Pulling The Shutters Down!

The parents ARE worried about their children….They ARE more worried when they get out of their homes, going to the schools they study…..They ARE worried about the treatment their children get from the various educational institutions, scattered all over the places…..They ARE SPECIALLY worried about their girls who go to the schools……THEY ARE A TOTALLY WORRIED LOT…!

Till a decade or so back, parents sent their children to the schools  without tension, ALWAYS believing in the safety their children had there….After sending to schools the parents were NEVER worried as they went on, tension free, doing whatever they had been doing….!

But, of late, all these reassuring thoughts seemed to have vanished, all of a sudden to a far distant land! The terrifying stories of children of all ages, from the toddlers to the teens, getting sexually abused, that too inside the school premises have the parents wondering what’s happening to the education system!

At the learning centres of the country, LIKE Kerala & Bangalore, out of nowhere, started pouring out the cries of the hapless abused children, inside the school premises! What everyone SHOULD have noticed IS the TYPE of schools where this sort of abuses take place – In ‘MOST OF THE CASES’, it ‘IS’ a reputed school or a school with a LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS!

THE SCENE IS ALWAYS THE SAME……A person, in the form of an insignificant person such as a peon, driver, an insignificant teacher & others (All of these persons feel the HUGE lack of significance in their life, particularly in the school!) lure a NEVER DOUBTING child into his trap, most of the time, EXPLOITING the insignificance of his existence in the school premises! THE HARD FACT THAT it is the ones who are insignificant or feel insignificant in their Life & inside the school premises do this type of senseless cruelties to the children ALWAYS escape attention of the ‘WHO IS WHO’ of the present day education system!

Despite all the precautions or ‘SUPPOSED’ PRECAUTIONS these schools take, this sort of evil deeds keep happening. Out of the blue, these BAD MEN ALWAYS appear & destroy the lives of innumerable helpless children; and with them these schools, as well. And, the fact IS that this sort of things kept happening EVEN when children were going to school 20 or 30 or 40 years ago; the difference IS that of the much increased frequency & scale of reporting of such incidents NOW & THEN; and, the sensationalism applied in such incidents.

IT SUGGESTS ONE THING: - the authorities of the schools DON’T KNOW what to do in these sorts of situations & moreover, they don’t know how to prevent this cruelty from happening, time & again. It is a fact that they can’t UNDERSTAND IN ADVANCE what one man will do NEXT, every second of his existence in the school premises. THE FUTURE COPS are yet to be deployed!

BUT, what they can do is to ‘KEEP AN EYE ON’, after verifying the credentials of the people when they join the school or the educational institution, ALL THE PERSONS WHOM THEY ‘FIND OUT’ LOW ON SELF ESTEEM & THOSE WHO ARE THERE IN THE SCHOOL IN INSIGNIFICANT POSITIONS; and, let these people have LESS contact with the children that they be prevented from EXPLOITING the weaklings.

The other thing that can be done is from the government’s side :- that is, giving stringent punishment to the culprits without delay that the ‘WOULD BE’ offenders come to know what will happen to them if & when caught , red handed. And, the government has to make sure that the wrong persons ARE NOT PUNISHED in the ‘witch hunt’ that is always been carried out ceremoniously  in India, in all the fields of professions etc.

As the term ‘SEXUAL ABUSE’ is NOT that much of a TRANSPARENT TERM, despite having innumerable clauses & sub clauses, it is the duty of the government to clear the fog as soon as possible that NOBODY utilises the ambiguity of the term for their vested interests. It will ALSO be MUCH advisable to LET THE PUBLIC KNOW ‘WHAT HAPPENED TO A CONFIRMED CRIMINAL’ IN A PARTICULAR CASE that such heinous crimes where a person is DESTROYED in the childhood or teens don’t fade away from the public mind & lessen their precaution that they be caught off guard, again & again.

The cases where for silly & stupid reasons the law of child abuse is evoked & an entire school has to suffer AS WAS THE CASE WITH A SCHOOL IN THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, where the license of an school was cancelled & all the students of the school were FORCIBLY shifted to another school ONLY BECAUSE a teacher ‘ALLEGEDLY’ put a student in an empty kennel for some time to punish him for some error, SEEMS NOTHING SHORT OF jumping the gun by eons!  

When the various education departments take SUCH senseless actions against such minor & silly incidents, in the name of law, discipline, order in the society etc when all the while they have been sleeping on the grinding issues the student community has been facing for decades (Like the low standard education imparted, low standard faculty provided in the schools, low standard of the education system etc!) ONE SERIOUSLY DOUBTS SOMETHING MORE THAN EARNESTNESS & SENSE OF JUSTICE in their behavior!

Are these incidents happening in the reputed educational centers & institutions the HANDI WORK of someone who @ his will conduct these sorts of vicious & evil things to benefit certain groups or persons, in the education sector, luring the vulnerable in the institution for stupidly insignificant amounts of money or something else that the credibility of the education institution BE LOST FOR EVER?

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE EDUCATIONAL THINGS TO COME?; like the entry of foreign school chains into India, IN THE NAME OF CHILD SAFETY & INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS OF EDUCATION, for which there has ALWAYS been a ‘CREATED GROUP’ OF TAKERS? IS THIS A PART OF THE MANIPULATION OF THE INDIAN EDUCATIONAL CREDIBILITY & STANDARDS, WHICH HAVE BEEN BUILT OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS?

THE QUESTIONS ARE NUMEROUS & VIVID….BUT, THE ANSWERS ARE NOT THAT VIVID @ THE MOMENT….! LET’S KEEP OUR EYES & EARS OPEN THAT ‘TIME’ GIVES THE RIGHT ANSWERS TO ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS WHICH CRY OUT FOR THE LOGICAL, SENSIBLE & UNMANIPULATED ANSWERS!

LET US PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THOSE ANSWERS OF ‘TIME’….! WHEN THE SHUTTERS OF THE INDIAN SCHOOLS WHERE THE INDIAN EDUCATION IS IMPARTED ARE PULLED DOWN FORCIBLY BY INVISIBLE PERSONS, FOR THE SAKE OF UNSOUND REASONS, LET US WAIT FOR THE ANSWERS OF ‘TIME’, AS THEY ARE NOT VERY FAR AWAY FROM US…..!

Comedy Goondas & Goondies (Female version of Goondas!) of Our Education!

There were times when the students of an educational institution or college boasted about the Master Degrees, PHDs & Doctorates the principal of their college or education institution had/held! There was a time when the students boasted about the truck loads of knowledge the principal carried & the respect he had everywhere he went! Those times are passé! Now, it is the time for the college students to boast fearfully about the GOONDA PRINCIPAL or the GOONDY PRINCIPAL they have in their educational institution & tell a million stories of how they will beat & horrify the entire young generation in the college! Now is the time one can fearfully boast about the GOONDA & GOONDY PRINCIPALS & proudly present oneself as coming from THIS OR THAT GOONDA'S or GOONDY' COLLEGE!


These Comedy Goondas & Goondies have a common system running for them! These people will check their basic survival questionnaire (GOONDA's/GOONDIES' BASIC SURVIVAL QUESTIONNAIRE!) which asks whether a particular student/person in a GOONDA's or GOONDY's educational institution is weak or not; does he have strong connections outside the college or not; does he have strong parents & relatives or not; does he have any political or communally strong group to back him up or not; is he coming from the near by locality or not; does he have an attacking tendency & attacking physic or not etc! If 'NO' is the answer to all these 'BASIC QUESTIONS OF COMEDY GOONDAS & GOONDIES', THEN IT IS REALLY BAD TIME FOR THAT PARTICULAR STUDENT! And, once the target is found the Comedy Goondas & Goondies never leave any opportunity TO ESTABLISH HIS OR HER GOONDA OR GOONDY CREDENTIALS!


I remember one of my students telling terrible stories of her COMEDY GOONDA! She was doing her Post Graduation, in one of the famous colleges in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu! Once, she told, as one of her college mates gave a LOVE-LETTER to one of his college mates, he was called into the COMEDY GOONDA's office & locking the door from inside he hit the student left & right so severely that he took his Transfer Certificate (TC) the very next day & escaped with his REMAINING PART OF LIFE! She told that "AS HE IS A FAMOUS LOCAL GOONDA, NOBODY DARED TO EVEN SNEEZ IN THE CAMPOUS!"; she also added that the COMEDY GOONDA had VERY STRONG CONNECTIONS WITH ONE OF THE LEADING POLITICAL PARTIES OF TAMILNADU & HE WAS WORKING (What work we all know!) FOR HIS POLITICAL MASTERS BEFORE HE JOINED THE COLLEGE AS THE COMEDY GOONDA!


One of my students was a college student in Bangalore. Once, to offer his hair to his Favourite God, he started to grow his hair! After a month or so into growing the hair he was called by THE COMEDY GOONDA (Read the principal of his college!)! As he met him, the principal LITERALLY THREATENED him saying that if he would not cut his hair THE COMEDY GOONDA will beat him into pulp! Frightened he went home that day. Within a couple of days, this time while he listening songs on an i-pod of his friend at the college bus stop, THE COMEDY GOONDA came & grabbing the i-pod from him scolded him like anything & asked him to bring his parents to the college; terrified he went home, with his friend's i-pod taken away by the COMEDY GOONDA! The very next morning his mother gave the COMEDY GOONDA a call over the phone & despite her saying that her son was growing hair to offer it to his Favourite God, he screamed over the phone that "ONLY AFTER CUTTING HIS HAIR HE SHOULD COME TO THE COLLEGE!", AND BANGED THE PHONE, WITH ALL THE RESPECTS TO HIS MOTHER WHO POLITELY CALLED THE COMEDY GOONDA IN THE MORNING!


In Kerala it is not news at all that the COMEDY GOONDAS rule the educational institutions! Many of the very famous colleges & other educational institutions have sported the tag 'UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THIS OR THAT COMEDY GOONDA' for long! These Comedy Goondas make sure that not a single person in the college - of course with exceptions! - even breath against his will; or else he would beat the poor guy into such a shape that even his mother would not identify him! The Keralites have seen enough number of record-tearing, heavily scolding, beating & trashing COMEDY GOONDAS & GOONDIES as have been seen by their compatriots & contemporaries in the other neighbouring states like Karnataka & Tamilnadu! It is like "ALL IS WELL WHEN A COMEDY GOONDA IS THERE' attitude doing the rounds successfully in all the southern states of India! When the people INVEST MONEY in education & the money is in crores of rupees, the time of the wise, learned & personally excellent persons guarding the corridors of education is gone for good! IT IS ALWAYS GOOD THE COMEDY GOONDAS & GOONDIES TAKE GUARD AT THE ENTRANCE OF EACH & EVERY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION, IN OUR COUNTRY!


Hence, I was not surprised (or shocked even!) when I saw in a couple of leading newspapers an advertisement looking for GOONDAS - preferably, retired, sidelined, beginners etc! - for the post of the principal in a leading educational institution, as it must be the utter necessity which must have forced the educational institution to go for this move, as without a GOONDA in the principal's chair there is no point in running a college or an educational institution! After the BPOs, Hospitality Industry & Hospitals, it is now the turn of the COMEDY GOONDA & GOONDY INDUSTRY to grow at the triple digits; let us hope that a very huge number of COMEDY GOONDA & GOONDY MILLIONIERS WILL FIND THEMSELVES IN THE FORBE'S FIRST 100 RICHEST OF THE RICH NEXT TIME!