ANSHUMAN MATHUR

It is August 26, 2016. Coming back after one year on this site for writing another blog. I finished my M.A. Now heading towards my particular dream- Indian Administrative Services. I received my post-graduation degree on June 18, 2016. Co-incidentally next year's exam, in which I am going to appear will be on June 18, 2017. Preparing for this 'mother of all exams' has never been an easy task for anyone. Numbers suggest that the success rate in this exam is below 0.50%. If I tell this, in other words, it means that around 8,00,000 aspirants fill-up the form and on the day of exam nearly half of 8,00,000 means 4,00,000 appear, now inference is that among this figure of 4,00,000 contenders only 1,00,000 are giving it seriously. So, this final number of aspirants appear physically, mentally, actually in the Preliminary (this is the first stage of this three-stage exam, prelims followed by mains and interview) exam. Now, suppose UPSC said that we have 1,000 vacancies or posts...

Last Sunday, I went to railway station for reservation to Delhi. There was no long lasting queues of reservation seekers as it should be! I just entered in reservation office and took a form but suddenly two adult boys came to me and asked me to fill their form, one of cancellation and a new one for reservation. I humbly filled their forms. Meanwhile another person, this time senior citizen with his wife came to me and obviously like previous situation i filled their form also. Now after doing social service i was able to fill my own form. Indian Railway's reservation form in any part of country is printed in two languages -one side is in English and other side usually in Hindi. A person who don't know english can fill their form in their language (Hindi or in their local language like Marathi, Malayalam etc.). I did not feel any arrogance or irritation while filling their form. But now i would like to open some more cards. Those first two young boys was of 20 and 22 years...

Mumbai Local, known as pride of not just Mumbai but of India. In a Mumbai local not just people travel but a complete society travel at a same time with children, boys, girls, gentlemen, ladies, senior citizens, vendors, handicapped persons, Dabbawalas!  In Mumbai where if a Local train get late even by a minute, it causes sudden hullabaloo at every station of that particular train route. So, what happened last day (02-01-2015) at Diva station was quiet predictable. Because of some technical wire issue trains stopped its service for about 4 hours. Anyways service was recommenced after some time. But, in this stint of 4 hours what country seen was the overreaction of Mumbaikars. I mean country get the level of fastness of Mumbaikars. The fastness which was uncontrollable for those 4 hours. What kind of ghai (hurry) this is? When those people was demolishing Automatic Ticket Vending Machines(ATVM), setting on fire the cops PCR vans, injuring innocent people, abusing admini...

"भीड़ के इन जंगलों में आदमी हैरान है,न जाने किस गुफा में खो गई पहचान है। जिंदगी का दर्द जीने के लिए दम चाहिए,लाश कँधे पर उठाना बहुत आसान है।"      उक्त पंक्तियों के अर्थ पर यदि हम दृष्टि डालें तो इससे केवल एक ही अर्थ निकलता है- दूसरों के प्रति दिखाई जाने वाली सहानुभूति, प्रेम व दया । आज के इस परिवर्तनशील युग में सभी अपने-2 स्वार्थ में डूबे हुए हैं, दूसरों के दुःख दर्द की किसी को कोई चिंता नहीं है । अगर सड़क पर कोई दुर्घटना हो जाए, तो लोग चलते रहते हैं उस पीड़ित को अस्पताल पहुँचाने तक की किसी को फ़ुर्सत नहीं है ।     आज सरकार और जनता के बीच भी यही स्थिति है, जनता अपनी माँगों के लिए रोती रहती है और सरकार पर इसका कोई असर नहीं पड़ता । राजनैतिक दुर्दशा व जन आक्रोश के कारण सर्वत्र त्राहि-2 मची हुई है । कहाँ गया वो सम्मान ? कहाँ गई सोने की चिड़िया की गरिमा ? ऐसा क्या है, जो हमारे देश को खोखला किए जा रहा है ? स्वतंत्रता के इन 63 वर्षों में यदि हम देखें तो लगभग सभी परिस्थितियों में एक ही उत्तर मिलता है- आँदोलन...जनता का आँदोलन ।      आँदोलन तो आज़ाद...