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Goons enter the JNU college.
They thrash professors and students.
The Union President, a girl, AisheGhosheisbeaten on the head with iron rods, thrown to the ground, kicked, punched, bleeding and badly injured is admitted to hospital where she receives sixteen stitches on her bloodied head!
Next day, the police, instead of arresting her attackers, arrest her!
A few years ago, when my elder daughter was in college, I received a call from her, telling me her phone was stolen from her bag, when she had deposited her bag in the college library.
I went to her college and found that all students had to leave their bags in small open lockers, and were given a token, which later they presented to a peon at the counter and got their belongings back.
She’d done the same, and since phones were not allowed in the library had placed her phone in her bag, and later on opening the same found it was missing. I spoke with the person at the counter, who said he had nothing to do with it. Then spoke with the librarian, and finally the principal. All of them said they were helpless.
I took my daughter to the police station and registered a complaint. The police sent a constable with me and I went back to the college with him.
Later, the principal asked me, why I had brought the police to a college.
I told him, since a robbery had been committed, I used the law, but more than that, I showed my daughter, what she had to do, if ever a crime was committed, and concerned authorities showed a lack of will to rectify a wrong.
But today as I see what is happening in Delhi, I ask myself, what message is it that our children are receiving?
My daughter learned to seek justice, but what are India’s children seeing?
I have no doubt that some higher up, must be thinking it was very clever to pin a crime on the very victim of an assault, but does he know that millions of children are bewildered and whispering, “You can’t trust khaki anymore! There’s no more justice in our country!”
Only when a child grows up trusting the system, does he or she grow up fearless and confidant. What such macabre and gruesome incidents show is treachery to the system, and with the children growing up with any deficit of trust, they will lose faith in the state and search for their own order.
I tried to teach my daughter how to seek justice when I took her to the police station. I wonder where you dads and moms will take your children?
Are you watching your child protesting? It should be we parents, not they, who should be asking questions!
Are YOU?
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Scholarship Name 1: J N Tata Endowment Loan Scholarship
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The J N Tata Endowment invites loan scholarship applications from students who wish to pursue higher studies abroad. Students who are selected for their loan scholarship are entitled to receive a ‘Travel Grant’ and a ‘Gift Award’- which are linked to their academic performance. Scholars who have already been awarded for this scheme cannot apply again for the same course.
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Shriram Transport Finance Company Limited has announced this scholarship programme to provide financial assistance to students from underprivileged families of commercial transport drivers. Under this programme, selected students will receive multi-year scholarships for professional studies after Class 10 and Class 12.
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Scholarship Name 1: Tata Steel Millennium Scholarship 2019-20
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Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur has anounced this scholasrhip for sons, daughters and spouse of workers, supervisors and officers of Tata Steel Limited who are pursuing BTech/BE/MTech/MBBS or any other professional course.
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Under "Category A", selected 120 B.Tech, M.Tech and medical students will get financial award up to INR 50,000 per annum. Under "Category B" 240 awards of INR 24,000 per annum will be given to the students studying in selected colleges.
Last Date to Apply: 09-01-2020
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Scholarship Name 2: Incentive for Meritorious Students in Class/Board/University Examinations 2019
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Department of Telecommunications, Government of India has announced this award to support the study of meritorious children of employees of the Department of Telecommunication who are toppers in the annual examination of school/board/university. The selected students will get financial incentives
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Children of the employees of DoT who are Indian citizens, studying at school, college or university level and have secure highest grade in all subjects, can apply for this award.
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The selected first position holders will get incentive up to INR 2,000, second position holders will get INR 1,000 and third postion holders will get INR 600.
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University of Reading, England is offering a full tuition fee waiver opportunity to students from India who wish to attend postgraduate programmes at the institution. Under this scholarship programme, Indian students will get an opportunity to receive multiple benefits including an academic stipend for pursuing higher education in London.
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Indian resident students who have secured a first-class bachelor's degree from an Indian university or second-class degree at bachelor's level are eligible for this programme. All applicants must have received an admission offer or must have been accepted to a post graduate programme at the University of Reading, London to apply for this scholarship.
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In a fictitious housing society very close to where I live, many sounds come out of the complex: Harsh words, screams, fists connecting with fists, connecting with shin and groin, and four letter expletives that shock the residents of other colonies who live nearby.
But it was not always so.
Many, many years ago, people belonging to one religious community, decided that since they all worshipped together, they would be happy living together.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up in the morning, and shout Good Morning to you, Brother Jerome, rather than some other greeting like Namaskar or Namasthe!’
“Excellent!” shouted Mr Jerome, “So let’s put up our own building, where all of us will live together, and wake up in the morning and greet each other with ‘Good Mornings!”
The idea spread like wildfire within the community, and soon, all the ‘Good Morning’ greeting people shifted into the same building, and felt so good for a few days greeting each other with ‘Good Morning!’
“We need a committee to run this building!” they said to each other one day, after saying their good mornings!” And as soon as the date for elections to the committee was announced, strange happenings were noticed, “His good morning sounds different from the rest of us, so vote for me!” said Jerome.
“His good morning shows he is from a lower class!” said another.
“His good morning shows lack of education!” whispered another candidate.
And soon rumblings were heard withina building that had residents who had previously thought of themselves as identical in thought and belief and ‘good morning’ greetings!
After those same elections, which were bitterly fought by like-minded people, the sounds that echoed from the building were loud, rowdy and boisterous, till this morning, when I saw residents walking to the local real estate broker’s office, “Get us a flat in buildings, were people say namaste, namaskar and even good morning,” said the residents, “How silly we were to think that people of one kind could live happily together!”
“Any message you have for the people and prime minister of this country?” I asked them as they trouped out, broken, bruised and battered from their building.
“Yes!” said the spokesman and no it was not Mr Jerome but his missus, “Tell the people and its leaders that the only way to grow together, is by mixing our differences and enjoying a diversity of…”
“Good mornings..”
“Namastes..”
“Namaskars..”
“and Salaam Alaikums..!” they all shouted together..!
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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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