1. Marilyn Monroe.
It's 50 years since the actress' tragic end - suicide or no suicide, the mystery continues! Here's an actress who's perhaps, known all over the world with an enduring image of her's with her skirt billowing by a swish of naughty, conspiratorial breeze! Her factfile - reality coupled with the imaginary - continues to fascinate people with an unmatched intensity. As it was said by one of the television anchors, had she been alive, she'd have been 86 years old. But the question is would we like to imagine a Marylin Monroe whose beauty has been ravaged by time?
There has been stunningly beautiful women before and after her, but her legacy continues. So, what makes everything about her hauntingly mysterious yet exquisite? To my mind, it's her sex appeal coupled with a vulnerable innocence that have endeared herself to many all across the globe.
2. Guns for personal safety?
Was quite amused about the bit of news saying that the Delhi police has been flooded with increased women applicants for gun licences. It sadly shows the fear psychosis that's increasingly spreading among the womenfolk in our country thanks to being at the receiving end of indecent behaviour and even graver threats to their lives.
Does it show a more sinister side of our society with permissiveness taking a new turn? I would like to believe that it's a passing aberration. But coming back to owning personal fire arms, it can become extremely dangerous if possessed by people who've no control of their anger! It goes without saying that this aspect is applicable to both, men and women.
I would still stand by women being trained in martial arts so that they can ensure their personal safety with a liberal dose of chilli powder, on person, for use in case of an impasse!
3. The Indian tennis fiasco at the London Olympics.
It was just a month back that the main protagonists were bickering for partners to play at the London Olympics. The bickering was further vitiated when the fathers of Paes and Bhupathi had joined in the verbal slugfest and one could only laugh it away as a bad joke - what else can one surmise if players begin to think that they're bigger than the game and more important than their country?
Frankly, I was under the impression that they'd give a spirited account of themselves on the olympic courts with the same intensity as their verbal onslaught at one another, weeks before the team was being finalised.
Wonder what each one of them have to say now when they've gone out of the reckoning in the preliminary rounds itself? They've given us a reason to hang our heads in shame!
It's 50 years since the actress' tragic end - suicide or no suicide, the mystery continues! Here's an actress who's perhaps, known all over the world with an enduring image of her's with her skirt billowing by a swish of naughty, conspiratorial breeze! Her factfile - reality coupled with the imaginary - continues to fascinate people with an unmatched intensity. As it was said by one of the television anchors, had she been alive, she'd have been 86 years old. But the question is would we like to imagine a Marylin Monroe whose beauty has been ravaged by time?
There has been stunningly beautiful women before and after her, but her legacy continues. So, what makes everything about her hauntingly mysterious yet exquisite? To my mind, it's her sex appeal coupled with a vulnerable innocence that have endeared herself to many all across the globe.
2. Guns for personal safety?
Was quite amused about the bit of news saying that the Delhi police has been flooded with increased women applicants for gun licences. It sadly shows the fear psychosis that's increasingly spreading among the womenfolk in our country thanks to being at the receiving end of indecent behaviour and even graver threats to their lives.
Does it show a more sinister side of our society with permissiveness taking a new turn? I would like to believe that it's a passing aberration. But coming back to owning personal fire arms, it can become extremely dangerous if possessed by people who've no control of their anger! It goes without saying that this aspect is applicable to both, men and women.
I would still stand by women being trained in martial arts so that they can ensure their personal safety with a liberal dose of chilli powder, on person, for use in case of an impasse!
3. The Indian tennis fiasco at the London Olympics.
It was just a month back that the main protagonists were bickering for partners to play at the London Olympics. The bickering was further vitiated when the fathers of Paes and Bhupathi had joined in the verbal slugfest and one could only laugh it away as a bad joke - what else can one surmise if players begin to think that they're bigger than the game and more important than their country?
Frankly, I was under the impression that they'd give a spirited account of themselves on the olympic courts with the same intensity as their verbal onslaught at one another, weeks before the team was being finalised.
Wonder what each one of them have to say now when they've gone out of the reckoning in the preliminary rounds itself? They've given us a reason to hang our heads in shame!
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