What is happening to us? Is self-promotion the only motivating factor for all our deeds and talks? It is sickening to hear endless talk sans action from people far and near.

Take for instance the women at war; the not so gentle Nirmala and the over-reacting Renuka (but to be honest, I like her) . I thought they were appointed to voice out the problems faced by Indian women and ease them out of it.

Ofcourse the Pub incident is long forgotten except for those repeated visuals on TV channels, which is aired now and then to stir our rusting memories. Yeah we do have short term memory loss but mostly it is selective memory loss...

Maybe not always in a pub but girls do get attacked on their way back home by cab drivers, at home by alcoholic husbands, in a park while with her boy friend or while in a car with him...and yet these ladies on a pedestal choose to ignore such incidents and remain silent until the cynosure or the eyesore, whichever you might want to name a pub as, of a very posh locality is burst upon by slogan shouting, 'tilaked' and saffroned men crying war on girls who frequent it.

And what about all those children who are attacked, maimed, killed everyday around us? I am sure you must already forgotten the little girl who was tortured by the UP policemen or the boy killed after torture in a policestation or even the street children who were bold enough to say to a set of media crew that they are being sodomised by the night patrol in a well-known city. And soon the incident of rape of innocent deaf and dumb inmates in a girls' home that is doing the rounds now in the channels will be moved to oblivion... Did you say, "Disgusting"? Well, FYI, there are much worse stuff happening around us than we can imagine and that too often borne by children and women.

But what do our women and child care commissions or such similar outfits do? They take up issues that has flesh in it (not literally) and then Ooh! here there is ample chance to fan off a communal conflict of ideologies and get enough political mileage to ensure the safety of their seats in the parliament. As for the seemingly naive Nirmala, lady luck was smiling as her quite dissatisfied irate face was shown on every TV channel, fighting for the sake of the erstwhile Indian culture. What more do you ask for if the BJP itself comes at your doorstep to parade you as their darling candidate? Mission accomplished. Renuka became the voice of all the upper-class women whose ego was hurt by the monkey army while Nirmala rose as the Joan of Arc of Hinduism. Now what is left is the poor under-privileged, illiterate women who sadly form the majority of the female populace.

These women at the top are so busy fighting it out against each other that they even fail to see how women are portrayed these days on TV, like sniffer dogs after a beef cut, women fall all over men who put on a certain perfume. Wonder why the women's activists never could put an axe to it? Well that doesn't mind me much because all I can say is that an overuse of this perfume could bust any girl's olfactory system!! Maybe women should sue the perfume company concerning this health hazard. Just look at the images flashing through the screen (I know, I don't even have to urge you to look because its eye candy for most men) girls, women skimpily clad, wooing men with fragrance or attitude or long legs or cleavage (front or rear)!! Now would you say disgusting looking at the news makers these days? Rapists who are barely 12 years old to 80 years old, victims as young as 1 year old to as old as 60 years old. Who would you blame? The media or the passive audience who lap up anything served in their platter?

Talking of promotions, the extent to which the distributors go to get their movies reach the public is quite shocking for me, well, I am still a very primitive-minded person, very old-fashioned and hence boring for many... well that's my problem and never mind... For the movie DevD, the crew started a web-site and invited surfers of all age to leave lewd comments to one of the characters (supposedly a school girl whose story highlights the forgettable MMS incident in Delhi) and even do some dirty talk with her. Some promotion I should say!

And to top it all, there are the grand and the incredible alliances and number games among the political parties. Their Math defying seat sharings and unethical coalitions are irksome and pukesome. And every scam and scandal is adopted by them to shower allegations against their counterparts. Be it a new comers like Varun Gandhi, Raj Thackerey or veterans like Narendra Modi, their only aim is to project themselves be it by inciting violence or actually preparing a path for violence!!

Where are we going? Is it just "Shut up and vote"? or Is it "Vote and be upright"? It is obviously up to us to decide...