Parents to let their children dream

After the examination come results, and then admission. So, the admission

fever has just started. The time has just arrived when students had to queue

for hours to get the admission in the best college or varsity, which is

believed as the footnote to push their career at peak. This is the hard and

most precious time not only for students but also for the parents.

As experts to be believed, this will not determine whether your life is a

success or a failure, or whether you live a happy life or not. Life never turns

out the way you think it will, and learning to fail well is what helps you

excel.

In India they are parents who decide on the careers their kids should

follow. For example if a student who got 95 % in his 12th board exam result

were not allowed by the family to choose arts stream. As per to maintain

standard in the society parents want their kids to be a doctor, engineer or

architect nothing less than that.

Hundreds of students end up making bad career choices under pressure

from their parents to choose subjects they think are important to succeed in

life. Depression for not getting the freedom to choose the subjects of their

choice force the students to commit suicide. Many cases have been reported

so far.  

Parental pressure dominates children’s career choices even in this century.

They want a secure & financially safe future of their kids. But, children

should be allowed to explore all options & parents too must be willing to

adopt a much mature thinking. There are students who choose their careers

thrust upon them by their parents.

Nowadays, so many careers are coming up which gives an equal

opportunities & packages as other professionals. It’s important for the

parents to talk to their children’s on the same matter. Parents across all

income groups, are petrified about choosing any other subjects less than

engineering etc.

Arts still considered a poor cousin of science subject, even though it offers

plenty of interesting & even well-paying option. A little out-of-the box

thinking is required. Parents should allow their children to dream.

SANITATION CRISIS IN INDIA!

Its early morning and local commuters queuing up for tickets at the railway

counter, but some of the people gathered for some other business along the

railway tracks. They are among the 48% of Indians who do not have access

to proper sanitation.

The people defecating along railway tracks invites unwanted audiences.

Tourists who wants to enjoy themselves commuting by trains feel trapped

in awkward moment by watching people defecating in open.

These number of people- belongs to slum areas who don’t have toilets and

defecate in open near trees and bushes along the railway track. This is a

normal and daily ritual followed strongly despite the hazards of catching

contagious diseases.

It can be more hazardous for women defecating after sunset, which invites

many danger of sexual assault. Some of the cases like two teenage girls

from the state of Uttar Pradesh were gang-raped and found hanging from a

tree after they left their village home to go to the toilet.

According to the WHO (World Health Organisation) report 60% of people

defecating in open in world live in India. More than half a billion in India

defecates in open without any privacy or dignity.

Sanitation access to all is the gimmick to which all the politicians played for

making their poll banks more strong. All the parties promised to put an end

to open defecation in their election manifesto.

Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised "Toilets first, temples later"

during his election campaign. After becoming Prime Minister, Narendra

Modi launched his maiden ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ aims to make India

clean and green.

Most of the states like Haryana & Uttar Pradesh also initiated hygienic &

sanitation awareness campaign such as “No toilets, No bride”. This

campaign urged brides to reject a groom if he did not have a lavatory at

home. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation vows to build toilets in slum-

dwellers areas in India.

What could be the solution to the problem, the solution should not lie within

the manifesto or false promises made by the political parties. We as the

citizen should also realize our duties and try to change not the lives of

people living in cities but should also think about the rural part of our nation.

India will be free of open defecation only when "every Indian household,

every village, every part of Indian society will accept the need to use toilets.

JUSTICE OR NO JUSTICE FOR ARUNA SHANBAUG

When Aruna Shanbaug died on May 18 this year after lying in a vegetative state in a Mumbai hospital for over 42 years, it shocked nearly all of us who witnessed the debate of euthanasia a decade ago. No one wondered whatever happened to the man who sexually assaulted her and put her in that condition. Even more shocking was to know that no one knows that her assailant was never charged with rape.

The ward-boy who assaulted her and choked her throat by chain was never charged with sexual assault. He was only charged with attempted murder and robbery. Her well-wishers who hoped she would recover felt that the stigma of rape might tarnish her reputation and wanted to spare her and her family that trauma.

Does to save reputation of herself and the family, the victim should be kept quiet? Is this all what a democratic country teaches. Are the freedom of equality really matters in this country.

The ward-boy named Valmiki served his 7 years imprisonment and escaped out. This shows how the system failed Shanbaug. As per the newspaper reports, the gram panchayat will decide on fate of Valmiki after four decades. panchayats who ignites controversy especially diktats against everything.

The list is a long one – inter-gotra marriages, women carrying mobile phones, women wearing jeans. In the name of protecting the honour of the village, a panchayat can put itself above the law of the land. The question- are we going to shake our heads in the verdict of panchayat against Valmiki. He has been fired out of CISF job after Shanbaug died recently. Is this all enough?

Till Shanbaug was living in a vegetative state no one knows whereabouts of his assailants, its the reporter of Sakaal Times who tracked down Valmiki from his native village in UP. The first statement he received from Valmiki – “I don’t remember what happened”. Isn’t it more surprising the one who destroyed the life of a young nurse who was about to start her martial life with one of the doctor of KEM hospital, don’t remember what had happened.

Now the police are deciding whether a fresh murder charge can be added to the case given that Shanbaug’s death was finally a result of pneumonia. Most of us find it grossly unfair that Shanbaug spent 42 years confined to a hospital bed in a vegetative state while her assailant walked free after seven years. That does not feel like justice & justice are not always the same thing, especially in this country.http://www.realdude.in/aruna-shanbaug-rape-case-justice-or-no-justice/