नागफनी

जहर बुझे काँटों का
नागफनी खड़ा था,
चटखते मरू में.
बिना पानी की
जमीन से,
सच उगेगा भी
और कैसे?

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Examination System in the Most Unique New Age

We don't need corrective but reformative measures in the examination system. In fact, the very idea of examination in such form has become redundant. In my opinion, multiple approved boards of examination with their own patterns of examination should be allowed to operate for the certification of the same set of students. And any pupil or person, even not having formal education at a school, should have the option of appearing in any of these examinations or in more than one of such examinations at the time and pace of his or her choice. When the different boards would compete for soliciting examinees, they would devise more creative form of examinations, which would focus on exploring the aptitude and potential of examiness rather than testing their memorising capacity. Anyway such silly set of information is already accessible from anywhere and anytime. We need to think everything anew in this most uniquely new kind of age. 

Niraj Kumar Jha

कहीं नहीं से आना

अनादि ही आदि का उद्गम है,
अनन्त ही अंत का तल है,
अज्ञेय ही ज्ञेय का आधार है,
अर्थहीनता ही अर्थ की भूमि है.

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मैं क्या चाहता हूँ?

मैं चाहता हूँ कि
सवालों के जवाब दिए जाएँ,
और जवाबों पर सवाल किए जाएँ.
ये खुद के हों और या किसी और के,
और के हों तो किसके,
को लेकर कभी फ़र्क नहीं किया जाए.
मैं और कुछ नहीं,
सिर्फ़ गुलामी की काट चाहता हूँ.

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World Class Universities

The Government of India wishes to raise 10 private and 10 public universities to the world class by selecting out the best from the existing universities and by exempting them from the rules and regulations and granting them Rs 10,000 crore over a period. This is indeed the best possible way to raise the standards of education in India. However what I suggest here that the state governments can multiply the effort of making Indian universities world class. After all, many of the Indian states are as big as the big states of Europe and some advanced countries of other continents. The 20 bigger states of India should find ways to make their two universities world class, one private and one public. The rest of states and union territories can also do the same by raising at least one university, either private or public or in PPP to the world class. If all concerned parties willing India can endeavour successfully to upgrade its 50 universities to the world class. This is indeed an urgent necessity as India suffers a lot as a result of lacking in quality education.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Methodological Musing(s)

The opposite of wrong as the existent wrong causes it to occur is not the right most of the times. The antithesis of wrong, most often, is another wrong, worse than the original wrong. The right, one should know, does not germinate out of the wrongs.

Niraj Kumar Jha

दर्शन, दर्शनहीनता, और प्रतिदार्शनिकता

समय दर्शन - अध्ययन, अवलोकन, संवेदना और बुद्धि से युक्त दर्शन - की सक्रियता की मांग करता है. दर्शन को दर्शन और दर्शनहीनता अथवा दर्शन और प्रतिदार्शनिकता में भी अंतर स्पष्ट करना होगा क्योंकि इनमें स्वरूप का अंतर नहीं है. दर्शन को यह भी बताना होगा कि दर्शन का उद्देश्य दर्शन का प्राधिकारवाद नहीं है, बल्कि मानवीयता के प्रवाह को अबाध रखना है. दर्शन का एक महती उद्द्देश्य आसुरी तत्त्वों के प्रतिकार के लिए लोगों को  संगठित रखना भी है. एक समय दर्शन को हम इतनी ऊँचाई तक ले गए कि सारी की सारी जमीन ही खो बैठे. 

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