Sunday, August 28, 2011

"Inconsiderate lot"

We all are inconsiderate in some or the other way.... The level at which we are inconsiderate is different. I have been thinking about it and if we look at it, almost all the crimes, big or small, arise from just one thing- inconsideration!


On seeing war documentaries different emotions arise like pity, anger, sadness, depression and pleasure. Pleasure? Yes, you read it correctly. The last type of feeling comes from, what in my parlance is the "inconsiderate" lot.

A man shot in head and blood streaming out or when the head being chopped off and the body falls still wriggling as if life is refusing to go out of it.... There comes a chorus  from the viewers"REWIND"

These are documentaries...footage of the incidents that happened in real life and not fiction. Place yourself in that situation and see your kith and kin being shot right in front of you and then have the guts to say "REWIND".

We don't feel the burns until fire catches our own home.

Textbooks change with change of the CM!


It is illogical but the content of textbooks is changed with the new Chief Minister. Ms. Jayalalithaa is striking off any reference of former CM M.Karunanidhi in school textbooks. A green sheet or a permanent marker id used to struck off the references. However, in the process, the names of many great Tamil scholars are also removed. Even, C.N. Annadurai, the founder of DMK party is also out of the books. Sadly, all this got an administrative approval.

The question is what right do politicians have to add or delete content of textbooks? Politicians can at least spare school children from their vengeance.

Very unfortunately, nobody seems to take this as an important issue. The media is too obsessed with "Anna Hazare".

Thursday, August 25, 2011

They say I am a loner..

It was suffocating,
It was tearing me apart.
It was strange for some,
It was sad for friends.

I wanted to talk less,
I wanted others to shut up.
I wanted to be left alone,
I wanted to dig deep into my books.

I was learning to hide
I was learning to lie
I was learning to fake
I was learning to survive

They say I am a loner..

I didn't have any answers
I didn't have any reasons
I didn't have any questions
I didn't have any regrets

I didn't want anyone..

It somehow happened...but that's how I like it now!