Yesterday was watching a movie.. some typical bolywood melodrama but with a twist. Two friends, one boy n one girl.. very good friends too. Boy loves some other girl.. and Girl loves some other boy ... hehehe... its confusing.. :( well to cut a long story short the Girl from the friends duo has the engagement to her love.. Friend (boy) is very happy. The Groom to be goes to the land of opportunities to .. hmm may be get some opportunities.. and then disaster.. the girl gets raped.. Friend boy is a little late to arrive on scene .. but sees the rapist running away.. so follows.. but then accident.. and the rapist meets with an accident and goes up in flames..
The friends decide to keep the rape a secret. neways the rapist is dead.. an then like all Hindi movies disaster strikes again.. Girl is pregnant and everyone believes that the 2 friends have done it.. no one buys the rape story.. not even the Loves of both of their lives.. The friends stand by each other and decide to marry to support the other.. well with a few twists and turns.. by the end of the movie they realize they do love each other now.. and its happily ever after.. hey forgot.. Girl has an Medical complicacy n cant abort (that's the reason why everyone gets to know in the first place neways...).. so they keep the child and now they have a family.. :)
But now the burning question !!!
In reality.. i.e. in practical life.. Will some one be able to accept the fruit of the rape.. Will the child not bring in the memories of the crime.. Can the husband .. or the victim.. accept the child..
Well.. Rape is the most heinous of crimes.. You are not injuring a body.. you are maiming the mind.. being a Man and not one of the loyal kinds.. may be I will never understand the pain of the violation my body.. or the effect it has on my psyche.. but will the new life bring something to look forward to.. may be its just a personal opinion.. well to make myself clear I don't say no to abortion.. Its a matter of choice really if the child is unwanted.. if the future is not assured and the parents confident about the decision then it better be terminated. Coming back the to the case we are discussing I think any negative in life can be negated by a strong positive. A loss can only be balance with a gain. So will it not be possible for the victim to accept the child as the compensation for the wrong done to her and accept the child. Its neway her part only and its no fault of the child to be a part of a Crime. If you accept adoption as a acceptable option to have a child then why not this.
The movie really touched me .. not that the movie was that well made or can it boast of good dialogue and superb acting.. but just that the issue touched a nerve somewhere.. I was really touched by the tenacity of the guy in bring his friend back to life. The devotion, the sacrifice.. Well you could predict the movie including the dialogues easily.. usual Hindi movie stuff u know.. you have seen one.. you have seen most of them.. but the thought was good. Hey digressing from my topic now.. I really get enamored with the concept of Love Vs. Friendship.
Cant say I am clear about where each stands or what exactly defines love or what defines friendship.. but would love to argue ne day.. chalo may be someday will post my arguments on that..
Friday, July 21, 2006
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Lost
Things have changed. For the better or the worse, may be only the one above can tell. But may be he does not bother to tell us, what his opinions are. So now its all a matter of speculations. The different schools of thought promoting their theories about Life, God and everything.
What role do we really play in this change. Is this a state of Flux or just a mirage. May be its just the background which is changing and we are just stranded. A constant in the matrix of space-time continuum. But whatever it is we are simply lost. Lost for long time now and will remain so for a much longer period.
What role do we really play in this change. Is this a state of Flux or just a mirage. May be its just the background which is changing and we are just stranded. A constant in the matrix of space-time continuum. But whatever it is we are simply lost. Lost for long time now and will remain so for a much longer period.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Reservation
After all the happenings in the different parts of the country thought I will add my two bits to the raging debate. Reservations.. Read a couple of articles for and a couple against.. Well just to make things clear I don't like the concept of reservations in Work as well as Higher education.
Well subsidizing the fees. Free Primary Education and may be Free Education till graduation is fine with me but reserving seats just so that the so called backward people can get the advantage .. sorry negate the social disadvantage seems like a mistake to correct an earlier one. There are 2 main problems with the whole idea.
1) The classification of the backward
2) The implementation of the whole idea
Classification: Lets look at the people whom we call the backward population. Are they really so. I think more than half are the landed gentry who have good social standing, have enough money to send their kids to good private schools. Do they really have the need for this reservation. Now if they are poor they may need that boost to compete, to decrease the gap between the rich and the poor. But segregating by caste alone is certainly wrong.
A comment made by someone really amused me. One of my close acquaintances was talking about getting their caste added to the list of the backwards. The logic being obvious. But then if you look at it the CASTE he was talking about is mainly into business and on an average fairly rich. So why are we giving this incentive to people to call themselves backward. Civilization (evolution) is the process of going ahead, to improve, to change.. now we are seeing this reverse trend where people don't want to potray themselves as developed but the opposite. Is it really good for the society as a whole ?
Implementation: In this country of a billion people where your age is what is mentioned in the file of a babu in some office and not necessarily dependent on your date of birth how we are going to decide who should get this benefit and how much. How are we planning to do this. Believe that the Government which just for a handful of votes will proclaim a Criminal to be God to use this scheme for betterment of people. Who decides on what basis what type of reservation should be given and when?
Many such questions have been asked but we still don't have any answers. The people who actually are implementing the scheme, promoting it all over the country don't have a clue. I am really sorry. I am a part of the system, never did anything to change it so now I should own up my mistake too.
When I didn't stop a bunch of fools.. monkeys to ahead and try govern me, I am not allowed to crib.
Change, the one word that is the true constant. So hope this too will change. Wishful thinking :)
Well subsidizing the fees. Free Primary Education and may be Free Education till graduation is fine with me but reserving seats just so that the so called backward people can get the advantage .. sorry negate the social disadvantage seems like a mistake to correct an earlier one. There are 2 main problems with the whole idea.
1) The classification of the backward
2) The implementation of the whole idea
Classification: Lets look at the people whom we call the backward population. Are they really so. I think more than half are the landed gentry who have good social standing, have enough money to send their kids to good private schools. Do they really have the need for this reservation. Now if they are poor they may need that boost to compete, to decrease the gap between the rich and the poor. But segregating by caste alone is certainly wrong.
A comment made by someone really amused me. One of my close acquaintances was talking about getting their caste added to the list of the backwards. The logic being obvious. But then if you look at it the CASTE he was talking about is mainly into business and on an average fairly rich. So why are we giving this incentive to people to call themselves backward. Civilization (evolution) is the process of going ahead, to improve, to change.. now we are seeing this reverse trend where people don't want to potray themselves as developed but the opposite. Is it really good for the society as a whole ?
Implementation: In this country of a billion people where your age is what is mentioned in the file of a babu in some office and not necessarily dependent on your date of birth how we are going to decide who should get this benefit and how much. How are we planning to do this. Believe that the Government which just for a handful of votes will proclaim a Criminal to be God to use this scheme for betterment of people. Who decides on what basis what type of reservation should be given and when?
Many such questions have been asked but we still don't have any answers. The people who actually are implementing the scheme, promoting it all over the country don't have a clue. I am really sorry. I am a part of the system, never did anything to change it so now I should own up my mistake too.
When I didn't stop a bunch of fools.. monkeys to ahead and try govern me, I am not allowed to crib.
Change, the one word that is the true constant. So hope this too will change. Wishful thinking :)
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