In her article on higher education Vimala Ramachandran claims that large number of women get married and do not engage in any work.
Presuming that she runs a house too, she must be aware of the amount of work that is involved in having a smoothly run household, the time-management and multitasking.
If we are talking about giving clothes to the laundry, getting a maid to clean up they are forms of outsourcing which many women do not do. Particularly if they home bound. There are people who still subscribe to “penny saved is penny earned” nothing wrong with it.
Probably what she means is that these women do not wear a “power suit” and go out to work. But there are so called working women who outsource their household responsibilities, come to the office to do mundane tasks , take their coffee and lunch break, buy stuff from the salesmen visiting their work place do they really contribute enough to the home economy or are they paying a hidden price?
Isn’t true empowerment a freedom of choice?
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
School dropouts
Ms. Vimala ramachandran’s article in the Hindu talked to right to education (Aug.9th)
A valid issue.
She reckons that considerable percentage of children do not attend school beyond standard 10, she puts it down to the inefficient system and poverty etc. We can debate about this till the cows come home.
She also reckons that NGO’s can help propagate education and that foreign aid is available for it both expertise and monetary wise.
Sometimes I wonder if we are over emphasizing this point of undergraduate etc. This question has popped after a peek view to the world of school dropouts.
Urvi is the daughter of an IAS officer, after standard 10 i.e. at the age of 14 she decided to drop out of structured schooling. Simply because she was not sure what she wanted to do. She has decided to take up a job till she figures out.
Divya has opted out of formal school too, she did a basic beauty course and works for a parlor she is picking along distance education and IGNOU courses as and when she see’s it right and up her need and interest.
Ravi is again a 10th standard dropout; he got sick of being singled out as the average sibling in a bouquet of brilliant ancestors and siblings. He started his career at a shoe factory, the flak that he had to face was tremendous, but today 25 years later he has an exceeding profitable leather goods manufacturing unit. His contention is that he has learnt the skills he needs, like a distance education program in tannery, one on shoe designing, one on business management. Very categorically he states my learning is ongoing, yes I did not have formal education that’s a different thing.
So it for Naveen a dental lab technician who after standard 10 joined his brother-in-law as man Friday, today 20yrs later he is a big name and has a thriving outfit. He goes annually to Germany for a 15 days hands down retreat. Again he does not regret not having formal education.
My maid Haseena’s son told me why bother with schooling and degrees, after that it is a pain to get a job. Working as a mechanic I learn the trade and earn simultaneously.
Look at the number of mid life career changes or people who have formal college in one stream and working in another.
Maybe the issues here are literacy and education vis-à-vis education and knowledge.
More importantly why salivate for a foreign aid; if it is important enough we pick ourselves and work towards it.
A valid issue.
She reckons that considerable percentage of children do not attend school beyond standard 10, she puts it down to the inefficient system and poverty etc. We can debate about this till the cows come home.
She also reckons that NGO’s can help propagate education and that foreign aid is available for it both expertise and monetary wise.
Sometimes I wonder if we are over emphasizing this point of undergraduate etc. This question has popped after a peek view to the world of school dropouts.
Urvi is the daughter of an IAS officer, after standard 10 i.e. at the age of 14 she decided to drop out of structured schooling. Simply because she was not sure what she wanted to do. She has decided to take up a job till she figures out.
Divya has opted out of formal school too, she did a basic beauty course and works for a parlor she is picking along distance education and IGNOU courses as and when she see’s it right and up her need and interest.
Ravi is again a 10th standard dropout; he got sick of being singled out as the average sibling in a bouquet of brilliant ancestors and siblings. He started his career at a shoe factory, the flak that he had to face was tremendous, but today 25 years later he has an exceeding profitable leather goods manufacturing unit. His contention is that he has learnt the skills he needs, like a distance education program in tannery, one on shoe designing, one on business management. Very categorically he states my learning is ongoing, yes I did not have formal education that’s a different thing.
So it for Naveen a dental lab technician who after standard 10 joined his brother-in-law as man Friday, today 20yrs later he is a big name and has a thriving outfit. He goes annually to Germany for a 15 days hands down retreat. Again he does not regret not having formal education.
My maid Haseena’s son told me why bother with schooling and degrees, after that it is a pain to get a job. Working as a mechanic I learn the trade and earn simultaneously.
Look at the number of mid life career changes or people who have formal college in one stream and working in another.
Maybe the issues here are literacy and education vis-à-vis education and knowledge.
More importantly why salivate for a foreign aid; if it is important enough we pick ourselves and work towards it.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Flogging a dead horse.
History is winner’s story, each person has their own view, Jinnah, Nehru, Gandhi, Patel whoever, it is 60yrs gone now, generation that experienced it is easing out, as the generation that was born in it. What are we fighting about?
The great sub continental psyche, a modern day Mahabharata between the cousins, the Brits must be laughing their a*e off. Since we cannot pin point the etiology there is point in cracking our head over it. Its time to move on.
If you notice all the voices that sniffing are voice of ownership and not inclusion.
Think about it carefully the Jinnah or Gandhi we know are a shadowy humans, they are no more flesh and blood, at least to us, shadow has not yet faded out as the generation that has seen, experienced and lived the freedom movement have handed down their direct memory. But to my children these are just name, their concept of Gandhi is the man who inspired Munnabhai.
Lets see, how we can walk the path of inclusion.
May be deleting the religion and caste would go a long way.
More important we need to upgrade ourselves from literacy to education. Not maculae’s but as per our need, hands on practical education.
Enquiring after a person’s religion and caste should be a criminal offense punishable by law.
The great sub continental psyche, a modern day Mahabharata between the cousins, the Brits must be laughing their a*e off. Since we cannot pin point the etiology there is point in cracking our head over it. Its time to move on.
If you notice all the voices that sniffing are voice of ownership and not inclusion.
Think about it carefully the Jinnah or Gandhi we know are a shadowy humans, they are no more flesh and blood, at least to us, shadow has not yet faded out as the generation that has seen, experienced and lived the freedom movement have handed down their direct memory. But to my children these are just name, their concept of Gandhi is the man who inspired Munnabhai.
Lets see, how we can walk the path of inclusion.
May be deleting the religion and caste would go a long way.
More important we need to upgrade ourselves from literacy to education. Not maculae’s but as per our need, hands on practical education.
Enquiring after a person’s religion and caste should be a criminal offense punishable by law.
political thriller
When those flights of fantasies’ are on,
I imagine that I am a writer, my writing “tehlka machayegi” I imagine, the story line, its translation to script and works. Only to be brought back to earth to attend to a stinking mouth. My woes apart.
My last fantasy was a political thriller. I had the mind map set. the theme a political thriller
Genre political thriller.
Synopsis. The prime minster’s son a dashing dynamic upcoming leader ( all euphemism for a backyard bully) is all set to be declared the prince of whales at the party, out of sheer ecstasy he flies the blue skies, waving out the young heroine with open hair standing on green fields, don’t miss the background of sarson ke phool. ----- crash.---- funeral eulogies.
Cut 2 the scion of the Royal house, is adopted by the Prime minister to take on the power game, suave, politically graceful, Cambridge educated again poised for the throne flies to the capital on an emergency secret call from the PM -- crash the plane goes – funeral and eulogies.
Cut 3 the flamboyant debonair fund raiser for the party, the prime minister of course does not plan to nominate him prince of whales, she has someone up her sleeve but he is to be wazir, guess what secret summons again a flight that crashes – funeral and eulogies.
Cut 4 the dark caverns of vindhya hidden is the high-tech cell of RAW/CBI/CIA/FBI whatever is the current fancy even ATS is okay with us. – Sanju baba heads this outfit. Case I “bees saal purani hai par band nahi huyi” “case 2 dus saal se pending hai, but vaastav mein band nahi” “abh yeah”
This is where I get stuck who should be the villain?
· Yeah is party ka taqdheer hai ki koi bhi umadta sitara tikta nahi – this will encourage a tantric dance( item number) and some jantar mantar.
· A freedom fighter who wants the power so he is playing a loyalist in public and killing the rivals deviously. – this will give us a good car chase.
· Videshi hath – this will let our hero go abroad and we can have foreign locales.
· Aur kya kareen?
Kuch bhi kahiye, congress ke katha tho dhansu hai.
Think of all the potential woman power, which can ignite the K-series and Ekta Kapoor out. The widow of each dead hero, the mother, sister, secretary all fighting for the power, a daughter the crown princess, her husband as another power monger. Ya kuddah, not bad at all if only I have the patience to write it down.
I imagine that I am a writer, my writing “tehlka machayegi” I imagine, the story line, its translation to script and works. Only to be brought back to earth to attend to a stinking mouth. My woes apart.
My last fantasy was a political thriller. I had the mind map set. the theme a political thriller
Genre political thriller.
Synopsis. The prime minster’s son a dashing dynamic upcoming leader ( all euphemism for a backyard bully) is all set to be declared the prince of whales at the party, out of sheer ecstasy he flies the blue skies, waving out the young heroine with open hair standing on green fields, don’t miss the background of sarson ke phool. ----- crash.---- funeral eulogies.
Cut 2 the scion of the Royal house, is adopted by the Prime minister to take on the power game, suave, politically graceful, Cambridge educated again poised for the throne flies to the capital on an emergency secret call from the PM -- crash the plane goes – funeral and eulogies.
Cut 3 the flamboyant debonair fund raiser for the party, the prime minister of course does not plan to nominate him prince of whales, she has someone up her sleeve but he is to be wazir, guess what secret summons again a flight that crashes – funeral and eulogies.
Cut 4 the dark caverns of vindhya hidden is the high-tech cell of RAW/CBI/CIA/FBI whatever is the current fancy even ATS is okay with us. – Sanju baba heads this outfit. Case I “bees saal purani hai par band nahi huyi” “case 2 dus saal se pending hai, but vaastav mein band nahi” “abh yeah”
This is where I get stuck who should be the villain?
· Yeah is party ka taqdheer hai ki koi bhi umadta sitara tikta nahi – this will encourage a tantric dance( item number) and some jantar mantar.
· A freedom fighter who wants the power so he is playing a loyalist in public and killing the rivals deviously. – this will give us a good car chase.
· Videshi hath – this will let our hero go abroad and we can have foreign locales.
· Aur kya kareen?
Kuch bhi kahiye, congress ke katha tho dhansu hai.
Think of all the potential woman power, which can ignite the K-series and Ekta Kapoor out. The widow of each dead hero, the mother, sister, secretary all fighting for the power, a daughter the crown princess, her husband as another power monger. Ya kuddah, not bad at all if only I have the patience to write it down.
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