CBSE or IIT?

It's really hard to decide. The time has arrived when I begin to panic, and face a difficult choice - CBSE or IIT?


Points that are in favour of CBSE -

* Relatively easy to score marks.

* Even though there is competition, there is no ranking as such. 500 people can get 95 percent in the board exams, they are treated equally.

* Getting a nice score in CBSE will open up a lot of possibilities - DU and other regional colleges.

* A major part of what I study for CBSE will help in building up concepts for IIT.


Points against CBSE -

* Horribly boring. When you sit with a Pradeep's book for more than 1 hour, you start getting suicidal pangs. It's the highest degree of torture a human can inflict on himself.

* Illogical things which go right over your head. Most of the concepts are just there, for no whatsoever reason, and nobody at CBSE knows why. They will dare not remove them, but they just slowly 'modify' it to include more of the plain mugging crap, and try to remove anything that will set the brains of the students ticking.

* CBSE marks don't get you into any decent engineering college. If you have a good score in CBSE, but haven't qualified any entrance exam, you are left with no choice but to take up a bachelors degree in science i.e. B.Sc.


Points in favour of IIT -

* Interesting. Concepts that force you to fry your brain cells, and a testing method that is based on understanding of concepts, not on cramming.

* A part of my brain tells me that if I sweat it out, I can do it. Studying for entrances gives you a sense of achievement. On the other hand, CBSE is like the special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded.


Points against IIT -

* Too much competition, it seems like finding a needle in a haystack. Out of the lakhs of students who give the IIT-JEE, only about 4000 are selected, and even those have reservations. An approximate selection ratio is 1 in 80.

* Though the questions are good, they require logic and a strong analytical power, but even the guys who set the paper are humans. They are eventually running out of questions, and the institutes, such as Narayana IIT Academy, are creating students who have solved each and every type of question that has appeared in the IIT paper for the last 30 years or so. So even the dumb guys, the ones without common sense, get into IIT by studying 14 hours a day for about 12 months, before the IIT paper.

* If you miss out on a topic, you never really get time to catch up on it. So you don't clear the cut-off for the individual subjects, even if your total is higher than the cut-off. The syllabus is far and wide, and covering everything is possible only if you dedicate 2 years of your life, solely to the exam.

India is number 1

India is truly shining.



The New Year Molestation case in Mumbai, Jessica Lall and Priyadarshini Mattoo, are some of India's greatest achievements.

We have a world record in the number of women harassed, as well as the number of anti-male victimisation programmes. Eve-teasing, rape, dowry deaths, female infanticide are things that make our front page news, which people enjoy every morning with a cup of tea. And we hear it so often, that it doesn't raise eyebrows anymore.

And of course, we can't blame the government for it. They have tried out practically every way to ensure that women get their rights - education, laws, fines, severe punishments, and now advocating death sentence for rape accused criminals. The number of organisations working for women's uplift is increasing, rather booming, but ironically, so is the rate of crime against women.

Why I'm talking about this today? I'm here to help the government. They don't really know what the problem is. I do, and I have a prospective solution. But first, they need to know the reason. The main reason for the problem is -



Yes, you heard it right. Women are themselves responsible for what happens to them. But this is not in an obvious way.

* Women pretend to be weak, when they are not as much as they pretend to be. A simple example is that girls pretend to be hurt and shout out while playing volleyball at school. They do it only when boys are around.

* Women rely on men for the things they can easily do themselves. This makes men think that women need us for survival, and also that they can compromise women when they want to. Such things include going out to a market to buy groceries, lifting heavy boxes, getting something down from a tall shelf, driving a car (still very widespread), using a new tech gadget or paper work.

* Women don't take the right decisions at the right time. Even those women who can create a difference, and do not face much opposition, physically, mentally or socially. We don't have as many Shabana Azmis as we could have managed to get, and the main reason is either low self confidence or should I say, laziness. To make my point clear, I'll use an example. A woman belonging to the upper middle class, has one daughter, about 16 years old and a son, say 15 years old. The brother-sister go to the same school, and one day while returning, the daughter faces eveteasing by a couple of seniors in the school. She goes home and tells her mom. Mommy doesn't do anything, either she tells her daughter to stay away from those guys, or asks her son to protect her daughter.

* Women don't want equality, they want *special* rights, and advantages. More about this here. This only makes them look weaker, and only increases the crime rate. Women even starting misusung the laws that they were provided. This has lead to formation of male groups like these.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ~ Timothy Leary

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~ Jane Galvin Lewis

So what is the solution? I really don't have one, but the course of action in women emancipation, in my opinion, should be -

1) Fix women.
2) Fix men.

If this doesn't work, then I say stop caring. Let everything go on as it is, the world is going to end, anyway.