Random Thoughts

                    A book that touched my heart No. I am not going to talk about Harry Potter. Or Percy Jackson. Or The Da Vinci Code. They all are brilliant books but they never touched me emotionally. I felt like I was a character in those books. But it is a different experience in the book I am going to talk about. "Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry' is a book written by Mildred.D.Taylor. It talks about the hardships and plight of the coloured children in Jackson, in the southern state of Mississippi. Simple gifts, those that we consider ordinary and take for granted are a blessing to them.  They walk for hours to school while the white children with a heart full of contempt come to school in a bus, never thinking about their predicament if they were coloured. They however enjoy the simple blessing of education and are fascinated by receiving a book of their own as none of them have their own book other than the Bible. This quagmire that they face changes their normal habits an

    High school evaluation ; a different perspective                          Isn't it more logical to make the colleges admissions holistic rather than purely based on entrance exams and to some extent the marks in school ? With this the nation can produce more abstract thinkers, people who will innovate and think outside the box.  The idea of good colleges in India is to accept only the best and brightest of the nation with relation to their marks and thinking capabilities. Shouldn't universities accept people holistically, that is, looking at what they achieved as a person. These people would have explored all the difficulties in life and would be ready to make the world a better place. They would be from different backgrounds and would have their own thought structure formed by different experiences. The varied challenges faced by them will endeavour them to come up with unthinkable solutions to the most sought-out questions. This nation needs people who have achieved succe

                                  A dream come true The matches lost by RCB are innumerable. Yet the die hard fans of Bengaluru with renewed invigoration every passing year never forget to cheer for the star-studded team without a trophy. Are these fans you might ask ? Or just a crazy mob with no purpose ?  Fans would be the perfect word here. But fans are not those from Mumbai or Chennai. In the last few years MI and CSK have won every alternate IPL. These fans have only experienced the joy after a victory, not the bone-crunching sadness faced by RCB fans  every  year.                                                          Closer Closer now to the cup, just 3 more victories Tears trickled down my cheek, the bitter taste being ignored as they seeped into my mouth. Too happy to notice this; I smiled.  Finally! We were in the playoffs after 3 years. The wait had ended. Slowly, I pushed myself into the real world. The endless losses, lowest score records were smoke now. The blunders in