Okay, the title at the first glimpse might give you the impression of a truly feminist article coming up. Well, I wouldn't really defend in that case. But yes 100% assertion to this notion is also not there. I chanced upon writing an article on this subject after having read an article on the same lines by a writer of the opposite sex. You won't call him a feminist right? So, spare me also from the same honor.
However getting back to the point, why at all sports and why relate it to the gender presumed to be the weaker of the two sexes? Well here I would disagree with my own statement. Weaker? Why would that status be accorded to? Well maybe so, when comparison is done with men. But the discussion is not about comparing men with women. Its about Indian Sportswomen and their contemporaries outside.
Well, when we see the laurels and ranks achieved by our female sports fraternity, who would not strike a pride of honor. We have PT Usha missing an Olympic Bronze by a fraction of a second, Anju Bobby Geroge being the first Indian Athlete to win a medal in World Championships in Athletics. Saina Nehwal, having acquired the World No 2 ranking, Mary Kom, 5-time World's Boxing Championship. What more do you need?
This indeed shows that Indian women have the potential for grabbing more and adding more to the hall of fame of Indian Sports. Despite being born in a country known to have always outcast or neglected the apparently "weaker sex", we have names from this sex which would always be remembered not just by those aware in sports' trivia, but by all Indians.
Even within a state, I have witnessed my fellow friend who was state no 1 in Lawn tennis and then she went on to be India No 2. The same couldn't be said for the boys who played Lawn tennis in our state. So this in itself shows that once proper attention is shown to this section of the sports fraternity we can count more laurels for our nation.
Why stay behind, just by thinking it's after all women's sports? When we have women's football team at world no 53 and men's at world no 154, we can have many more such comparisons. But this isn't really a time to compare which sex is better, or which one has contributed more to the world of sports. Its more about exploiting the best out of the current situation, grooming the best talent, make the best possible efforts to let every girl try every sport she wants to. Because she has it in herself. Its just the spark which she needs. And believe me as a girl, when it comes to feminism, proving our worth is all that matters.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Oh! What an unpleasant surprise
How does uncertainty play a role in making people happy? Or for that matter why do people love being surprised? The mere realization of having or being treated with something beyond imagination or expectation is no doubt a magical feeling. But what if things turn up exactly contrary?
This is when you are wanting a surprise to come up, to cheer yourself up, to enliven your mood. But alas it never happens. You keep waiting for that moment to happen till the last hope isn't swallowed within. Why is it so?
Then is when you wish surprises never existed! You start blaming the fate or the time or the circumstances which bluffed you at the last moment. And then you start wondering why did you even want the surprise to happen. Why was it a surprise at the first place? It was an inner desire for something which you badly wanted to happen but at the same time you wanted it to be overruled with an element of uncertainty. You knew chances of it happening were very low but still you wanted it to happen out of sheer avidity. Its a game in which heart takes over and lets you feel more than expected. This is when you want to leave it to the other end and want things coming up your stride as desired by you, from the other end, but oh! not as planned mate. You want it to come, marvel you, so that you are taken by awe. But alas it turns out opposite in the end.
This is how time and fate play with our emotions. This is how situations are crafted to hurt and make people realize their folly. This is how surprises turn unpleasant.
This is when you are wanting a surprise to come up, to cheer yourself up, to enliven your mood. But alas it never happens. You keep waiting for that moment to happen till the last hope isn't swallowed within. Why is it so?
Then is when you wish surprises never existed! You start blaming the fate or the time or the circumstances which bluffed you at the last moment. And then you start wondering why did you even want the surprise to happen. Why was it a surprise at the first place? It was an inner desire for something which you badly wanted to happen but at the same time you wanted it to be overruled with an element of uncertainty. You knew chances of it happening were very low but still you wanted it to happen out of sheer avidity. Its a game in which heart takes over and lets you feel more than expected. This is when you want to leave it to the other end and want things coming up your stride as desired by you, from the other end, but oh! not as planned mate. You want it to come, marvel you, so that you are taken by awe. But alas it turns out opposite in the end.
This is how time and fate play with our emotions. This is how situations are crafted to hurt and make people realize their folly. This is how surprises turn unpleasant.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Why MBA?
Under the magnetic effect of peer pressure, we see a lot of youth chasing the rat race of pursuing an MBA. Never realizing in depth why do they want to go for it. Now when I myself am entrusted with the job of doing the ground work of a "Why MBA" question for my interviews, I go back to wonder why am i doing an MBA at the first place. Am i also one of those nebulous worshipers of the world of fame and money that is promised with an MBA degree?
This leaves me to ponder on what is my aim for my life. What is driving me to be focused in this field and driving my pursuit for an MBA? and just when i delve deeper I come across all the other options which I have for myself. And then i suddenly start feeling lucky. Yes, that I have the freedom to go for a profession which I want to and not which I am compelled to.
And just when I was reconsidering my thoughts, I see a traffic policeman and a couple of students studying subjects related to forensic science. On one side I see a student who has taken up a very unconventional choice of profession in the field of forensics and on the other hand the traffic personnel is one who has to mess around with the traffic of a city like Bangalore just for his and his family's survival.
And its not just a traffic policeman. Everyday we come across in-numerous set of people who are slogging their lives out only to alleviate the pain of hunger and poverty.What is it that stops them from pursuing their dreams. Is it only we, the lucky ones who have the right to dream and chase them?
That is what we fail to realize. Without any figurative thought in place, without any passion, we like running the race without even knowing what and why are we doing so? Sheer dismay you can call it? That is where it stands justified to make "Why MBA" one of the integral questions to decide selection to the elite institutes of our country. So that one knows what is the passion behind pursuing a profession, because its only the lucky lot who can afford to have a passion for their profession.
This leaves me to ponder on what is my aim for my life. What is driving me to be focused in this field and driving my pursuit for an MBA? and just when i delve deeper I come across all the other options which I have for myself. And then i suddenly start feeling lucky. Yes, that I have the freedom to go for a profession which I want to and not which I am compelled to.
And just when I was reconsidering my thoughts, I see a traffic policeman and a couple of students studying subjects related to forensic science. On one side I see a student who has taken up a very unconventional choice of profession in the field of forensics and on the other hand the traffic personnel is one who has to mess around with the traffic of a city like Bangalore just for his and his family's survival.
And its not just a traffic policeman. Everyday we come across in-numerous set of people who are slogging their lives out only to alleviate the pain of hunger and poverty.What is it that stops them from pursuing their dreams. Is it only we, the lucky ones who have the right to dream and chase them?
That is what we fail to realize. Without any figurative thought in place, without any passion, we like running the race without even knowing what and why are we doing so? Sheer dismay you can call it? That is where it stands justified to make "Why MBA" one of the integral questions to decide selection to the elite institutes of our country. So that one knows what is the passion behind pursuing a profession, because its only the lucky lot who can afford to have a passion for their profession.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
