Sushant Chaudhary’s World

“They will be from state called India”, said the last line of Epilogue of Chetan Bhagat’s new book, “2 States“.

Chetan’s earlier 3 books were nice stories. But, I am still of the thought the first book by an author is the best book he can do. “5 point someone” of Chetan remains still the best fiction work for me. I read 2 states like a fiction as Chetan wanted its readers to do.

“2 states”, a nice little story of cross culture battles, for their loved ones. It does give big social message, called “INDIA“. India is notion, rather than nation that we live in now. We proudly as kids said, “I am from INDIA”, till the time we grow up we end up saying, from Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, north India, South India, east etc. The wave of discrimination creeps in each individual, while schools and colleges never taught us that. Then where does it come. It’s our home, relatives, clan etc. Of course, not to forget our political leaders, who woo masses with their irrational speeches doing brain washing?

Chetan quit his international investment banking career in 2009, to devote his entire time to writing and make change happen in the country. He lives in Mumbai with his wife Anusha, an ex-classmate from IIMA and his twin boys Shyam and Ishaan.

His story shows turmoil eh went through to unite just few people from 2 states. His dedication is seen in above line. Imagine contribution we need to put in for our dream (at least mine) “India – the one”. We don’t have to start marrying cross culture. But respect the other cultures equally as your own. Not just we but our upbringing to our kids should be towards India and nothing else.

 This still remains the dream to have a single state called India, and all 35 states in one.

Book review, Issues, general

Last weekend, I had to face someone I never knew ever exists. One I thought could never be in me. But just at right time, it revealed itself onto me. For years I thought I thought its dead, I am in best of me. And very next moment it popped up. Boiling my Blood to a level I have never experienced before.

Well yes I do get “ANGER”, now that I know. Actually I knew it from very early days that I have anger within me, but the level was not yet discovered. I hope, what I experienced over weekend, was its peak. I had the policy, of not getting into an argument, or things are not working the way you want it when you are angry. For the best of things and time, I used to keep quite and let myself cool down. The time lag had been few minutes till now. This was the first time it went over hours.

I had always treated anger as the worst of the qualities you can posses in your life. But then its only time you discover that it’s the only thing that might be required for most of the things to happen like:

1. To show that you care, you need to shout with Anguish.  
2. To show that you need it, you need to show that you Zeal.
3. To show that you disagree, you need to put your Foot Down.
4. To show that things are not right, you need to Fight Back.
5. To make sure that you are not taken for granted, when you are asked you need to Rebel.

Well I have always been a calm and compassionate person. Actually I demonstrate myself to be one. But last Sunday, I literally walked over a conversation which I didn’t agree and shut myself from any kind of communication/conversation for 24 hours. I got my scores leveled for sure.

 But then some part of within me which still says that, “I don’t want to Face-Off myself, with the same.”

Am I the only one to discover it by my own or are others also discovering it. Let me know what you think.

Are you afraid of this Face-off yourself! 

Experience, Thoughts, general

“Been Busy” is the excuse I have been giving to all for the last 6-8 weeks even more. I have missed so much in last couple of months that I had to blog about. Some of the main actions were:

1. My Blog’s first anniversary,
2. My Birthday,
3. Elections,
4. Diwali and lotmore.

Last week of the September was my Blog’s anniversary, First anniversary. And I missed it. I said to myself that I had “Been Busy”, to blog about it. But it’s never to late, Happy Anniversary to My Blog.

Ah! 2 weeks back I had turned one more year old. It was the day full of action around me with no time to spare. All the greetings and blessings were pouring in throughout the day from relatives, friends and colleagues. But I had “Been Busy” to blog about it.

Elections, a big event of the October month was to be covered. The interesting speech by the leaders tailored to criticize about other leaders in the public meetings. There was Dilemma in a common man’s (voter/ the sufferer) mind about,

Whom to elect?

The actual point’s to be considered about our leaders?

Choosing any leader would ever solve problem?

There were so many things to put my views upon. But, I had “Been Busy”. Not busy enough that not to vote. But yes busy enough to vote twice when my name appeared in two different voter’s lists.

Ah! Diwali Just flew by; again I had “Been Busy”, to Blog, but not enough that I spent quite sometime with my family. It was family diwali this time. I had not spent any money this diwali as it was under recession (still for many like me). With steep rise in costs of things, not a single commodity has shown a straight price line, but my pay scale has been stagnant for over 18 months now. Though I had quite a bit diwali last year, this year diwali was just family time together.

But enough of “Been Busy”! I am back.

general birthday, Blog’s first anniversary, Diwali, Elections

Yes!

What does a kid need?

This question is still there in my mind, since my last visit at school.

We had a PT (Physical Training) session going on in ground, where student were showing all sort of gymnastic acts they knew. There was o learning of new exercises other than marching for the annual day celebration, which was compulsory for the students in the School band.

We went up to classes and saw small kids from Junior/Senior KG (Kids group) having session. The class was quite and attentive. Not like a kid for age group of 4.

Class of kids has to be noisy, at least age group of 5 (What I believe in).

I was in school and we were discussing about what can be done more for the kids in the school. We will be concentrating on Nursery and junior KG standards/grades of my school (School I have studied).

Currently, for nursery/junior KG, in school it takes 3-4 months to make them sit at one place. By the time its Diwali, kids hardly learn to catch a pencil and scribble. The only objective of two activities is to get the required books completed in the school as per curriculum decided by State Board of Education.

Teachers say, “It’s hard to find make kids sit at one place, because they don’t have bonding towards school”. They need to develop motor skills for kids to hold pencil and write and finish there stipulated notebooks.

I and my friends have thought of to volunteer in act of finding and implementing a solution to this issue.

There are two problems in front of us:

1. Making kids bonded to school.
2. Increase motor skills.

We have thought of certain acts but still not sure what will it do?

To make kids come to school and enjoy being at school, we are planning to have a day full of fun activities, small kid’s game, and audio video session for kids showing fun acts. Teaching them acts through visuals or games.

We are also planning to have some origami sessions and class art session which will increase kids motor in terms of gripping and forming structures with clay.

But, we are still out of options?

Please parents of young ones let us know what all could be done, and various other ways to do it. There could be and can be help shape better future for kids.

Please help me know, what does a kid need?

Learning, School, general kids, Learning, school

I was on way back home. Cell phone beeped. I read message.

You are just the same.. Seemed like going back in time.

I called her up and we talked. She ended up a conversation saying, “I will definitely call you up tomorrow, now bye”. Only for me to realize it’s late. And we already had talked a lot. I still had time to reach home. I was trying to recollect what all we had talked that evening.

It was just 5 pm on a very busy Monday, where we had started chatting. In no time we had exchanged our numbers, and inquired about our office timings. Not just the time matched, we even said we can meet the same evening itself. Plans were on run, and finalized to meet. As usual, I was there complete 30 minutes before time.

I was thinking of many things. I haven’t seen her for last 11 years now. Is she the same when we shared same class room floor. Many thoughts ran into. Ultimately I decided, I am meeting her after a long time, gift her something that would remind her of our days in school. I walked in Reynolds store. Store had excellent and vast collection of pens. One that caught my eye was “Laser tip”. It costs the same even today Rs. 6/-. But it was simple expensive ball point pen at our school times. I bought couple of them and wrapped in together as gift.

Her first sight after 11 years, and not changed a bit. A same school mate of mine. A broad and warm smile on her face said “Welcome”. “A perfect reminder”, was her reaction, opening a gift. We got seated in CCD for a Cup of coffee, and were there for more than hour. Time just flew bye, and we had 11 years to discuss. We were talking, talking and talking. Talks kept on changing tracks, from school days, to current singles and married ones. Positions and organizations, each one worked. Sooner we started tracing down, each one from our class based on roll call. We also discussed our recent meetings and sightings of our schoolmates. Not all of them were good. Actually most of them were not. Before I forget, we did have a talk of about our teachers and already started missing them. Good or bad, whatever it had been, school days still seemed to be part of life.

We had not even started chatting couple of hours back, right now were table across each other. Sipping coffee and sharing our life with each other. Things which right from school days where were and are still confidential and laughing at it.

Just then I realized there is a change in a way we are talking. We were talking in English a language which we hated to speak in school. Her sentences were well crafted, each sentence was just perfect. While I was literally struggling to express how I felt. We did talk a lot, but for me her eyes just talked lot more than we did.

We were happy to see each other. I replied back to Her SMS “I am Happy to see you. Be the same as always. I will miss your smile, till we meet again”.

Thoughts, general friend, friendship, school, school days, Smile