Exam Time

Exams time is here again…..the time of the year that every student wishes would never arrive, but when did God listen to the pleas of the mortals L So as I sit here contemplating whats going to happen day after tomorrow when the exams start, students are preparing themselves for it in their own ways…..there are those who are buried into their books so that they could get that elusive 10 pointer , then are those who have seen the topics to be studied but have now only realized that they are also supposed to know what is their in those topics !!!! (btw I come in this category)…..then there are those who are opening the books for the first time and praying for some photographic memory…..then come those who have not even bought the books and now have left everything in the hands of the almighty and are now hoping for some miracle to happen.

So this was about how the students are preparing the coming exams , now let us also see what kind of expectations do they have from the results…… there are some who will be happy only with 10 pointer, even 9.9 will be too less for them, coming second is not an option for them. Then come those who will be happy with anything between 8 and 9 pointer, above 9 they cannot think of (I come in this category!!!....afterall I am not greedy J) , then there are those who only want pointer above 6 so that they will be eligible for the placements (the kind of people who take sanyas at the time of exams!!!).

Now I will describe the scene in my hostel nowadays…..nobody is seen in the lobby except for the occasional book/notes borrowing. The terrace is all empty , nobody there talking on phone (this makes me feel sorry the phone companies….exam time is a very slow time for them…poor phone companies…my heart goes out for them!!!) . There is a very strange silence throughout the hostel, no sounds of people laughing….loud music blaring from speakers is a thing of past. The only thing that increases during exam time is back bitching (she lost my notes!!! She doesn’t lend me her notes!!! Disturbs me for no reason!!! And lots more…I am not going to write more about this…u all want to read the next blog , right? So let me stay alive!!!) . The only time you get to see your batchmates is during meal time in the mess, where the only question people ask is “ how much have u got prepared??” and the almost constant answer “ nothing” .

Well not everything is bad about exams….on the good front I can think of only one aspect. This is the time when students get united (against college and teachers!!!) . If you can think of any other good aspects , do give me your ideas!!!!......now I must also go and once again immerse myself in the utterly boring world of dml, edc ,scd and what not….

P.S pray for me…..i desperately need all the good wishes that I can get!!!!

Transgenders

“Transgenders”, a very burning topic, something which usually people are not ready to talk about. When my group had initially chosen this topic, I was dead against but now I am really happy that we took this topic. I had imagined people shouting at us when we would ask their opinion about these people but the reality is far from it. They were actually very forthcoming and helpful. Allahabad might be an orthodox city but the people have really modern outlook and that is a really nice thing, shows how India is developing. It is only when people from small cities develop that India develops.

We got varied answers and opinions from people when we asked them about eunuchs. Many of them didn’t know what are eunuchs, so we had tell them that they are called hijra or kinnar in hindi. I don’t know if what everyone told us was the truth but if they were truthful then transgenders seem to have a very bright and promising future. But the thing that disturbed me the most was that when asked do they themselves discriminate between transgenders and other humans , we got a straight no but on the other when asked about their future, people were not optimistic , which is really sad. Optimism is the key to happiness. When people are not optimistic, they automatically tend to be less excited about life, may be because they believe that nothing important can ever happen in their mundane boring lives but everyone’s life is a unique story in itself which god himself has written…..try finding “ the thing” in your story and world will start appearing so interesting!!! Well, that was off the topic…Talking about eunuchs, the government is taking some steps but the most important change is to change the mindset of people which is very difficult but not impossible…..so with hopes in my heart to see a bright future for these people , I bid adieu …….