Indian Women And Army

Although India has adapted very fast in accordance with the changing trends, something which still lacks change is the condition of women. Women have been suffering from hard repression since centuries, and still in the modern world of 21st century they are facing more or less the same problem.

Take for example army. Although Indian women have been given place in the Indian army, but they are still viewed as incapable when compared to men, as they are still not under permanent commission.

I don't know what has happened to our thinking… What is the reason for all this?

Do we consider our women weak as if they can't do physical work? I would stress upon the fact that in some places they still carry a pot of 20 kg on their head and walk miles… Can't they carry a gun in their hands, just as they help the farmers in the farming work?

As for the denial of an Officer’s rank in the Indian Army, I can’t understand the logic. They, in fact, have great management skills, the live examples being our homes that are still managed by our mothers.

The main reason is that most of the JCO's and jawans who hail from the villages are still not able to accept women as their leaders in the combat situations. And some women officers are unwilling themselves due to family background and responsibilities.

So we all need a united effort to change the present situation, because then only it will give the women confidence that they are equal in all respects.

Women SHOULD be given their rights and we should all extend our encouragement and support to them.


Jai Hind!

Kushagra Sharma

Y13 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT, Jaipur

Meant to be!

Sometimes it's just meant to be

All that you want is not free

All the world's a stage

And you're a mere character in the play

You muse over your fate

Oblivious of the path

You just tread along

Don't know where it takes you…

But there's a belief, a hope

That it'll pass along your way

Your dream, your path

And you stand by the faith

That is enough to cast a trance…

Move along, my dear

Don't you stop!

Believe in your magic

Cast your own spell

Binge the light

Be the glow, That lights up this world

Be the one

That you dream to be

So that one day

Your name stands in the hall of fame…

So that you be the smile

That brightens all lives

You be the one,

Who understands

You be the one, Who is the new hope

Because somewhere down the lane

That's what it’s meant to be...

Nikita Jalodia

Y13 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT

Hang In There...

There are times when we are so sullen and emotionally exhausted that we long for outlets of our emotions. Not that we need a trigger for any catharsis, but we are so choked and full to the brim that in that state of numbness, it is a far fetches thing to realize this on our own.

We have a hard time breathing, a harder time gulping and all we do is to try shaking it all off. But it never works, not for me.

Situations, circumstances or whatever one might call them in their lingos, are so twisted and wicked. No matter how hard you try, you end up in despair. That's when our faith is shaken. We start losing it. Everything around us starts annoying us.

We start to damn that whatever we are today, we were not meant to be.

'This was not my cup of tea!' 'If I were doing what I always wanted, I might have had a better life!'

But are we always right? Or we just camouflage our weaknesses and failures with lack of interest?

Past always haunts us. And low recesses of heart, like these, further invite them to torment us. So, actually we are not doing any good by revisiting that lane.

What we have now, today, only that is our cup of tea. We can't set eyes on other cups. No matter how fancy they may look and how cracked and leaky our own may seem.

There are no guarantees, after all.

There is no room for vacillation at the expense of damaging your present. You are doing nothing but vandalizing your own life.

Hang in there, for tomorrow is yet to come. And there is certainly a moment, hidden in the shell of future, that will change everything for good. Your mind set will drastically differ and you will see your life, once a miserable one, with hope.

Just live in present and you will see, however withered your life may seem, it can still be salvaged.



Mohit Joshi
Y12 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT

Facing Challenges: With a Smile

One day I was having a chat with a friend of mine, who is a part of a social cause initiative named ‘Igniting Minds’ where she teaches the orphans. This task, according to her, is highly challenging, but at the same time, it’s a moment she admires the most, and it actually adds happiness to her life.

The two words ‘challenging + happy’ made me to go deep in my thoughts. I wondered that how many of us really face our challenges with happiness???

Rather, for most of us challenges are an open invitation to worries and a starting phase of sadness, which slowly peeks into our life and thus ends up creating emptiness (for most of us).

The reason why I am again and again emphasizing on the word ‘most of us’ is because it depends on the way we live our lives, the way we see our lives, the way we distinguish between the bright and dark bands of our lives.

While writing the above lines I am reminded of a quote by Joshua.J.Marine, which says --

“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful”.

So how many of us really support this saying??? The answer would be all of us. But now if I ask, how many of us really employ this in our life? It is a million dollar question that forces you to look deep inside yourself and ask yourself that for so many years you have been hearing so many influential and philosophical thoughts of great people... and what do you do after listening to each such thought; you end up saying- wow! What a thought... and then that’s where the road ends to such a beautiful and meaningful quote… and exactly why this road ends? The answer is simple enough. It is just that we don’t employ this thought. We just praise it...

AND THE PEOPLE WHO EMPLOY THESE THOUGHTS ARE THE ONES WHO START PRAISING EVERY PHASE OF THEIR LIVES. THEY START ENJOYING EVERY MOMENT OF THEIR LIFE, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, START PLAYING WITH CHALLENGES.

Of course no one’s perfect and no one’s gifted with a perfect life. So, the challenges are bound to come and they await you in every step of yours… It depends on how you face it --with cowardice or with valour and spirit.

Many of us, when burdened with a lot of problems in our life get frightened and rather than acting and finding solutions to those problems, we sit at a corner of the room like squirrels. Okay, now I know what would be your next question. WHY SQUIRRELS??? Guys, you know I love the way a squirrel eats with its two tiny hands, the way it jumps from one branch to another, but there is one quality I don’t like about squirrels … and that is the way it faces hurdles in life. Have you ever noticed a squirrel when many vehicles arrive in its path… if not, don’t worry… let me tell you… when it is in such a situation its body is filled up with so many reflexes from its mind that it just moves haphazardly between the vehicles even when there would be so many safe places to go. Hmm… it is a little hard to relate with human life but I am at your service. So let us translate this situation into human life… It's a little weird... but still…

Squirrel=human being, vehicles=difficulties we face in our life, the reflexes=confusions we create in our mind, a safe place=a solution to our problem.

Yes my dear friends, this fact is cent percent true. Don’t you think when obstacles cover your path like a dark shadow…. instead of finding a ray of sunlight… you actually try to make that shadow much darker. When you are burdened with lots of challenges… you get so much confused in them that rather than solving them step by step, you are in a great rush to solve all of them at a single go, or you just sit and watch them overpower you.

And this is where we all do mistakes. Now, what is the solution when you are faced with challenges?

First of all don’t take challenges as challenges but as a daily soap which is going to come after a certain interval of time with a new spice always added into it.

Secondly, sometimes challenges are invited by us… but if you really ask me I club this type of so-called self-made challenges into self-made difficulties, probably because we encounter them in our life due to our lack of time management skills. If you really want to know the importance of time… ask a mother who’s trying to give her child the best nutritious food when the baby is growing in her womb, only to give rise to a healthy kid after nine months… or try to understand the importance of time from a patient who is suffering from cancer and knows that he is going to leave this world in a week… or to even understand importance of every second, ask an athlete who missed the world record by a second…

Friends, these are some real facts of life I wanted to share with all of you… obviously I know it’s really hard to employ such big things in life. Frankly speaking, even after knowing such things I am also not able to employ them in my realistic world… but at least we can try. Who knows, one day, maybe we will succeed…..

At last I would like to share some lines of a beautiful poem that I learnt way back in my school, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN –by Robert Frost

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and

I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference… 

Sanjana Mehrotra

Y13 Undergraduate, The LNMIIT