Reflections

So everyone thinks there is something or the other screwed up with this world. Or rather, this world is screwed up in some or the other way. And we all probably have our own theories of what really went wrong with the world! Each individual has a different theory. Some even have multiple theories, sometimes quite contradictory to each other! Breaking away from my New Year resolution of not thinking anything this year, I finally decided to give some deep thought into forming my own theory of What Really Went Wrong with the World, which I shall now present before you. However, before I put forward my theory it just remains unsaid that having originated from weird experiences most of it might not make sense to most people, which is quite acceptable considering I am not trying to convince anyone! Well, if you look at it, a lot of it doesn’t even make sense to me. But then, a lot of things don’t make sense to us and still they are there staring at us in the face like our own reflections g...

They say experience is the best teacher. And two experiences then are better teachers, I guess. So here are two such experiences that gave me two entirely different perspectives, yet zeroing down to perhaps just one conclusion. The Staff Selection Commission conducts examinations for graduates and post graduates for various government posts, apart from UPSC and DSSSB. Examinations for the posts that can be taken up by Visually Impaired Students have the provision of Scribes to make the examination smooth and accessible to the students. Keeping aside the whole debatable concept of “posts that can be taken up by the Visually Impaired”, here I am going to discuss two such instances when I became a Scribe for a few Visually Impaired persons appearing for the SSC Examinations. During my first attempt at writing the reading and writing the paper for a visually impaired person, I went through three hours of emotional blackmailing by the candidate trying to cajole me into filling up the answ...