Trying to be Different

“Try to be Different"

                                     “Think out of the Box”

                                                                              “Come with an Innovative Ideas”

Since Engg and MBA, I have been hearing all this crap. Students who were bright and having out of box mentality suffered a lot in Exams and also in their Campus Placement. In Engg, some of talents like Liju John, Nilashish Mandal, Saurabh Mandal were not placed,  afterwards they did some further courses and made themselves employable. Believe me; none of their jobs are giving justice to their talent and skills. Same happened in MBA campus. If the guy is multi-talented, then they are questioned ‘Why are you having diverse areas of interest’ or ‘you don’t seems to be stable minded.’

                   Life is one big bitchy irony guided by dogmas and ‘sacred’ beliefs. Right from your forced religious beliefs to education system, everything is based on conventionality but not on logical thinking.  I will not discuss about Religious Belief (watch 'Oh My God' for that) but want to make few points on education system.

Education system has the most conventional approaches witnessed.

MARKS. Biggest Chutiyapaa. Marks kill all the fun. If questions are of 10 marks, then write 3 pages and for 2 marks then write 5-6 lines. WTF! This exact parameter kills the fun of learning and actual implementing an idea. Marks can never judge what we have understood. In Electronics term, it means our cache memories worked for 3 hours in a stupid exam. Still, you can’t ignore; entire system is based on that.

Study, get a job and die.

If we even dare to dream, hopes are squashed even before we know it. Thanks to the our conventional approaches used towards life.

Then comes biggest barrier: Society

Wah re society. If a girl is wearing salwar-suit , she’s behenji. When she’s putting on fancy make-up and wears a skirt, she’s a slut. What a marvelous way of judging a girl. This is the same society who also consider girl as ‘Devi’ or goddess. These judging systems are also meant for guys. If a guy daily travels seating on back-seat of girl on a bike, then society calls him sissy. Thank you society for making your own people feels uncomfortable and disgusted by your stereotypical chutiyapaa thinking.

                     We follow conventions out of fear, not respect. If you are not going to break the chains of convention, there is gonna be even more chaos. It’s true; an Idea can change your life. Then, allow them to come up with their own idea. Don’t bind them in a circle for sake of marks and convectional way of society. Motivate them; allow them to think differently and to prove themselves. Stop considering education institutes as Job-portal agencies and placements as supreme goal.  Start a fight. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t prove, nothing wrong will happen, but you will become a statistic. Not an inspiration. It’s sadly not practically possible to follow the metaphysical concept of ‘I don’t give the slightest fuck about people. I’ll do whatever I want’. Even if you try, many times it just backfires. But don’t quit.

One example is Manjunath Shastri, my college colleague in Alliance University. After first year, he left MBA and went to Mumbai for perusing career in Film Making. Currently, he’s working in Excel Entertainment under Farhan Akhtar and is an assistant director of upcoming movie ‘Fukrey’.