Well I always wanted to donate blood, but due to  some   unavoidable reasons I never succeeded in  realizing this desire. However one week ago, when Rajiv was out of station and a blood requirement came, I grabbed the opportunity with my both hands. I wanted to donate blood, experience the donation  procedure, and hence realize the reasoning behind  the myths. From my personal experience now I can fully declare many of the myths to be absolutely  baseless. These myths are as follows:-

1.   WEAKNESS:- I don’t find myself ultrastrong to survive any inhuman condition. Certainly blood donation is not the one. I did not get even a hint of weakness though I did not go to gym for a week as a precautionary measure. But trust me, there is noticeable weakness in the body.

2.   BLOOD WILL DECREASE:- Our body is dynamic enough to replenish the lost blood which is hardly (350ml) within a maximum of 48 hours depending on your physical condition. Even then 48 hours of supposed blood shortage is ain’t too much asking for a person’s life.

3.   HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL:- The hemoglobin level definitely dips, however it decreases very little. The recovery time for the deplete is around one week. But you are medically examined before donating blood & if you are unfit they will never allow you to donate.

4. PAIN:- If you are strong enough to survive a tiny pinch, then you are able to survive the “immense pain” experienced during donation. Except for the slight pain during needle insertion, there is no pain at all.

Now I would like to mention certain advantages of Blood Donation which I feel are certainly more than balancing the supposed disadvantages:-

1. SATISFACTION:- Believe it or not, however nothing can compete with the feeling of saving someone’s life. You may not be a social activist, but this paramount feeling is all the same in everybody. You feel more confident because you just have earned one more reason to be proud of what you are.

2. GET RID OF EXCESS IRON ACCUMULATION:- Excessive iron accumulated in the body stimulate the free radicals which in turn not only damage body cells but also increase exposure to diseases like cancer and heart ailments. Blood donation helps you to shed this extra bit of iron for a healthy life.

3. SYSTEM REFRESHMENT:- Since after blood donation, new blood cells are formed, the body gets detoxified. Moreover the entire system gets refreshed.

Education aims at making us logical and reasonable. However still today a major crunch of the so called educated people are afraid of blood donation. I would like to extend my request to everyone to atleast donate once to get acquainted with the facts and myths.

To get into the details of blood donation visit the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_donation

Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Jharkhand and specially ISM Dhanbad had become the mouthpiece of every localite. This visit was supposed to be the groundbreaking development in the ISMU-IIT movement. Rahul Gandhi-the most charismatic leader of not only Congress but to some extent the entire nation, the politician with a difference, the man who spell bounded the entire nation with his seductive smile and charm, the representative of the 40 crore Indian youth, his visit was bound to take the “sacred” movement to new heights and greater level.

Rahul Gandhi came with all security and personnel and stayed @ ISM for almost one and half hour. He met with his local congress leaders and also had a meeting with the ISMU delegation. Though again the very democratic response ” I will see into the matter ” came however this time it was definitely charged with positive vibrations. In some way or another he has batted for ISM to get an IIT status.

This was a great achievement for the movement. When a leader of RAHUL GANDHI’s stature get behind you, the entire nation is forced to notice and observe the cause and think in the like manner. ISM’s largest headache is to get national attention and get the voices heard to every educational dignity’s deaf ears. The visit helped a lot in getting the national attention and national appreciation. We just hope that Rahul Gandhi works and thinks in a manner as propogated by the congress and the media. He seems to be a politician with a difference and that is what is to be tested by we people in these circumstances. ISMU-IIT conversion is always in the national interest and this conversion might work wonders for the educational reform in Jharkhand. With all the development s going on, the IIT tag doesn’t look like a distant dream. I just hope that we people retire from the college as IITians though ISMites tag always triggered the same pride in me.

ps :- I want to thank Shama, my frd though more of my frd’s gf.for spending valuable time over my blog and suggestions.

Browse through TV Channels and most of the channels you will find will be the so called ” NEWS CHANNELS “. With the advent of cable tv and its explosive popularity news channels spread at an infectious speed. However very soon they realise that being a complete news channel is not sufficient to fulfill their desires and everincreasing lust. SO they dedicate themselves to news of cricket, movies, tv serials, more cricket, more movies and more tv serials. In the process what they forget is that they are news channels and someone may be watching it expecting to get acquainted with what is happening in his/her city and country. These “news” channels claim themselves to be one of the four pillars or Indian democracy i.e press and in return demand previleges from the government for a real news channel. In circumstances when 90% of their airtime is dedicated over cricket and entertainment issues, their news channel tag should be snatched and better they should be infact banned for not only wasting time of 1 billion people but even misleading them in various issues. I would like to give an example which I strongly felt about: Today an underconstruction chimney of BALCO Power Plant @ Korba, Chhattisgarh collapsed under a lightning strike and more than 50 people died. Even after 3-4 hours of the accident I would like to discuss what the so called NATIONAL NEWS CHANNELS were airing.

1. AAJ TAK:- This channel claims to be the “No. 1 news channel of India”. And this best news channel was busy declaring to world that Yuvraj Singh will not be available for 6 weeks for some finger injury. Even on a day when there was no cricket match of India it continued airing the same news with a big mention that this exclusive news is brought to you by xyz from xyz.

2. NEWS 24:- A national news channel serving as a loyal servant of the cricket fraternity. In 1-2 hour show what it could convey was that Yuvraj will not be available for 6 weeks and he is coming back to India. What was more worse that it was not even flashing the news @ bottom. After some time it started giving a breaking news with heading ” cricket ka kamasutra”. “Yuvraj ka sex secret”. I just don’t have words to praise the channel.

3. INDIA TV:- The infamous news channel. I was never expecting anything productive or informative and as usual this channel never fails to cheat my expectations. Some really absurd news of Indian cricket and TV Serials was going on.

 3. ETV Bihar:- Being a local news channel I was not expecting more than a flashing news at bottom about the accident. But then I realised that if it can air news about the Yuvraj’s broken finger for about half an hour, why it cannot provide news about the mishappening.

 4. DD News:- This was the only channel which was continuosly updating news about the accident. Though it was also in the form of a flashing news at the bottom. I expected more but when I see conditions of other news channel, I am still happy about this channel.

 Unfortunately my cable operator can avail us with only these channels. But I am sure the condition would have been same with all the other “NATIONAL NEWS CHANNELS”. Probably its really good that our cable operator provides us few channels due to which our some time is saved. More than 50 people dying in an accident is a national calamity and it deserves proper mention in each and every news channel be it national or regional. Why do these channels forget many people would have been watching these channels with a hope to get information about the accident to know the well being of their near and dear ones. These channels have no right to deny this social responsibilty and if they deny I really feel that they should be banned and infact they should be sued.

IIT Dhanbad has been a long awaited dream of ISM Dhanbad students. The voices have been raised now and then and the result has been NIL. Whatever may be the reason, but the loss has been to the students and the institute. Though personally I am not that much in favour of changing the name of this heritage institute but in present scenario ( corruption, inadequate infrastructure for increased seats and the non-functional administration ) changing the name and carrying IIT tag would be the only feasible and practical situation.

The voices are being raised again but this time the voices are loud, clear, organised and backed by the professors. It has the potential to shake the entire HRD (atleast I believe so). KAPIL SIBBAL’s new decision to downgrade ISM and reduce the salary of ISM professors compared to IIT professors has proved to be the fuel behind this fire. Infact it is also in the news that ISMU will no longer be taking admission through IIT-JEE. This is a real shocking news as one needs to wonder that it this energy scarce scenario how he even dares to discourage best minds of country in entering energy sector. Probably for the time in history of India, anyone’s pay has been decreased. Moreover today HINDUSTAN TIMES reported that HRD is taking away the “Deemed University” status from ISMU. This news alone can send 2500 students of ISMU onto indefinite strike but right now problem has a simple solution -”Convert ISMU Dhanbad into IIT Dhanbad.”

I had to write over this issue as this is something from which I cannot aloof myself. I sincerely hope and wish that ISM brand image survives no matter it becomes IIT Dhanbad or remain ISM Dhanbad. Though for my part I would like to encourage anyone and everyone reading this article to sign the following petition and help our cause.

Petition to convert ISMU Dhanbad to IIT Dhanbad.

A website has been made to promote the cause. ISMU2IIT.org.

Strikes are being carried in constructive manner and meetings are set with MPs of Jharkhand and other prominent leaders of Jharkhand. A meeting with Kapil Sibbal and Rahul Gandhi is probably on the cards. Clearly the forces behind this petition are strong and the students are not going to stop efforts too soon. Though strangely, few days ago a Hindi newspaper reported that even BIT Sindri will ask for IIT status. This is not only absurdly funny but it is very clear that the proposal will not yield anything for them but can surely raise eyebrows over our ” well deserved candidature “.

I would try to upload my new updates on this issue . In between don’t forget to sign the petition and help the one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering institutes to retain its pride and fame.

Petition ISM 2 IIT Conversion

Recently I found this website connect.in.com and I found the following request to Dr. Manmohan Singh by a parent.

http://connect.in.com/Manmohan-Singh/view-comments-2391346-311-3435921.html

स्वादिष्ट जलेबी

आज मेरे होस्टल के मेस में नास्ता के रूप में समोसा-जलेबी प्रस्तुत किया गया था । वैसे तो जलेबी मुझे काफ़ी पसंद है परन्तु पता नहीं आज क्या बात थी कि अपना 6-7वाँ  जलेबी खाते समय मुझे अचानक से धारा के उस पुराने इश्तहार की याद आ गयी । शायद आपको भी याद होगा वह मन-मोहक टीवी इश्तहार जिसमें एक छोटा और बड़ा ही प्यारा बच्चा घर छोड़ कर जाते समय स्टेश्न पर बैठा होता है । इतनें में ही उसके दादाजी उसे खोजते हुये स्टेशन पर पहुँचते हैं और उसे बताते हैं कि घर में लड़के की माँ ने जलेबियाँ बनायीं हैं । और जिस अन्दाज़ में वह लड़का अपने दादाजी से पुछ्ता है – “जलेबी” वास्तव में वह पुरी बाजी मार लेता है ।

उम्मीद तो है कि आपलोगों के भी मानस पटल पर वह इश्तहार अंकित होगा । किन्तु फ़िर भी मैं यहाँ उस इश्तहार को दे रहा हूँ । देखिये और मज़ा लीजिए इस बेहतरीन इश्तहार का ।

इस साधारण से दिखने वाले इश्तहार में आखिर ऐसा क्या था जो लोग इसके दीवाने हो गये थे । इस में आखिर ऐसा क्या था जिसने धारा को घर-घर में पहुँचा दिया । वास्तविकता में यह इश्तहार एक उदाहरण है हमारा हमारी संस्कृति से लगाव का । इस इश्तहार ने न केवल बच्चों के जलेबी प्रेम को छुआ था बल्कि इसने तो बड़ों को भी बच्चा बनने पर मजबुर कर दिया था । एक आधुनिक किन्तु संस्कारों से जुड़े परिवार की झलक प्रस्तुत किया था इस इश्तहार ने जिसमें तीन पीढ़ियों में प्रेम एवं सौहार्द दिखाया गया था । जलेबी के रुप में परिवार के रिश्ते को रेखांकित किया गया वह वास्तव में सराहनीय है । आज के फ़ूहड़ एवं अर्थहीन इश्तहारों के दौर में यह इश्तहार एक आईना दिखाता है जो बताता है कि आज भी आम भारतीय अपनी संस्कृति पर गर्व करता है । जिस भारत की आत्मा गावों में बसती है वैसे भारत के लिये यह इश्तहार एक उदाहरण प्रस्तुत करता है ।

मु्झे नहीं पता कि धारा ने इसे प्रसारित करना क्यों बन्द कर दिया क्योंकि आज के दौर में भी यह इश्तहार उतना ही प्रासंगिक है जितना पहले हुआ करता था । आशा करता हुँ कि टीवी पर कुछ तर्कसंगत इश्तहार प्रसारित होंगे अन्यथा हमें बार-बार यू ट्यूब की शरण में ही जाना पड़ेगा ।

आह्वान

I have really not written any poem for long time. But today I don’t know why I decided to writ e one. So finally after so much of labour I am actually done with it.

जग में अकेले भलाई का

भूल जा ढोना भार तू

बदली बदली फ़िज़ा को

खुद में कर शुमार तू

चारों तरफ़ है दलदल

कब तक रहेगा साफ़ तू

निकलना हो सबसे आगे

तो दौड़-भाग, न कि हाँफ तू

दया, धर्म, क्षमा, न्याय

मिटा दे ये दाग तू

स्वार्थ, अधर्म, पाप का

छेड़ता जा राग तू

खिंच रही है साड़ी,

कितनी खिंची नाप तू

देख जल रहा मनुज

ताप अपने हाथ तू

भावनाओं को भूल जा

कर नोटों का जाप तू

जीत ले इस दुनिया को

मत देख पुण्य-पाप तू

हर चीज़ है बिकाऊ

बस सीख लगाना दाम तू

इस महफ़िले-मतलब में

पीता चल जाम तू

देख रहा भगवान

भूल जा ये बात तू

ओ कलियुग के मशीन

दे दानवता को मात तू

निर्धन दुनिया, भुखें हैं लोग

फ़िर भी दिखा ठाठ तू

अन्दर छुपे इश्वर को भी

सिखा यही पाठ तू

So here it is. I hope this will not be my last poem in ISMU and will write more sooner or later.

Today in the class an idea struck my mind which I can undoubtedly declare as one of the most revolutionary idea in recent times. This idea will not only stop the atrocities cast by teachers over the students but will also motivate them to teach better and carefully. This single idea has the potential to bring back our derailed education system on rails and improve the ever worsening teacher student relationship. The idea is very simple and it is to promote teachers and professors on the basis of feedback from students.

The idea maynot seem very interesting @ the first sight but when observed minutely, you may find it to be the only unturned stone in indian education scenario. It can have an everlasting effect on the attitude of the teachers and will make the students far more responsible. Just think about the situation when this distant dream will be true. Following will be some of the advantages of this extrememly useful idea.

• No bullying by the teachers:- The main problem in any college is the fear of the professors who always keep you bullying, threatning you about your future, showcasing their authority. These acts are nothing but continuing a tradition of slavery. Students should be given some rights to combat the professors. This is a very unfair undeclared cold war b/w the students and the professors and the students should be given some weapon. This provision of deciding professors promotion will enable them to come out of this misery and lead a life of some respect.

• Motivation among professors:- Professors who teach brilliantly are respected by students a lot. This is a fact and students are not mindless bugs who will vote on the basis of their selfish motives only. Professors will get motivated to teach better and interact more which will be a win-win position for both the parties.

Infact this should be within our right to identify the teachers with whom we find ourselves comfortable. When people aged 18 and over are allowed to vote to choose leaders of the nation, I believe they are mature enough to choose the teachers. And when stuffs as important as professors promotion will be landed in the hands of the students, they will definitely realize this with utmost importance.

Shekhar Suman & Gurpal Singh, both are well recognized faces in the kingdom of laughter. Shekhar Suman’s show Movers & Shakers had been legendary and trendsetter in terms of laughter shows. Whereas Gurpal Singh, the Chhupa Rustam guy had been a house hold name with his show. For the first time both these maestros are being screened together in the talk show “TEDHI BAAT.” So the expectation was bound to be skyhigh.

Today i.e on 6th July the first episode was aired and the debut has been brilliant. This is a talk show where Shekhar will play different roles and he will be interviewed by Gurpal Singh. In the first episode, Shekhar portrayed a senior Railway officer where he tried to answer the critical questions of Gurpal Singh in the best non-serious manner. I loved every bit of the show. Gurpal’s expressions and Shekhar’s answers to his questions were absolutely delightful. The best part is that there is no mimicry in the show. The expressions & dialogue delivery has been immaculate by both the persons. The sarcastic comments and the scripts just sends you into a burst of laughter. Timely comments, their quarrel, Gurpal’s irritation, everything has been hilarious abt the show. Though there were some situations in the show which I think will be repeated in the future shows. Even then for the first episode they did a fairly good job. I would have loved to watch next shows but unfortuanately we don’t have personal TVs in our hostel.

In nutshell, TEDHI BAAT justifies the hype which was created in its pre-launching marketing. The show is a wonderfully light hearted show. However the repetition of script should be avoided which I fear may become a major problem for the serial in future.

My rating :- ***/*****

I don’t know why but I could not amass more stars for this show even though I liked it to a great extent. May be my expectation was too high with the show and it has not been catered well.

4th sem was supposed to be a “करो या मरो” sem for me. I never ever thought that my rank in any class would plunge below 30. Everytime I thought abt improving it, studying hard, amending some of the college codes but @ the execution part I failed miserably. However this time I gathered some non-Abhilash type attitude and decided to give studies a try. I thought to make this sem work. So I will work harder than before. On getting the result, I will keep it up. But if the result would be same, then I will be back to old college principle of ” no study, only fun”.

So, I was waiting for 4th sem result with the kind of anxiousness I dispalyed during my JEE result. And when I heard my result, I was extremely satisfied. I have got 8.84. Though I m not aware of my rank, but I feel it should be good. It is especially good in the light of the fact that I must have not received marks in my nightmare Grand Viva where I kept uttering “I don’t know”. I must have scored worse in my NSO credits, my Practicals. Even then if I have received 8.84, I have every right to celebrate as if I am a topper.

This result has been like “संजीवनी बूटी” for me. I have regained my earlier confidence that I can beat anyone anytime if I do labour. I have regained my faith over my abilities. And this feeling is something which I was lacking since I received my first sem result. Well, I feel that there has enough of blabbering and I should stop now. Though I feel so delighted that I can even write a book or so.

आस पास के खेतों में , सारे पेड़ हरे है

After all those sufferings @ the hands of my friends, I finally decided to retort. Every guy has some limit. After all one cannot be the suffering end for always. So after all those deadly pothas given by my frds intended to make me impotent, I did decide to square up the issue with them.

I avenged them in their manner and it was such a barbaric attack from my side that all those poor souls started getting horrified even @ the slightest hint of me. I rained them with my fatal shayaris and these shayaris were inspired from the common things. As I am such a good poet, it required very little effort to get going. I am going to share some of those priceless shayaris with you people. Please bear with me.

1. As we were going through us, fields and poles were beside the road which formed the basis for the debut one.

बगल मे देखो तो ज़रा , खंबे भी तो खड़े हैं।

2. This was propelled by the sight of an Axis Bank near the Railway Station.

हर गली मुहल्ले में , खुल गया है axis बैंक

धीरे धीरे भर जाता है , उपर लगा water टैंक

3. Ankleshwar being a core industrial town, pollution ignited my spirit to discuss the awful pollution in a beautiful way.

इतने pollution में , चांद क्यों नहीं दिखता

LKG का बच्चा ,  Calculus क्यों नहीं सीखता

4. While going to Bharuch, a Tata Sumo passed by. We were in an auto and could not stop me from producing another beauty out of desire.

Tata की है Indica , Tata की है Sumo

पिछ्ली सीट पर बैठकर , पुरा Gujrat घुमो।

5. While returning to our guest house after dinner on the assault day, this was a well directed missile.

अंकलेश्वर में हमारा आशियाना है Royal House

Tom है एक Cat और Jerry है एक Mouse

6. Only Rajiv was fortunate enough for this masterpiece. This shayari was born when we were @ the New Delhi Station waiting for our train.

दिल्ली से झारखंड को, हमने पकड़ा गरीब रथ

बिग बी का विख्यात संवाद, अग्निपथ अग्निपथ

So as you can see, I become quite barbaric when it comes to revenge. Though these masterpieces are situation oriented and until unless there is no offence against me, I hesitate to use them. So cheers..