October 2: Salute to the father of Nation @ Rajghat

October 1, the Supreme Court in the case of 2006 listened to the grievances of both the parties. The judge emphasised on the disclosure of scaling system, which the lawyer of UPSC, Mr. Subramanyam couldn't do well. He rather said that scaling system is such that weak students attain higher marks and brilliant students get lower marks because UPSC believes that those who score less in Prelims can write Mains better. This was quite whimsical and stupid. The judges ruled that out and asked Mr. Subramanyam to be ready with the documents pertaining to the scaling system on the next hearing date on 11 November, where the entire day shall be put in place for the revelation of scaling system and its fallacies. And social activist Madam Aruna Roy also came there at Jantar Mantar to encourage us.

Morning, 2nd October, the group of volunteers gathered near Batra Cinema Hall Parking, Mukherji Nagar, New Delhi at 6:30 am to proceed for the venue Rajghat. The group had got T-shirts prepared for the occasion and wore them inside the shirt, so that the authorities/police don’t raise an alarm and ban the students from marching forward as they have always reacted to student gatherings so far. After a bit of wait for some friends and delay, we marched from Mukherji Nagar to a bus stop, where in we all flogged into a DTC bus, which carried us to somewhere near Kashmiri Gate. Then again some marching and   at 10.00 am we finally reached Rajghat. We paid our homage to the figure of grace in the fight for justice and equality.

There some tourists were interested in knowing what we were assembled for. We could explain them the problems faced by the developing Nation of ours in weeding out corruption and setting fair practices. We presented them with T-shirts as souvenirs. To our utter surprise, some of them expressed their wish to see the Gandhian way of protest and be with us for some time to Jantar Mantar. We were obliged to have them with us at Jantar Mantar. Also, there was a social activist, who has been leading a Gandhian life since the last three years and who also dresses like Gandhi, also accompanied us to Jantar Mantar.

As we waited at Rajghat for a conveyance to Jantar Mantar we could get our hands on a wonderful Papad feast. It was quite delighting, especially when our tourist friends also joined us.

At Jantar Mantar we found Swami Agnivesh and his team, motivating the guys to fight for the cause and also requesting them not to be corrupt after becoming bureaucrats themselves. Meanwhile some IAS aspirants had best of their time teaching Naina and Julie from Denmark, a few sentences in Hindi.

Then it was Frode, a Hollander who made us feel as if he was a part of our team since the beginning. He was moving everywhere and capturing pictures. He is a student in Asian Film Institute, Noida and also was wondering if he could take the Protest against Corruption in UPSC, as the topic for his project in which he is required to shoot a documentary.

Well, we made the guests see the nearby ancient observatory at Jantar Mantar, bargained an auto rickshaw to their Hotel for them and came back to action for handling media and sending Press Notes, emails, pictures and all. The hectic day, then went off with some luminations of success in the protest in the hearts of some.

Group Marching Towards Rajghat

Group Mobilization

Some Bits & Bytes :D



Papad Treat @ Rajghat



Teaching Hindi to Naina: She just came to see Gandhian way of Protest @ Jantar Mantar

Swami Agnivesh addressing the volunteers