Research.....or re-search !

Whomsoever 'invented' the education system and criterion for graduation never would have really given a second thought on how stressful writing a research or term paper can be. With the advent of Google pages and other search engines there is no limit to the amount of 'crap' that turns up on hitting the search button. Reading books is an alternative, but who is going to take the pain to go to the library and search the catalogue, rummage among the racks and lined shelves with a spacing which is just about adequate for a person with 32" waistline to get through. On top of it all, chances are that book will be located in the adjoining rack! It can get tiresome and irritating, and not to mention dusty if the books have been lying there since the establishment of the library. At this point of time,I am glad that senses prevailed and that i disliked history!

So coming back to writing, given the obvious choice of internet surfing; you are most likely going to find hundreds of papers of which 10% would be relevant and many others you would have to cook up; especially if professors want two pages of bibliography, irrespective of whether you have read them or not. Research, in a nutshell can be defined as; the art of an ongoing process of searching (for the same item or a different species); or a complete waste of time for people who have no idea of what to look for! Kudos to those eminent scientists who have published endless books and papers; what we today term as 'sources' in our documents. At the least we can skip all that process of building the base. The reliability of data hence, is accepted on face value; the question is, whom can we question? It has been passed on from forefathers to fathers. No point in digging up graves.

Ah...You can see, I am just bored of reading! I think i had better not build a mentality of the 'argumentative indian'; instead just accept darwin's theory and complete my research paper in order to graduate. At this point of time, i neither see the start line nor the horizon...