Friday, January 22, 2010

Fight Social Injustice with a team

When I was in intermediate (10+2)

During my practical exams-viva I was asked unusual questions.
Examiner: Do you tease girls in your college?
Me: No Sir.
Examiner: Do you tease lecturers in your college?
Me: I was Silent.
Examiner: What is your attendance %?
Me: More than 97 % Sir.
Examiner: How many marks you got in Chemistry?
Me: 60/60(Q), 60/60(H), 60/60(Pre)
Examiner: Then why is your name in this list

Me: I was Silent.

Then he asked me two questions related to my experiment; asked me to leave the room.

@ The back-end the history is:
During the practical examinations, my name was in 20-25 marks list (max marks were 30 and 60 to 70 % of folks will be in the 30/30 list) It was not surprising to me to know that my name was in that list being the college topper (Note: Only twice I secured 2nd Rank, I would say I left the first Rank it to save one relationship),
Because I was expecting the scenario much before, when I raised my voice against the Management for collecting extra bus fee from the students. My dad warned about my straight forwardness around 3 times in the same year;


When I was in engineering
We were successful as a class in opposing a big organization like GITAM for its unethical imposition of fines and impossible practices. I have two acknowledge two persons here (Sandeep and Murthy) who stood ahead of us.

@ The back-end the history is:
We have few guys, who were ready to take any challenges
Good unity in our class.

During my NCC ‘C’ Certificate Exam results

I was surprised to know that I did not clear the EXAM.
(That was the first exam I failed in my 15 years of education till then) It was even big surprise to the other Cadets who did NCC along with me.

@ The back-end the history is:
I got 44/50 in the drill exam
I am confident that I wrote the exam well.
But I raised the voice against my ANO (Associate NCC Officer) for asking bribe.
But the fact is I was the only guy who raised the voice in front of him.

If you see the 3 incidents,
Every where the problem is for my society along with me, the society is not at all happy; but in intermediate and during NCC exam, I tried to fight alone for the entire society. And the System thought that, I was the only guys who had the problem, and the system want to get rid off me.
Where as during my Engineering Days, I was part of a very vibrant team which opposed the injustice.

So what I am trying to say from the above 3 incidents, is;
If you want to fight the social injustice, never ever try to go alone, find out the people who are impacted unite them fight along with them; success rate would be relatively more in this approach. Prepare the team for the worst possible outcome before they start the fight.

Few people would say that, why should I care if some other face the injustice,
Because we are living in an inter-related society, so the impact of injustice will reach you one day.

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