dowry "evergreen"

I was reading national news in yahoo news page and i came across this news put up barely an hour ago. On December 7, a woman in Korba district of Chhattisgarh tried to burn her husband alive. She was arrested and what she said in her defense was that she was "fed up of her husband"!
I really could not push what she said to the back of my brain. To be so fed up of a person to try and burn him/her alive? And that too your husband? Another important fact in this case was that the wife had filed a case of dowry harassment against her husband but the matter was dissolved between them...the story continues.


Curious about dowry cases, i typed dowry in Google and clicked on news and a long list of dowry cases appeared; my eyes were drawn to dates and the number of pages. Disgustingly, there was a dowry case put on Google almost every single day and the list goes on and on, starting from a dowry case on the very day i searched where a village sarpanch in punjab was arrested in dowry case. And just think that hundreds of dowry incidents go unheard.
A country that claims itself to be a fast developing nation, is India moving to the developed and urban side for the better, or are the ghosts of our "so-called" uneducated/rural social evils lingering about and mutating into an urban beast with us and sinking deeper into us?


Being born and brought up in a small town in Jharkhand, i never understood the "why" behind the female foeticide n female infanticide cases my mother and her colleagues used to talk about; probably because my family setup was very different, or atleast i believed it to be so. But after getting a bigger picture of life, i understood that dowry system is one of the root causes of the biased gender ratio. And i also understood that dowry thrives in the urban, educated India too.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20101207/1416/tnl-woman-held-for-trying-to-set-ablaze_1.html

SRINAGAR : in buzz..

http://beta.in.news.yahoo.com/video/national-22564751/school-bus-torched-in-srinagar-to-enforce-shutdown-23330991.html

A video showing a school bus torched by a mob in Old City area of Srinagar on Saturday, 4 December, 2010, to enforce a shutdown called by hard-line Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani across the Kashmir valley.

Srinagar has been in news lately for all wrong reasons and the violence in the area has aggravated the condition of the civilians. As is evident from the incident of a school bus being torched down, educational sector is one of the worst-affected areas.

A close friend, Mohammad Saquib, a resident of Kashmir had a lot to say about the "desperate times" in the Kashmir valley. He says,

"To think what really cajoled the youth in Kashmir to pelt stones, knowing the nitty-gritty of its outcome, you could be booked under the draconian law PSA( public safety act) or put behind the bars on an imbecile traitor's nod. Then what brings them on streets and makes them go to such an extreme of stone-pelting? Their attires do not show signs of poverty. everything has a cause , and everything does not have an ostracized inception.

In the nascent vale of Kashmir, upheaval is old and grave. It is the aga-saga of any nation that aspires to be freed and given natural liberation, as bestowed by Almighty Allah. Whatever happened in the nineties showed the willingness  and need of Kashmir to oust its territory from the clutches of an illegitimate rule. However, by mere dint of force there was an achievement, the short lull made it possible for the movement to be passed on to the next generation.


Many analysts on Kashmir thought the silent period to be an acceptance to integrate with the state of India, but the Amarnath land issue provided the needed vent for the youth who had been waiting to erupt,like a dormant volcano. The new generation was harassed and even traumatized by the presence of security forces in almost all corners of the vale, alienated and deprived of the right to free expression. It was evident that uprise was inevitable, and when it erupted, a new history was written. From the alleys of downtown Srinagar. North Kashmir and old town Anantnag proved catalytic for the movement to grrow.  2010 uprising was spontaneous and of a paradigm shift to how seriously the new generation took to streets demanding their aspirations. Every new killing saw the number of protests increasing and protest took a new mode. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other social networking sites became the medium for Kashmiri youth to express their anger and put forth their views to disseminate throughout the world. State took a new radical approach by arresting Facebook users  to curb the protests on net. Curfews and crackdown on the youth were devised to bolt and frustrate people so that willingness could be melted down. As hitherto, one should appreciate the resilience shown by the people in Kashmir. Atleast there is no tosy-turvy change in the people for the mundane gains, as the aftermath of 2008 movement had proved."


When Saquib messaged his article to me in answer to my questions on what he had to say about unrest in Kashmir vale, i told him that i will have to cut-short the article as it was exhaustive. But after re-reading his article, i could not find anything that could be left out of Saquib's voice. It is the voice of one among the youth who rise to revolt against the atrocities faced by their people. Is it not time that the nation joins these voices as a whole?

painful blossoms contd.

In reply to the comments i received on my post "painful blossoms", i would like to put forward a few ideas that can be implemented.


First thing is that the number of events should be increased and the criteria should be broadened. as i said in my previous post, sports events should be included in the grading system. i m not saying that sports should be added as a part of blossoms, but that the year-round activity should be taken into account as it is a matter of grades.
Also activities like Darpan participation, Silhouette prizes, etc. should be taken into account. the street theater we did last year deserved more than just 1 day of teachers saying "brilliant performance." forget grades, we did not even get certificates as we were promised(we were the winners).


Blossoms should be more of a 1-day talent show where the winners of various events show off. the literary event winners can have a chance to put on their works on university blog or something likewise. and the photography and poster events can have an exhibition.


if the argument is that Blossoms is an opportunity to develop multiple talents, then the Grade-factor should be eliminated from it, and it should be made an adventurous event, encouraging students to explore their talents in unfamiliar domains.

blossoms- in action : in buzz....

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=476501682247&set=a.476501372247.266820.617277247
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=476501957247&set=a.476501372247.266820.617277247
GROUP DANCE - BLOSSOMS'10 IMAGES (images from anu philip's album, facebook)
Still from the on-stage event ( group dance) by BA students who were the winners of the event, held on Wednesday, the 1st of December, 2010 at the mini auditorium, Christ University, Bangalore.

"select a theme for your blog."......."ok ma'am."

I created this blog to be my voice, so that i could type out whatever i feel and thus ease that frustration in me which is a result of lack of kind and empathetic ears.....

Guess even this wish will remain undone. since i already had a blog, i did not create another one for my new media assignment. sadly, now i have to find a theme for my thoughts. guess i can no longer call my blog my voice....rather, it is to become a report of what happens around that makes news.

maybe, what i can do is, write what happens in campus, in my immediate vicinity. i shall write what the air is buzzing with in my surrounding....be it in Christ, or in SG Palya, or in my hostel......and i shall call it.....IN BUZZ.....

dill waalon ki dilli indeed!!

Had an awsome tour. went to ajmer for a tournament and had a nice time. we couldn't get a direct train, so had to go via chennai n delhi....

while in delhi, we went shopping and sight seeing. saw india gate and purana quila.

  

This is the front view of purana quila... it's amazing...beautiful...

but trust me....we'll remember this place for something else.... the lush green lawns of the excavated fort full of couples making out...lolz.

the 5 minute walk we took along the lawns was very embarassing (n entertaining). some places u couldn't even make out that there were 2 and not 1 person sitting under a tree...

somehow i felt this was a disgrace to the monument. i will leave other things to another time...but for dilli's dill waale.......GET A ROOM GUYS!!!

I bet the emperor would hav had them hung for this behaviour at those times.

WHAT GOOD...???

The shore was close never, to see

A place to put my soul at peace.

My canoe full of fruits of love,

But not a soul to share it with me.

What good those fruits without a mate?

What good this world which put me to hate?

Yet again, I see the lady luck

Pausing and teasing me, but,

Gospel taught me “forgive and be”

There I let her go, mocking free.

What good the wounded soul she made?

What good a heart which is but, dead.

It is too late to turn my back now

And seek the shelter of ignorance

Rattled within by wicked worldly howls

That silences my humble penitence.

What good my efforts to return to love?

What good who left me for realm above?

my life....as rainbow rays..

Now at sunset I am bound to think of days

Cluttered at my memory’s evergreen bays,

Where I spent moments of mirth n gloom

Their hues shine patterned as rainbow rays

The ripe gift of love I remember as Red

From birth to youth for me it jeweled.

The Creator, caretakers and caregiver and all,

In them, my love blossomed and dwelled.

Yet came the days of Orange sufferings.

I braved the times of merciless tidings.

When all left me to fight my life alone,

I well chose the path and kept following.

Look back and I see the sunny Yellow smiles,

Careless and brave, playful childhood flies

Naughty, wasn’t I? The Mischief-Queen,

When oceans the bottom, and limit the skies.

How well I heed those fruitful Green times,

Where life blossomed, brought new rhymes.

Of birth, of joy that my children sang,

And fertile my womb brought great smiles.

Then how could days of Blue hide forever?

Filled each day like a Christmas dinner.

Roast and baked my all with me,

Left all sorrow and felt cheer like never.

Came here there Indigo days of tears,

Loss as great not told by Shakespeare.

I felt how low man could be, I was too,

But they gave me ever valuable peers.

When I have lived a Violet royal life,

Tread both on flowers and edge of knife.

Learnt lessons worth more than priceless,

Proud I lived with honor and not strife.

My life though not as great as the Globe’s plays

Still characters did do their part in best ways.

And there I spent moments of mirth n gloom

Whose hues shine patterned as rainbow rays.

hmmm

BINGO!!!!.....got my hall ticket...
nw all i have to do is.....study...:)

christ university buggers

i need to vent out my frustration!!!...............*********
christ university buggers....
for a simple thing like attendance update....they will make u run around the campus the whole day....by the end of it...u miss more classes n have to go behind them begging again.....
Losers!
today they made me run around coz my holistic education online exam had not been registered apparently...
to find one mr.vikram i spent my whole lunch running round the campus.....after tht they say he'll b available after 4pm!!!!!........
had to take test at 4...n guess wht.......the system is not accepting my second atempt.
apparently there was some mistake in the colleg system..
THOSE A****ES MADE ME RUN AROUND N SHOUTED AT ME FOR NO FAULT OF MINE....

N I WILL NOT WRITE MY SEM EXAMS IF THEY R UNABLE TO RIGHT THE WHOLE THING AGAIN.....m jst so done with CHRIST UNIVERSITY........

Ok...i know this out of context....
i wanted to be an athelete.....but looking at this pic of guest atheletes in The Hindu front page....
i understood y God did not make an athelete of me.....
lolz.....they look intimaidating.

i met him, i liked him.....and i wantd to win him
but i knew for so thinking i was wrong.
coz love is not winning...its not a whim
of sudden passion, but a lamp burnt long
enough to warm and melt from within
and make it loud, bold and strong.

maybe it took me too long to realize
that and i took it all for granted
and thought what he most prized
was me.but my love tree had a stunted
growth with nothing that could revitalize
the broken boughs,fallen i fainted.

but the irony is........i dont want to come to senses
i dont want to leave all behind
i know for me there is no bed of roses
i m ready to bear, i no longer mind.

there is something about friends that awes me to silence....
is it the unconscious love...or care...or a feeling that u kno...
even if u close ur eyes, they will b ur eyes
even if u shut ur mouth, they'll b ur voice...
even when u walk away, they will still b nice..
even if they hav to fall, they'll make u rise...
ALL THESE YEARS I HAV MISSED A LOT...
I HAV MISSED LIFE...ITS MEANING..
COZ I HAV MISSED MOMENTS I CUD HAV BEEN WID MY FRNDS.........
i regret............i miss u........

i have to say........

Looking into your eyes,
I see a new day rising.
D flecks of past brightened twice,
....or is it wisdom u r hiding?

Each line that crosses ur face,
well tread by my eyes each day.
again i still travel those ways
lest the memories go away.

ur lips an endless ocean
i long to swim across there
to reach the zenith with u again
n taste d sweet poison u bear

will u not let me drink ur passion
and step up to my dance of love
join me in my beautiful pain
and let me dig love treasure trove...

painful blossoms.

Christ follows a strict calendar and according to it the Blossoms season is on. Blossoms is the annual event where Christites pariticiate (it is compulsory to participate in 1 event) and compete and are graded on the basis of their performances.

what is confusing is why do people who already take part in extra-curricular activities (especially sports) have the same compulsion and that too when there are no sporting events.

besides, if it is a "grade business" then why are sports people not given grades, as teams like the basketball and football teams..and others too, practice and toil throughout the year.