Saturday, July 30, 2011

Importance of Placement and Campus Recruitment




                                                                  India is a beautiful country which is not only a tourist attraction but also a place where many talented people search for a good job, their main job is to get an opportunity in an organization which enhances their capabilities. Nowadays placements have become temples for the students. There are many jobs in the market but how can one know about them. So, in this matter those colleges play very crucial role which are having campus recruitment. There are also some students who do not know anything about placement and all, so, colleges make them aware of the placements and their need. Placement consultants are the platform for business. Companies share their requirement for the employees on different profiles from time to time and these placement consultants in turn help them to fulfill their requirement. But there is a disadvantage of placement that the talented students only get opportunity for job but what about the average students? When they are in the Market they have to fumble for jobs and sometimes they do not get it. Searching for a job is the most critical thing today and there are huge list of unemployed people in market and everybody is waiting for his/her chance. Placement consultants are the organizations which are helpful in providing jobs in India or wherever one wants. After the completion of their studies the only thing students want is a good job which helps them to show their skills.
                                                                  
Many students in India do part time jobs while studying. For them this is not only to earn money but also to get experience. And the experienced students are required the more. So, this is how placements is a coin having two sides of advantages as well as disadvantages.

What is Literature.

                             

Before giving my view about literature, I would like to quote and explain C.S. Levis’ statement about literature. He writes;

“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”

Very briefly C.S.Levis has put all the aspects related to Literature in above quotation. We generally believe that literature represents imagination with creativity, but it also involves reality of life in one or another way. For example reading of “Oliver Twist” makes us aware of the life of Victorian people. Charles Dickens not only shares his creative imagination but also describes the manners and matters of his time. Literature thus, helps us to understand the history and the past of the society of different ages. Another thing is that, it boosts our life, as we get inspiration from it. Literature represents a language or people, culture and tradition and it leads us towards the new worlds of experiences. We, get some experiences through literature which are not meant to be learned as it is said that “one can’t play with fire.”
Though Literature represents our day to day life, it differs from everyday speech. There are some different qualities which make literature and other sources different. For example, though advertisements are imaginative and creative we can’t call them as literature. Terry Eagleton has rightly said, “Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.”
‘Literature’ is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works(for example, “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley) and the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination including works of poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. It also transfers human beings from one place to another, as it is a travel agent that makes the traveler travel free of cost. E.M.Forster has rightly said regarding this point,

“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”

Saturday, July 23, 2011

                       Soliloquy of Life 

“Everything will be fine”. He consoles himself.
Fine?   He gets hysterical.
Because he also knows that nothing will be fine. From his childhood he had learned this statement and thinks what sort of life he had. Aryaam  Chattopadhyay.
He was.
A successful business man, who had never seen the struggles of life before. This situation reminds him of the famous phrase “All is Well”. But perhaps he persuades himself.  In his office he was a king like man. He ruled over the people there.  But he could not rule over the hearts.
Aryaam Chattopadhyay.
But now,
Now he is only Aonu. ‘Aonu’ was for his relatives and friends. And today one of these categories makes him Aonu. He is not at all Aryaam Chattopadhyay. A man who had never paid attention to his parents.
His parents have left the ‘House’.
Forever.
Things were getting worse and worse in office also. Now Aonu realizes the importance of home and the home men.
“Everything will be fine” with a share of negativity this statement constantly bangs his heart.
“They should have pondered over my situation once.”  He feels.
“I was earning for them after all.”
“Really?”   His heart denies. 
[The conflict between mind and heart had been felt.] 
“They had never understood my aspiration. I wanted to get first class in M.B.A and I have got it.”
“Yes, I have got.”
“They expected me to get degrees of M.A with Literature and then PHD.”   
 “Why… Today I have come to know.”

 Silence

“Hey look at the bird mamma it is flying in the sky.”
“Dady… give me that binocular.”
“Oh it’s a wonderful sight. Isn’t it?”
“Mamma, Will you leave me ever?”


                                                                       Written  by: Payal Patel
                                                                                M.A- Sem-II
                                                                        Department of English
                                                                        Bhavnagar University,
                                                                                Bhavnagar