Aaargh!!! It has happened again!
I feel sad for the kids in school nowadays.
I remember my school days. Geography!!! One of my nightmare subjects... How many nights had I spent mugging up all those little nuggets of information about places and their names. How many bottles of "Shankhapushpi" (memory medicine :-P) my mother fed me so that my poor little brain would retain all that chunk of information - at least until the exams.
- Remember the 25 states of India.
- Remember their capitals.
- Don't relocate one capital to another state.
- Remember their locations on the Map...
It was too much for my little pea-brain...
I managed to scrape through somehow...
And as if 25 states were not enough, 3 new ones were added to the list!!! But by that time I had already passed out and cramming up about those new states was another kid's problem, not mine...
But wasn't 28 states enough? Today, we come to know that the state of U.P. (Uttar Pradesh) will soon be split up into 4 new states...
I feel sad for the kids who will appear for Geography exam in the coming future... 31 states, their 31 capitals and only 1 little brain to retain all that piece of information - "Badi na-insaafi hai re!" ("Big injustice, dude!")
And of course, who knows there might be even more mitotic or meiotic divisions of the existing states in the coming future (remember the ongoing telangana and vidarbha issues to name a few possible candidates)? And so, even more number of states may appear on the border-lines-riddled map of India...
And while remembering all the states and their capitals, the future Indian kids may possibly forget the age old adage "United we stand. Divided we fall"... ???
I feel sad for the kids in school nowadays.
I remember my school days. Geography!!! One of my nightmare subjects... How many nights had I spent mugging up all those little nuggets of information about places and their names. How many bottles of "Shankhapushpi" (memory medicine :-P) my mother fed me so that my poor little brain would retain all that chunk of information - at least until the exams.
- Remember the 25 states of India.
- Remember their capitals.
- Don't relocate one capital to another state.
- Remember their locations on the Map...
It was too much for my little pea-brain...
I managed to scrape through somehow...
And as if 25 states were not enough, 3 new ones were added to the list!!! But by that time I had already passed out and cramming up about those new states was another kid's problem, not mine...
But wasn't 28 states enough? Today, we come to know that the state of U.P. (Uttar Pradesh) will soon be split up into 4 new states...
I feel sad for the kids who will appear for Geography exam in the coming future... 31 states, their 31 capitals and only 1 little brain to retain all that piece of information - "Badi na-insaafi hai re!" ("Big injustice, dude!")
And of course, who knows there might be even more mitotic or meiotic divisions of the existing states in the coming future (remember the ongoing telangana and vidarbha issues to name a few possible candidates)? And so, even more number of states may appear on the border-lines-riddled map of India...
And while remembering all the states and their capitals, the future Indian kids may possibly forget the age old adage "United we stand. Divided we fall"... ???
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