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Surreal blog #2 Indian Education System Time: 11:17 pm Date: 17 th  November 2018 System: The Origin During Colonization period, lots of thing changed and one of those things is ‘Education System’. Indian education system 1  was made by Thomas Macaulay 2  in early 1820s. As you can see, we are still using the same education system which was used by my grandfather and his grandfather too! It is hard to keep something so consistent for such a long time (sarcasm intended). Change is really necessary to keep on improving our life. Since our independence we have changed a lot, for example: our life styles have become better, way of commuting has changed, etc. Grades: A Rat Race Nowadays, Education is all about getting good marks, getting admission in a good college and getting a degree. Nobody cares if you learnt anything or not; Everyone is running behind marks. And the worst thing is many teachers want their students to cram things not learn or enjoy t...

Surreal Blog #1 How I started reading books Time: 11:55 pm Date: 14 th  November 2018 Post Hey, I am Surreal. I like reading, listening music and learning new things. In these series of blogs, I will be talking about a lot of different things like book reviews, education system, reservation system, inter-planetary travel, technology, things happening in my life (of course), etc. I started reading books when I was in IX standard (Summer of 2016). Like many people, I asked the questions like “How do people read these thick books with no pictures?”, “Why read the book when you can watch the movie?”, etc but now when I hear people asking these same questions I just smile to myself. Like every other kid, I was reluctant to read books. My maternal uncle had been asking me to start reading books from the beginning of the year, but I just repeated the above quoted questions childishly. His reply to those questions is the same I now give to people who ask these quest...