I had taken admission in my college with high hopes of somehow miraculously igniting the long dead engineering cells in my brain. Three years of stay in Kota had pretty much convinced me that science in general and engineering in particular, is not my domain, that too by a long shot. Yet, somehow I clung onto the false hope that a new beginning would help spark off a new set of interests in me. Read the rest of this entry »
What is the first image that comes to mind at the mention of the word ‘politician’?
A khadi clad elderly citizen, in his mid-sixties, busy dozing off during important parliamentary debates, but one who speaks with full gusto and has the intensity of a teenager whenever he is on a character assassination spree of his opposition!
Well, chances are, more than 99% of the youngsters form the above mentioned imagery. The remaining 1% has been spared assuming that they belong to the families of those politicians whose imagery others form. Read the rest of this entry »
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Shobhit Agarwal 