don't run after free candies!!

Inhumanity is human nature.Every year more or less, people of this massive hive are woken from their dreamy slumbers to the rawness of a society.It is followed by a few days of  "is this the nation we live in?" or "we need more laws" "men should be controlled" "death sentence! castrate them!" the media, facebook, twitter, blogs they are swarming like bees on this topic.A few more weeks and this will die down ,with a silent but occasional hisses like when you pour water over a dieing fire.Harsh but true.Take jessica lal case or the aarushi murder case (which is still not decisive) notice again all point to the capital. They have died long ago.

I see no change in pattern to this recent Delhi gang rape case.Don't get me wrong!I am as feminist as they come, and i am glad the increasing rape cases and atrocities against women have been come to everyone's notice.But hyping a singular event asking for death penalties for the wrong doers just doesn't seem fair enough.If such a heinous act has to be punished make them suffer for killing a young girl to satisfy their more than animal needs. It's like watching kids running towards free candy, without questioning what would be the outcomes or why at all  are they been giving free candies! the mob needs to think different.

Why not analyse what made them do such extreme acts, why not question the cause of such crimes? There have been more excruciating torturous actions against women and they live to tell the tale, why not listen to them and give them voice as strong?? no, but all they see is the candy. Politicians seek this scrumptious opportunity to sell the candies while the kiddish crowd feeds on it.

If you ask me the human mind is loosing it. It fails to stay calm and seeks solace in violence and pain. Over this year there has been reports of "mass shooting at Aurodo at the premiere of dark knight rises" and the "connecticut school shooting" and "the mistaken murder of a girl" (where the murderer thought he was killing his ex-girlfriend turns out to be an unfortunate gal wearing the same clothes) or the Guwahati gang rape which was splashed all over net in a shameful way, and countless others, the clear pointers of loosing the sanity of man. This is something the attention should be focused on.

The immediate solution to this age old atrocities is gearing up against men. If we lack in physic it's time not to be sissies and complain about lack of security but to learn to fight and aid ourselves for such emergency situations.
i am happy for the girl, who passed away for i dread to think how she would have survived even if she lived to tell the tale.But i mourn for what had caused her sudden demise. It's noone's right to take away life goes for both us and them.

HO HO HO!!!!!!

And the fat old man with beard as white as snow zooms through swishing and flying snow all the way.
" i won again you hapless carrot nose"
" me carrot.. huh! look at your's... button nose!"
"uffff... atleast watch what you are talking, you guys are on TV!! " the cameraman elf said
this Christmas thing is killing. these new age kids.. man! now i have to shoot for the reality tv. hmmffff!...

mean while in the toy factory elves were hard at work with the continuous down pour of emails sorting them, packing, labeling,  it was whole lot of work. And the gifts with naughty children were marked with a black "X" .. A sudden shout from the IT cabin followed by shouts of "i am coming! i am COMIN!!!!" by the tech maintenance guy with the thickest glasses ever seen.. the mail had crashed once again.

Going over to the old white haired elf who seemed to be as old as santa said.
"huh! it was so quite and peaceful so many letters got lost in the post. now ever single one comes! blah!!"      : may be i should edit this part :

Soon all the packed goods were being loaded in now hi-tech sledge with in built GPRS locator and power boosters. The presents seemed to be less bulky and more of slim rectangular shaped, most having ipods and tablets and laptops and xboxes. sigh! tastes keep changing.

All the elves, the toy-makers  the packers, the IT department were together standing around the huge Christmas tree with Santa and The Snowman and the reindeer something about Christmas never changes. With a booming "HO HO HO!" Santa mounted the sledge with his cousin Snowman and zoomed into the stars of north pole... little did he and others know he was being tracked by google!

with the torn one-eyed teddy bear..

A tomorrow that had come and gone

A future that had become past

A bloom withered

The tears withheld, untouched

Rains painting  grey

The colourful pyre

Flesh to smoke

A ritual as ancient as man

The child lost in the grey

A tear or a smile

She didn’t know

Staring with a torn one-eyed teddy bear

Both as blind , both as innocent

Staring at the bewilderment 

From their own corner of the world

A child's and a glass eye.. 

Staring and wondering...

Long or short?

It’s an eternal question of doubt ever since Eve had hair. The length is pretty important. Too short may make you look too boyish or too long may make you look like a lice ridden long jata of the beggar.

SNIP SNIP!

When we were children never bothered about hair much. I remember sitting in a stool in front of baba as he masterfully snipped off hair to a perfect “bati chaat” (bowl cut) it’s like those monk cuts except for the bald patch in the middle.

A few years and i started to yearn for long hair just to tie a tiny ponytail perhaps. But nah, too troublesome for a daughter of both parent’s working again i didn’t bother.

A few more years and i started to grow it. With a lot of pride i showed it off to my friends but as ever it was shunned saying “cmon that’s not long!” but my pride just thought “ huh! They are just jealous!”  But 5 months into growing it long and i was fed up already and cut it short. Short very short. I wonder how rapunzel ever managed to even comb it everyday!  

FYI: longest hair record is held by Xie Qiuping (China) at 5.627m (18 ft 5.54 in). It’s almost like growing hair is her super power!

People make a lot of fuss about hair. After my daring act of chopping of the mane, i got so many reviews about it. Some said “oh god your long hair!” (like i lost an arm!) some complimented rest disgusted. It’s like a taboo having short hair. Like it’s to own to being disciple of satan,  to have short hair. It’s a conservative and dogmatic  society. Refusing to see the logicality of the concept.  No wonder hair products have such a huge consumer all over India. So much hair does require a lot of shampoo and conditioner.

Bare with me. After effects of environment education exam and not to mention exams OVER! A whole 5 semesters blinked away! 

half a dozen of dozens!

yes.. it's 12:12 12' on the 12/12/12 .. my contribution towards the world's obsession of this 12ing phenomenon where the world's beginning of the end and planetary movement placing the earth in the middle of the milky way galaxy and alignment of all the nine planets in the same line (this comes from all natgeo and history and N.A.S.A videos) well.. a lame bet with dad made me so knowledgeable about the outside happenings of the earth on the day.. but its a shame sitting over here and dwindling with petty issues of exams when cool stuffs are happening just outside the atmosphere...but well.,. i plan to post this post exactly at 12secs  and well you have to take my word on the secs count! :D
and oh! just when you thought there would be nomore winter.. i wake up to a chilly morning (chilly according to mumbai standards) hope it snows! (that's not much to ask.. is it?)
TOODLES!

nah! it's not 12ᵒC over here!