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Monday, March 18, 2013

Just another post!

Hey all..!!

No, I am not going to write about any social issues today...
It's just a school issue. A problem faced by the students! EXAMS!!!

Yeah, I couldn't blog for some days and it was because of exams. It's my final exams for 9th Grade.
First one was Maths. And it was the lengthiest Maths question paper I have ever seen in my life! Most of us couldn't complete... According to my calculations, if I see my maths teacher smiling through the school corridors, it means she hasn't started correcting our papers yet. If she is angry, that means she started correcting our papers. Till today, I always see her smiling... and that, obviously makes me smile too!

Writing the paper isn't a very BIG deal for me... But preparing for it, is. Studying for Geography is worst part in Social Studies..!! Sometimes, it makes me wish that my country wasn't that diverse (no, I don't actually mean that!) !! Sometimes, I get really tensed for some exams that I wish for weird, impossible things to happen. Like, "Oh god, I wish the earth will rotate super fast that tomorrow gets over in a minute and our exam gets cancelled!". The thing is, even if Earth does rotate super fast and one whole day is missed, our school wouldn't cancel our exams!! I know.... it's really stupid but in helpless situations, wishes become weird.
Till now, all the exams went well. Just well. I have this superstition that if I say my paper went really good, then my results will go bad... So, even if my paper went SUPER GOOD, I always say "It went okay, not bad.".

You know what? Tomorrow is the BIG day!! It's that last day of Exams!
Then, during these holidays, I will sleep and sleep a lot..! I need to compensate with all the 'waking-up-early' I did to prepare for the exams.

Friday, March 8, 2013

What young India wants

Most of you must have heard about the Indian writer, Chetan Bhagat.

' Chetan’s books have remained bestsellers since their release, and have been adapted into major Bollywood films. The New York Times called him the ‘the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history.’ Time magazine named him in the “100 Most Influential People in the world” and Fast Company, USA listed him as one of the world’s “100 most creative people in business.” '

He has written six amazing books and I have read all of it... Well, at least most of it. My favorite ones are "Five point someone" and "Two States - The Story of my Marriage" . Currently, I'm reading his first non-fictional book, What Young Indian Wants. I thought I will share my thoughts about that book.



I bought this book on the month of September of the year 2012. But, someone who had read the book, told me that she found it boring as it wasn't fictional. It was just so many essays together in a book. That is exactly the reason why I did not read it until yesterday night. That proves that I haven't finished the book yet. But this book is going to help me in the long run, I'm sure.
I started reading this book and I just was so sunken in the book and couldn't stop reading. You see, I am that type of a person who looks for a change. And in this book, Chetan Bhagat looks at and analyses the complex issues that India is facing. Not just that, he suggests solutions.

He teaches us the true meaning of wealth. He talks about the corruption in India. We pin-point countless mistakes in our political leaders. But the irony of the situation is that, we are the ones who elected them.
Chetan Bhagat makes us realize the irony here.

"Citizens should be the strict teachers who will tell leaders they have a lot of homework to do.".

I love India. I'm proud to be an Indian. But, yes, there is still a long way to go for India to be corruption-less and better country. 'What young India wants' is a book which can motivate us for a change.
So please... All Indians out there... looking for a change...? Don't know what to do? Unsatisfied with how things are? Want to know what problems our country is facing and what we can do about it? What young India wants is the book that you have to get yourself next!