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"its the only thing that's literally 'in you face', is it not?"
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All that is now, all that is gone, all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune...
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon
Friday, May 29, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
UPA!
The UPA has emerged victorious this 15th Lok Sabha election and its official, Singh is King, Manmohan Singh warmly welcomes another 5 years of Prime Ministership.
L.K. Advani appears to be thoroughly dejected and its contemplating retirement from leading the opposition and a probably even a total retirement from active politics. I say, the grapes are sour.
Anyway cleary the Congress did something right considering their sweeping majority of 255 seats over the 169 won by the NDA, emerging again as the second largest majority in these elections.
What does this win signify, well for one, the people of this country sure have a lot of faith in the younger generation of politicians considering that the UPA has the maximum number of younger politicians according to a survey.
well whatever, hopefully this term won't be as dissappointing.
*peace*
L.K. Advani appears to be thoroughly dejected and its contemplating retirement from leading the opposition and a probably even a total retirement from active politics. I say, the grapes are sour.
Anyway cleary the Congress did something right considering their sweeping majority of 255 seats over the 169 won by the NDA, emerging again as the second largest majority in these elections.
What does this win signify, well for one, the people of this country sure have a lot of faith in the younger generation of politicians considering that the UPA has the maximum number of younger politicians according to a survey.
well whatever, hopefully this term won't be as dissappointing.
*peace*
Monday, May 4, 2009
euthanasia? i dont think so
Two days back in the corner of one of their irrelevant pages, TOI carried the news of the execution of Dilara Derabi, an Iranian girl who was charged with the murder of her father’s cousin at the age of 17, she spent five years in jail and admitted her guilt with the hope that the juvenile court would reduce her sentence, instead she was executed at the age of 23 without her lawyer or any of her family members being informed.
Consider the same situation only difference being the country in which it is set, I cannot imagine the repercussions of such a heinous decision in a country like India. I know for a fact that there would have been complete breakdown of the judicial system with human rights activists and even the common people demanding answers, reference: the hullabaloo about Dhananjay Chatterjee’s execution.
Sometimes I think whatever it is; nobody in this country will be executed in accordance with the Islamic shariat or the religious practices of Hinduism or Judaism or Christianity. Living in a secular state is almost comforting because I know that if ever it is the case of an execution by law the decision has to be humane. Come to think of it our country upholds the voice of their citizens to a respectable measure. The people are a part of its legal and governing system, that I cannot deny. I actually am a proud citizen, not overlooking the short-comings or the loopholes.
Meanwhile my respects for Dilara, the only crime I find her guilty of is for being born in the wrong country. Rest in peace.
PS: I wonder if these blink-and-you’ll-miss-it articles are mere page fillers or does anybody really care.
Consider the same situation only difference being the country in which it is set, I cannot imagine the repercussions of such a heinous decision in a country like India. I know for a fact that there would have been complete breakdown of the judicial system with human rights activists and even the common people demanding answers, reference: the hullabaloo about Dhananjay Chatterjee’s execution.
Sometimes I think whatever it is; nobody in this country will be executed in accordance with the Islamic shariat or the religious practices of Hinduism or Judaism or Christianity. Living in a secular state is almost comforting because I know that if ever it is the case of an execution by law the decision has to be humane. Come to think of it our country upholds the voice of their citizens to a respectable measure. The people are a part of its legal and governing system, that I cannot deny. I actually am a proud citizen, not overlooking the short-comings or the loopholes.
Meanwhile my respects for Dilara, the only crime I find her guilty of is for being born in the wrong country. Rest in peace.
PS: I wonder if these blink-and-you’ll-miss-it articles are mere page fillers or does anybody really care.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Photographic memory they say?
Interesting it is when you think about why photographs become larger than the subject itself. Many a times, I’ve seen clicking pictures is all we’ve done at any meet up. So when you look back at what exactly you’ve tried to capture the answer’s obscurely warped and all you’ve actually captured is the event of clicking pictures itself at various different places in different times.
Capturing the present through a photograph for me, is to look back at those pictures and eventually remember something that’s not even in the picture, like what I said right before it was clicked or whose foot was getting crushed despite which they smiled and made a fuss later and so on.
Striking poses that are not remotely similar to what your confluence would otherwise suggest feels like a cheap gimmick only to make the outcome more interesting, that’s it, clicking pictures is like a sport of some kind, the more interesting poses you strike, the more interesting are the captions and most importantly the reactions.
Facebook has made pictures a window into the real lives of people as opposed to their e-self that everybody otherwise has access to. Its funny how one of the first things you look for, in a person’s profile is their pictures, almost like re-assuring yourself that this person actually exists and has a life and there’s proof!
When I look at old family albums with my Dad, he has a story for each picture, like when he took a trip with his friends to Kerala or when he and Ma just moved into our house or when he bought my cousin his first full-length trouser and clicked a picture to remember the day. Our pictures suddenly seem shallow, it’s not like every picture must have an important historical value but some sort of semblance of a memory worth keeping is what I’m asking for.
Despite all this analysis I know I’ll be the person to stick my tongue out and pose the moment the next person says- “Picture time!”
Ohh the irrefutable need to go with the flow
Capturing the present through a photograph for me, is to look back at those pictures and eventually remember something that’s not even in the picture, like what I said right before it was clicked or whose foot was getting crushed despite which they smiled and made a fuss later and so on.
Striking poses that are not remotely similar to what your confluence would otherwise suggest feels like a cheap gimmick only to make the outcome more interesting, that’s it, clicking pictures is like a sport of some kind, the more interesting poses you strike, the more interesting are the captions and most importantly the reactions.
Facebook has made pictures a window into the real lives of people as opposed to their e-self that everybody otherwise has access to. Its funny how one of the first things you look for, in a person’s profile is their pictures, almost like re-assuring yourself that this person actually exists and has a life and there’s proof!
When I look at old family albums with my Dad, he has a story for each picture, like when he took a trip with his friends to Kerala or when he and Ma just moved into our house or when he bought my cousin his first full-length trouser and clicked a picture to remember the day. Our pictures suddenly seem shallow, it’s not like every picture must have an important historical value but some sort of semblance of a memory worth keeping is what I’m asking for.
Despite all this analysis I know I’ll be the person to stick my tongue out and pose the moment the next person says- “Picture time!”
Ohh the irrefutable need to go with the flow
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