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You involve me, I will learn

I saw these lines in status message of one of my friend, can’t remember exact lines but theme was something like this: “You won’t teach me, I won’t learn You teach me, I will mug You involve m, I will learn.” We all cleared a very prestigious examination-“JEE” and considered  to be brightest and sincere students but now a t college, we bunk classes, sleep in classes. In short, we have lost that zeal of learning. Big question, WHY? Students blame inefficient teaching by Profs. Teachers on the other hand complain about sincerity and discipline in classes. We; JEE qualified students, professors; considered to be best in India, and one great institute- seems a perfect hub for learning, but is it so? What is the reason? Who is to blame for this- students, teachers or system? I have following feedbacks: i)    Good teaching facilities in classrooms: Each class must have at least one mike and one projector for teachers. This way hey can be

Why does one go to temple?

I am currently studying in Varanasi , which is considered to be one holy and sacred city. One can find many temples like main VT, Sankat Mochan etc. Thousands of people daily worship GOD in these temples. I am also used to go to these temples, at least once a week. God is considered to be supreme power, which controls all things. God is believed to be origin of everything as per ancient literature. I being into research, always try to find logic behind any process, event or thinking. So, one day I was just questioning myself, “what is god? Why am I going to these temples?” I was just going to temples, praying to god without even knowing what is god, but still I was praying to him. So, I started making assumptions like god is nothing but a power which is there to balance whatever you do. If you do something good, he would something good and if done something wrong, he would return something bad. But, once while discussing this with one of my friends; he countered me if this has been

H1N1 scare and strategic mistakes by Government

In recent times, you might have encountered people wearing weird masks, boards with messages from government on swine flue and group of people debating and giving advises on swine flu. If you happen to open TV and come across some news channel, they all are full of reports on new swine flu cases and at times, a doctor sitting and discussing prevention, causes and symptoms of swine flu. One of the news channel has also started a count of swine flu cases and death toll. Swine flu, now technically termed as H1N1, is strain of influenza virus and is a transmittable disease. H1N1 cases were first reported in Mexico . True! It is a transmittable disease with no antibiotic developed till now, likely to make by the end of this year, Tamiflu is only one antiviral drug and can make the illness milder but still a lot of hype has been made of it. People are so scared that schools have been closed in some parts of country. It is not such a dangerous virus.