Neither in a Womb nor in a Prayer Hall!

“Asphyxia leading to cardio-pulmonary arrest.” Asphyxia is a condition where the body doesn't get enough oxygen. A 8-YEAR old girl without oxygen,bruttally raped.. The detailed description would make our blood boil.. But for how many days? for how many minutes? Citizen incluidng me will post,may provide awareness ,hashtags will be trending.. But how long?

An eight-year-old is sedated and gang raped in a PRAYER HALL..I REPEAT 'PRAYER HALL'.. There were MORAL Citizen of this country who debated during the DELHI RAPE.. A GIRL ,WITH A BOY,IN THE MIDNIGHT,IN THE ROAD...ALL THESE SENTENCES WERE HIGHLIGHTED.. Now just Look.. 8 YEAR OLD GIRL, NO WE CAN CALL AS KID..IN A PRAYER HALL..but no one is debating...even no proper coverage..

"The caretaker of the "Devisthan" (small temple), is listed as the main conspirator behind the crime that has left the nation shocked at the sheer depravity of it. " But this is India,the religion has to protect him right? The Political slaves will deviate the topic, create religious issues,cause more deaths.. INCREDIBLE INDIA ...!!!!

THE MAIN SENTENCE WHICH HAS TO BE HIGHLIGHTED IS: "AMONG THE PERPETRATORS ARE A POLICE OFFICER & A JUVENILE".. "Sanji Ram was allegedly joined by SPECIAL POLICE OFFICERS Deepak Khajuria and Surender Verma, friend Parvesh Kumar or Mannu, Sanji Ram's underage nephew and Sanji Ram's son Vishal Jangotra or "Shamma". According to the charge-sheet, Sanji Ram's nephew phoned his cousin Vishal Jangotra and asked him to return from Meerut, where he was studying, if he wanted to "SATISFY HIS LUST"". The saddest part is :"Just before the girl was killed in the forests, Deepak Khajuria, a Special Police Officer, told the accused to wait as "he wanted to rape her before she is killed". The girl was once again gang-raped before her head was bashed in."

But what can we do? What this charge sheet can do?Here the report says " the 2 Police men allegedly took Rs. 4 lakh from Sanji Ram and destroyed crucial evidence", so Charge sheet can be changed at anytime! And if suppose if we few people react , the custody deaths as now trending in bottom kerala may happen at the top most kashmir.

And in our country, As per the Judiciary,girls are the toys for the small juveniles.. As Per our courts, "Hitting the girl twice with a stone on her head and later dumping her body in the forest after their plan to throw the body in a canal could not materialize" is from his unmatured brain.. If he is ready to confess, all his sins are apoligised! As some movie says " The court itself is saying this and all are normal in this country"?

So Before some one changes the entire system for the benefits of him or his group ,Try to reach a position,from where you can influence others. Or else just bark like this,go and watch IPL or chamipons league,eat and sleep.. Be happy as this is not my or your sister and wish NEXT will not be my or your sister. If not my , all these are just fb posts or some hashtags right! DEAR SISTERS, HERE NEITHER INSIDE A WOMB NOR INISDE A PRAYER HALL YOU ARE NOT SAFE! SO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, BECAUSE ITS PROVED EVEN GOD CAN'T DO IT :)

-RJ

"Am Mr.X Representing INDIA Sir"

I Just Like to start my new post with 2 Quotes: 

"Goal of Team India at the Olympics: Rio jao. Selfies lo. Khaali haat wapas aao. What a waste of money and opportunity."

This Quote & Shobhaa De , a well-known columnist, author, and socialite, with 7.7 lakh followers on Twitter are trending on social sites.

Now an another Quote:
“I feel like a beggar asking for such things” 

This Quote won't be so popular as the earlier one, as Shobhaa De like Indians wishes to discuss & create Controversies than finding a little time to share some realities. These words came from the mouth of a sprinter from Odisha called Dutee Chand, who had to run from pillar to post, not for a ticket to Rio but to get running shoes. Until June, her concern was the lack of spike shoes as the ones she used had worn out. 

Being an Indian, Shobhaaji has the right to express what he think. We can't blame for that. There are many other Indians too who express their disappointment through different  trolls and all. One of my favourite trolls was " Olympics is an event created for the other nations just to  insult India once in every 4 years". We can't blame them too. Blindly when we hear such things we would also laugh because it's a reality. Its so sad to hear that Since 1900 India has only won 26 medals (out of which the bronze that Saina Nehwal won in London 2012 was a gift from her opponent who withdrew from finals after sustaining a calf injury) which reveal the fact that our athletes don't perform well when it matters the most.
But Being a Small Sportsman, a hardcore Sports Addict, I won't Blame our Athletes for their Performance and I would be there with them in my prayers, especially in the bad patch.

Its like claiming a gold ,When the Athletes like Dutee Chand and all participates. That's how Our Olympians are living in this world before Olympics starts. Unlike other countries We just discuss these Olympians only during Olympics or Asian Games. That attitude has to be changed. When we treat an athlete like an engineer,a doctor or as any other professional the things would change. The money given to the medalists after winning should be given 3-4 years before when they start practicing to achieve their goal.

Through Shobhaaji's  tweet, she simply meant that Indians are fools to invest Athletes like our Hockey skipper Sreejesh, a farmer's son from Kerala, who took to sports at the age of six to realise his Olympics dream in Rio.I just mentioned his name as She tweeted on the day our Indian Hockey Lost to Germany in the last seconds. We all know that even though India have a great past in Hockey, our team didn't qualify for the Beijing Olympics,was last in the London Olympics and Germany,our opponents,the 4-time Olympic Gold Medalist won their 4th gold in London. Still, the side and the skipper,who started from zero didn't give up, they tried their level best, but unfortunately an extra time goal changed the things against their favour. In Games these things are common, the only thing we could do is just curse yourself for being unlucky. Yesterday the Same Indian Side beat Argentina. Not just Gold defines glory, we have to appreciate the hard work too.
When we blame our Olympians one thing keep in mind   burden of carrying the hopes of a billion plus Indians are on their shoulders. You and I, mere wordsmiths, won't comprehend it. Let us not even try. 

The Indian woman's national field hockey team has  qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics for the first time since the 1980 Summer Olympics and they lost to giants like Australia and Britain cheaply. What we audience watch is "they lost", they forgot "they qualified since 1980". Kabir Khan and all happens in movies only, in real life we have to wait for miracles and hopefully God will do such miracles in some hardworking athletes in coming days.  Many such stories! Dipa Karmakar the first Gymnast from India to qualify for the games.  Can we Imagine an Indian attempting  extremely risky Produnova?  When the whole world appreciates her, a well known Indian is insulting our athletes.

There is a joke in our country, now we call it as the troll: " How will we become athletes When our SCIENCE -MATHS teachers borrow the P.T. PERIOD( OR GAMES HOUR)!" This is a joke, but its a reality in many of our schools. Unlike China and all, we Indians are not giving importance to Games as we give to other professions. How many parents in this country wish their child to become a sportsman? In states like Kerala Media and all have time to celebrate a Politician's Resignation from a party, but don't have time to discuss their Olympians when the medal tally is ZERO.Unlike other nations, Our Athletes don't have money, enough infrastructure, still, they perform to make our nation proud, improves day by day! LEAVE ALL THAT. TRANSFORMING AN INDIAN TO AN OLYMPIAN IS AN ANOTHER BIG TOPIC TO DISCUSS,BUT NOT FOR NOW.

 "I am sure, with our support, things will change. I, for sure, am going to be with our athletes, especially when the chips are down.” The amount  of confidence that the Indian Contingent gets from these words said by Great Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is something we can't even imagine . So Shobha De, Please don't discourage our athletes by making such comments, especially in between the games. You don't know the impact of a "good wish" especially when the  Indian Contingent is down. Let us follow the words of Sachin, the greatest ambassador of sport in our country.

The first half hasn’t gone according to our plan, our expectations. But still,  there are many Sainas and Tintus to Participate. So as SACHIN Said, "Be with them, be behind them". 

Did PARIS Said "“Khaali haat wapas aao. What a waste of money and opportunity” in French? "  After the agonising fall of French gymnast, Samir Ait Said when he broke his left leg ???


"AM Mr.X REPRESENTING INDIA SIR"
BE PROUD & SAY IT LOUD!


courtsey; TS SUDHIR, A SENIOR JOURNALIST
-RJ :)

"WHEN LIVES BECOME STORIES"

Hy Frnds, As I have been engaged in some activities , I Couldn’t reach you all for some time.  Actually I wrote this blog unexpectedily.  For me this is not a blog but a script written by me for a short film indeed.  At present I don’t have enough knowledge to convert this script into pictorial form,may one day I could make my dream true. You all may feel confused, what’s the purpose in writing a script in my blog. This is not to show my creativity, but the creativity of god. The characters and the script itself is written by the god in real life, am just trying to narrate it to you. I hope one or two may understand the bonding between the relations. Here it may be Brother-Sister Relation, but it can be any relation. Just feel that bonding J

First of all am apologizing the real life characters, without their permission am sharing their life to you, not for the popularity but for an inspiration. Let me write this blog in the form of a story _/\_

This story  happened at a Government Primary school in Kerala. When the Bell rang for the classes to start, all children rushed into their classes.At that time the children were coming out from the school bus just arrived and rushed to their classes. Everyone is in uniform except 2 children;- One girl studying in 2^nd Standard, and the younger boy studying in 1st standard. Both of them are not properly dressed as well as untidy. At first look we will understand both of them didn’t touched the water for 1-2 days. The bag and all belongings of the boy  is in the hands of the sister. She took him to his class,giving back all his belongings and also a kiss at the forehead and ran to her class.At that time her Class teacher was taking the attendance. She waited for the permission from teacher, seeing the untidy girl Teacher just shout at her like a lioness!  Childish face of the sister became dull, and without uttering a single word she took her seat at last bench. After few minutes the peon arrived and list those students who didn’t paid the bus fees. She was the only one from that class and when Teacher questioned her she replied that her mother doesn’t have money to pay. Now the teacher asked the peon and enquired why this girl is studying in 2^nd standard directly without studying the 1^st standard. Peon requested the teacher to let it go

When the bell rang teacher was desp and dull for shouting at a small kid, so she went near to that girl and enquired why she is untidy ,why she is coming to the class directly from bed without even taking a bath.That time being childish,so sensitive that girl without any hesitation narrated her story to the teacher. She don’t have a father and her mother is looking after pregnant women in various houses. In morning she will go for work letting her 2 small kids alone at home. This sister looks after the young boy as a mother and she don’t have time to spend for herself. She has to brush his brother’s teeth,clean his body with soap moreover has to spoon fed her brother with the little food available.

Teacher was shocked and was not in a mood to take class. Now Time just flown away, the bell rang for the national anthem. School bell rang and all children rushed to their respective homes.The teacher was going to home and that time she asked her co-worker,a teacher,a resident of that place,about the girl. Teacher came to know more about the girl and atlast a strange truth “ Her Brother,the one studying in first standard is suffering from blood cancer and that small girl is looking after that boy, who will leave her at anytime”. Teacher looked that girl, she was busy in taking her brother to home. She carried all his belongings and with a smile in that small face she waved to her teacher and rushed to her home.

 Here my story ends... This is may be the climax of my story,but  in real life the story is going on with many twists,for and against them.

Am not interested to disclose more details, only one thing you all have to keep in my mind is "Love and respect each other.". 

Am dedicating this story to all brothers and sisters who fights for some silly things  and get seperated. This 7-8 year old girl is an inspiring figure to me, I hope it would be same for you all also :)

Ty!!

-RJ

A letter to god

Dear God,

Honestly I don't know why I am doing  this but then one had a disgruntled Mahatma Gandhi writing to Hitler during the second world war ,so why not me to you,God .I definitely have had enough of you antics or rather lack of action. So I think I am within my rights to do this.

I don't  know whether you are answerable to anyone but I certainly hope so. No one could have got away doing things that you have done in this whole world. You're arguably worse than a last bencher in a school. Had it been a kid one could blame it on your immaturity but then you have been around since day one of this universe or so they say.Your action makes you a nightmare of a child for any mother.

For someone who has been around this long I would expect a bit of forgiveness. You aren't even a bit. How can you even think of punishing an unborn child with malformed limbs,with cancer and every single other congenital abnormality? How could an unborn child offend you? Then your defenders say they have been punished for sins of their parents. Really,are you that crazy?Even the most bonkers of Governments and Judges know better than to do that.
Or they say you may have punished them for their sins in then previous lives.That is even worse.Come on if we are going to be punished for our previous lives sin ,you could at least tell what we did wrong.Then of sins that we commit in this life you act differently even for those. You pubish some right then and there but for others you extend their for their after life.Doesn't the term equality  mean anything at all to you .Even worst the judiciary treat those under it equally.But then you cant be wrong ,can you?All religious people say so they cant be all wrong,can they? After all they do have brains.

I don't know what personality you have.But I was to make a guess I would mark you as hormone driven adrenaline junkie.You enjoy violence in way only crazy teens would.Earthquakes,tsunamis,thunderstorms everything I can think of,you have them all.Even worse is the fact that you seem to enjoy them.You have a sadistic mindset too.I don't  realise how you are able to take pleasure in the pain of cancer victim made to go through those million surgeries  and chemotherapies.How on earth are you able to watch millions get killed all in the name of the 'Merciful' god? Where the hell is your trigger happy punishment finger when we needed them the most against the Nazis, the ISIS,the Taliban?How could you watch on when over a million Jews were tortured in concentration camps? How could you give the likes of Hitler and Bin ladan a painless death after all they did? I feel wronged you merciless sadist. But then how can I be right and all others wrong? So I must be wrong again.

Your love for violence is exemplified in wars to establish religious supremacy. If Allah ,Jesus and the thirty three thousands Hindu devas are the same how could you not inteverne when Jews were being killed for the establishment of Islam.How could you watch on as Hindu and Islamic followers rioted on your name in Gujarat? How can you allow the  Quran to say it tolerates violence agianst followers of other cultures to establish the supremacy of one religion over the other? Even saints would lose their mind if something of this sort was to happen in their name.You must be insane then.

After all these years of visting a million temples I cant think of how selfish you are.Come on, every single day you have a million people visiting temples each making you an offering and 90 percent of the very same people fail to give even a single rupee to the old needy souls that wait outside the temple and you know what the worst part is you even accept the offering they make to you.How can you be that selfish.You are being cared for, pampered every single day and yet you can't give even a single penny to those in need? Granted, you may not be the one accepting the offering but how can you advocate it? Can't you give some sign to those ingenious masses that it is not your wish for the people to do that.After all you gave 'divine signs' when the action of people in kottiyoor temple to lay out cement in the wild offended you and when the construction in guruvayoor temple was not up to your taste.I can't help but think how selfish you are.

Another important thing I would like to remind you is of your stance on the female population. I once doubted you being a female due to the fact that you seem to have way too many mood swings but then you can't be,if you were to be female how can you advocate the oppression of the entire female population in each and every religious book be it it the manusmrithi or the quran or anything else.You, being a masochist  should be the worst enemy of every single feminist out there .

After these many years I can't get over the fact that you of all people is a racist.Face it you descriminate people on the basis of their cast (*cough* hindus *cough*) Even going on to equate people to cows if one is to believe that you advocate the upanishads and manu smrithi and all those.People complain about how Donald trump shouldn't be the President of the U.S.A since he is arguably a racist but then fail to get their heads around the fact that their own god is one himself.

All this and more made me rethink your status as suprme foregiving power.Usually people with power come out to be humble geniune individuals ( a certain Mahatma Gandhi comes to mind) but you are anything but. You enjoy your power like a spoilt brat. You should have been free from human emotions like Anger violence and what not but you are more like a whinig child who punishes those who dare to doubt you (*ahem*) but wants us to go on with the limbs and fathers and mothers you snatch away with no right . I can't even find a single reason you deserve to be worshipped.  If anything you deserve to be ousted from your  undeserved throne just like the likes of Mussolini and Stalin where and believe me that day shall soon arrive.

-Gokul Ramesh

"Are we turning dumber when devices are turning smarter ?"

Am writing this Blog as part of a competition,but when I started writing it, I understood that am writing a Part of my life since I started using these smart devices. Did I become Smart? Personally, I don't think so,instead much more dumber. This is not just my story,but the majority's! When I had a debate with my friends on this topic, I understood that am just a guy representing a majority!

So, Friends & Followers, I Repeat my Question:

"Are we turning dumber when devices are turning smarter ?"

Those who speak against this topic, i.e."We are turning smarter instead of being dumber" may claim that  " Becoming smarter or dumber, it all depends on the type of person using these devices. The ones who knows to use it in a good way become

smarter, and those who uses it for show off and all becomes Dumber”.Ok!Agreed! Is everyone who knows to use it becoming smarter? I know to use these devices in a good way and as per my experience I am getting relied on these devices day by day. Today if I don’t know to write or talk on something which am not familiar with,its not a big task. Everything will be provided infront of your eyes in just one Click. That's how our world,surroundings and all are changing. 10-15 years before we search it through our books,newspapers and all.Now the children will say " Why to worry? Google will solve it"

The ready availability of search engines is changing the way we use our memories. Its like wasting our Brains, making it inefficient, wasting our Investigatory Powers,and moreover making us Lazy. Now we don't need to go to markets or shops to buy anything and waste our time,we can buy almost everything being in online,except dad & mom or family :D  

Why should we say more, just look sites like amazon and all, we would see Smart Watermelon slicer to slice Watermelon faster,Baby Monitor and Sleep Tracker and all. Yes, these devices are all smarter enough , but just look what these devices are doing. If you don't have time to slice a watermelon with a spoon, then you don't eat it too. What you have to do by saving some seconds,buying an expensive Watermelon slicer instead of a spoon. This shows your respect towards money, something that will come and go very fastly. When I searched about this  Baby monitor and Tracker , I came across an advertisement of a company, it states that "revolutionary system consists of a night vision camera as well as a motion sensor that remains above your baby’s crib or bed. To help your baby drift off to sleep, the  Baby Monitor has nature soundtracks and can also produce white noise for a relaxing environment...bla bla bla..."  

Now dear friends you ask your mother is it the way to take care of their babies?? The majority mothers will feel pity on such ads. The eyes of the Mother are the monitor and her tune is the soundtrack to guide the baby,not the artificial Sleep tracker and all. If we can't even spend time to look after our kids, why do we produce them ?

What happened to our Relations and our power to keep the relations?See if we,especially the Smart kids of this smart era are traveling in a train.Most of them will be staring at the smartphones or will be busy hearing musing using smart gadgets,sometimes even causing disturbance to the people in the train.They don't even speak a word to the next person sitting. These Smart Kids have to look the ones who crossed 35-40 , and how they are travelling. This is was the scene before 10-15 years before, irrespective of the age the passengers talked each others,became friends,shared their ideas,helped each other. Now its a 'Selfish World'.Now The person sitting next to us,Whether our family member too,we will not be knowing much,But may know more about the person far away. Today People are more comfortable in chatting with each other using the smart apps like Whatsapp and all, as they need not need to face them. They could just express their feelings through smileys. Actually these apps are making man Deaf and Dumb!

Some claims that these devices Helps in making A 'WELL IMPROVED SOCIETY', But dear friends what's the use "If we have devices to detect speed,but we don't have the sense to predict the danger caused by the speed?" or "If we have Motors to carry water, but no responsibility to use the water wisely?" The half of the efforts needed to manufacture a emission less car is require to plant one tree which would absorb pollution. But no one bothers!

When it comes to Child or Student development, the features of smart phones like auto complete and all made the adolescent users fast, but less accurate. See, we need to type only few letters and rest the phone will fill, then how could we become accurate? What's purpose being Faster,but less accurate. As a child, you memorized your friend’s phone numbers; now you just add them to your phone. You used to memorize directions; now you just use your GPS.Now when we see majority of the students writing or chatting, we will definitely come across sentences like "c u l8r","by gd nite" etc... SMS-SPEAK is ruining the language of our kids.Our studies says
"The richness of our thoughts, our memories and even our personalities hinges on our ability to focus the mind and sustain concentration. Only when we pay deep attention to a new piece of information are we able to associate it meaningfully & systematically.When we're constantly distracted and interrupted, as we tend to be online, our brains are unable to forge the strong and expansive neural connections that give depth and distinctiveness to our thinking. We become mere signal-processing units, quickly shepherding disjointed bits of information into and then out of short-term memory"
 You may heard about the writer Nicholas Carr, once he wrote  What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation! "He continues: “My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”

How many of you agree with Nicholas Carr?

 YES! As some who claims our knowledge is increasing with the Internet, we could also agree with them, but what's happening is our hardwork or our mentality to search foe something is also decreasing exponentially. Now the acronym "GK" is more suitable to "GOOGLE KNOWLEDGE" rather than General Knowledge!

Anyhow we have to appreciate the inventions like QAMA Calculator and all. We need more inventions like these,where we exploit our knowledge as well the technology. Until we provide accurate estimate of what the answer will be the QAMA calculator will not provide us the answer. If our estimate is not even near to the answer, we would have go back to the question and look where we went wrong. We need more inventions like these, so that we don't create a situation where we will become slaves to the robots or technology as like the dogs are for us.

“I fear the day when technology will surpass our human interaction. We will have a generation of idiots.” Today I Too Fear as the great ALBERT EINSTEIN did. So Please Don't Let it happen!

"Today I Saw the Stars born on Earth........."

Majority of the Blogs have been extracted from my day to day experiences. Actually many of my Blogs are my diary entries. Today is a day,which I won't forget till I leave this holy earth. Today is the day,I saw many "Stars on Earth" :)

An Organisation in our college organized a Program today in a BUDS School in our college's locality. The program was we the students of our college collected money and bought a New School kit for the students studying at that school. But there we didn't saw any students,but some STARS,stars that born on earth.

We have friends who are extremely talented to sing,dance etc.. Majority among them shows big demands or are shy enough to display their talents. Today I saw the Stars who sings,dances as soon they grab the oppurtunity. This is the difference between them and us. Interesting is that, when they sing we may think as a "Normal Human Being"(called by the society). In such a way they sing,dance,taking us out of the world. They are the 'most' Normal Human Being in this earth. Really our Film Industries are losing many great artists,as these 'most' Normal Humans are treated as Abnormal. May be by birth they have some faults,still they live,they communicate without any jealous and all. Then actually who are  "Normal"?? They may not become Einstiens and Edisons,but even with the faults credited by the almighty,the way they are living on this earth is something we can't imagine.

There we saw some Paintings , I was shocked to see the coloured sketches of a girl wearing different type of dresses;- Churidar,Frock, even a a girl wearing bikini ,with volley ball in her hand. The teachers may helped ,but still the thinking power of the few among the Stars is some thing we can't even imagine. You may feel ashamed. Yes, I even can't draw a straight line with the scale, still others see me with their normal eyes,while them with their 'Abnormal' Eyes. Why?
When the majority of the normals roam around for jobs,the Abnormals weave bags,baskets,make chairs and all as time pass.

Now I salute the teachers who take care of these kids. When the majority,our society and all feels tough to handle or mingle with these kids,these teachers spend most of their time in a day with these extremely talented ones.With the limited resources ,the way they are dealing with the kids are something beyond our expectations. Am Sure majority of the parents of such kids can't even take care as those teachers. The teacher gets angry when they do some big mistakes,correct it and make it right. As usual , but one ting you have to note is, in our cases we understand our mistakes faster,here the teacher would have to correct these kids twice ,thrice, sometimes even 100 times. But these teachers do! That's what make them different. BIG RESPECT!

When I talked to the staffs and teachers there, I understood there is no enough space or infrastructure to handle these students. This is not one case. In Many BUDS schools we see , the sitauation is same. Its time up for the government who change after 5-5 years to take care of these kids and the people living with these kids.


WE ARE THE GENERATION,WHO GOES BEHIND CHANGE OR DIFFERENCE! SO WHEN  WE DEAL WITH NORMALS THROUGHOUT A DAY,A YEAR, OR A LIFE, PLEASE FIND SOME TIME TO SPEND WITH THESE 'DIFFERENT TALENTED ABNORMALS' AND THEY TOO MAKE CHANGE IN OUR SOCIETY, LIFE..!!

JUNE 14 2016 WON'T BE VANISHED FROM MY MEMORY TILL MY BODY LEAVES ME AS

"Today I Saw the Stars born on Earth........."

lol :)
-RJ

Is India really developing?:A take on Indian mentality

No one can argue about India's developmental status; India is well and truly a developing country well on it's way to becoming a world leader in almost every sector. The world's take and outlook on in India is changing for the better with every passing day. But what of the Indian mentality? How much have we improved from the dark days of sati?

India had almost every single social evil ruining it up until the late 19th and early 20th century. Even the  Father of the nation and the current PM of India were victims of child marriage. The earlier 'untouchables' were given a newfound sense of freedom during India's struggle for Independence. Women too have come a long way, culminating in a Female leader of the Nation. (Prathibha Patil from 2007-12) But we should ask ourselves the question, have we come forward enough? The answer to that would be a profound no, at least in my opinion.

Where is the point in curbing child marriage if one's parent is still going to decide who their child will marry?

What's the point in giving education to girls if her father is to decide what she is going to learn? What is the point in abolishing the caste system if one is not going to be willing to marry outside of his /her caste?

What is the point of electing a Govt. if they are not even having the minimum knowledge to represent the country? What is the point in talking up development if you still are going to cast your vote for the party you support?

It is high time we really rethink what we are actually doing. Before one arranges a groom for his/her daughter, ask yourself the question shouldn't she be the one to decide who she lives with for the rest of her life? For all those who argue that the same was done to them, just recollect how you felt when you were denied a say in what should really have been your choice.

I have had friends who have argued about how they could choose the groom, only if he is to be from her own community. Let me tell you, that is bonkers. Where is your freedom if they are restricting your choices into a limited few? Think of the time you may have to reject a boy whom you really like, just because your parents won't approve. Ask yourself whether your parents really love you if they deny you the chance to be with someone, because of his/her social status. Where is the sense of empowerment that you demand if you can't even stand up against your own parents?

One can definitely question an average Indian boy's mentality as well. We have boys questioning a girl's dressing all the while enjoying watching them. What is the point in acting innocent? Be honest, not just with others but yourself as well.

There is no point in criticizing a girl when it is your mind that is to be cleansed. I have met people who say they support intercaste and inter-religion marriages but aren't willing to marry an opposing caste member themselves. I can't think of a better term other than hypocrite to describe you all. One is being a hypocrite when he is ashamed of a girl who uses expletives, he's bound to have friends who cuss a million times more.

Every time one visits a temple we find people neglecting the needy who beg outside the temples and depositing tens and thousands for the temple. People spend liters of milk for puja and render them useless, while million die through malnutrition every year. There may be mafias acting behind those beggars but do realize that there are genuinely needy among them too.
What is the point of faith if you are going to forget the humanity in the process? If one is still going to neglect the needy and waste your money on his own faith, I don't think his own god would want to save his soul.

For all those who raise their voice for gender equality and feminism. Let me ask you something are you discriminated by the Constitution in any way? No.
Then why behold? Raise your voice against those who oppress you, against those who deny you your Constitutional rights, shame those who try to harass you. In this age of social media, one can come with a million ways to act against them. If someone teases you, put up his photo on social media as a shameless coward. If you can't consider yourself equal to any male and act accordingly, no amount of empowerment programs are going to help you. There is no point in shouting about feminism on facebook if you are going to cry when you face an angry teacher. The sense of empowerment should arise from within. If one is denied her chance, she should create their own. Do remember that there wasn't any program to support Amelia Earhart or Helen Keller when they grew up.

Indian's action on social media too should be questioned as well. Everyone was ready to tear into Maria Sharapova when she remarked, "who is Sachin?".Perhaps one could ask Kohli or Dhoni who 'Andre Arshavin' is and then react.
Had Keralite's taken up the recent rape case of Jisha in the same vein as #pomonemodi , she would probably have had justice by now. One should ask himself how educated they really are when they share pictures of humanity and environmentalism but refuse to act upon it. One could question their own morality when they refuse to take part in a beneficial program just because it was proposed by an opposing faction.

Finally, If you don't agree with what I am pointing out here, let me tell you this, I don't give a damn, this is just a young Indian exercising his right of freedom of thought and expression.

-GT