commute

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Air was mildly chilly and it coupled with a feeling of death made my body ice cold. The mild perfume from the girl sitting next to me couldn't add a tiny bit of life to it. But then a swift wind germinated a tear in my left eye. It slowly collected the bits of sorrows that were scattered in my mind and grew large enough to drop down to my lap. The body shuddered as warmth returned to it.

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I sniffed at the air, what was that smell, was it a psychoactive drug?, my eyes were hit by the red neon lights, my head rocked from side to side from the broken road, is this air drugged?, the bumps were hitting my head again, I remembered the unmatched giant breasts of a dead woman on the screen, I told her not to lift her top again, can i have some more of the hallucinogenic drug?, the green and red lights hit the eyes again, the piercing voice in my ear is changing speed, direction, techno beats, when did i start liking them, I saw the hot woman in red sari swinging her head in wild abandon, I am getting out of the trance, give me another dose.

sme ragging case verdict

Visual media has given this case the importance it deserves. This was a cold blooded crime done by a bunch of criminals. Then I was surprised to see that print as well as the news ranking system in google news are not giving it much importance. You can get an outline info about the case by reading the first few paragraphs from this article.
Along with the crime the attempts to cover it up will shock anyone. The principal of the college, director of the college and the first doctor to whom the victim went(a rape victim was sent to psychiatrist first!) tried to tell the girl to hush up the matter. Out of these three two were women(the principal and the psychiatrist). I wish these elements also get convicted in the appeals court.
The victim who was 17 at the time of the crime and her family are real heroes to fight such a long drawn battle against manipulative and powerful criminals. Though anyone would find it hard to ask victims of such heinous crime to muster the courage and energy for the arduous legal battle i wish more often they do that and win at that.

Indian Marxists guilty of murder

Tapasi Mallick's killers(rapists?) are convicted. Want to see how much this news will be covered by our media. I never had any hope of proper investigation or justice in this case when i learned about it before. And our great media network never reported any progress either(even though they were hyperactive in reporting about whether tata's will move out or stay in singur).

66th rank

Read the news. Key findings here.

  Our media has better news items to run on their front page, so you might have missed this. TOI wanted to talk about companies going cheap on diwali gifts this year. I searched IE to find a mention with no luck. Funny bit was the mention in cnn-ibn. They reported the news in the context of nano project moving to gujarat.



 

  
 

UN hand-washing day

  Millions mark UN hand-washing day and i suddenly thought it would be about rwandan genocide.

Food crisis because indians and chinese are getting food to eat

According to condolezza rice the more important reasons of food crisis that should be investigated is the improvement in the diets of indians and chinese(really, or is it that more indians and chinese get to eat these days) . A less important factor would be USA and many other countries using food crops to create biofuel. More people getting food to eat is a good thing(and who would have thought we will have to defend such a statement). What needs to be stopped is the new universal policy of promoting conversion of food into biofuels and planting fuel worthy plants like jatropha in arable lands which produced food grains otherwise.

From this news article. Also read about food vs fuel on wikipedia.

Seen in all its grim realities, old Tibet confirms the view I expressed in an earlier book, namely that culture is anything but neutral. Culture can operate as a legitimating cover for a host of grave injustices, benefiting a privileged portion of society at great cost to the rest. In theocratic feudal Tibet, ruling interests manipulated the traditional culture to fortify their own wealth and power. The theocracy equated rebellious thought and action with satanic influence. It propagated the general presumption of landlord superiority and peasant unworthiness. The rich were represented as deserving their good life, and the lowly poor as deserving their mean existence, all codified in teachings about the karmic residue of virtue and vice accumulated from past lives, presented as part of God’s will.
- from the essay about Tibet by Michael Parenti. Go read.