Monday, 10 March 2014

The Weird country I live in.




WEIRD!
How a day earlier I gave a damn to what's happening round the planet, or even round my country.. and a day after, I start blogging about it..

Well, had I not attended the Annual Blogger's Meet, an initiative by Indian National Congress, yesterday, I perhaps would have remained the same youngster, chilling out and only bothering about my needs. but the discussion yesterday made me sit down and actually THINK about it.

How a nation is suppose to survive where every minute a girl child is murdered?
How a nation is suppose to breathe where secularism is just on rule book, but not in practice?
How a nation is suppose to get cleansed where a child is told to be a doctor or an engineer, but never a politician?
How a nation is suppose to smile, where the citizens have the right to choose the street food they want, but not their life partner, simply because they are of the same sex?

A funny country we live in.

They say, we have section 370 dealing with punishment of rape, but most of the rape cases don't even make to the newspapers. or to the police registers even.

They say, we have the Right to Information, but every time a reporter gets killed, people brag for a day, and forget about it.

They say we have the right to vote, but not fall in LOVE.

Where the best of the brains are lost due to reservation quota,
Where sex determination test goes on in full swing in remote villages,
 Where women gets trafficked to red light areas,
Where every minute a girl gets murdered before they are even born,
Where the rape victim is molested again through the eyes and words of the society,
Where the FIRST thing people do after a rape case is a CANDLE MARCH.
Where religions fight and innocent people are shot,
Where illiteracy forms the concentration, and
Where, WE the citizens hardly care about it.

A funny country I live in !

8 comments:

  1. Beautifully sketched work. Lovely projection of social backlogs.

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  2. thank you dad. hope to make some people pause a while and THINK about it.

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  3. Quite unfortunate to mention this, but, the jolt you're attempting to give, will only be momentary. The next moment they'll wash this off their memories and,,,,,move on..

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  4. Well said...Be honest to whatever you do in your life but engage yourself to the real issues of the nation, (one suggestion- please change backdrop of your blog from grey to white, It will be easier to read).

    Jai Hind

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  5. Suddha- thats what our country is best in.. MOVING ON.. i alone, or my blog alone, can't do a thing to it.

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  6. Khushdeep Sir- will change the backdrop right away, and thanks for the advice :)

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  7. hey tapatrisha... i really appreciate this piece of yours.. more so because i was unable to come for the meet despite the fact that i wanted to... well written... just a few points i'd personally like to point out... when it comes to the reservation thing, i guess there's a lot that can be debated upon as it is a very sensitive issue and we cant really afford to take stands at this point of time in india... 2nd- sex determination tests are something that are happening in well developed metros in the houses of the people who make "sex determination" a crime... it isn't limited to the remote villages anymore... the rest of the points are good and appreciable... thank you so much for sharing this piece... :)

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    1. thank you back, for your appreciation. means a lot that you paused to read it :)

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