Here i am sitting within these walls that have been stifling my creativity, forcing me to question every night before I call it a day here, what is it that I am actually doing here. it is a question on which am not even allowed to delve upon courtesy the baggage of redundancy that I have been made to carry ever since I stepped into these erstwhile hallowed gates.
it is said that the grass looks green on the other side but in my case the grass on either side is rotten, the only difference being that it stinks on one side and its made to look fragrant on the other side by the PR machinery, a powerful tool especially in the hands of bigots and ambivalent institutes that are ruthlessly vacous when it comes to issues pertaining to practising ethics but are most vocal when it comes to talking about them.
it is but the dream of every student who is academically driven and wants to carve a niche for himself or herself to be a part of an elite instutute that is supposed to add on to what the person knows, feels or atleast give him an orientation, something thta would decide the future course of his life, unlike what several people sitting out of these elite institutes believe, there exists an elite vaccum over here, one that is camoflauged very well indeed, something these institutes have become experts at, the art of manipulation, coercion of free thought and truth.
these academic institutes are the new forms of manipulation and coercion that are using education as cover for indoctrination and re engineering, systematically stifling the free souls who enter these places and either aim at burning them out or turn them into automatons, the vast army of unthinking, self serving brats that are being manufactured by institutes all across. these automatons are desired by corporations who anyway dont need people who would question but people who would follow and keep their spirits chained for the monetary figure that is thrown at them. just like dogs are happy to have a piece of a bone after a hard day, in the same way these automatons are happy and too grateful to their masters for the generous pay check they receive each month.
ever wondered why people no longer even talk about issues that are plaguing the country, the answer is simple, they are not allowed to think or question, people who question are either silenced forever or the spirit within them killed with so much inertia that is added on them with each passing day. people today have seceded themselves from what is happening to the nation and this is a direct by product of a system that has sold its central tenets to the corporate capitalism mafia.
the role of education was always to facilitate and nurture, teachers were always expected to act as mentors and not as iron clad instructors. that is the sad reality of the teaching fraternity as well who have consigned themselves to a world of utopia where all that matters is writing more thesis papers, presentations and awards. academic involvement seems to have emerged as a substitute for not doing anything punitive or realistic. i would take the privilege of calling them as the new fat cats of the society, the aspiring and media hungry noveau elite. there is a difference in these new academic stalwarts as they project themselves and the academic wizards of the earlier times.
the latter were statesmen as well and were media shy, they wanted their work to speak for themselves and they never wanted the media around and become their mouth piece. their works inspired an entire generation and exhorted people to action and even these academicians were at the forefront of proposing new interventions and willing to take it up further as well. we thus have examples of a kalam or a kasturirangan , a vikram sarabhai and others....what we have as of now as our dear professors are nothing but moth balls, worms who have decided never to come out of the cocoon they have weaved around themselves. their notion of the world is something utopic, an ideal world where everyone exists in peace. what they actually forget is that peace has a price and are they willing to even understand what peace means and what the price for peace means in the first place....
high time they do and stop branding institutions without delving on the content that these institutes offer in the first place
"A bit acerbic but wonderfully written"
ReplyDeleteNever before in history we have had such an apathy and indifference about the issues of national importance from the student fraternity. History is replete with examples where students have taken the responsibility on their shoulders to make the voices of unheard sufficiently audible to the concerned (or should i say unconcerned?). Status quo, the student fraternity is so much secluded that it hardly thinks, leave alone act, to do something for the country. Making provisions for bread and butter has been the pursuit for mankind since ages but never before we have had such a mad scramble for having more and more without caring for the ones who have nothing.
The problems have been and would continue to be there: its just the apathy that is pernicious.