Sharmila Chanu

Does it take 6 years of hunger strike for a manipuri girl to be noticed by media. Does it have to be foreign media that notices her for the first time. Read the article on BBC. I did a google news search on the same, and from that i have to say none of the national Indian papers have commented on this. Does the media guys think that getting fed through the nose for 6 years in a hospital bed is an enjoyable pastime for this woman and this terrifyingly courageous protest isn't coverage worthy. Or as it started 6 years ago, is it old news?

Update(09_10_06)
Read news about the official panel reviewing the issue, recommending the repeal of the act. Also read this article. It says that Sharmila Chanu is in Delhi now to protest against the act despite warnings from doctors against her travelling.

One more.

The poor have haunting eyes, especially the children who follow with their eyes the movement of the ice cream cart, and the slow movement of the jaws where a privileged person sits eating at a hotel table behind plate glass windows. The poor have grimy skin and hair reddened with the dust of the roads they walk on. They have emaciated limbs. When they speak, their voices lack modulation. The poor have no truck with government officials, members of the cabinet or even God. They keep their woes to themselves, wisely and with immeasurable dignity.
Madhavikutty(kamal das) from her column. Read the whole article.

There she goes.

All the religions now prevalent in the world have crossed their expiry date. They cannot exert any beneficial effect on human beings. They prejudice and poison the minds of their followers. Intolerance grows to vast proportions. Rioting can occur, and violence.
Madhavikutty(kamal das) from her column.

I simply love her.

a nice guy protests against the rape law reforms in pak

Siraju-ul-Haq, a senior member of the six-party MMA religious alliance, told the BBC last month that the government's efforts to change rape laws showed that they were "following a Western agenda to secularise Pakistan".

"The government must focus on more important issues like education, poverty alleviation, price rises and the interference of the military in government affairs", while me and my fellow males in this country can rape all the women of this country and later stone them to death because we will be fucking them with less than 4 male witnesses.

The original news article on bbc.
For more details read this article.

In the mood for love

He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct. The ending lines from the movie. Will affect you more if you watch it. Simple stuff right, but something he could see not touch, its painful.

A nice sunday evening, i sat down to see the second half of the movie. I had made some tea for the occasion, and it was made to match the movie style, less amount of distractions like sugar and milk, more tea. The director sometimes was using shots through translucent glasses, i made my own by fogging my spectacles with vapors from my tea. And then comes that haunting music where they start moving in a strange slow motion, going through motions repeated in the movie, she climbing up those nice stairs from the local noodle shop, he with his cigarette with that sweet and sad expression on his face. There was love and there was pain.

The first half made me happy with the intimate shots of the characters, you see some of them, you hear some, you feel the rest, and you are in there, not somewhere far away. You feel the warmth that these nice families extend to strange people living with them. You love it. Later you hate it.