Besharmi Morcha; Slut walk

Right, I understand. I feel the same girls, when I am given my ‘curfew’ time at home, when I have to think thrice before buying a dress I really like, when I have to depend on male counterparts to visit certain places tagged ‘unsafe’, when I must spend more by taking an auto rather than a bus because I should be scared of boarding one!!

Who decides it all? I can assure you that my parents are very liberal, but at the same time they are afraid and love me a lot. Every parent of every girl in our city is overly protective about her. I hear it all the time, my friends telling me how ‘fed up’ they are of their parents putting restrictions on their lifestyle. Well I have been through this phase too, but thankfully out of it because I completely understand my parents’ point of view. For them, it is too big a risk to be taken. So it occurs to me that these things are not decided by our parents alone, but due to the presence of the evil residing in our society. I would name them the Swine.

I utterly don’t understand how the police work? What is it doing? The police is maybe unable to create security for women, not alert and strict enough or maybe too lethargic to investigate the cases properly, (encouraging more Swine to rule over), the reason for which the female counter parts are now being told to alter their lifestyles! Maybe that is easier but that is so totally unfair! It’s like, instead of catching the thieves and maintaining security in the city, you are asking people to stop earning? No money no danger from the thieves. What logic. These acts by the Swine should be countered using stringent punishments, intense inspection and no corruption! (Oh well corruption is the core cause of rise in all the crimes!)

Who are they to decide what I should wear and what time I should be returning home? If not, how can they take it as an opportunity to vent their sexual frustrations? Is that the respect we deserve?

No. In no situation can anyone justify the act of rape. No way. Rape can never be excused. Never ever. It does not matter even if the girl is drunk or wearing revealing clothes or alone at night. If it’s without her consent, it is rape. And not just that, letching and eve teasing is also a stab at a girl’s mental well being and social confidence.  So we can conclude that a responsibility of a man is to be respectful, civilized and soulful. He can not take the advantage of being the ‘stronger sex’ (I wonder who coined that term!).

So now do I mean that women have no responsibility to play and that they can wear all they want and do with a devil-may-care attitude? A strict no! We have a culture that needs to be respected and followed. It sure needs a little revision, which is bit by bit happening. Our ethnicity and way of life stands apart because of its worthiness and perfection.

This is a shame that the Swine don’t spare even the meek girls, who wear clothes which are decent in all standards! What is to be done?

We really do need to stand out and protest. But slut walks? I would say no. That is not what we need and something that is definitely not going to work out any positive development in the mind sets of the ‘Swine’. Sorry to say, but what I see coming is that it is going to be another piece of entertainment for them. Another munni or Sheila perhaps? The girls and their point is not all wrong but the reactions could be counter productive. Our city is not yet ‘western’ enough to understand the motive of the ‘slut walk’ Oops, as the newly termed ‘Besharmi Morcha’. We don’t yet have that tolerance towards such concepts, the irony will hardly be understood in our society. I would suggest that girls, let us campaign more decently because slut walk is not something that will work in Delhi! Impactful? Maybe. Successful? Maybe! Reasonable?  No! What after the slut walk?

Kentucky’s ‘Fried Alive’ Chicken

As I was won over by my friend to accompany her at this fancy fast food center to take away a meal for herself, I found myself stepping inside what I would call it a beautified nightmare. RED, the color that prompts hunger was all around me. I was inside the KFC.

Well I saw 3 counters with cashiers attending 3 different queues of guests. There was a fine mix of people. A couple of girls, complete with shining finger nails, talking about how this and how that, belonging to the very nearly reaching the majority of females who are literate in our country (female literacy at 54.16% , India). Then there was a north Asian, all confused with the Indian currency, struggling with math. He did attract a bunch of people smiling at his gullibility, but inside annoyed, having to wait. A bunch of young adults here and some middle-aged there. Amidst the students, the corporate, and people from other sectors I also saw those who were responsible for the swarm of eaters. The chickens. Well I saw them, but dead. I saw them chopped, diced, coated, fried, tossed upon each other. Literally speaking, pieces of dead bodies of a lot of chickens, together. Ah, I totally failed at framing a nastier statement to freak of the meat eaters, eh? Anyway I have more to say. In fact there is no reason for those people ordering a piece of it to feel miserable and sympathetic towards the poor animal. Why should they be expected to have pity when the large visuals on the walls around them are wrongly describing the chickens inviting them to be their meals!? The pictures suggest the idea that chickens are merrily wanting to be eaten, that they feel no pain, that they have no life of their own.

Happy chickens faces? Healthy chicken pictures? Tempting?

NO. That is, sadly, not the reality, not even close. I would appreciate you watch this video and decide.

Do you know where the chickens you eat at KFC or McDonalds or other meat offering outlets come from? How they are raised? The conditions they are kept into? And most importantly, why are they being raised, at this rate? Using such unnatural methods and conditions?

The answer is inside us. It is the demand that we bring up is responsible for the large scale slaughter houses, the factory farming which is quick, cheap and infinitely cruel and brutal.

All we want is a comfortable life. A luxuriously comfortable life. We don’t care if the fulfillment of our satisfaction results in cruel deaths, rather mass murder of chickens. The pleasure which lingers on our tongue for hardly ten minutes?

Sad to conclude that we have become so weak mentally that we feel no shame in killing others to fulfill our temporary wants. And to hide that psychological weakness, we seek the support of baseless arguments to do with ‘better health’, which can be easily defeated by a well-informed person.

Since when did man turn so selfish? So ignorant?

And all this is not just about chickens; it’s about every animal being mercilessly killed inside slaughter houses. Being tortured, burnt alive.

Animals are the prettiest creatures on the earth. They have a well developed complex body like ours; they experience happiness, sadness and pain just like we do. The only thing different is that they aren’t selfish. Like we humans are, or have become. Don’t ignore their plea. They want their life back.

HOW does one person quitting non-vegetarianism make a difference?

The average vegetarian spares the lives of over 50 animals each year. That adds up to thousands during a lifetime. Spread the word and lower the demand and boycott this industry.

So what would you decide? I say, choose to put a stop to this inhumane and cruel lifestyle.

Saving Tiger, Saving Petrol.

Yes we all know. The world is reducing to a big piece of exploited land, and we all are concerned, concerned spectators. It’s a hard fact to believe for some who have woken up to the damage finally though late and quite frustrating to many who have had enough of such discussions. Nothing has changed much, really I must tell you. Life and people have been the very exact like it was a decade ago or more. We might have ‘progressed’ (god bless, for the arenas in which we have!) but the pattern is still the same. It’s all about money, success and power, for all the wrong reasons. The rat race remains, trying to outrun each other, staying ahead, but what we forget is that even if we win, we will still be a rat. It really gives me a lot of things to ponder over. And I will burden myself less by handing over some of it to you. Winning the rat race will not make us anything bigger or better than just a mere rat. Apologies to all the rodents out there, I mean no offences. At least they are not inhuman like us humans, what a paradox! It really is a shame that we have a majority of the frustrated ones and the slothful ones, and very few are the ones that really care.

You’re not considered as an alarmed and an involved citizen by clicking on a petty link nor by liking a facebook page on ‘saving the environment- It’s time to get our lazy bones up to some work’, in view of the fact that we don’t really mean to tag along it, we all know it inside. How shall we recognize our duties? And adhere to it? Let us define our roles in saving the living and the non living. Talk about our priorities, figure it out again. Why do we, say for one damned cigarette, drive down wasting almost the same or more amount of petrol that we might just spend on that cigarette? Our priorities have got disfigured, we set them not according to the best that we require, but to what looks the best. Here comes the difference between a ‘want’ and a ‘need’. I might as well quote my father here, understanding and bifurcating our needs and our wants is one of the quintessential tasks in life.

The problem lies in the way we have started to think and imagine. We have stopped using our brain for ourselves, in fact we work by the opinion of others’ frame of perception and others’ use ours. It is complex and mutually unfavorable. Using it in the right way is what we need. Having forgotten our ABCs and trying to gain mastery is an utterly foolish dream.

The dropping count of tiger population is all out and known, the rising prices of petrol is one of the major headaches in the morning, there’s a hole in the ozone layer- oh well I know that one!, there is indefinite inflation and the economy is falling! I heard the glaciers are all melting and there would be extreme summers this year too, there are a lot of poor animals that are suffering out in the world, (though I won’t hesitate smashing that one little harmless ant I see walking in the garden. No they aren’t animals mind you.) OR. I will work out solutions to all these matters that I am aware of to the best of my possible efforts. Being Mr. do-it-all not just know-it-all. Doing all that is within our reach is the most effortless step in being a contributory factor to this world. Enclosing ourselves in a room of false notions about oneself is the first thing we need to get out of. God never made us in breeds nor put us in categories, so we surely have that liberty and capability to be what we want to be and also what we think we cannot be. Remember, each and every little positive step counts and makes a difference. Why wait? Act.