Tuesday, 22 July 2014
THE TWILIGHT SAGA
REVOLUTION 2020 -An awesome novel by Chetan Bhagat
Set in the holy city of Varanasi, Revolution 2020 is the story about two boys Gopal, Raghav, and a girl, Aarti. The story is narrated by Gopal, the protagonist of the story, and is chiefly concerned with Gopal's love for Aarti.
Gopal's mother died when he was very young, and he was raised by his father, who was poor due to a long running property dispute with his brother. Gopal and Raghav are school friends. Aarti and Gopal are very close intimate friends, and are very affectionate towards each other. While Gopal wants Aarti to become his , she repeatedly refuses him saying she doesn't want to enter a relationship.
After performing bad in both the IIT-JEE (Indian Institution of Technology Joint Entrance Exam) and AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Examination) exams, Gopal moves to Kota, the so-called "capital of coaching classes" to undertake them again, to please his father who is determined to make Gopal an engineer. In order to pay for the entrance coaching, Gopal's father spends all his savings and takes on many loans.
Raghav however had scored very well in his exams and joins the prestigious IT-BHU to study engineering, though his real ambition is to become a journalist and affect social change. While Gopal is away at Kota, Aarti and Raghav become close and then started going out, which causes much strain to Gopal and Aarti's friendship along with Gopal and Raghav's friendship. Gopal is distraught, and the novel explores the strains of unrequited love between intimate friends, which is a major component in the novel.
Partly due to the emotional difficulties brought on by his friends' relationship, Gopal again fails to fare good at the AIEEE. Gopal's father cannot bear his son's repeated failure and dies, leaving Gopal an orphan. Debt loaded, through a friend he meets a powerful MLA, Shukla, who agrees to help start an engineering college on his father's disputed land. Shukla agreed to provide financial backing and political support to construct the new college, named GangaTech, with Gopal who will be its director. In order to build the new college Gopal head to handle corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and regulators, all of whom had to be bribed during various stages of planning and construction of the college.
Meanwhile, Raghav finishes his engineering studies and becomes a trainee reporter for a popular newspaper, "Dainik". He publishes a critical article regarding Gopal's college-Ganga Tech - on the day of its inauguration in which he accuses Shukla of corruption. Gopal takes this personally while also considering it as betrayal after agreeing to being interviewed by Raghav for the article. Shukla gets Raghav sacked from his job at Dainik but Raghav starts his own newsletter called Revolution 2020. He later publishes an article about a Ganga Treatment Scam and this time with sufficient evidence to prove that Shukla is a corrupt man. Shukla was forced to resign. Raghav continues on his quest to expose corrupt leaders who he accuses being the root reason for India's poor economic background. In the process, Gopal and Raghav become rivals as Gopal does the exact opposite of what Raghav sees is ideal, since Gopal only wants to make money.
However after seeing what Raghav has gone through due to the joint revenge taken by the MLA and Gopal himself yet sustaining his determination to bring the revolution, Gopal decides to change somethings on his part and help his friend anonymously. He stops the affair he has with Raghav's girlfriend Aarti and lets go of her despite his unconditional love for her. He also asks Dainik to hire Raghav back. Things slowly improve for Raghav financially as he can now work on his articles, while Gopal is shown to slowly become a better person. Although in the end we see Gopal is alone and prefers to be isolated, he is indeed rich and successful as he wanted to be and Raghav, who is now almost the MLA (since his in-laws were mildly involved with politics helped him) .
Gopal's mother died when he was very young, and he was raised by his father, who was poor due to a long running property dispute with his brother. Gopal and Raghav are school friends. Aarti and Gopal are very close intimate friends, and are very affectionate towards each other. While Gopal wants Aarti to become his , she repeatedly refuses him saying she doesn't want to enter a relationship.
After performing bad in both the IIT-JEE (Indian Institution of Technology Joint Entrance Exam) and AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Examination) exams, Gopal moves to Kota, the so-called "capital of coaching classes" to undertake them again, to please his father who is determined to make Gopal an engineer. In order to pay for the entrance coaching, Gopal's father spends all his savings and takes on many loans.
Raghav however had scored very well in his exams and joins the prestigious IT-BHU to study engineering, though his real ambition is to become a journalist and affect social change. While Gopal is away at Kota, Aarti and Raghav become close and then started going out, which causes much strain to Gopal and Aarti's friendship along with Gopal and Raghav's friendship. Gopal is distraught, and the novel explores the strains of unrequited love between intimate friends, which is a major component in the novel.
Partly due to the emotional difficulties brought on by his friends' relationship, Gopal again fails to fare good at the AIEEE. Gopal's father cannot bear his son's repeated failure and dies, leaving Gopal an orphan. Debt loaded, through a friend he meets a powerful MLA, Shukla, who agrees to help start an engineering college on his father's disputed land. Shukla agreed to provide financial backing and political support to construct the new college, named GangaTech, with Gopal who will be its director. In order to build the new college Gopal head to handle corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and regulators, all of whom had to be bribed during various stages of planning and construction of the college.
Meanwhile, Raghav finishes his engineering studies and becomes a trainee reporter for a popular newspaper, "Dainik". He publishes a critical article regarding Gopal's college-Ganga Tech - on the day of its inauguration in which he accuses Shukla of corruption. Gopal takes this personally while also considering it as betrayal after agreeing to being interviewed by Raghav for the article. Shukla gets Raghav sacked from his job at Dainik but Raghav starts his own newsletter called Revolution 2020. He later publishes an article about a Ganga Treatment Scam and this time with sufficient evidence to prove that Shukla is a corrupt man. Shukla was forced to resign. Raghav continues on his quest to expose corrupt leaders who he accuses being the root reason for India's poor economic background. In the process, Gopal and Raghav become rivals as Gopal does the exact opposite of what Raghav sees is ideal, since Gopal only wants to make money.
However after seeing what Raghav has gone through due to the joint revenge taken by the MLA and Gopal himself yet sustaining his determination to bring the revolution, Gopal decides to change somethings on his part and help his friend anonymously. He stops the affair he has with Raghav's girlfriend Aarti and lets go of her despite his unconditional love for her. He also asks Dainik to hire Raghav back. Things slowly improve for Raghav financially as he can now work on his articles, while Gopal is shown to slowly become a better person. Although in the end we see Gopal is alone and prefers to be isolated, he is indeed rich and successful as he wanted to be and Raghav, who is now almost the MLA (since his in-laws were mildly involved with politics helped him) .
Plot of BIG BANG THEORY
Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Caltech in Pasadena, California. They are colleagues, best friends, and roommates, although in all capacities their relationship is always tested primarily by Sheldon's regimented, deeply eccentric, and non-conventional ways. They are also friends with their Caltech colleagues mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. The foursome spend their time working on their individual work projects, playing video games, watching science-fiction movies, or reading comic books. As they are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with popular women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress originally from Omaha, moves into the apartment across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon's, Leonard has another aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend.
- Huggo
Sunday, 20 July 2014
Engineering aspirants unhappy as NITs fees double.
The new academic session for the engineering aspirants does not seem to be heralding good news as the National Institute of Technologies (NITs) across the country have declared almost 100% hike in annual fee. Not lagging behind in the race, NIT, Patna (NITP), too, has almost doubled its fee to Rs 70,000 per year from around Rs38,000 last session.
The hike is in line with the recommendations of a standing committee under the NIT council last year. It had suggested steep hike in tuition fee for the NITs across the country from the new academic session. NITP director Asok De told TOI that for the undergraduate and postgraduate courses such as BTech, MCA and MTech, one will have to pay Rs70,000 for a year whereas it was around Rs38,000 till last year.
This development has led to resentment among engineering aspirants as well as parents. Vikas Kumar of Madhubani, who stays in Patna and prepares for entrance exams, said he aimed at government engineering colleges such as IITs and NITs. Earlier, his parents had decided against going for education loan. But, now, they will have to change their decision. "Last year, IITs, too, raised their fee and now has the NITs. Had the hike been of Rs5,000 or Rs10,000, I could have avoided a bank loan," said Vikas, son of a trader.
The news comes as a blow to all those dreaming of a bright future at a low cost. "Government engineering colleges were the last resorts for people like us who hoped that their children can also end up working for an MNC and earn handsome salary without burning holes in our pockets," said Vishwanath Kumar, a garment shopowner at Mainpura, Patna.
The hike has dealt a severe blow to the non-reserved category as no changes have been made for students of reserved category such as SCs and STs. Also, to encourage research activities, the fee for doctoral programmes at NITP has been waived for scholars of all categories. "For PhD courses, instead of Rs38,000, one will have to pay only Rs15,000 a year," said Asok De.
The IITs, too, last year effected a steep hike in tuition fee for undergraduate programme from Rs50,000 to Rs90,000. According to De, for the NITs, a fees structure of Rs90,000 was proposed. However, the committee decided to stick to the figure of Rs70,000.
The Union HRD ministry issued a directive related to fee enhancement in the NITs on May 5 this year. However, the fee for MBA and five-year MSc programmes will depend on the discretion of the NITs concerned.
The hike is in line with the recommendations of a standing committee under the NIT council last year. It had suggested steep hike in tuition fee for the NITs across the country from the new academic session. NITP director Asok De told TOI that for the undergraduate and postgraduate courses such as BTech, MCA and MTech, one will have to pay Rs70,000 for a year whereas it was around Rs38,000 till last year.
This development has led to resentment among engineering aspirants as well as parents. Vikas Kumar of Madhubani, who stays in Patna and prepares for entrance exams, said he aimed at government engineering colleges such as IITs and NITs. Earlier, his parents had decided against going for education loan. But, now, they will have to change their decision. "Last year, IITs, too, raised their fee and now has the NITs. Had the hike been of Rs5,000 or Rs10,000, I could have avoided a bank loan," said Vikas, son of a trader.
The news comes as a blow to all those dreaming of a bright future at a low cost. "Government engineering colleges were the last resorts for people like us who hoped that their children can also end up working for an MNC and earn handsome salary without burning holes in our pockets," said Vishwanath Kumar, a garment shopowner at Mainpura, Patna.
The hike has dealt a severe blow to the non-reserved category as no changes have been made for students of reserved category such as SCs and STs. Also, to encourage research activities, the fee for doctoral programmes at NITP has been waived for scholars of all categories. "For PhD courses, instead of Rs38,000, one will have to pay only Rs15,000 a year," said Asok De.
The IITs, too, last year effected a steep hike in tuition fee for undergraduate programme from Rs50,000 to Rs90,000. According to De, for the NITs, a fees structure of Rs90,000 was proposed. However, the committee decided to stick to the figure of Rs70,000.
The Union HRD ministry issued a directive related to fee enhancement in the NITs on May 5 this year. However, the fee for MBA and five-year MSc programmes will depend on the discretion of the NITs concerned.
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