How much social status affects your thoughts and actions...

Today I got a mail from one of my friend, It reads as follows...

Hi Friends
GIRLS BEWARE PLEASE..IT IS SERIOUS! HELP URSELF It has recently been found out that there are some spammers present onOrkut who download the Photographs of Girls from their Profile and they get 5percent per photograph. This photographs are later sent into Image Editors likePhotoshop where they are morphed and superimposed on the images of Porn Stars.These people are so expert in this field that the photographs lookscompletely real and anyone can get deceived by generated images.These photographs are then used for multiple purposes like Printing inInternational Magazines, Uploading on paid Porn Sites and sometimes evenblackmailing. And the post consequences are a known fact.So after knowing about this fact my advice......Please remove their photo's from Orkut and don't give the culprits a chance to do play around with You.
After all Prevention is better than Cure
GUYS... PLZ IS MAIL KO JAHAAN TAK HO SAKE FORWARD KARO TAKE CARE


I laughed for about sometime sitting in my office. This is how people's minds are.
Now the thing which is to be thought about is, whether girls should be running away from such situations, or they should find a way to fight against those bad things in society.
Well if you are clean, why you should be trying to find hide-outs. If your friends and family believe in you, why should you be afraid of such things. Well if you have those things like social moral and status in mind, this world isn't a good place for you to live in, because Orkut isn't the only palce you'll find spammers. People can extract your snaps from matrimonial sites or from anywhere else.

And I guess if you have a strong faith in yourself, you will not even think of such things.

-Bugs

Quota v/s Anti-Quota

The old war has yet got another start. The HRD minister of India has asked to raise to reservation for OBC's to 49 % which was previously 12%. This gave rise to agitations againt the HRD minister and UPA government.

Are anit-quota supporters right?

If thought about this, considering India's past, I feel quotas will not cause any harm to merit. As if we look into the past of India the backward classes were banned from entering schools and colleges. So this states that there was no merit consideration at that time too. People from upper castes only had access to education and so they got a change to enjoy the luxrious of life. Why was there no agitation at that time?

Are pro-quota supporters right?

I really don't think that too. They have form a group of "Youth Of Social Equality", I dont feel reserving seats on basis of caste will be termed as Social Equality. You are again putting a line on the basis of caste and differentiating people. Social equaltiy is a broad minded thought and I feel that it can never be seen in India.

Is India a developing country?

The term developing country has a broad spectrum. Economy, social status, quality of life, education are some of the important facets of the term "Developing country". Think again, what and where have we made development.

Economy - Majority of the people are still in poverty. India has the largest number of population making their living in slums. Only people who are rich are getting richer, does this means we are developing?

Social status - Inida is considered as secular nation. The society consists of many people from different religion and castes living together. But does that mean we have a developed social status? People are still ready at point of time to shed blood in the name of religion and caste. India has faced the worst religious massacre of all times.

Quality of life - Well if you are only considering the high class society then you are true the quality of life is enhanced. How will you find the quality of life enhanced if majority of the population doesn't really know what quality of life stands for.

Education - As I discussed above education means upgradation of your knowledge. But if majority of the population is under poverty and fights for every day bread n' butter, will they have a opportinuty to gain education. Tough education is made free, does that increase the number of literates in the country. People who don't have anything to eat, who live every day as the last day of thier lives, will these people care to take out time and get educated when all they worry about "will they be getting food today".

India is going no where. With all this fake culture and discourteous beliefs in mind we stand no chance of getting ahead.

"Mera Bharat mahan"

Its Sunday..time for something new to do.

I am back from a long trip to the north of India, and I'll say Kashmir was the best of what I had seen. Yesterday I resumed my office and cleared out all unfinished business. Now its Sunday and thinking of doing something new. So I thought of creating another blog on Wordpress.com, but still I'm not able to figure it out what topics should I put on my new blog.
Anyways its all said and done, the new blog space is ready at vaibhavgaikwad.wordpress.com

Chanakya niti [Strategies of Chanakya] - The great Indian Scholar

Chanakya (c.350 - c.275 BC), also known as Kautilya or Vishnugupta, was born in Pataliputra, Magadh (modern Bihar), and later moved to Taxila, in Gandhar province (now in Pakistan). He was a professor (acharya) of political science at the Takshashila University and later the Prime Minister of the Emperor Chandragupta Maurya. He is regarded as one of the earliest known political thinkers, economists and king-makers. He was the man to envision the first Indian empire by unification of the then numerous kingdoms in the Indian sub-continent and provide the impetus for fights against the Greek conqueror Alexander. Chanakya is perhaps less well known outside India compared to other social and political philosophers of the world like Confucius and Machiavelli. His foresight and wide knowledge coupled with politics of expediency helped found the mighty Mauryan Empire in India. He compiled his political ideas into the Arthashastra, one of the world's earliest treatises on political thought and social order. His ideas remain popular to this day in India. In Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India, Chanakya has been called the Indian Machiavelli.

Here are some of his great words.

"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first."

"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous."

"Never share your secrets with anybody! It will destroy you."

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."

"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."

"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."

"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."

"Once you start working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."

"The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."

"Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits."

"God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple."

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."

"Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness."

"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends."

"Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person."

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth."


-Bugs

My Friends - 1

This was a little trick I played on my friends. What my friends want to steal from me?

Recently I sms'ed almost all my friends asking them a question. The question was "If you could steal one from me, what would it be?"

The answers where amazing...

Abhi: "Ek bhikari dusre bhikari se kya churayega :) "
Akshay: "Ruk...ek nahi.. U hav a lot that I could steal hahahah.. giv me more options"
Aparna: "Ur brain !!! milega kya re???"
Bilu: "your last year engineering marks"
Prasy: "Ur cmputing skills"
Prasad: "teri girlfrnd"
Jags: "ur sense of humour"
Puja: "I wud steal all ur worries n tension. And also ur headach"
Vipin: NO REPLY
Rach: "U"
Jess: "Your attitude... dude"
Vic: "Give me 4 options..yaar KBC nahi dekhta kya?"
Priya: "sab kuch"
Pramod: "tere sar ke baal"
Mangesh: "teri gf hogi to...jarur dhapunga"
Sarika: "Much I have already stolen.. I wont steal anything now"
Sandeep: "kya TP ker raha hai re...bahut balance hai kya.. rehega to wahi chorunga"
Aabaas: "majak maat ker"
Shruti: "mazha kade sagle kahi aahe"
Smriti: "Time nahi hai re? aacha tha, but I need time to think on it"
Niru: NO REPLY
Prakash: NO REPLY
Sanket: "girlfriend hai kya?"
Sundar: NO REPLY
Priyank: "saale tera logic building capability"
Sam: "baas tera coding skills.. boss"
Aasmi: "nothing, pls don't ask such questions, u know I can't do anything"

There were many who didn't answer, but it proves that they are too busy.
-Bugs
Great answers from the great ones.

Mandal 2 is hitting India, Quotas aren't anti-merit.

Merit is central to education. But education is not merely safegaurding the existing notions of merit. In its essence, education is about influencing processes of socialization and community building. Affirmative action policies including caste reservations can have a positive impact in making a socity egalitarian. Does this come at the expense of excellence? Social indicators reveal that southern states and parts of western India have fared much better socially and economically than the rest of the country despite having caste-based reservations for decades. High levels of social and political consciousness, in comparision to parts of India which did not follow policies of affirmative action, have been largely responsible for those achievements. Access to education contributed significantly to this. In short, affirmative action did not compromise on merit, but instead empowered a wide spectrum of the population to aspire to social and economic mobility. Among those who succeeded were comunities that had been left out of the social mainstream and also happened to constitute majority of the population. A society where portals of 'merit' are restricted to a privileged minority especially when the privilege is determined at birth, is a regressive society.
In this particular case of extending reservations to OBCs is central institutions, such provisions already exist in many state-run universities and professional colleges. This should be an opportinuty for IITs and IIMs to increase their student intake. The real challenge is to ensure that democrasation of education does not lead to massicification of education.
Quantity and quality are not incompatiable entiites. Quotas in institutions have to be understood as an instrument to create opportnuties for those who have been denied access to knowledge for social reasons. Quotas aren't anit-merit. Merit is a category that is influnced by social and economic hierarchies. It can become an instrument of oppression if its social context is not understood. This also applies to those wish to use reservations as an instrument to further the politics of caste identity.

-Bugs!
It's comment made by an open mind, and is open for debate...