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Stay Beautiful.

By mydh - August 24, 2007

A hoarding of a very “popular” newspaper in Andhra Pradesh reads ‘News Made Exciting.’ It’s like asking you… How do you like your eggs? with tomatoes or pepperoni. Actually, you do not have a choice. They’re serving you their choice of spicy breakfast. I don’t want my news to be spiced up. I want my facts to come straight to me. Let me decide if it’s exciting enough. A 16 year old Adnan Patrawala was kidnapped and killed. A popular news channel talking about the case said “Investigation has revealed that the murderers who were BPO employees had befriended Adnan even before he started to speak to the profile by the name “Angel” on Orkut. Now…. for a special focus on Orkut…. Should Orkut be banned?” WTF! The same reporter who suggested that the murder was planned in the real world as opposed to the virtual is now wondering if Orkut should be banned! A result of that wondering? – “yes, of course! Internet is full of scum, it should be banned.” And the worst part is, this guy who made this

Discrimination.

By freak-y - February 21, 2007

I have wanted to write about this topic for such a long time. And after seeing what priya had written , About racism in India, I thought there would not be much that I could add to it, But I think I might. And here it goes. I would like to begin with the comment I have made on his post. "humans by nature ,discriminate. we group similar things,we divide dissimilar things. we don't even realize that we are doing that. if it ends there then we would be a much more intelligent society " Y es, if it ends there we would be a much more intelligent society. What this basic instinct , to categorize everything around us, becomes is very interesting. It begins out as a simple distinction, (self) recognition. The concept of I (or ME. Which basically sets us humans apart from most of the animals) invariantly develops into , someone like me. And then perhaps mutates into the concept of US, and eventually the concept someone UNLIKE US. And I guess there is also another instinct in us

Indians....Who we really are?

By Priyakanth - February 03, 2007

It never stops,it was always there in them and now it has once again come out openly...thanks to Big Brother.Jade Goody proved us that this feeling of racial discrimination is inherent in the minds of the so called "fair-skinned" people.The whole world has responded to the words "live in slums","paki","the indian" and some other words which are not published in the media "f..king loser" and "f..k off home" by Jade "Baddy",Jack Tweed and others. Jade was taught a lesson and an enormous support erupted for Shilpa Shetty from all over the world.People back in India are so much moved that they staged dharnas and sent sms' to news channels in support when they just saw one Indian sob in her closet aftr being victimised to racial discrimination.Tell me ~How many of us really care for those who have been the victims of discrimination on our own home soil?? ~None of us. We "maintain the discrimination"(not spec

Fuck Sanctity

By freak-y - November 02, 2006

Yes, that is what i have been thinking all day. and that is how i shall start this blog of mine. Fuck it. and most of the people who know me, also know me to be non religious, hence you can guess it is not about the sanctity of religion i am talking about, but the purity and the holiness of that which is supposed to be our conscience. i know people arent perfect always , but our conscience ? isnt it supposed to be perfect, the all knowing angel present inside all of us?? well that is what it is supposed to do , ie remind us of the do's and do nots of what is demanded of the society. the sanctity that i am speaking of here, is the purity and the holiness of what is supposed to be our human soul. but how many of us really do have it ? how many of those reading really give a damn about a street begger with no hands or legs ?? how many of you are really ready to give up your life for a loved one, i mean really ?? how many of you really feel no guilt when you have lied to someone you r

Full Circle

By freak-y - June 24, 2006

We need to Change. How? No Clue , But we need to change. I hope everyone else, or atleast the majority feels the same. Feels the same about a situation, a situation that is so horribly out of hand that there is no hope. This is what I mean , when I talk about "a situation that is so horribly out of hand that there is no hope" lemme start about the most obvious problem in india : Population. To handle the humongous population that we have, we need better Infrastructure. For better Infrastructure , we need officials who arent corrupt, but honest and hard working. For removing the corrupt officials, we need a better police system. We dont have a better police system, because that wud mean the end of corrupt politicians. we have corrupt politicians because we have a lot of uneducated population that falls for every small promise the politicians make. So, for better polity, we need more educated population. we cant have that without a good enough infrastructure! un-educated people

True Love??!!

By freak-y - May 09, 2006

This is what urban dictionary has to say about true love This is what i liked best, True Love : love without need of sex, beauty,anything physical or material, expecting nothing in return. ok, so if that is true love, what actually is love ?. well i am not talking about a mothers love for a child, nor am i talking about a brothers love for a sister. I am talking about THE LOVE between two individuals who are apperant strangers, i.e. not have any relation between them!. Is not love meant to mean the same ? is it not wanting to be there for another person, despite anything?? then how come the word true love was coined in the first place, if just the word 'love' could suffice it all?? I gather this. Humanity's greed and stupidity have known no limits through out its history, and they are not showing any signs of being tamed. And, in this case, stupidity i guess was the sole reason that a whole new term had to be coined just to indicate how superficial the world has become. Ca

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