Being A Learner!

It is the sad reality of modern India, that we have become subservient to Western/ Victorian Morality, we are slowly turning into such sick hypocrites that it is difficult to even start a conversation, in these lines. So, if a thirteen-year-old boy/girl who has just hit puberty, getting into their teens and they go to watch a movie with an intimate sex scene playing right out there, what to do you expect? You expect the boy/girl not go get aroused, not to think in those terms, just watch it like it is a passing scene, act like they are 40-year-old grown-ups? It is not very simple as it sounds, what is it that is the repercussion, consequence of it? Either you accept the western way, accept that intimacy in teenage is quite common, and it's all right to choose that path, or are you looking at it from a point of view that it's not the right age, and maybe hence not morally just, to choose it. But herein lies the problem, you don't have the guts to debate either of th...

All right, so this issue of women of menstruating age, aren't allowed to enter the Sabiramala Temple, and the recent judgement which comes as a relief to the previous blunder of defying the practice. When movies like Padman, Toilet are released worldwide, it gives us an idea of what the general mentality of people is, with respect to hygiene and menstruation , in modern day India. Though it is sad to look at , what's even more depressing is the take on the situation prevelant, trying to potray it as a culture which considers menstruation as something impure, women a class lower to men. It is indeed disappointing to see all the cultural failures, when people fail to recognise that the Kamkhya Temple,Assam where the devi here is worshipped in the form a Yoni. They celebrate the Ambubachi Mela, a festival marking thedevi going through her annual mensuration cycle. A culture where menarche is celebrated in many places across India as Ritu Kala Samskara, whe...

It seems, many of my acquaintances are disappointed with my conduct, my writing, my so called Liberal attitude. This is probably the first and last time I am writing on this topic. I was born and brought up in Hyderabad for the first 15 years of my life, a city with half population Hindus, and half Muslims. There was a time when I have been to a mosque to perform namaz, there was a time when I would visit my a Muslim guy's home at every Eid, to wish him. He would work at my dad's office, I am not sure but I don't think any of you would step anywhere in the locality, and his house. Sewaiyan at Eid was quite common a dish to have . We visited the Ajmer Dargah with our family, we never thought there was anything wrong in it, for my parent's are quite liberal in these matters. I went to the extent that I thought , I should atleast keep one roza in a year, but looking at how most of people break the roza, and eat sometimes the entire night, while just reversing the chores ...

So, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, had written his autobiography" My Experiments with Truth". I am writing a short summary on the same, would prefer to name it "My tryst with Incompetency". Any Secular Liberal with preconceived notions , can skip the next parts and jump to the end of this article. Victorian Morality - Depicts that he had no idea of the notion of Brahmacharya or Kama, from a Hindu point of view. His first shocker in life, was when he instead of attending to his father  was having sex with his wife, and coincidentally he passed away the same night. The guilt which built upon him found him to be influenced more from his interactions in SA with christian morality/sin etc[1]. In 1906 he took a vow of brahmacharya and it doesn't stop there, he would ask newly married couples to take the vow of abstaining from sex.He went to the extent, that he ordered his supporters to chip off the sculptures from Khajuraho Temple( today a world UNESCO heritage ...

Taj Mahal was considered as one of the Seven Wonders of the world, and is still one of the most popular destinations in India, for both Domestic and International Tourists. The Taj Mahal was built in the memory of Mumtaz Mahal  who was one of the three wives of Shah Jahan, died while delivering her 14th Child at the age of 40[1]. The cost of building it was 4.18 crores in 1631 is just in terms of monetary value, but the famine that was the byproduct killed nearly 7.4 million people[2],almost three time the number of people that were killed in the Bengal Famine of 1943(caused by Winston Churchill)[3]. 56.7(%) of total produce was levied as tax by the Mughals as compared to most of Hindu Kings who took 16.67%, as advised by Kautilya in arthshatra [4], and if a famine, drought or a calamity occurred it would be brought down to zero. 20,000 workers who worked for almost 22 years , had their hands chopped off at the end of it[5]. Shah Jahan's third son, aurangzeb captured him, an...

Namaste evryone, so the first sunday of August, Friendships day. This seems like just another topic, friendship and the ideas we have about it, or at least what we expect of it in today's time. Suppose you are going to meet a few old friends and you want to spend some time together, one of the most common things is to get to a pub, gossip, drink. Not that there's some moral values attached to it, but as humans we have lost our ability to observe and analyse the effects these things have. Its become a Status Quo among circles that you drink, smoke etc. If we really had the discernment to keep aside the so called peer pressure, status quo and really look at it, as  in what way does drinking contribute to your life,  not based on morality. The moment you open it, your nose is giving you an indication, you put it on your tongue and the indication is much clear, you gulp it down your throat and it is very obvious that the body isn't comfortable with it. Many a times the reaso...

I was at my office and a lady walked in,  started her story of how she came to Bangalore with her children and husband and, how she is staying at the railway station, and needed some money. She trying to play the emotional victim, threw at me a list of people who have given her 100,200 rs each. I just asked her one question, what have you done in the last 4 days to find a place/job to work? She tried to reinstate her community card and I was adamant at the question. All the drama stopped, she took her piece of paper and walked out with sense of anger. I continued to do my work. You drive to a signal and there's a man dressed in a saree trying to molest you and take some money. Alright in Sanskrit I learnt Puling (male), striling (female) and napunsakling, it is very clear that our ancestors knew that its alright, there was no need to negate or promote it. But now, for what it seems(at least 80% of the cases) is that, it's a very easy way to earn money and moreover on what ba...