America is the world’s only superpower yet!

Yes, there are a lot of countries trying to replace it and amongst them India is a worthy contender. However, we are still far away from occupying such an envious position of power!

Do we want to be a world superpower?

Of course, yes!

Can we become one?

Well, there are no clear answers for this as a lot depends on how we act, rather than our boastful statements of predicting that this century belongs to India thanks to ever growing population and nothing else to support the superpower status! Truly speaking, we have become wannabes of being a superpower than rightfully deserving of the coveted title!

Let’s bring to you 5 topmost reasons as to why India is not a superpower yet!:

1) Disrespect for Our Own History

For a country’s growth, it is important for its people to understand and respect its cultural history and legacy. Knowing is not enough! One has to know and then learn lessons so as not to repeat the mistakes. All we care about as a nation is our independence struggle and that too in bits and parts. On top of it, we hardly learn anything from it; leave aside implanting the lessons learnt! Try visiting any museum in the country and watch people behaving there. You’ll get what we’re saying!

2) Discipline Missing

Are we the disciplined lots? Do we throw garbage in bins? Do we spit on the walls? Do we urinate in public places? Do we behave like mature people when in a public place? There are tons of questions like this and sadly the answer to all is same: we are not disciplined at all! It doesn’t take only the military capabilities to be a superpower, but also the people power that yes, the citizens are sensible and grown-up enough to handle such a position of power!

3) Responsibility of Actions Severly Unavailable

Again, we are the first ones to blame everyone and everybody for anything wrong happening in life. May be it is the government or the neighbours or family or anyone who can be made the scapegoat for our own collective failures. The day we learn to take responsibility for our own actions, the entire nation will change!

4) Utterly Crazy About Money

There is no harm in being a capitalist country, but one should not ignore other aspects of life. Earning money and making huge profits is the basic right for every human being, but there has to be a balance when it comes to quality of life, following ethics, morals and principals and making sure that the value of money is not more than the intangibles that make life worth living!

5) Equalled Value of Human Life Diminishing

Only one individual or only his near and dear ones should succeed is not the right way for a country to grow. Till the time we don’t value human life on a broader level, there can’t be any substantial growth. The quality of life of every individual has to be on par. No differentiation on the basis of caste, colour, creed or religion should be followed so that everyone gets equal opportunities to contribute to the society and achieve their dreams and desires. Every death due to some stupid preventable accident or dowry death or a cold-blooded murder (read abortion) of a foetus should hurt us for change to happen!

We have to work together if we want our country to progress and be a land of happiness and prosperity. Nothing can be achieved by blaming the government and past experiences for our today’s failures.

Let’s join hands and make our country proud and let it reach the position, that it so very well deserves!

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School days were the best days of our life and there is no debate on this at least!

Apart from all the fun, and the friends we used to have, one thing that all of us have gone through, whether the toppers of the class or the losers, is getting punished for our naughtiness. Teachers used to give us punishment to bring us to our senses and make us realize that every mistake has repercussions and punishment is a way to learn how not to commit or repeat such mistakes. Come to think of it, in our adult lives, mistakes cost us so dear! Lives are wasted if we commit a blunder, but in school no matter what we did, teachers punished us and we happily enjoyed it! Well, most of it, not all for sure!

Let’s see which ones were the most common and famous School Punishments we all have gone through:

1) Becoming a Murga

This must be the most famous one for every guy and few girls as well. Who knows how many times we were made to sit like a cock and do cuckadoo-ku-doo!  Did anyone of you enjoy that?

2) Hold Your Ears

Ahhh this one was sheer torture, but became more fun if teachers asked two kids to hold each other’s ears. It was heavenly to pull each other’s ears and then complain to teacher that the other kid is pulling your ear way too hard!

3) Hands Up In The Air

Oh, this was painful, no doubt about that! Especially when the teachers forced you to keep your hands straight and invariably you had to bend your arms after every few seconds due to unbearable pain! Early childhood used to be bearable, but once in standard 8-9^th or above, it became terrible if one had to stand with another child in the same position. Reason: sweaty armpits and the kid shoving it in your mouth!

4) Duster On Your Knuckles

Ouch! Even the thought gives you the pain, right? Who can forget getting hit on your knuckles by the thick powdery duster for not completing homework or fighting with a classmate or doing some other naughty stuff? And yes, knees also took the brunt sometimes if knuckles proved to be too strong!

5) Calling Parents

This used to be the worst kind of patient. It’s like, why to bring family into the picture? Every kid used to wonder that even though they are not grown ups, they have grown enough to handle their affairs on their own in the school. Including parents always felt like an insult, isn’t it?

There must be many more kinds of punishments we all have gone through. Do share the ones you remember vividly and enjoyed considerably. We so badly wish that even after living like an adult, the punishment for our blunders should be like what we got in schools. Life would be so easy and fun, right?

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