Random thoughts and Rants

This is the first ever toon that I tried my hands on.

No offense intended with this because if intended, I should be the first victim.

Being a software engineer at a service company I cannot avoid using windows and at first place why should I! It's a pretty good operating system san BSD (Blue screen of death).

This is not at all about windows. This is about the people who are too content with whatever knowledge they have. Be it windows, be it linux or be it vmware esxi.

There are people who are too happy that they can change the properties in internet explorer. I too don't want to stop anyone from being happy but why does someone has to keep saying this all the time - "I know". Whats the problem?

Fortunately or Unfortunately I know whats the problem. I have noticed such behavior especially in people who use windows and thats why the toon. People who have been a UI friendly OS user for a long time find it really tough to switch over to Linux/embedded Linux in a short period of time. And to cover their inability to handle the OS well, they keep saying "ooo! I haven't used this ever but I am a ring master when it comes to windows". WTF! why do people need to say this. Why can't they just start learning straightaway instead of clarifying their position. And I must say that people who do this, mostly end up not learning Linux at all.

Isnt it Ok to not know something? When I saw a linux system for the first time, I was like "What the Fuck do I need to do" but I rolled on and now its more than smooth and I still go to my masters.

I have one such moron (6+ years in the industry) at my work place who does not leave even a single opportunity to showcase his windows skills and unfortunately that too finishes at "changing IE properties" or "setting up a printer".

I hope such people seek and get enlightenment one day and change their attitude.

This might sound a little creepy but I really think that everyone from our generation or..... for that matter next generation shud stop reproducing and start adopting.

This does not mean at all that you should stop having sex, it rather means that you should stop producing out of your sessions :).

This is just meant for those who have any plans to become parent down the lane.

Fulfilling your dream to become parent does not have to do anything with reproducing. You can be single thru your life and still be parent. But lets not deviate (after all, nobody wants to be single thru his/her life), lets just think about this.

There are so many "proudly" unclaimed children out there on roads or... the ones who lost their family while doing a thanksgiving to nature; living their life in total darkness at different places; either growing up malnourished in an orphanage or serving as a child labor in some factory or in someone's house (It just happens in India that middle class people can afford a servant). If you look through the eyes of these unclaimed childs you will see no less dreams than a child who is being brought up in a self-sufficient family. BOTH ARE EQUALLY INNOCENT KIDS.

It doesn't make sense to produce a new life when so many existing innocent lives are being tortured everyday. The love and attachment does not come just because something came out of your body, it comes because you spend so much of time caring for something.If everyone starts adopting instead of reproducing, this whole earth will have a better face soon.

ps: this suddenly reminds me of Angelina Jolie. She has showcased such great motherhood tht now... I can't even fantasize about her (even if I try).

Our country suddenly shows signs of development out of nowhere sometimes. For example, the decision of legalizing gay relationship, taken few days back by our honorable supreme court (i am suddenly feeling like calling it "our honorable" because of this decision), is definitely an admirable act. In fact, this has also changed the impression of Celina Jaitley, who previously was just considered sexy of-course but dead meat (if u don't believe me, see janasheen). Especially when she said that "if gay way of sex is illegal, then half of India shud be in Jail already". Oh man, that was really an intelligent quote.

Now leaving apart the broad and modernistic image of society that such decisions put forth; this has one really interesting and amazing aspect and i.e. it has surprisingly started unifying India, which no other cause can do ever. If you don't believe me again then just read these excerpts:

"It is a conspiracy to finish our moral values and those who are involved in such activities have no place in our society," Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, president of Jamaat- e-Islami Hind, told reporters.

Father Dominic Emmanuel, Director of Delhi Catholic Archdiocese, claimed gay activities would increase the risk of HIV infection. He, however, made it clear that they were not in favour of treating homosexuals as criminals despite their activities are "unnatural". (condemning it one or other way)

Acharya Lokesh Muniji, a Jain religious leader, also maintained that the campaign to legalise homosexuality was "conspiracy to finish our social fabrics".

"Indian civilisation survived centuries after centuries because of its moral and spiritual values. Westernisation is not acceptable in the country," Muniji said. While Sardar Tarsem Singh of Delhi Sikh Guruduwara Prabandhak Committee said gay activities should not be encouraged as it is against the law of nature.

"Customs and traditions are broken.It will increase AIDS," said VHP leader, Giriraj Kishore.

"Homosexuality is Haram (prohibited) and an immoral act. It is unnatural. It is a punishable offence in Shariat. It is against the age old traditions and culture of India and of Islam," said Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Hind's Maulana Mehmud Madani.

"Homosexual relations and groups are advocating a new concept of family which is not self sustaining, not good for the future and the society. We will join other groups voicing similar concerns," said spokesperson for the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, Babu Joseph.

I have just pasted few here. There are lot more like this.

Now, can u believe that religious leaders of our country, ooo! sorry!... Fucking religious leaders of our country are speaking on same page. It's simply unbelievable. If such causes can bring forth the morons of our country together and united, then let us look for more such reasons. I get surprised by seeing that why is it only a wrong cause and hatred that tries to unite people. Why do these voices choose their own and private direction for a private fraternity when riots happen. Where do all these voices go, when terrorists attack our country.

These fucking morons have never done and can never do good for anyone. Its just a wink of an eye that these dickheads are pretending to be united. I bet that none of them are intelligent enuf to possess a thought about any human rights. They are good at only one thing. Devouring each other in the name of god, ooo! sorry!.... FUCKING GOD.

Michael Jackson is DEAD. I am giving this BREAKING NEWS to you.

But if by any chance, any of you feels that its already known to you way too much, then congrats, you are also going through a horrible situation known as "MJDTMA - Michael Jackson's death too much already", similar to me. This is one of the deadliest diseases ever happened in the history of universe. Its totally incurable. None of the medical institutions are ready to take the charge for finding the cure to this disease.

Symptoms ->
You don't want to listen or read the letters M,J any more.
You are scared to switch through the news channels.
You feel like somebody has died in your family or neighborhood.

Cure->
Lots of Laughter, its incurable

I hope this doesn't sounds like mocking someone's death and at the same time no body can deny the enormous amount of talent that MJ possessed. He was and will always be one of the front runners of world music but the fact is that he is already dead and everybody is mourning it. Fair enough. Its fair enough to mourn over someone's death whom you admired or loved. But its not at all fair to force it over someone and that is whats being done right now.

If you are good at maths then you could probably count the number of people who actually listened to MJ's music in countries like ours. But still, the media is celebrating it.

On D-Day (death day), most of the news papers and news channels covered the same story and let us know that MJ is dead. Media Pro-activeness admired (I hope no body knew it before it actually happened). But what about today? Why am I still being served with the same state of sorrow?

When I say State of sorrow, its meant for the readers and probably MJ's family and his children for sure. Its definitely a fiesta for most the people out there serving it. I don't know the figures but it would have definitely generated millions of rupees for media because it was the most sought after news recently.

The fact is that very few are really affected by anyone's death. If you leave alone his/her direct links, rest all is just frenzy. When we create such a big deal out of someone's death, we actually make a fun out of it. It could never make a sense to bid public adieu to a deceased person over a microphone. He was a celebrity, he had a great fan following, so, his fans probably had their rights to see him for the last time, which could have been done in a better way but a performance by Mariah Carey or pushing his daughter towards mike to speak sssomething was definitely not called for. I mean what could you expect from a child who has just lost her father.

This was not enough. The event was covered live on news channels. Can somebody believe it? You get to watch a burial live on TV.

This all just leaves me scared with the thoughts about the day when people like Sachin Tendulkar or Amitabh Bachhan or Balasaheb Thackeray or Karuna Nidhi take their last breathe. I wish a long long life to all of them and hope that they live long enough to see people get seriously educated and not make a fun out of someone's death.

I dont belong to any sort of celebrity caste, this is one thing I want to make clear before anybody reading, continues. But whatever the title suggests is definitely true.

The recent Shiney Ahuja maid rape case is one of the proofs. Had it been a not so famous man or any cop in specific.. it might have taken the maid years to bring her case to the front. The media might be very active today... trying to bring all sorts of rape and molestation happening in the metros to the front but only metros. Few days back, a lady was gangraped by the cops of some state inside a police station, in daylight in night, but it took her more than 8 months to lodge a complain against them, leave alone the justice.

I definitely am not one of the eyewitnesses of shiney ahuja case, nor am a die hard fan of shiney ahuja but the fact still remains the fact that people keep looking for opportunity to bring themselves into limelight by looping in the celebrities.

If Mallika Sherawat wears skimpy clothes, how cud it heart the sentiments of a
lawyer sitting in Madhya Pradesh?

It has happened before and is still happening. Nobody has forgotten the Salman khan black buck poaching case yet, and nobody knows how many other animals or fr that matter, bucks had already been killed before the case happened. But only because it was a celebrity, it gathered so much of media attention.

Let's talk everyday life i.e hit and run cases (aren't they a part of everyday life?). I tell you, it happens very often in gem cities of India but nobody cares, but ya , if a celbrity hits and run it would defntly make a news.

A crime is a crime. No second thoughts to that, but then why do we discriminate while making justice? Let Shiney ahuja be sent to jail for life or wtever the court says, if he has raped the maid, but send those first who have ever raped a woman or commited any sort of crime. Let all the crime and criminals have equal oppportunity to go thru justice, after all they too are the citizens of India, dnt they deserve equality?

Racial abuse against Indians in Australia, might get a place in the list of saddest events ever and I know every Indian wud like this to happen.

But I never felt surprised or something when I read about this. Did u? Aren't we already very familiar with such events, noted practitioners of regionalism and racialism? Then why is this fuss there even in existence.

We shud silently tolerate all this without making a pinch of sound. Actually we have to tolerate, because we dnt have right to make any noise about it.

Who are we? Let me tell this in clear words.
We are the nation where people are killed because they belong to one caste or other.
We are the nation where people from one state are beaten and thrown away from other state.
We are the nation where people are burnt alive, not because they belong to a different caste, but they belong to a different sub-caste.
We are the nation, where speaking your mother tongue is considered as crime in few states.
We are the nation where foreign nationals are raped, because people are not habituated to bikini yet.

And surprising enuf, we react angry when we face racial abuse. We as a nation deserve this.

Wts the difference in being in India or somewhere else. You get the same treatment everywhere. Come to India, you might get thrashed while you travel thru Mumbai. Come to India, you might get killed if you travel thru Gujarat. Come to India, you might be refrained from speaking Hindi in some parts of south. Come to India, you might get burnt alive, if your sub-caste is known, while you travel thru Bihar.

I feel equally scared while travelling thru any part of India, as the Indian students in Australia wud currently be feeling.

I know, I dont need to prove the fact that "Men think about sex all the time", because being a man, or a woman experienced with man everybody knows that its true ;).... and I accept it graciously.

But, but, but... there is a problem here.. atleast from the angle I ammm seeing.

The problem is not what the title of this topic might suggest, because the title is not at all a problem, its rather one of the most passionate and beautiful things to tihnk about.. isnt it?.. Probably after love... or your work... or computers... or a thing that you are more passionate about or might prioritise personally.....

The problem is entirely different.

I am heading back once again to talk about problems with our Indian culture where "sex" is still a taboo and surprisingly this "tabooness" is being carried from genration to generation.

Leave alone the ubercool, metrosexual crowd where bedding each other might not be a very big deal, but wt about the percentage population of India? By percentage population I mean, the middle class, the recently educated, the "no-say-anywhere-not-even-in-personal-life" population. They dnt even have a say in their sex life.

The way sex has always been presented or seeen in our country (khajuraho days... if at all.. are alredy a never coming back history), a guy or a gal is not allowed to bed someone,unless signal "greened" by the society beause our culture (do we have a culture book?) says that marriage is the minimum limit fr that. I dont know wt special privilegese marriage gives. Does maarriage give a special kind of education which no other school can?

I dont understand, wts the problem. Physical requirements are ther, everybody knows that, then wts the problem. Why anybody has to wait till marriage? What will someone loose by if he/she has sex at 18?

There used to be a tradition probably during olden days, where the bedsheet was checked after first night to verify whether the girl "was" virgin or not? Believe it when I say, its not past. I can still show you people of such kind, well educated, working in an MNC, who look for an untouched girl. Bullshit. I mean if you r marrying someone at the age of 28 or 30 then u expect her (is it other way round too?) to have waited till that long. Total bullshit.

There have been lot of talks about sex eduation again and again and the same fails again and again too. We are not ready to open up the facts to kids. Why so? What do we think? Is it possible to hide this? Arent there enuf misleading resources giving all kind of wrong information?

Does unemployment also count in the list of problems because of "tabooness" of sex? I mean guys spend time roaming around girls, mostly for sex, and they dnt get it, they roam around, they dnt get it.. goes on n on.. ;) just a funny side.

Hiding something inside a pandora box, which otherwise is everyone's personal choice never does good. I dont get surprised when I see India's name listed
among fastest growing nations with highest number of AIDS patient. And you also dont get surprised when one more tourist in Goa or American student or a 2 year old baby gets raped.

People are sex hungry everywhere, true fr India too. The difference is, people here are refrained from getting it.

A free society always develops faster and better.