Big Deal?

Its been a while.
I couldn't write anything , writer's block or blockers right. Not being a real writer may be it is my right to have a block.

I wanted to write something else, but reading comments of previous entry, I got bemused. I had just wondered why a newspaper should publicize an illegality as something great.
As I said earlier also, marriage is a person's individual decision.

But for a newspaper they have some responsibility or I feel so. Newspaper is a very strong weapon, you are playing with masses. A wrong news at a wrong time could end in riots.

It is not a big deal, that I know. but isn't it my right to voice my concerns somewhere?

More than right it is also my responsibility. Not just mine every ones'. You should at least tell someone when you know that something wrong has been done. It might not make any difference but at least I can sleep with a slightly clearer conscience.

Are Rules Legal?

This year on mother's day, Malayala Manorama (a Malayalam daily that I read) had written a special column on Mothers with lots of children. I was really awaiting to read the article, after seeing the previous days advertisements and all.

The article was interesting, with snaps of mothers surrounded by kids. Among the lot, there was a section about a 28 year old lady with six or seven kids. Her eldest daughter is 11 years old. So, on calculating, she must have been 17 when the baby was born and 16 when she got married.

Personally, my feeling for her is jealousy, to get so many children and still be young. She would be still young to really enjoy at her kids' weddings and not suffering from difficulties due to old age by the time her kids turn 18.

But, if there is a law prohibiting marriage of girls below 18, how could someone just flaunt that illegality they committed?

Indian law has set the minimum age of a girl child to be married as 18.

I accept that marriage is some one's personal issues. But not only to break a law but also to publish that in a popular newspaper, is wrong.

So, are we trying to say that laws can be broken? Laws are for only certain people?

At least the newspaper should have made its stand. Or may be they are just showing their true color, as long as the paper sells, they don't care about any thing else.

Run, Hide ... or Trust with life

I find it very difficult to completely trust someone.

To let someone take care of me is difficult. I am talking about a situation if I am bedridden and somebody has to do everything for me.

What would be the feelings of a person who is going to the operation theatre for a major surgery? I am sure that it would be nearly impossible for me not to try to get up and run. How can I trust a doctor to do the right thing for me? I don't know.

But the problem is that for every small thing I face this difficulty. To go to a place, can I trust the driver to take me to the right address? Can trust the shopkeeper to give me good quality products? I always face the question of whether I am being cheated by others.

I think its because of the endless experiences where I found that I was cheated. I have lost the naive trust enjoyed by young at heart. I am cynical about everything.

But, to live on I need trust... I have trust in life... I have hopes of a better tomorrow... I have faith in a superior power that takes us to be better destiny...

Why be an MCP ?

Recently, I saw a tamil film named "Sillunnu oru Kadhal" again. Beautiful songs, Good looking cast, all in all I enjoyed the movie.

If you haven't seen the movie, its about a rather happily married couple with a young daughter. The wife discovers that during his younger college days, her husband fell for a girl and even tried to marry her but, the family of that girl forces the couple to break up. After few years, the guy gets married to the wife through the traditional Indian arranged marriage, but the girl is still single. On reading his diary in which he has written that if he could live for just a day with that girl, his life would have been complete, wife decides to give them a day together. and so on... go check wikipedia to know how it ends. But, i would say watch the movie, it is good.

But, what I was concerned was would a husband do this for his wife? I actually asked my husband, if he would give me a day to be with my first crush. And he said that ( i accept that he was kidding but still...) he would beat me up. Any film, any story, any country ( i think, anyways, 100% true for India), a married man can stray( it is his manliness, I guess...) but a wife should never (she should be sati-savithri)

For those who don't know, Sati was an idiot, who committed suicide because, her father made fun of her husband. I mean will there be any father-in-law who hasn't felt that the guy is not good enough for his precious daughter? Savithri was better, she just followed the death and brought her dead husband back.

Ok... On this note, I am signing off

Dreaming again for a better future

So, what is different today?

Today, for the first time in my life, I realized that the sun has moved towards north. That is it still rises in east and sets in west, but during summer, it moves towards north and in winter moves towards south.

Of course, I have learned all this in school, about earth tilting on its axis to form summer and winter and all that. But, it is now, after more than 15 years that i really realize that it is a truth that can be seen by human eye. I always thought it was like the invisible lines of equator or tropic of cancer.

What I am left wondering is was all the education worth it? To be unable to see and feel real life. I remember in my school, the windows and doors were closed to leave out the temptations of outside world and we were forced to study under artificial light (tube lights).

This education system is not going any where, but I am not bold enough to take my children out of this vicious circle. I need public approval for myself and my children.

Poor me... Its better to do something than think and dream right?

I hope somebody would be bold enough to do something about the future of our children.

Was all the pain worth it?

I have been wondering if it was worth arresting Kasab. He came to India hoping to kill as many as possible and then die. Arresting him was a good idea but was spending so much to keep him alive just so that he can be pronounced guilty?

I have no clue as to whether he must be hanged or not. Personally, I don't support capital punishment, but it is not possible to let a guy like Kasab walk out freely. To keep him imprisoned for life with all the extra security is foolishness. I say, spend the money on irrigation of food crops.

If this is meant as a message to terrorists, I don't know if it was worth it.

All that remains is pain and suffering for those who suffered already.

Wish there was a way to make people understand that life is worth living only when you let others live. (Assuming terrorists can still be called people).

:(

Talk, Shout, Scream...

I am a passive person. I listen more than I talk, think more than I act, plan more than I try.

I guess majority of us are like that. It is difficult to actively be part of something. I find it easier to be a part of the crowd and watch and listen.

But I wish I had it in me to make myself heard. Especially when I have a valid point to state.

Well, I will keep blogging at least for my own sake. At least I am penning down things somewhere.

So, people, talk your mind, Shout it out, Scream if need be... Make yourself heard... Just make sure that you have an opinion...