Category Society
Are the ‘power’ful women listening?
The headline jumped at me from the newspapers in the morning — India is second only to Afghanistan in gender bias and consequently crimes against women in South Asia. Though it makes me mad, I am not going to write about gender inequality. There are more qualified feminist and other blogs that would do a great job of it. I am in no mood for the routine male bashing, in-laws bashing, marriage bashing, tradition and culture bashing, religion bashing, Khap…all touted as being the causes for the state that women in our country are in. I am mad at an entirely different thing. Read the post and tell me if my anger is justified or not.
The great divide
While the Haves seemingly are better off and hold all the cards, the Have-nots hold the ultimate weapon to get back at them.
Oh, Doctor!
Even hole-in-the-wall private nursing homes and clinics often have expensive diagnostic equipment to attract gullible patients who are made to undergo superfluous tests and investigations.
Cash for crap
If one were to overcome the natural revulsion for the process and the by-product, it is an ingenious way to recycle a disgusting thing which is generated in humongous quantities by a population of over a billion! What is more, it is environment-friendly too.
On the wings of a butterfly
Unless we each do our bit to think and act green, there is nothing much that can be done to pull the earth back from the brink.
Artificially ‘natural’
We form clubs for laughter and guffaw artificially to keep fit. We laugh with the canned laughter at inane and moronic jokes and antics on the tube if we are really desperate. Is it that we have nothing to laugh about, or we don’t have the time to be with those we love to laugh at shared moments of joy?
Dilliwalon ko gussa kyon aata hai?
Anger has become synonymous with power, strength and superiority. What’s more, the angry person feels self-righteous about the emotion. Anyone who is accommodating and considerate is either considered weak or the behaviour dubbed as sham. Putting oneself before everyone else is a virtue and highly recommended.
Give them a hand – of support and applause
The power of mobility can’t be quantified. In the early 90s, Sheela Rani Chunkat, the then district Collector of Pudukkottai, in Tamil Nadu had brought about a virtual revolution by providing the twin impetuses of mobility and literacy. And armed with the two, the most downtrodden of women – mostly stone quarry workers had formed cooperative societies to become owners of the very same quarries they mined as underpaid labourers!
Look who’s talking about saving the environment!
India is among many countries whose culture still advocates eco-friendly customs and practices. Let us take a look at how things were before we ‘imported’ the very things that are threatening the environment the world over today and how we can at least partially return to those customs.
Child abuse — has anything changed?
Children are increasingly becoming the victims of every kind of crime. What is even more disturbing is the fact that they are themselves becoming the perpetrators of the abuse and other crimes against other children, be it rape or murder. My heart goes out to the parents who send their children to school everyday, not knowing which beast is lurking around the corner. Creating awareness to protect the children and noise enough to scare the criminals are the only solutions in sight.
Social justice: Can two wrongs make a right?
An eye for an eye is fine so long as the perpetrator is losing the eye, not someone who has to pay for the sins of their species. That’s what bugs me.
Outsiders or insiders?
It is a defence mechanism to bond with your own in alien climes. It is a sort of ghetto — mental and not physical of course — but a ghetto nevertheless.
So far, yet so close…
The joint family has evolved from the staying-under-one-roof concept and settled in the hearts of the family members.
The Cybernag 
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