not really what i want to stay...somehow am not able to put it into words...a very feeble attempt...
कदम जब चले थे, राहें आवारा थी
सोचा था शायद कोई किस्सा मिल जाएगा कहीं...
और कोई नहीं तो मेरा ही सही
वो आगाज़ था मेरी तिश्नगी का...
उन दिनों
रातें गुमशुदा थीं और दिन खानाबदोश
मैं दीवानगी में चलती रही और देख ही ना पाई की
हर रास्ता उसी मोड़ पे आकर रुकता है
जहाँ से मैंने शुरुआत की थी...
Friday, January 29, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
Scum of humanity...
Was reading leading tabloid today…two news that caught my attention and highlight the rot that our society has become…
First was the headlines where a 11 year old committed suicide…a child a mere 11 year old…what does the kid know about life and death…how does a kid decide that the life is not worth living…a similar incident had happened when I was doing my masters five years ago…a 10 year old child had hanged himself because his father had scolded him…child suicides is the biggest fall out of the idiot box…the collateral damage for our need to fill our time with inane news and the meaningless soap operas…I seriously want to know what has happened to us that we are so restless all the time…that we can’t slowdown and have to fill every single waking moment with some worthless shit that does not do any good except for filling the empty spaces…what is it that I have learned from watching the television for all these years…
Second even more horrifying was the news of a gang-rape of a five year old…A FIVE YEAR OLD…this is the absolute muck of the society that we tolerate…I am sure if we do a survey child molestation will be more common in India than western world…mostly because it gets tolerated and unreported here…and the awareness the onus on parents to safeguard their children is considerably lower…how many of us live with the presumption that such incident will happen to at least everyone (especially women) once in their lifetimes if not more…I recently did some research on “sting operation” where police creates a scenario where potential criminals are tempted to commit crime…of course there are moral and legal arguments for and against this…but when I look at such heinous crimes, I can’t help but agree for the need to have such operations…and catch these bastards before they even think of committing such dastardly acts…
First was the headlines where a 11 year old committed suicide…a child a mere 11 year old…what does the kid know about life and death…how does a kid decide that the life is not worth living…a similar incident had happened when I was doing my masters five years ago…a 10 year old child had hanged himself because his father had scolded him…child suicides is the biggest fall out of the idiot box…the collateral damage for our need to fill our time with inane news and the meaningless soap operas…I seriously want to know what has happened to us that we are so restless all the time…that we can’t slowdown and have to fill every single waking moment with some worthless shit that does not do any good except for filling the empty spaces…what is it that I have learned from watching the television for all these years…
Second even more horrifying was the news of a gang-rape of a five year old…A FIVE YEAR OLD…this is the absolute muck of the society that we tolerate…I am sure if we do a survey child molestation will be more common in India than western world…mostly because it gets tolerated and unreported here…and the awareness the onus on parents to safeguard their children is considerably lower…how many of us live with the presumption that such incident will happen to at least everyone (especially women) once in their lifetimes if not more…I recently did some research on “sting operation” where police creates a scenario where potential criminals are tempted to commit crime…of course there are moral and legal arguments for and against this…but when I look at such heinous crimes, I can’t help but agree for the need to have such operations…and catch these bastards before they even think of committing such dastardly acts…
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