to discuss a side of typical Indian psyche which goes unnoticed most of the time and the oblivion has led us to creating a mess which is becoming bigger and bigger!! I stay in Tagore Town a predominantly residential area of Allahabad,an area good for a quiet stroll.Almost everytime i walk around,i see at least one owner of a pet dog letting the poor beast vent it's bowels on the nearest (in)convenient place.Is it so difficult to have your pet trained?In countries like USA,UK you can be fined for the same.Cities are abuzz with so many food joints,pubs,restaurants,shopping malls and so on which have added quite a spice to our daily monotonous lives.But driven by the spic & span interiors of such places you all might have just missed the starking realties smirking at all of us.Whether it is a mall or a restaurant on a daily basis early in the morning around 7am or so one can see the employees sweeping the floors and even the pavement infront of their shops.Nice!Very Nice! What is not so nice is the no. of used soft drink paper cups & solid paper plates which they accumulate and throw outside consciously or unconsciously.But the question is where is their conscience at this point of time which allows them to keep the interiors clean as long as the exteriors exist as virtual "dumping grounds".
Another perfect example could be that of our very own college.............................

It's all about relationship (contd.)

I'm often flummoxed wondering whether smses have actually helped in bridging the gap between distant people or have actually increased the distance ?? Wishing personally on birthdays, festivals, new year has been replaced with the "idea" of 300 smses in a rs.50 sms-card which of course is not only affordable but exemplifies typical notion of people trying to shrug their shoulders from the usual "formality".............Don't you think all this has actually amalgamated relationships and they have lost their purity and aesthetic value??One might have 190 friends on orkut,another 167 on facebook but when it comes to having just "one friend" around you infront of whom you can open your heart out it's none,so many to share jokes and ask for treats and parties but virtually none to pacify you in times of dire need and try placating your woes in some way;so many to pull your leg and tear you apart but hardly any to act as a pillar of strength.
The term "relatives" appears quite alien to me these days.What are relatives actually meant for??all the chachas,mamas,buas n phuphas,cousins,etc. congregate either at marriages or terhi or may be some other family gathering;or they'll try to patch up by making some frequent visits at your place but actually vanish away when you are down with sickness,financial problems,career crestfalls ; when your life is looming in the dark nobody to lighten up the path for you.Genuine smiles have been replaced by the plastic ones and starngely enough authenticity of relationships have to be proved nowdays ............

It's all about relationship!!!!

Our lives revolve around relationships.Though some of them do tend to bind us, even inthat bondage there is a feeling of security and freedom which gives us a feeling of assurance.The first word a child learns to speak is "ma-ma" because the nurturing care provided by the mother,right from breast-feeding even before the child can actually start recognising her,somehow gets incsribed in the child's mind.No wonder then that as soon as the child starts crying people rush to search for the mom of dat child.A mother- daughter relationship is the first relationship i believe i' made before moving further into the complex maze of relationships.
Then came school life where the term "friend" was added in my vocabulary.So if someone was sharing her tiffin or lending me notes was a friend in all the senses.With the advent of teenage however,friend was someone with whom one can share secrets;latest crush,talkin about latest fad and discussing about what kind of girls do guys fall for?The hottest topic for gossip used to be who's hooked up with whom and who has broken-up.
When college life started i could perceive the pace of fast changing milieu around me.It was the emergence of "sms generation"............