Why sociology?

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My Novel "Untitled Love"

A PARAGRAPH FROM MY NOVEL

I am your ex-lady lover. I got married to a man to whom I didn't love before marriage. These days, I am leading a very happy and satisfied life though not successful life. Sometimes, I make a comparison between you and my husband. It was intolerable for you, to see tears on my face but my husband cries when he doesn't see smile on my face. You were showing me dream of rainbows but my husband has constructed a palace named rainbows for me. You wanted to add life to my years but he wants to add years to my life. You wanted to create literature on my love but he wants to make life on my love. You are the thorn beneath my foot but my husband has stretched smooth soft and delicate carpet beneath my feet. So hey my past, I think you are my unseen torment but my husband is my demonstrable happiness. So my husband is unique distinct and separate from all men on surface of the earth.He is quite un-paralled. I want my mind to forget you but my mind consistently remembers you. I wishfully want to demean and degrade your image in my life. But unwillingly unconsciously and undeliberately the image of my handsome husband gets degraded and demeaned.............

Analog IAS institute-Why to Opt Sociology for IAS Exam Part- 1 By Saroj Samal (Gold-Medalist)

WHY TO SELECT SOCIOLOGY FOR IAS EXAM

WHY TO SELECT  SOCIOLOGY  FOR IAS EXAM

                                                       SAROJ  SAMAL

What is the best optional for civil services? Why an optional is more scoring than other? These are the questions often asked by many students preparing for the civil service examination.

        Certainly, it is crucial that an aspirant should select the right optional, Selection of an improper optional can really cost a candidate dear. Let me tell you emphatically that there is no such thing like best optional. Nor any optional is more scoring than other. I may assert that it is not the optional which scores, rather it is the candidate who scores. Therefore, right optional means an optional which is the right one for a particular candidate. Now the question arises as to which optional is the right one for whom.

        In my view, the first criterion of choosing an optional is that you should really like and enjoy learning it. The second criterion in selecting an optional subject, especially if you have not already studied it at graduate or post-graduate level, is that whether proper guidance is available in that subject. By proper guidance, I mean a teacher who can take genuine personal interest to help you cultivate right frame of mind.

Cultivating the right frame of mind is more important than reading many books. The third criterion is the extent to which it is contributing to G.S, Essay paper and interview.

        Viewed from the above angle, no doubt, Sociology is one of the popular optional for the civil service examination. In the recent years, two candidates from non-Sociology background topping the successful list of IAS examination bears testimony to the fact of the popularity of Sociology. One of the advantages of opting for Sociology is that one doesn’t require early training at college or university level to do well in the Civil service examination. In fact, if we look at the syllabus prescribed by the UPSC, the questions asked in the exams, we find that even those who have studied sociology at university level have only a marginal advantage as compared to those who did not. Quite often, candidates with Engineering, Science, Medical, English literature and Psychology background have been able to score good marks in sociology papers of UPSC civil service exam.

        However, two qualities are essential for scoring good marks in sociology. Firstly the candidate should be able to write analytically. Secondly the candidate should be inquisitively interested in contemporary social issues.

    

        The reason for Sociology being the most popular optional is that it is the optional which is less technical. So it can easily be covered and mastered by a candidate during a short period of time. Secondly sociology, if properly understood, can help in covering some sections of G.S, Essay paper & interview.

Let me tell you, how sociology contributes to the above areas of study. I am presenting these in a point-wise manner with an integrated approach.

CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIOLOGY FOR G.S, ESSAYS AND INTERVIEW

1.     Impact of globalization

2.     Social exclusion, protective Discrimination and Reservation for SC, ST & OBC.

3.     Tribal problems, issues of Tribal Integration and Development

4.     Rural Development

5.     Status of women, Feminism, Atrocities against women & women empowerment.

6.     Disparities in Education, Privatisation of Education & Universalisation of Primacy Education, Project of U.E.E: The saga of spectacular achievement & conspicuous failure.

7.     Democratic Decentralisation and empowerment of marginalized citizens.

8.     Modernity, its impact on caste system, weakening and strengthening of caste        system, caste and politics, Future of caste system in India, Gandhi & Ambedkar on caste.

9.     Religion & Science, weakening and strengthening of religion in the era of science

10.   Secularism, Secularisation, Communalism & Fundamentalism, Problems of Religious Minorities

11.   Instability of marital institution and increasing rate of divorce in India & Emerging issues in marriage and family.

12.   Increasing rate of farmers suicide in India & contract farming.

13.   Population explosion & policy to tackle it.

14.   Naxalism, Terrorism & Regionalism in India.

15.   Ecological imbalance,  Environmental pollution & Sustainable development.

16.   Corruption & Institutionalised mechanism to tackle it.

17.   Democratic socialism, mixed Economy, Poverty Eradication Programmes and Employment generation in India since Independence.

18.   Land Acquisition Policy, SEZ and Societal Reaction.

19.   Inter-generational gap and youth unrest in India.

20.   Nationalism, Multinational state, Ethic movements & Ethno-nationalism in India.

21.   Ageing, Old Age problems & policy for old age pension (Social assistance scheme)

22.   Land Reform, Green Revolution

23.   Increasing rate of crime & Ammendment of criminal law and Juvenile Justice & Capital punishment.

24.   Patriarchy, Khap Panchayat and Honour killing

25.   Anti-caste, Anti-Brahmin movement and Buffalo nationalism in India.

26.   Gandhism, Marxism & Maoism.

27.   Democracy, Civil Society & Social Movement

28.   Mushrooming of temples on the roadside, emergence of different religious cult and religion in modern India

29.   Philosophies like communism, socialism and capitalism & their impact on society

If you analyse the latest changes introduced by the UPSC in restructuring the syllabus of general studies, you can reach at the conclusion that topics of sociology are there in every paper of the syllabus of general studies since 2013. 

A MICRO POEM

"Smile is the name of a village below the lips

tear is the name of a river below the eyes

Love is the name of the ocean beneath the heart

life is the name of an oasis in the desert of despair"

...........SAROJ SAMAL

 MY NOVEL AT A GLANCE

Sometimes things so happen in life that I feel, before my journey starts,the road ends.The serpentine river of love was started in our life when I met you long ago ,while ,i was at 24 and you were at 21.Since that time ,the earth has revolved round the sun 17 times.We have reached at the middist of youth.our love has been cooled down and pacified,has become plane and wave-less just like mid ocean.Today while I saw you alone in your office, after a prolonged period of time,i sensed the same feeling in you for me.Today i feel ,your age has not progressed and the flowing river of time has become stationary before you.....................................You are the sweet memories of my past,you are the happy torment of my present and you will be the dreamy rainbow of my future.You are my pure and pristine love and you are the endless Spring of my life and you are the ceaseless rainfall of memory while the summer like your husband gives you company...............27-11-2015

A PARAGRAPH OF MY NEW NOVEL

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The mistakenly thought "never-ending" love-story of our life ended one-day suddenly and substantially.I parted company from you because of the mounting parental pressure of getting me married to a man who was highly placed and professionally settled.I forgot the sweet memories and end-less past of our life.Hence forward ,your heart started speaking the voice of voiceless and your eyes started wearing the spectacles of speechlessness and infidelity.You blamed me as a betrayer and heartless lady.But hey my sweet past,believe me,your sweet memories with me,make me combust internally,even today.But ,I am sure you will never come to my rescue to subside my internal combustion.Because,I am the legal wife of another man and all lovers are intolerant to the husbands of their past lady-lovers.

My sweet past........Have you ever thought about my endless internal combustion?Have you ever thought about my dualistic and dialectial .position?No man on the surface of the earth will be able to comprehend this incomprehensible feeling and no one will be able to deciphere this undecephered thought.And how can I expect you to understand it?Because you are my cruel,rude and inextinguishable past.You are my unseen torment.But believe me,I could not get the man ,i intended and the man i got in my life that i have never ever intended .Eventually ,you became the winner,of course, of not winning me.And I became the loser,of course,of not losing property,prosperity ,purpose,possibilities and material comfort.............

SOME PARAGRAPHS FROM MY NOVEL...................SAROJ SAMAL 07-12-2015

A TRIBUTE TO GANDHIJEE

A TRIBUTE TO GANDHIJI........................................

30th jan 1948,NATHURAM GODSE'S bullets finished M K GANDHI.OVER THE LAST 67 YEARS ,INDIAN NATION HAS BEEN REMEMBERING,COMMEMORATING,GANDHIJI,the iconic leader,the propounder and practitioner of the theory of "CHANGING THE HEART OF ENEMY" on the eve of " MARTYR'S DAY".
But in today's India,the intensity of intolerance is growing,the pace of violence is accelerating ,identity politics is proliferating and unsustainable model of growth is Precipitating........
Has the nation really internalized GANDHISM?Has the nation really taken Gandhism so seriously? The way our political class behaves,the way our apolitical intelligentsia thinks and the way our politicised masses act,it seems to me as if GANDHI has become the relic of the past,something an embarassment to to India's road to globalisation and development.

...........SAROJ SAMAL