Bomb blasts, first in Bangalore (more like a dress rehearsal) and then in Ahmedabad and more live bombs are being discovered and defused. Earlier it was Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow...the list growing bigger (ofcourse blasts in J&K has become part of heritage of independent India). So the terrorists are targeting 'second -tier' metros now, according to our media. Now what? Is there panic? Mayhem? People scared of their own shadows? Not in India. We are such a resilient group of people that we just bounce back to 'normalcy' instantly. Keep aside the fear factor, many of us were least bothered about the whole thing.
Most people in Ahmedabad and Bangalore were jolted for a while but the rest of India watched the events (quiet keenly, I must admit) on TV and then flipped channels to more 'entertaining' numbers, their excuse, "Enough is enough, we cant let terror rule over our lives, so why not just ignore the gruesome details (when you get to see more gore on Hindi movies) and watch some Bollywood 'natch-gana' (legshaking) or better still, drown all the sorrow in some hep watering hole after a movie?" Quite practical. It was the media who had their fill as you could almost feel their excitement in this new scoop after the theatrics of MPs during the confidence vote in the parliament. They held debates, discussions, tele-conferences with anybody whom they could get hold of, polls, statistics and even interviewing a parent who had lost his son in the incident. Two days later, life goes on. Its Que Sera Sera...Hakuna Matata. Who cares even if the bombs were 'manufactured' in your neighbourhood? Who would even bother to alert the police of suspicious people or objects? All I want is to make money and then get back to my home, my kingdom. Even if the very people whom we elect to rule the country would turn out to be traitors, we would rather continue making the same mistakes than step out to protest. Incredible, we Indians are...
Monday, July 28, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Chewy Steaks
* Ever wondered how bad news travels faster than good news?
Here's an example:
case1
person 1 : Hey, how are you? BTW, have you met so and so lately?
person 2 : Me doing good. No I didnt meet them lately but do you know that they have split? It was not surprising for me anyway...
person 1 : stale news yaar! Actually I got it when I met their friends friend's cousin and just wanted to update myself before I meet my gang.
case 2
person 1: Hi! how are you? what news? how is so and so?
person2: Hmm...nothing much. yeah they are doing well, I guess...nothing new, only thing they are planning to buy a new car...
person1: well...lets go shopping...
*There are so many male gynaecologists around here. Why are'nt there many female andrologists?
*Why dont men wear skirts and women stick to pants alone? Both would feel comfortable, I guess.
*For centuries women have been waxing, shaving and spending oodles of moolah on cosmetics just to stay hairless. Why dont women just 'evolve' into hairless creatures? I think there is a conspiracy between the cosmetics industry and genetic engineers...
*Its inflation time!! But why is it called 'inflation' anyway when all we get is our deflated egos and lighter pockets? Well, its about money and the banks are the cynosure of the issue. So, inflation leads to 'inflated' bank's vaults. Just like our debits being the bank's 'credits'.
*Statistics show an 'alarming' rate of increase in number of singles in most countries and the reason being women choosing career over marriage, men and women bored of life-long commitment and in India woman to man ratio is dwindling owing to female feoticide. Well, its not alarming for me except for the feoticide part. Look at the brighter side, it is a way of checking population explosion.
*Most of us drool over everything American and view Americanism as ultra-modern but how come its difficult for them to have a woman or a black man to be their president while in India, Srilanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh we have had many women presidents and prime ministers. Many of them presidents/prime ministers were not fair-skinned either.
*As fuel prices are rising, India can patent the manufacture of dung cakes and biogas. We can package the cakes well (maybe vaccum packed and flavour locked) and export it. Biogas is ofcourse through pipelines which were originally meant for gas imports from Iran. Soon we might rise up above our oil producing gulf countries.
*These days talent hunt shows are outnumbering soaps as they are better tear-jerkers, with all 'emotional performances' delivered by participants and judges. Not only that, the singers are expected to even dance, emote to be the winners. They can fall flat with their singing but never on their foot-tappings. Result, a 'wholesome' entertainer on your platter. Imagine, Mohd. Rafi and Geeta Dutta acting out 'Piya tu...' ridiculous!
*We dont seem to be 'producing' many scientists in our country. My explanation : we seem to be having more coconut trees and jackfruit trees than apple trees (remember Isaac Newton). The school dropouts are sent to work and the lamp posts are already booked by urchins.
Here's an example:
case1
person 1 : Hey, how are you? BTW, have you met so and so lately?
person 2 : Me doing good. No I didnt meet them lately but do you know that they have split? It was not surprising for me anyway...
person 1 : stale news yaar! Actually I got it when I met their friends friend's cousin and just wanted to update myself before I meet my gang.
case 2
person 1: Hi! how are you? what news? how is so and so?
person2: Hmm...nothing much. yeah they are doing well, I guess...nothing new, only thing they are planning to buy a new car...
person1: well...lets go shopping...
*There are so many male gynaecologists around here. Why are'nt there many female andrologists?
*Why dont men wear skirts and women stick to pants alone? Both would feel comfortable, I guess.
*For centuries women have been waxing, shaving and spending oodles of moolah on cosmetics just to stay hairless. Why dont women just 'evolve' into hairless creatures? I think there is a conspiracy between the cosmetics industry and genetic engineers...
*Its inflation time!! But why is it called 'inflation' anyway when all we get is our deflated egos and lighter pockets? Well, its about money and the banks are the cynosure of the issue. So, inflation leads to 'inflated' bank's vaults. Just like our debits being the bank's 'credits'.
*Statistics show an 'alarming' rate of increase in number of singles in most countries and the reason being women choosing career over marriage, men and women bored of life-long commitment and in India woman to man ratio is dwindling owing to female feoticide. Well, its not alarming for me except for the feoticide part. Look at the brighter side, it is a way of checking population explosion.
*Most of us drool over everything American and view Americanism as ultra-modern but how come its difficult for them to have a woman or a black man to be their president while in India, Srilanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh we have had many women presidents and prime ministers. Many of them presidents/prime ministers were not fair-skinned either.
*As fuel prices are rising, India can patent the manufacture of dung cakes and biogas. We can package the cakes well (maybe vaccum packed and flavour locked) and export it. Biogas is ofcourse through pipelines which were originally meant for gas imports from Iran. Soon we might rise up above our oil producing gulf countries.
*These days talent hunt shows are outnumbering soaps as they are better tear-jerkers, with all 'emotional performances' delivered by participants and judges. Not only that, the singers are expected to even dance, emote to be the winners. They can fall flat with their singing but never on their foot-tappings. Result, a 'wholesome' entertainer on your platter. Imagine, Mohd. Rafi and Geeta Dutta acting out 'Piya tu...' ridiculous!
*We dont seem to be 'producing' many scientists in our country. My explanation : we seem to be having more coconut trees and jackfruit trees than apple trees (remember Isaac Newton). The school dropouts are sent to work and the lamp posts are already booked by urchins.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Reality Bites
Shinjini - does that ring a bell? Well, if you have been watching the news channels (Indian), your answer would be 'Yes'. I just happened to watch the footage of the infamous Bangla reality show in the news yesterday. A heavily made-up Shinjini (she is just 16) sobbing away as the judges one after the other points out her 'mistakes' and rebukes her remorselessly. The whole nation seems to be following up the developments of this bit of news as the girl is being treated for paralysis and depression in some hospital in Bangalore. The parents sure must be feeling elated as their child is now famous! I am not sorry for being sarcastic.
I felt sick watching the whole thing. A child, dressed up in glittery costumes, made to look like a sexy woman and sways and hip-swings to some 'Bollywood' number, trying hard to impress the whistling audience and the hard-hearted judges.
What is happening to us? In the name of game shows, are we trying to rob innocent children of their childhood? These children are taxed beyond their capabilties through rigorous training by their ambitious parents. They brainwash the children and convince them the 'importance' of their victory in the show. Big money is involved and hence threats cannot be far behind when selfish, ego-struck parents push their offspring to the limit. In this process, they forget that the child is highly impressionable and is ill-equipped in coping with too much pressure. Such traumatic events can destroy the child's health and her/his outlook on life itself.
Why dont we ever treat children as they are? Why do we want to speed up their growth, making them talk and walk like grown-ups? Of all the places, please let us not have children brought into reality shows where everything is far from reality. Children by nature are never pretentious, what they say they mean it and what they think they say it. Let us not fool our children or rather not teach them to fool themselves.
I felt sick watching the whole thing. A child, dressed up in glittery costumes, made to look like a sexy woman and sways and hip-swings to some 'Bollywood' number, trying hard to impress the whistling audience and the hard-hearted judges.
What is happening to us? In the name of game shows, are we trying to rob innocent children of their childhood? These children are taxed beyond their capabilties through rigorous training by their ambitious parents. They brainwash the children and convince them the 'importance' of their victory in the show. Big money is involved and hence threats cannot be far behind when selfish, ego-struck parents push their offspring to the limit. In this process, they forget that the child is highly impressionable and is ill-equipped in coping with too much pressure. Such traumatic events can destroy the child's health and her/his outlook on life itself.
Why dont we ever treat children as they are? Why do we want to speed up their growth, making them talk and walk like grown-ups? Of all the places, please let us not have children brought into reality shows where everything is far from reality. Children by nature are never pretentious, what they say they mean it and what they think they say it. Let us not fool our children or rather not teach them to fool themselves.
Honestly speaking
A movie star once said in an interview that the reason that she is still single is that all the good guys were either married or were gays. Shocked? Not surprising, after all, we are so quick in catching up with all that is 'western'. Well, pardon my dry humour, factually, this trend has existed even before the west got involved with the east. So can we conclude that all that is old is good? Certainly not.
There was a time when I could use the word 'gay' freely which used to mean happy/glad. Well, not any more, there are too many reserved words in English these days.
In the past few years, the number of same sex 'marriage' has increased and many cities/countries have already legalised this 'gay' (quotes intented) union. And what more, such couples 'boldly' claim to have decided to bring up children under their care as a family. And the society is quite silent to all these new developments (is it really development?) Is it because many are ignorant of the consequences? Or is that we really do not care?
I might sound old, mouldy and rotten but the stark truth is many of us are not sure!
A society is built on family as the building block (yeah, all base and boring stuff). This functional unit that well resembles an organisation is where an individual traces his origin to. A child grows into a man/woman, his character forms, his personality evolves and eventually he/she is prepared to step out to build his/her own life and the lives of people around them. Though feminists might fiercely disagree, the fact that man and woman are different, still remains. And this dissimilarity spreads across the physical, mental, emotional and the psychological. And yet both are incomplete without the other. Each complement the other through their strengths and weaknesses. Our world needs both man's rationale and woman's sensitivity to run it (and ofcourse vice versa for all the bra-burning feminists). In a family, a child is perfected under the shadow of the father and the mother. According to the dictionary, the word marriage refers to a legal union of man and woman and also means, a blending or matching of different elements or components. Unless pieces of a jigsaw are different, would they fit together to form the right picture? Marriage is not just the society's tool for procreation ( then why would we be having overflowing orphanages and demanded abortions?), it is the healthy way to promote a morally sound civilisation and ultimately sustain human kind (remember the Romans).
Normally as humans grow up, they develop an affinity toward the opposite sex by instinct but a person who is insecure, has a past of sexual abuse, or is posessing a convoluted perception about sexuality might develop other preferences. This does not mean that the choice that he/she makes is the right choice. A plant will grow into a tree with twisted trunk and branches if its growth is restricted when it is tender which would effect its fruitfulness.
Here's my point, loud and clear, having an alternative sexual preference, according to me, is a mental disorder that needs to be counselled and treated. If you think otherwise, we need to aquit paedophiles, necrophiles and all others who commit sexual perversions just because their 'preferences' were different.
How can a joining of two people of the same sex be legalised and termed 'marriage'? However can they be expected to bring up a mentally healthy generation out of this union? Gay/lesbian marriages are a cancer that is gradually eating into humanity reducing human beings to entities that are enslaved by lust, driven by instincts devoid of self-control and boundaries.
And ofcourse the Good Book forbids it. (Do I sound religious? I hope so.)
There was a time when I could use the word 'gay' freely which used to mean happy/glad. Well, not any more, there are too many reserved words in English these days.
In the past few years, the number of same sex 'marriage' has increased and many cities/countries have already legalised this 'gay' (quotes intented) union. And what more, such couples 'boldly' claim to have decided to bring up children under their care as a family. And the society is quite silent to all these new developments (is it really development?) Is it because many are ignorant of the consequences? Or is that we really do not care?
I might sound old, mouldy and rotten but the stark truth is many of us are not sure!
A society is built on family as the building block (yeah, all base and boring stuff). This functional unit that well resembles an organisation is where an individual traces his origin to. A child grows into a man/woman, his character forms, his personality evolves and eventually he/she is prepared to step out to build his/her own life and the lives of people around them. Though feminists might fiercely disagree, the fact that man and woman are different, still remains. And this dissimilarity spreads across the physical, mental, emotional and the psychological. And yet both are incomplete without the other. Each complement the other through their strengths and weaknesses. Our world needs both man's rationale and woman's sensitivity to run it (and ofcourse vice versa for all the bra-burning feminists). In a family, a child is perfected under the shadow of the father and the mother. According to the dictionary, the word marriage refers to a legal union of man and woman and also means, a blending or matching of different elements or components. Unless pieces of a jigsaw are different, would they fit together to form the right picture? Marriage is not just the society's tool for procreation ( then why would we be having overflowing orphanages and demanded abortions?), it is the healthy way to promote a morally sound civilisation and ultimately sustain human kind (remember the Romans).
Normally as humans grow up, they develop an affinity toward the opposite sex by instinct but a person who is insecure, has a past of sexual abuse, or is posessing a convoluted perception about sexuality might develop other preferences. This does not mean that the choice that he/she makes is the right choice. A plant will grow into a tree with twisted trunk and branches if its growth is restricted when it is tender which would effect its fruitfulness.
Here's my point, loud and clear, having an alternative sexual preference, according to me, is a mental disorder that needs to be counselled and treated. If you think otherwise, we need to aquit paedophiles, necrophiles and all others who commit sexual perversions just because their 'preferences' were different.
How can a joining of two people of the same sex be legalised and termed 'marriage'? However can they be expected to bring up a mentally healthy generation out of this union? Gay/lesbian marriages are a cancer that is gradually eating into humanity reducing human beings to entities that are enslaved by lust, driven by instincts devoid of self-control and boundaries.
And ofcourse the Good Book forbids it. (Do I sound religious? I hope so.)
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