SC or PETA?

TOI reports that according to a Supreme Court order kicking your daughter-in-law does not amount to cruelty. A divorce threat is fine too. huh?

Now, I am sure, if a dog had gone to PETA and complained that it has been kicked, PETA would have taken up its cause and kicked the ass of whoever kicked the dog.

Just wondering if we can approach PETA? After all, I was taught that human beings are social animals.

Somewhere else came across this quote by Zach Braff on abortion.
"Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of killing unwanted babies, it's just that the idea of letting women make a decision doesn't sit well with me."
He is good looking and funny. He can say that.

history is being written

No No..N Korea is not nuking its beloved friends..I have forgotten my cell phone at home. And I would like to commemorate this historic day with a post.

Since time immemorial, I have been a phone addict. And since I moved to bangalore, the simple device has symbolized great many things in my life, such as - my single point contact to all my fav people, not-so-fav people, my ipod, my watch (I completely stopped wearing watches long time back. As of today, I dont own a single watch!),my trusted alarm, my camera, my repository, my secretary, my batmobile. OK so I exaggerate a bit, but then you get the point.

And today, I am going to go the whole day without it. Its only been an hour and I have already started getting withdrawal symptoms.

While on the topic of cell phones, I have recently got myself an iphone. And I would like to point you to my friend's post on apple products. Little sexist, fun nonetheless.

of honest and not-honest

yesterday was not a good day. As it is there is no love left to be lost between me and the male species. Of whatever little is left, quite a lot was lost yeasterday. I dont have too high an opinion of men, but my friend's husband hitting on me, was a real low point. I havent even met him for more than an hour. And this was a person who appears nice and shy types with a clean image. Makes me wonder, whom to trust and whom not to and if at all, then how to trust? With such disguised creepy guys around.

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Kaurvika got her exam papers back and got a 9 on the test. Here is her story:
"I got the paper and I had a 10/10. But then I saw that I had done something wrong and mam had overlooked it. So I went and told her that you have not cut my marks for this."

the teacher was really impressed with this show of honesty and told her, and I quote Kaurvika, "honest is good". And then she announced in front of the whole class how kaurvika has done a wonderful thing. And kaurvika was proud of herself.

woww...I hope she learns better as she grows up. Like my dad says so often "hamare bacche kisi kaam ke nahi hain"

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I would like to believe that the innocent "honest is good" had a special meaning yesterday.

300 words just dont do it

...but unfortunately thats all i get to tell a stranger who has never seen me (and maybe never will) to tell about my past, where i want to go in life and how ISB will help me get there. How is it even possible?

The first draft I wrote had above 1000 words. Then I shortened and got it down to 750. But below that, I had to chop out some serious information. I dont know if I get the point across now since Ive reduced it to 300 words.

If you ever happen to read my earlier posts, you'll know that I am a sucker for rambling. I go on and on like crazy people. People have to come and hand cuff me and tie me down to my bed so that I'd stop writing.

And now I am supposed to describe my 3 distinguishing qualities in 300 words. I say "Im a good girl" and boom! 300 words over.

But then a girl has to do what she has to do. I've finished my first draft. Cant say about the content and the impact though. After all, what will the adcom think of me if I just get to say "Im a good girl"? They'll probably stretch and yawn and say "lady, the world is full of good girls"...and then in the extended stretch, they'll push my application in the dust bin.

Another blow to the fragile male ego!

This time, its the scientists who have landed the blow.

Men are mostly redundant in the current scheme of things. Except for procreation ofcourse, that too, just one of their cells. Get offended for all I care, but I have held this belief for past many years now.

Take a typical urban setting. The woman earns, the woman cleans, the woman cooks, the woman gives birth, the woman feeds and takes care of and raises the child. All this while the man could be sitting and drinking his ass off in a bar. He is redundant. His only role was the ten minutes it took him to provide his swimmers.

And even that is taken away from him now. Sperm cells can technically be generated from stem cells in the lab. Ha!

Ok men can be useful too. A man and woman come together many times. A very small fraction of that is to actually create babies. So there you go.

However, there is a thing about evolution. It phases out the redundant. Body hair, wisdom teeth, sharp canines, claws and suchlike. The man now has no real use. Except being a boy toy. Every woman likes those.

So do the maths yourself. Who is going and who is staying on?

Monkeys and the people who matter

Have you have ever wondered why when a bus full of people falls into a river, we just say "too bad" and turn to some other section of the newspaper? The same people who would be enraged to the point of wanting to kill the teacher who shouted at their sister would be quite okay if a plane full of other people's sisters crashes in mid-air.

Well, if you have wondered, then I have this interesting read for you.

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Btw, if I am in your monkeysphere, I have started my mba apps and im getting killed by all the writing i am doing. Its amazing how much time I can spend on finding the perfect word or framing the right sentence. And see, no slang.

child marriage is indian culture. Sex education is not.

Excerpts from an article in TOI:

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The Committee on Petitions headed by the BJP’s Venkaiah Naidu is a cross-party group up of nine Rajya Sabha members. The Committee has said there should be no sex education in schools because it promotes promiscuity and India’s “social and cultural ethos are such that sex education has absolutely no place in it.”

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Child marriage means huge numbers of adolescent Indians indulge in “legal” sexual activity. Mehra says politicians have long promoted regressive policy on the pretext of culture.
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If you teach someone the use of AK-47, he can very well kill hundreds of people in the streets. Still, you will not send your soldier on the war front without teaching them the use of AK-47, will you?? (unless you really hate the soldier).

Who will explain to these politicians that sex education DOES NOT TEACH YOU TO HAVE SEX AND BE PROMISCUOUS.

The same culture which forces girls to become pregnant at the age of 14, denies them information about what they are getting into. What sort of a culture is this? Messed up and regressive I would say.The reason why i stopped listening to the culture bullshit some years ago.