What Nonsense!

Fourth, many of us may claim that it is the choice of the girl to live her personal life the way she wants to. But increasing instances of these acts are certainly indicative of the obscenity that has become acceptable in the garb of modernity. Acceptance of vulgar display of skin and sex in advertisements, [...]

On Mangalore

So debates on whether visiting pubs enjoy social sanction or is consistent with Indian culture become redundant. The role of the state is not to act as moral arbiter on appropriateness of adult behaviour or adjudicate cultural disputes but to use its power to preserve the rights it explicitly guarantees to its citizens. And in a democratic republic, the rights are protected through rule of law. The Indian state is morally bound to secure those rights for its citizens when they are threatened by non-state actors—whether terrorists or vigilante groups. That is what civil society should demand. The anti-Sri Ram Sene groups would have served a much higher purpose if they had directed their ire at the government rather than individuals or specific political parties.

We Ban!

When we officially take over the world, anyone who uses this abomination called ”mere ko” will be crucified.
It’s mujhe! Not mere ko!

Hey, You Could Have Asked me!

Sometime back we wrote,
A friend in college used to argue that while the city dwellers made too big a deal about sex, its in villages where promiscuity was most rampant. Morality has never been the concern of the rich or the poor–it is almost entirely a construction of the middle class. The former has no [...]

Hey You!

Update: Jesus! Come on, you fool! (via)
The bastard stole my lines! Dude, I claim copyright.
Maybe it’s a result of 200 years of colonialism, but Indians are world champions at caring – really caring! – about what foreigners (more accurately, Westerners) think or say about them. They will live blithely with impressively foetid slums in their [...]

Hey Eshwar

I am thinking of starting a re-education program for terminally stupid.
This dude will be the first admission to the list.
For fug’s sake, it’s not about fearing the movie or being ashamed (Have we banned foreign tourists?); some people simply do not like the movie! Period. As Matthew Schneeberger writes in his review of the movie [...]

Hmmm

This.(1)
Well?
Admit it you morons: The magnificent Lord is always right. 
1. Assuming it’s true of course. I offer no opinion on that. 
 

On Fair Skin and Beauty

First read this–especially the comments. 
As Gaurav guesses correctly, I was just trying to provoke people with my comments. Unfortunately, when I actually write a serious post, no one reads it but my flippant comments usually provoke a lot of reaction (Sample Rajni post) which is a good pointer to where my talents(?) lie.
In [...]

The Magic of Technology

And certainly, practices like “numbering” — where a group of young men in a car chase another car they believe to contain young women, and try to give the women their phone number via Bluetooth, or by holding a written number up to the window — have become a very visible part of Saudi urban [...]

On Text Message Flirting

In my years of reading MSM, I have noticed one thing: An Indian writing in a foreign publication would have the most ignorant, stereotypical coverage possible. I am not sure why exactly is that so–perhaps, it results from a desire to oversimplify things for an alien audience. Or perhaps it stems from a desire to [...]

The Children of India

(This is a rant.) 
A couple of incidents of killings  of Indian students in America later, the expected has happened. A screaming headline on DNA asks:
Are Our Children Safe in the USA? 
Excuse me, but I don’t recall being adopted by the idiot who wrote this article. Could this moron worry about himself–why was he born without a [...]

Should Harvard Have Women Only gyms?

A report from the Harvard University,
In a test of Harvard’s famed open-mindedness, the university has banned men from one of its gyms for a few hours a week to accommodate Muslim women who say it offends their sense of modesty to exercise in front of the opposite sex. [link]

Is this a fair decision? There are [...]

Feminists Of The World..

Unite and demand your right!

Swedish women have launched a campaign called Just Breasts which fights for their right to go topless on beaches and in swimming pools.
Scandinavian feminists were outraged when two women were asked to cover up their breasts by a lifeguard at a public pool near Stockholm.
One of the pair (sorry), 22-year-old [...]

Are Kids Worth It?

An interesting new study claims that men who have four or more kids are much more likely to to live till 100,
Compared to childless men of the same age, a 30-year-old man in 1917 who had one to three children had a 61 percent increased chance of living past a century, the data showed. However, [...]

A Quick Question

I have noticed this for a long time and I am intrigued.
Why do Indian women refuse eye-to-eye contact? They always seem to avert their gaze and it is so obvious that it almost seems comical. It appears as if by making eye contact they would be conceding some ground; I would have thought that opposite [...]