Thursday, March 15, 2012

A collage of thoughts!

1. An interesting survey about the Mallus - what actually actuates and what ails them?

 A recent survey carried out on the malayalee's style of living and related parameters has thrown up quite a few interesting aspects and it's there for all to see, thanks to the media. I shan't be going into the details of the findings but intend touching upon a few to highlight my worry about the skewed manner in which we seem to be progressing. And here I go:-

       (a) 87% of the population own a cellphone.
            Inferences -   (i) My poor mom belongs to the balance 13% who fiercely believe that the
                                  contraption is totally unnecessary when one has a land line!
                                 (ii) The seconds, minutes and hours spent on the instrument on aimless chatter.
                                 (iii) The parents of teenage children are a worried lot in a sustained manner!
                                 (iv) Cupid is working overtime!!

       (b) 47% of the population have toilets in their homes.
             Inferences -   (i) Why've toilets when the land around you is freely available to ease yourself?
                                  (ii) We've no more right to blame others for living filthily.
                                  (iii) We seem to be living on external appearances and personal hygiene be damned.

       (c) 57% of the womenfolk feel that their husbands have the right to beat them when wrong!
             Inferences -   (i) I must confess that this came as a jolt to me, what's happened to women's  
                                   emancipation?
                                  (ii) Compared to this, 54% of the males surveyed feel that they've no right to resort
                                   to wife battering, even if she're in the wrong!


I'm of the opinion that this shows a trend of changing values, social mores and the idiotic aspiration of wanting to catch up with the prevalent trends elsewhere, without sensible thinking or hard nosed reasoning!



2. Into the mist of time.

After about 50 days of trauma, the li'l girl, Falak, has passed into the mist of time. Her end had come about thanks to a cardiac arrest, earlier in the day. As I'd said earlier, it's better that the poor girl didn't live to a continuous life of agony and despair replete with psychological scars. The sad fact is that the perpetrators of the dastardly crime committed on her are still at large.

I'd mentioned about her travails in my jottings of 29 Jan.

I bow to the memory of the li'l one.

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