Archive for May 2008
RumOURS from College !!
Creativity cannot be scaled. Stories are never Untold. 
One day Genuine Rao(Name changed for obvious reason) was playing football, and suddenly he realized his friend, sh***(Duh!), has a kidney problem. Then he rushed to the hospital and donated his kidney (that he usually refers to as ‘heart’), despite the doctors’ advice that it’s the wrong organ, and he won’t be able to play football again in his life. Since then he came to be known as the “Vijeitha”. And he happily went jogging ever after.
Vijetha Zindabad(the sequel)
The TN team enters with mohith singing “neelarum….(tamil anthem) which inspires his girls and they run at double speed into the court. The match sets off and it goes neck to neck. After the first half sh**** comes to our hero and says that she will quit the sport if they lose.This leaves our Genuine in two minds…..should he listen to his heart(i mean kidney) or to his Gut (i don’t know where that is).
Two min left in the game and the opponent team is leadin by a point.The big desicion time has come for our hero. Then suddenly he realises that he doesn have his kidney(he donated in part 1) so he listens to his GUT.So our hero visualises all the coaches in the sports movies he watched and gives a loud speech.
The girls look at each others faces with vigour and go into the court……sh*** has the ball in her hand….she moves towards the basket……. 30 sec left…………………………………. she attempts a 3 pointer….. and there is no one to block……..she shoots……n scores……………………………………………………………………………the whistle is blown….WAT WENT wrong….what WENT WRONG……Genuine shivers as the realisation draws upon him.
He gave the speech in ENGLISH.He really did not have the heart to realise that it was a TN basketball team and wouldn’t understand a word……SHE comes n says CHAK DE Genuine Rao ….You are the best
Tears roll down his eyes
Vijetha is defeated.Paapam
A FORCED dream!
Last night I was browsing through my school yearbook and I found something really interesting. We had a general questionnaire which included the question ‘Ambition in life?’ and invariably 70% of the students answered ‘to get into IIT’. This is at a time when I used to think IITs belong to the Tatas( the logic was that BITS which was supposed to be much cooler belong to the Birlas ) So much for my innocence I also ended up being an IIT aspirant.
What made so many people in their 10th standard say that their ambition was just a premier technical institute. Isn’t there life after that??? I don’t blame them completely. We live in a state where a student is considered bright only if he can crack the JEE. No wonder 30% of the students in the IITs are from AP. But that is just one side of the coin we see.
The other side belongs to the ‘aspirants’. These constitute of the 99% of the students who are bright in their own right but are made to believe that they are second rate.( I was self obsessed enough to think that the IITs were not good enough for me ) With the IIT entrance results soon to be declared I can relate to everyone of them eagerly waiting for their years of sacrifice to pay off. Years of sacrifice?? how many years and what sacrifice?? For somebody in Andhra, it is their whole childhood. First there is this IIT entrance which requires coaching from a reputed coaching institute(hope u heard of Ramayya!), then there is another coaching institute which trains people to get into these coaching institute from school days,its not over yet,then there are private tuitions to get into these coaching institutes which coach for another coaching institute which trains the students for JEE..Phew!. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have IIT integrated courses from pre-primary in the schools. What does that mean??
After so much description the whole journey may seem like a lifetime, but at no stage is there an escape from this. The kid (read young adult) has no time to sit back and think what he really likes to do in life. And if at the end of it, it is a lose-lose situation for a person who does not have his heart in technology. He has lost so many years of his life in search of something that is insignificant to him.
What is the SACRIFICE then? Sacrifice from the parent in shelling out so much money for all the coaching needs. Sacrifice of the society by blinding people from the available opportunities and inhibiting excellence in a field. Sacrifice of childhood. Sacrifice of Dreams. So when people say ‘Dare to Dream to get into IITs’, you are actually being forced to do so.
With all respect to IITs, is our society glorifying a system which is building more NRIs. The road doesn’t end at an IIT. It just begins in another country. Oh by the way did someone say IIMs???
Just for the ‘kicks’
So many things we do in life cannot just seem to have any logic involved. Everything we do need not be intelligent but everything we do surely has a consequence. Without sounding too philosophical I would rather say ‘there is a reason why we do anything’. Is it really what we should have done or what would happen IF we hadn’t done it are questions which have all the reasons to haunt you.But there are also a few things which are worth all the foolishness that are involved with them. The small rush that makes you do these things and the kick you get out of doing these things is all worth the effort.
I know I sound the same old confused me when I talk in this equivocal tone. But these statements really make a lot of sense. The rush of my O+ blood surely is a cause for many unwanted and unexplainable situations I end up in. On a lighter note, we also do things which we know are dumb and a little out of the way. And why do we do them- Just for the kicks.
Otherwise what can explain watching a Balakrishna movie and trying to find logic in it. Everyone knows what he is capable of and still we question. How ignorant of us. That reminds me of an argument I had with a 75 year old lady who happens to be my grandmother’s sister. We were talking about what can be questioned and what cannot. It surely makes for an interesting post and I will surely write about it in future.
Coming back to the reason which reminded me of writing this post. Last Saturday we had this interesting ‘outing’. A small group of us just had this weird thought of ‘visiting’ a graveyard. So after some usual deliberations we decided to go ahead with our plan. So we went to this spooky cemetry in thirumelgherry which is situated in this military area. A graveyard in a military area-a perfect setting for the ‘kicks’ I was talking about,even literally. But it was an awesome experience. this place was really really spooky with not another human to be seen in close vicinity. The entrance only had that ideal horror film setting with the creaking door and abandoned walls. Be it the fear of just being there or being spotted by the military personnel it just sent a few shivers down the spine.
The whole incident in retrospect may sound quite useless but it had a different feel to it all along. So let be it.:) I know I have wandered off from what I set out to write but that’s how it is. It just happens.:)
“Long time no B”
After some religious posting on my blog for a few weeks I seem to have again lost the zeal to B. But the blog stats were quite an encouragement as I found that a lot of people from references or randomly seemed to have enjoyed my brilliance(read bullshit.:)). So I have decided to write about a lot of things that happened in the last few days and things that will happen in the coming days which are worth a mention.
A lot of things to B about. If you still wondering what is this usage of ‘B’ about then it is just a tribute to the omnipresence of Blogging(B = Blog).
So if you are still not engulfed into the world of Blogging( which cannot be true as you are reading this.) it is for you to decide- ‘to B or not to B’
Rohit chennamaneni