IinSociety

The best job for anyone obviously would be the one they love, but here am going to talk about one of the most popular and, at some level, even the most sought after career option of our country—Politics. It is best in my opinion because of the power it wields and obviously the money return. A politician in our nation can get away doing anything, anything at all just by the imposing his ‘seat’s’ power on others. Their relatives too can do anything because, and I still don’t know how, they seem to have earned a share of the power themselves! Well, the power part, everyone knows about but the money in this line of profession is, and it would be modest to use this word, ridonkulous! On an average a re-elected electoral candidate has tripled his wealth between the last two elections (5 years). According to Association for Democratic Reforms (ADF), of the 1370 re-elected MLAs and 200 MPs, the average income and assets of the 100 richest legislators grew by a mind-boggling 745%, b...

I think I have run out of my creative juices, but I think it’s only temporary. It most probably is due to the T1 paper’s being shown these days...ufff the pressure of helping other people get better marks(by getting worse grades :p), it’s getting to my head. Anyways i decided to share a story i once read. It is an allegory about a two-faced government, ‘Of ducks and Crocodiles’ and as title suggests it’s about ducks and crocodiles.                                         Once upon a time , there was a beautiful village on a hill. The simple villagers   worked hard on their terrace farms. Everything was perfect, apart from one problem. There wasn't enough water through the year. The rainy season was fine, but at other times, the villagers relied on a lake on top of the hill...

The “god” discussed here isn’t a Jesus or a Buddha or a Vishnu or an Allah; it’s no one’s deity but just the concept of Him. Why is it that we need a “God” to be there, someone to look up to?    There’s one sentence that echoes across all the religions of the world, which reverberates in all the Holy texts—That God is all around us and if we need to find him, all we have to do is look inside. They might be true, literally. The said God isn’t a supernatural, omnipresent, all-knowing and all-seeing figure but our conscience, that is ‘inside’ all of us and it’s up to us whether or not to follow its in-built directives.    As children we were often told things like “Eat your food or the crow will” , “Do your HW or the lion will come and eat you while you sleep” and various other varieties of it , the most famous being the one from Sholay, “Beta so jao, nahi to Gabbar aa jayega!”. Anyways, these ‘threats’, apart from being harm-less, encouraged us to do things...

                                                     Few years ago two women were groped and assaulted on the New Year’s Eve by a large group of men, of which 14 were arrested. Last year a minor in Assam was assaulted by a group of around 30 men, outside a bar, while returning from a friend’s b’day party.   During Egyptian riots two years ago, many women journalists were sexually assaulted by large crowd of men, the most infamous of all being the rape of Lara Logan. In fact, this year’s Egyptian riots saw some 90-odd women being raped.  “Five or six surrounded me, groped and prodded me, grabbed my genital area and I lost count of how many hands tried to get into my trousers. Yes, sexual assault. I’m so...