There’s more to celebrate than UPSC
- Thangkhansuan Gualnam
With the declaration of the UPSC 2019 result, there has been an interesting development of conversation online, mainly on WhatsApp groups. The sentiment in most of the conversation has been that of disappointment. This is because, of the 829 selected candidates, none has been from our community. Now knowing the competitive nature of the said exam and expecting someone from our community to be on the list every year, I think the confidence we have on our youth is commendable. At the same time, it is frightening for our youth the amount of expectation and high standard of success set by our society. I’m no expert on “how to crack the Civil Service exam” and I do not have a YouTube Channel with videos about the tricks for such an exam. As such the objective here is not to analyse why our youth could not clear the exam this year or to give any advice on what to next and how to prepare for it. The objective here is rather of a larger issue, and it’s also a continuation of the personal discussion with friends or classroom discussions with professors over the years.
Being a young university student and soon to be job hunting from place to place myself, I had some problems with the kind of conversion happening around the idea of “success” that