Unconventional Wisdom

I’ve spent a little more than a quarter of a year in the West. It’s not a very long time, though I believe, it's still long enough to notice the stark differences that exists between India and the other developed nations. It’s almost impossilbe to discuss all of them, which they are quite a lot in number. Rather I would like to mention the things that are quite striking and that which have created a deep impact on me and up to some extent moulded my present day ideologies. Before I delve into the differences, I would like to confess that I’m a lover of my country and as any other patriotic citizen I have an utmost respect for my nation’s sovereignty and the constituitional framework it’s built upon. To begin with let’s start with India’s higher education. Today, India has more engineers than any other country in the world. While we are still big in numbers, the quality of these engineers are far from satisfactory. Let’s try and analyse the problem. Post independence, the economic ...

Soon after I was finished with my first post I was instantly interested in posting another one. In the beginning I was flooded with enumorous ideas, ideas from across the spectrum, ranging from education to politics to even God and spirituality. To overcome my dilemma I paused for a moment and asked myself, “What's that one thing that bothers me the most in today’s society?”. Well the question didn’t actually help me constrict my options rather it seemed to agrravate my already existing problem. Since I had to write about something I realized I needed to quickly focus my attention and train my thoughts. After hours of thought I decided to write upon something that has been troubling me since the very nascent years of my school life and which is: rote learning. Mugna, ratta marna or rote learning , irrespective of how you call it chances are you’ve experienced it quite early in your life. We’ve all gone through the period when we were forced (yeah I used such a strong word) to reme...