SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

One feels really proud to watch a film like slumdog millionaire as an indian.. The view point is two edged however. One feels proud to see Jamal to live up to a life of miseries and hardships and finally live his dreams n his love life. On the other hand its sad to see the grim picture of Mumbai slums. But I recently read an article in a daily newspaper that many actors who were a part of this grim picture were paid too less.. rs. 50 to be precise. Are we( read the makers) not contradictory then? The slum areas are created then, not by anyone but by these rich filmakers. I am very sure that paying a little more to these actors would not have made a difference to the filmakers.They regret to see the ugly slums so that poeple wake up to react. but what have they done at thier end? Who are rich dudes even before they made a oscar winning film. None of us actually are bothered to improve upon the situation of these people who are living in such gross and unhygenic conditions. Rather the profit makers hire them for small "roles" to play in thier big projects and don't even pay them the required matched up amount.

Then we the rich dudes are actually called the slumdogs as we are poor from within.
What is required is that we all should gather up to do our little bit for people like these. Contributing money for them is just a simple way. Giving them education is another.

AFTERMATH

Aftermath... comes in many kinds of packages...destruction, annihilation, a complete change...but what it makes most of a human is DISHONEST. she is dishonest to evryone...even to herself... she pretends that no one has the tendency to hurt her anymore as she must have seen the worst..already...she pretends that if everyone leaves her she would still have the tendency to live all by herself..
wat a materialistic and vain life it is..and this materialistic object is what she starts to live by..doing the make-up over her face, wearing great clothes and heals..
she fears to go a shrine.. a temple..for that's a place where she can't hide herself... she is plain.. naked.. in front of the almighty...
she is exposed to herself..

but looking at the positive side.. atleast she can live and stand till the very edge...
she is forever strong..does not give the right to any one to hurt her anymore.. she is dishonest but safe from the cruel world...
is it not alright to stay like this rather than exposing your vulnerability to the world.. a world that does not care...

as far as the crack is concerned... that will happen anyways... then y not stay strong rude , yet happy though artificially for some time...

then some will go on..

she is been bad,
she has been rude,
she has been cribbing, with a lot of attitude,
love her not, my dear heart,
for love has already torn her apart...
and your love will only become another dart..

I need to find..........

I need to find a dictionary.. which has words.. more words n more words.... which can describe the feelings one ungergoes in today's world...the world is no more simple.. it does not revolve on the same platforms as it used to .. the ethics, aesthetics , values, outlook, principles people as an entity have changed...there is host of emotions and ideas which are trying to break free from our fenced framed brain.. the path they require is expression... through words. which we all are unable to find...

There are so many ideas I need to express right now.. but I cannot... as I don't have appropriate words left with me...
Do these words actually don't exist? or they exist.. n we don't have the access to them...

Big question!!

what is love???

What is love? I don't know.. I thought I knew all about it.. but falling in and out of it has made me boggle on the word again... many poeple define it in thier own terms. for nation lovers it's all about the service you can provide to ur countrymen. For youngsters, love is a crazy feeling for thier favourite filmstars..for a wife her love is her husband.. I doubt if the children come under that category or not! money takes over the feeling of love for those entreprenuers. the list is endless...

Is love blind? yes, to some extent. it is blind.. but you go blind when you are in love or when u r out of it? I guess it's both but the intensity is more on the latter part of it. All is happy rosy and beautiful while u r in love. you don't see the negative side of anything. Gosh you so negatively positive...

once you are out of love.. the body and mind goes round.. you keep thinking of the person.. which is rationally not required now. you dt think of anyone but them. you are so immersed in your own sadness and grief that you forget to look after your friends, family , you forget that you belong to tother poeple also. And if by god's grace you realize this, GUILT is the where zone you end up.then what? start hating yourself? or trying to fill up the gaps. generally, that gap is now filled up ... by someone else. when you were not there. so you loose it there also. moreover, the rest of the world seems dingy, dark ,gloomy hell like place. Earlier you were living for two people atleast. the one you loved, and yourself. now you are not.. not for them, yourself or for anyone who needed you but does not require you anymore. You dont seem to recognize the beauty of the world. WHAT THE HECK..is what you start living on........

love .. then is......... JUST A CHEMICAL REACTION IN YOUR BRAIN...

kindly keep it out of reach........

IDEAS CLICK!!!

I am a teacher.. i teach the students how to write well.. it's always easy to write about the things that we see around us.. the enviornment, the scenes, the sounds we hear, everythg around us stimulates our thoughts and we pen them down whenever we find a pen and a paper. But wat if someones is toatlly blank? Someone, who does not like to go out and see the world around? Someone who is so self centered that the world does not exist beyond his own self? If such a person is asked to write, what wud he write about? Firstly.. would he agree on expressing his views.. fortunately, if he does.. what are the thoughts that might churn into his mind? Will he be troubled? or just stay blank?

Why this struck me? Writing about poeple who do not like to express? Well it came to my mind when I took a creative writing test in my class... some of them wrote very well... some were average.. and some gave me a blank sheet.Did they not like the topic? Or they did not know how to appoach the theme? Or they were simply DISINTERESTED? Yes!! some of them actually were...... disinterested.

These are only small school kids.. why would they be bothered about various things that happen in our world? till they get seventeen, India expects nothing out of them.

But what after that? Will these adults then be in a pisition to react? Someone faints, someone meets with an acident, someone gets killed... will they ever stop thier carS n get out to help the poeple in need? Or they will just pass by... thinking the same old thing...that if one sets out to help the needy he himself might get caught in the web...

Peope the get used to not reacting ... not now... never ever..

whose fault is it? the poeple? or the authority, the education system of our country? its a vicious circle....
is it?
i think not...
who made the system? WE, THE POEPLE OF INDIA.
who can, then, change the system? WE, THE POEPLE OF INDIA.
we should all learn to react... the beginners might be called the Jimmy Porters and Albert Pintos but we need to show the world...that Osborne is not dead!!
If we dont react and take action ... we will actually make our lives a vicious circle... and we will never come out of it.
NOT NOW.. NEVER EVER

poeple come into ur life for a reason...

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When
you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When
someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you
have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to
provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically,
emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are
there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing
on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do
something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die.
Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire
fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and
now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has
come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or
make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They
usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real .
But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must
build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to
accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use
in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love
is blind but friendship is clairvoyant


this article is dedicated to all my special poeple in my life... u all r special.. whether u stay for a reason, a season or a lifetime....

MALE FEMINISM.

We all have heard of FEMINISM. We all know what it is all about. Well.. just for the sake of introduction... Feminism alludes to that theory which speaks for the rights of a female. The feminist theory developed majorly in ENGLAND in the 20th century. Its precursor in England was the ever famous fiction writer VIRGINIA WOLF. Feminism voices the emotions and aspirations of the subverted female in the society. It reverts the authority of patriarchy and establishes new rules for itself and for the betterment of the suppressed woman. Before the 20th century, it was MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT in the 18th century England who voiced and defended the subverted sex. However, Feminism has come a long way. Now it has been established as a permanent discourse of studies to assess the development of a society. Many theories have sprung from it, like Lesbianism, Homosexuality and Gay Literature, Queer Theory etc. But one of its fields fascinate me the most. That is, MALE FEMINISM. Its not as complicated an issue as it seems by its name but its quite amusing though, as men have always tried to suppress the females in the society. Yet, a concept like Male Feminism exists.This article revisits the issue of male experience and its possible relationship to gender politics. Traditionally, feminism has viewed male experience as representing a bar to the development of feminist knowledge and consciousness. This conceptualization of male experience continues to inform the contemporary debate on male feminism. I would like to argue that this experiential bar emerges from a theorization of male experience as singular, fixed, and organic. Challenging this conceptualization, the article retheorizes male experience as a diverse, shifting, and contested category that produces different political outcomes. Through an analysis of men’s group discourse,I would like to illustrate how particular interpretations of male experience produce both feminist and antifeminist effects. Further, Feminism examines male experience as a multifaceted category that can act as the material upon which male feminist resistance operates. Feminist studies debunk the idea of a female figure created by a male centered viewpoint.Hence, it creates and forster a cultural feminist world of its own.

Coming back to Male Feminism, this movement consists of pro feminist modern men who feel synpathetic towards Feminism. Pro Feminist men seek to add thier voices to feminism and advocate change by men in thier gender relations, social political and institutional structures. Pro Feminists campaign against violence against women and sexism. There have been many famous works on Pro Feminism including Stoltenberg's "refusing to be a man". Pro Feminists believe in an egalitarian society and believe that women suffer from inequalities in the society while men recieve various forms of power and priviledge. Masculinity is oppressive to women and social changes are to be made in this direction.

Why i find this theory amusing is that although it supports feminists yet, it is as flawed as the feminist thoery itself. The biases that exist within the feminist world are on the basis of caste, race, color, creed etc while there is substancial diversity and disagreement in the pro feminist perspectives.While men are also harmed of the societal gender relations, some men emphasize the priviledge recieved by virtue of bieng men in a patriarchal or a male dominated society. Some go to the extent of accusing both men and women constricted of the gender rules.

However, it is terribly diificult to be a non biased thinker but the extent to which i have tried i can now say.. that some of the male feminists are right! We females are so much bound by those old assingned rules that half of the females have got used to it by now. They are not even aware of thier rights.. moreover, even if they are... they would not want to come out of thier husband's shadow..And what's more, hardly can one see, in today's world...one female supporting the other. There is an ongoing struggle within the feminist structure that we encounter even now when we women have established a room of our own. This would only lead an unbaised female like me to praise those men who support feminist ideals in their true spirit.. and this makes me an anti feminist too in a sense.
Male Feminists claim to be anti sexist, anti patriarchy, but not anti male. They see men with good potential and beleive that men must act to dismantle gender injustice.

I believe that truth comes out when all sides of the story are put together and the whole truth is what i am after! and according to me.. the truth is... that there is a genuine desire needed to build a society of men and women both, who first aim to amend the gaps and fissures that exist within feminist culture and secondly, encourage each other to live up by those ideals.