Essays Cold Winter Day, Market Scene, Hot Day in Summer & If I Were A Scientist
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A Cold Winter Day
It was the month of December last year. It was the coldest day of the winter season. The sky was overcast with clouds and chilly winds were blowing. The temperature went down to minus zero degrees.
Everybody was shivering due to cold. Water froze in pipes. Nobody dared to peep out. Blankets and quilts gave no warmth. Then it rained heavily. The sun appeared in the afternoon but gave no comfort.
Outside it was extremely cold and foggy Nothing was visible clearly. Sunlight looked like a moonlight. With difficulty, I boarded a bus, but the driver also found it difficult to drive.
I found people sitting around the fire to get some warmth. I spent little time in the market and rushed back home. Once there, I again took shelter inside the quilt.
A Market Scene
I live in Laxmi Nagar. It is located in east Delhi. It has become a business centre these days. The market of the colony is a very busy place. It is full of activities. It is the noisiest place as people come here from far and wide for shopping.
One can meet all types of buyers there. It is the best meeting place for friends. There are a large number of showrooms and shopping plazas. Some prominent eating places like Haiti, Dera and Pizza Palace have sprung up here.
Eve-teasers pass vulgar remarks on girls. The pickpockets are also in the lookout for their preys. Police keep watch on bad elements.
A Hot Day in Summer
Pakistan is a warm country for the most part of the year and it is very difficult to cope with the heat. Sometimes even fans do not give much relief. A hot day in summer is a curse.
The heat becomes unbearable, especially in the afternoon. Most of the people keep indoors unless it is very necessary to move out. They feel thirsty every now and then and quench thirst with water and cold drinks.
Traffic on the roads is scanty. People cry for rains to fall. Many people fall prey to heat stroke, some of them even die.
If I Were A Scientist
We live in a scientific age and scientists are respected everywhere. Science developed for the past several centuries and has produced results which have caused different reactions in different sections of society.
There are many who think science has bettered our lot. It has given us comforts prosperity by many inventions and discoveries. On the other hand, there are those who look upon science as the chief can of the sufferings of humanity today.
But we should be a scientist with a difference. We do not want to be confined to the ivory tower of pure reason unmindful of the realities of life. It is not a mere empty statement to say that the modern man lives, breathe and owes his being to science.
In every minor detail of our life science plays a valuable role. We wish to contribute our share in making this world better than what it is today. If I were a scientist, I would like to carry on my work in the sphere of pure science.
Pure science is a relentless search for truth for the discoveries of the mysteries of nature. As such no fault-finding is possible with pure scientific research which has broadened the frontiers of man’s knowledge about himself and the world. It is a systematised knowledge and its pursuit has led to the unravelling of the mysteries of nature and the harnessing of its wonderful power.
What the scientist discovers in the set of his laboratory after years of research leads to far-reaching results in our practical life. I want to be just one such humble devotee in the shrine of the goddess of science.
If I were a scientist I would like to be independent of powerful business and industrial magnates who try to scientists for their own selfish un ends. Normally, every human being is desirous of Buress, plenty and prosperity. But actual experience shows that man’s conduct is not always governed by these noble the spirit of aggression, jealousy and the desire to climb to the upper social strata often get the better of man’s nobblers emotions.
A scientist is also a man subject to these weaknesses. He can be lured away from his right path by the prospects of material gain or other earthly considerations. Now business and industry are by and large governed by science.
Rig industrial concerns and business firms want to buy the service of the best scientists for their own advantage which may not be compatible with the larger good of mankind. Thus there is every chance of science being abused and exploited for personal and selfish purpose.
Personally, I would try to remain clear of these temptations. I am also not in favour of governmental control. If Business and industry can be selfish, governments and States can be far more treacherous.
It is common knowledge that before World War II almost an army of scientists was employed in Germany, Russia, Japan, England and the U.S.A to invent new machines of death and destruction. Thus Hitler and Mussolini were able to exploit the best scientific brains to their own advantage and to the misery of mankind.
It is true that modern scientific research is very expensive and requires huge sums of money, therefore State encouragement and patronage must be channelised through autonomous academic bodies which may withstand the powerful pressures of the power hungry politicians.
The modern man lives in an environment which is predominantly the creation of modern science. It, therefore, follows that more than anybody else the scientist exercises the greatest controlling influence over human life today. The power of science is almost boundless. It has infinite potentialities for good and evil.
Science in the abstract is a non-human force and it is only the scientist-the human embodiment of this mighty force-who can determine whether it will be the benefactor the destroyer of mankind. I would endeavour to be an ideal scientist, a dispassionate explorer of truth.
My sole mission would be to discover every possible mystery of nature Pasteur, Jenner, Davy Madame Curie, Fleming. Einstein and J.C. Bose will be my models to follow. The examples of Edison, Galileo and Newton would serve as an unerring source of strength and inspiration to me.
I would be a worshipper of truth for the good of mankind. I would jealously assert and guard my birthright to explore the hidden avenues of knowledge without any let or hindrance from society, State or government.
Also, I would curtly refuse to let my discoveries be exploited for immoral or unjust purposes. I know this ideal is not easy to attain, but I would not forsake it for fear of poverty, misery or suffering.
