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The Sentry at the Gate of Time, was worried. He had never seen such a crowd at the Gate of Time. Normally crowds welcomed the New Year with rejoicing and revelry, but as he looked at the gate, and saw the faces of the welcomers, he sniffed the smell of fear.
“Strange!” he muttered to his missus.
“Never smelt this smell before!” she said as she sniffed the air.
“Well, not there was never fear when the new year came in!” said the sentry, “I remember smelling a lot of fear, during the Crusades, during the World Wars, and even during the Cold War, but never like this!”
“It’s a different fear,” said his missus, “It’s fear between man and man!”
“Between friends, who are no longer friends, between colleagues, who have allowed distrust to creep in, between neighbours who now close their doors on one another!”
“It’s a sad fear!” said his missus.
The eyes of the Sentry swept the crowd, “There’s two men who have not come to greet the New Year!” he said.
“Yes, I know!” said his missus.
“You do, how?” asked the puzzled Sentry of the Gate of Time.
“Oh I didn’t want to bother you!” said his missus, “They both tried to scramble over the Fence of Time and meet the New Year in advance!”
“What!” shouted the Sentry.
“You were sleeping, dear husband, so I stopped them, one with a grey beard, and the other bald, and I saw they had a paper, which they wanted to hand over to 2020!”
“Did you confiscate the paper?”
“No, husband, but I saw what was written in it. It was a note for 2020, “Bring bandages and medicines with you because we are going to make you bloodied when you visit us!”
“Oh my! Oh my!” whispered the Sentry of the Gate of Time.
“Don’t fret, dear husband, don’t fret!” said his missus soothingly, “I think it was meant to be I saw those two and their dastardly paper!Because I have a plan to rescue the year! Do you remember what won all the wars before?”
“Yes!” said the Sentry, “But I have not seen her lately, where is she?”
“I am here,” said a woman, more beautiful than any woman they had ever seen, “I came as soon as your missus summoned me!”
“You will have to go down with the New Year. You will also be bloodied just like he is about to be, but stand strong, fight hard, and then maybe, just maybe, 2020 will not fall prey to the plans these two men have for him. Do you think you can do that?”
They watched as the incredibly beautiful woman, stood lone and tall, “I am Truth, “she whispered, “And Truth will always Prevail..!”
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Scholarship Name 1: Helton Fellowship Program 2020
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American Society of International Law, USA has announced this award to provide assistance in the form of "micro-grants" for young professionals and law students to pursue research and fieldwork on significant issues involving human rights, international law, humanitarian affairs, and related areas. Selected fellows will receive financial and additional benefits.
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Scholarship Name 1: Technip India Limited Scholarship
Description: Technip India invites girl students from financially underprivileged sections of society to receive financial support for pursuing higher education in different fields of Science. This programme is aimed at encouraging girls towards STEM studies.
Eligibility: Female students currently enrolled in Class 11 or 3rd year of B.Tech/B.E. programme at any recognised institution may apply for this scholarship. Applicants must have scored at least 60% marks in the previous qualifying examination and their family income must be less than INR 3 Lakhs per annum. Applications open for students from Delhi, Mumbai & Chennai only.
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Sourav Ganguly’seighteen year old daughter, Sana, is said to have posted a message on Instagram, against the CAA. But loving father that he is, Sourav has said, that ‘she is too young a girl to know about Indian politics!’
And in that statement lies the snooty, snigger and smirks greeting the cries and protests of students all over India.
“You are children!”
“You are being manipulated!”
“You are too young to know about Indian politics!”
So, Dada, when did you start playing cricket for your state? When you were eighteen wasn’t it? Or have you forgotten? Did you understand the game? Or do think it was just a children’s game, of which now at the age of 47 you have become president off?
As I listened to student protestors from all over India, speaking out on TV, I realized, how intelligent, decisive and articulate they were.
And maybe that is what politicians, most of whom have, if at all, scraped through their schools or bluffed their degrees, need to know, that education gives you the power to analyze, to think, to probe into the deeper meaning of things, and to open up for scrutiny, lies, that the uneducated accept as gospel truth.
Also, it’s only in politics, even cricket politics, that seniority counts, whereas in todays corporate world, people like the forty seven year oldGanguly, would have been serving under a thirty or thirty five year old boss.“And he wouldn’t even call you Dada!”
“Would you call him ‘too young’MrGanguly?” I’m sure you wouldn’t, seasoned politician that you are.
So, also the politician, if he was working anywhere else other than the secure walls of Parliament, would have been like Sourav, serving under one of these youngsters.
These in colleges are not the vote banks of the country. Vote banks get swayed en masse. Like a herd of sheep, they follow blindly, trusting completely in rhetoric and scripts written for good actors.
Vote banks are what brings wrong men and women to power, while thinkers are those who can see beyond.
And yet, we call these the thinkers of India, naïve, ‘too young’ and impressionable?
What a laugh!
Wake up India! These socalled children you are firing upon, hurling tear gas onto and brandishing your lathis on are today’s generation!
They are ‘not too young’, they know more than you and I do.
It is not they, the educated who have been manipulated, it is we who have been.
If the father of Sana could play for his state at eighteen! If Sachin could have played for his country at even less, shouldn’t we stop thinking of them as ‘young’ and start thinking of them as ‘mature educated thinkers’ who are showing us, and here I quote Shakespeare, ‘that there is ‘something rotten in the state of Denmark..!’
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“I’m bored!” is not a cry we hear often nowadays. Every effort has been made by shrewd marketeers and technologists to see that not a moment of monotony and dullness creeps into the waking hours of our youngsters and also ourselves. Instant gratification is available at the click of a finger, through the phone, watch, laptop and other available gadgets.
I believe it is this need to be instantly satisfied that is slowly stopping us from understanding the repercussions of foolhardy speedy fulfillment!
I also believe it is this need to be gratified immediately that is allowing our leaders to get away with outrageous laws, which we ‘instant gratifiers’ don’t have the time or inclination to look deep into!
How quickly, the vigils, the protests, agitations, demonstrations, marches and anger disappeared as soon as the four rapists were shot dead!
But did you the concerned, stop to think that the real culprits; your protectors, who are never there to protect, your political leaders, who are as involved in sexual crimes as the assaulters, your men whose wrong thinking of themselves as the superior gender, are all at large?
Have you, who have been satisfied by those four bullets, or knowing the skill of our policemen, fifty bullets, realize that you have been popped a soother, a pacifier into your mouth, which is what instant gratification is all about.
Yes, the law takes a long time to act, but in the process, we get to the root of a crime. Through a justice system that we think is endless and dreary, we may at the end find that the police, just to close the case, and go about their business of pleasing their bosses and wallets, or who needed to get away from spending their time in the drudgery of detective work arrested a conveniently available four innocent men.
And maybe, just maybe, four rapists, the real ones, still roam free!
So it is with the contentious Citizens Amendment Bill (CAB ). This is not just about majorities and minorities, nor only about refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Take your ear plugs off and let me explain: This is about fiddling with a Constitution which till today, allowed anyone of any kind to live in this country, but with this new discrimination, could well begin the process of, “If you don’t think like me, don’t live here with me!”
Which my dear friend, before you put your ear plugs on again, could be you who thinks different, me who decides to act different and anyone who decides not to be a Cloned Citizen of this Country!
Instant justice, immediate gratification, may look after your pressing need for appeasement but, spells disaster in the long run.
Throw away those ear plugs before it’s too late, or you’ll soon be really ‘bored’ cooling your heels in detention camps already being built for those who are different..!
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