Women - Victimized enough!!!

India being a Country having a very rich cultural heritage and boasting importance and worshipping of many goddesses from mythological times to the present is unable to prevent or save the modern women from various assaults, manhandle and injustice caused from all sectors of society in the modern times.


The political and the judicial system in India, has more favors for men than women , which goes so much out of the way to prove their innocence or enforce justice to men, who are framed as culprits on various abuses and assaults against women.

Unlike the mythological times where women are highly respected and worshipped, in modern India, women’s fight for her survival starts the moment she is out of her mother’s womb. Female infanticide is practiced in so many parts of India. Girl child is looked upon as a curse/burden in the family and are immediately thrown away into dustbin or killed by their own kith and kin. Even if the girl baby overcomes her hurdle of survival just out of the womb, she is not spared as she grows, a girl child basic rights are deprived when she is very young and she lands as domestic worker slogging till her last ounce of energy leaves her body & not to mention her mental and physical abuses she receives from her employer. There is no safety for a teenage girl on the streets and even in her own house in India. The Media screams of scores and scores of incidents where young girls are molested by unknown/known men/gangs on their way to home, malls, colleges/offices etc. Then comes the worst ordeal a women endures during her marriage in the name of extravagant dowry paid for the groom side and after marriage in the name of more dowry harassment. Money and material is valued more than a women’s life so much so, a married women is torched to death for not getting what her husband exorbitantly demands from her parent’s side. The atrocities doesn’t end there, daughters and daughter-in-laws of many household become prey to the man of their own home , for the most unbearable low act of a inhuman beast’s selfish lust and passion.

With all the above injustice meted out to women of any age, there is no proper justice given to the victims. Even if few traumatized girls come up in the open to seek justice for them, the money and power beholds the jurors and they get away from their demonical crime.

Inspite of so many social outcries by various social and activist groups, why is history repeated over and over again. Where is the mistake happening, Why cannot we save our own women in the country, what causes repeated barbaric attacks to women.

It all happens because of the mentality of men involved, it happens because of the political power and money backing such person, it happens because of the inadequate laws to condemn and punish such wrongdoers, it all happens because of the helplessness , fear and the inability of those women to fight the injustice , it happens due to the “I don’t care so long it doesn’t affect me” attitude of the society that witness all these atrocities committed against women, it happens because “we - the public” are forget the fact that law and order are equal to both the gender and women are in par with men.

The change to end these relentless biases toward women, should come within every man inside the family, the change should come within every men in the society, the change should come in every man to remember to see women as what she is and respect her. With respect comes love, with love comes attitude, with attitude comes character, and with character comes dignity. Treat women with dignity. She deserves it. Respecting Women will bring the change which the society much needs and make the place safer for a woman to live in whichever part of the world she is.

Naanga - A Movie Review

Naanga is a long walk down the memory lane of few college students who have studied together about 2 decades ago and how their life takes lots of twist and turns over the years. The present and the past are juxtaposed in each one’s life and show the stark realities of how dreams of youth and fate of life don’t cross path in most of our lives.



The story begins with one of the primary character Devi who recovers from Coma after 25 long years from her college days (way backy in 1985) and how upon hearing the news, all her close classmates (group of boys and girls) plan a re-union to commemorate her recovery and give her a new lease of life which she was deprived in her primary youth.


The movie is very realistic as it pictures the actual youthfulness, aspirations, dreams and priorities of college goers in the by-gone era. All the actors casted in the movie are new faces and hence there are no expectations set on their performance and hence their portrayal of witty, playful, fitful characters as winners, loosers, anguished youths is very convincible to the audience and they keep you floored from beginning to end. Atleast you don’t suspect any bit of overacting on either of their performance, which itself is a good reason to make the movie very much watchable.


Life is not always bed of roses, this one doesn’t realize when young. Like a fiery wind, college student life is boundless, filled with lots of confidence, arrogance, determination and preconceived notion that they can get what they want. But reality is way different and not all they explore gives desirable results, which is very well shown. Couple of fairy-tale love affairs which looks so simple with boy seeing girl & falling in love and vice versa takes interesting twist and turns and ends up tragic for reasons which are even more meaningful than their love and makes them a victim of their own desire knowingly or unknowingly making them helpless to fight for their right to love. Ofcourse, not all the young couple in love turn unlucky, there are few who get lucky too. But we need to wait and watch to see who wins and who looses.


The songs in the movie are not so impressive, but in fact become more an hindrance when the screenplay and the story is going very interesting. The title song alone captures your attention.


Naanga is surely a good entertainer and very much relates to every college goers. It is a good youthful subject with lots of youthfulness and enthusiasm. It is certainly worth the watch to remind the viewers, the memories of their college life.

Boredom – Revival to the long lost Passion

I was trying to while away some time as there wasn’t much for me to do and honestly didn’t know what to do next when I am having free time!!!

Agreed, if there is time, you have ample opportunity to do ample things, but what is the use when those ample things don’t come to your mind when have the luxury of endless time at your disposal. Nothing as boring as that!!! All the while I had the misconception that free time is fun time, actually it is not true, and anyone who has walked my shoes will be able to tell that.

Having so much free time actually bores you, not because you don’t have much choice, it just that you are unable to pick up the right choice and make effective use of the time. One moment I find browsing entertaining, the other moment reading is more engaging, the very next minute gazing around seems fun, but all these quick successions of choices becomes very uninteresting no sooner than you pick the options. When I am illusioned that the other option is always better than my current one, I don’t find myself engaging in any productive activity. With no fixed mind and no fixed focus on what to do, the end result is I find whatever I am currently doing as the most uninteresting job and that gives way to boredom. Boredom has more psychological effects on me – it tends to make me slightly depressive, disillusioned, disoriented and what not. It makes me feel very low at times.

Best way to fight it out I feel is just stop it from taking control of me and just focus, focus on One Single thing (multi-tasking here is of no help) that could evade my thoughts from boredom, it could be anything, just reading a page from a book, or listening to meaningful music, writing anything that comes to my mind, closing my eyes and meditating, investing time on creativity etc etc. Concentrated focus of any one job seems to help tackling boredom a to a good extent.

Though this is a meaningless article, while writing am happy that am able to concentrate and pen down my thoughts of how I feel right now which makes me feel much better and happy that boredom actually helped me productively by commiting my thoughts to paper and finally make me write back again….writing now has brought back the same zeal of energy and enthusiasm which I felt (seems like) eons back, when I had this passion for writing which slowly sublimed due to various unacceptable lame excuses I gave myself from pursuing from the passion that I long held…….

Boredom in my case, acted like a stimulant kindling the long lost passion in me. Once in a while it is worth getting bored if it benefits me. Hoping this new journey on the path of creative writing which I deserted long time back, unleashes exciting experience and experiments which would develop me into a “better” ameateur writer.