After a quick virtual huddle with my team, I created a video that reflects the rise of women in different facets. Although, this may seem specific to the United States, I had a ray of hope sown inside for it to spread its fragrance..
Take a glimpse of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pZmpS62sLs
Image Credits: Google Images
The recent news about child marriage by Khap Panchayat has disturbed me in many ways, and I tried to visualize the plight of what a foetus might think about the growing atrocities against women in India. Here you go..
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| the journey.. |
Who says life distanced us?
Blessed am I for reliving through your memories
I see you whereever I go and think of you whenever I pause
....am i the effect and u the cause?
Your favorite music still rings in my mind
...how come your favorites turned mine?
Missing you is only making me think of you even more
....without you, why is life is such a bore?
Silence we shared than the words says
....we resonate
such lovely times...is it possible for us to recreate?
How I wish time rolls back?
...can we freeze the times not to de-track?
Hardly is there a moment without your thought
...unable to untangle or am i simply love-caught?
Fact of the file: The concept of queues has evolved to reinforce discipline in an unruly group. Agreed! However, sublimaly it also indicates us to respect the preceding person , who planned to arrive ahead of us and must have adjusted his or her schedules inorder to be on time at a certain place, which cannot be encroached by elbowing your own way in a crowd. This ability to conveniently grab other person's planned time cannot be deemed as smart and its sheer cheating. No matter how many propogate the idea of being street smart is better than being sincere. I stongly endorse the latter, as it induces a degree of satisfaction for being who you are and not hijacking somone else's time. Thus, it makes us a holistically better person instead of a surface levelled get-the-job done attitude. By this, i do not mean to undermine the outcomes of smart, for being that witty and spontaneously active person will only augment the sincere ground you would have set and ease your job in further activities. It is sad to see the state of affairs in many public locations, where a person attempting to queue up remains alone, often trumped by the hyped smart genre. A recent incident at the Hyderabad airport instigated me to write this post, when a decently educated and civilized looking woman overtook me in the check-in queue just like that, coz I was held up for less than 30 seconds while scurrying my bag for the ticket. When I reminded her about the existence of a queue system, she sounds apologetically naive and reasons that "I thought you stood here just like that". Yes, she is right - I come all the way from the other end of the city to stand in an airport check-in queue just like that. Now, the strangest part is she continuing to be the same and managing to get away before me with the same attitude and not a single trace of guilt even after being told. Thats cool you see! Folks! wake up - its a passe to grab your neighbour's planned time and you are only an illegal entry into the disciplined environment and might even be knocked out.
Here's a list of things I keep experiencing and hearing quite often. I leave the interpretation to my readers, as they are very subjective/
You are a sinner if you have not .....
- pulled all-nighters for essays
- felt serendipitous moments of intellectual jolts
- found the clicking argument of your thesis in sleep or during strage moments of a day (including the biological process of mal extraction :P)
- realized that coffee is your best friend for brainstorming
- drawn into the pull of deep thinking, while talking something else
- been blamed for going into a shell for an awakening and flying out wild after you satisfy yourself
- been awake anytime before 1 am and wake up at 2 am to jot down a new idea
- felt a strong desire to loose track of time and be lost in a space of thoughts
- craved to get critiqued to elicit and squeeze the grey matter firmly
- experienced to stay up late in library, in a hope to find yet one more journal to strengthen your reseach paper
- self-doubted yourself for an non-stimulated thoughtful action
well...social life had its own share
- seen plays at Oxford playhouse
- made it to BOPs
- dined in atleast 3 different colleges per term
- heard the famous Oxford Union debates
- met even a single celebrity or genious student
- punted across Isis
- visited London impulsively
- gone for a run aimlessly to exercise that mind
.....more later
From Rushdie to Recent lawsuit on FB/Google - Censorship reigns failing the nation in its freedom of expression!
