The Story

I `m telling a story
The intention’s not glory
Nor courage or drama
Neither is it compassion
My soul’s too selfish
To pick up the bastion…
It’s a thought unfulfilled
With a plea to fill
With colors of individuality
And a bit more still…

Those were my early days
Questions aplenty - did we raise!
I learnt the lessons
Alas I had to memorize!
Thin lines there were,
Between truth and their lies…

To practice dharma
I was told.
The path to salvation,
Never knew, was so cold.

In the winters, when we felt,
There was no better time.
Discovered some lines..
That just didn’t rhythm.
On the streets lay a man,
Laboring to die.
He broke sometimes in shivers
Couldn’t even cry…

As we rushed to him,
There were people in our way,
There could be more trouble - they said
When there was none…
There are more in this world
You are not the destined one!

We watched him stupefied,
Being devoured by cruelty,
Not only him,
Many of us died that day,
To live it over again,
Come what may…

It’s a complex world…
I thought.
Still searching for dharma
Chanting unabashedly…
'Serving people meant karma'

इंडिया::Adolescence education

It humours me whenever there is a discussion on whether children should be told about sex.
Hell NO!! Not children, but adolescents should be.
After having topped the charts on now-old tunes of population and AIDS, do we really need to answer the question?

I heard one of the so-called conservative cliques educate us about its perils, the dangers that such knowledge would pose to our social set-up.
Give me a break SIR! Adolescents already KNOW, they all have seen street dogs!!

Although in a somewhat blurred sort of way. I knew it from the time I was in my 2nd grade, would agree nevertheless, not everyone gets as lucky as I was. The blurred image gives rise to a dangerous concoction, mixing young energy with misconceptions and distorted facts.

What’s wrong if they get to know facts from the educational establishment, instead of from the web or some horrible magazines?
Is it not the purpose of education to fight ignorance and make people aware?
Do we really need to remain a sexually-oppressed nation?
Why do we run away from being enlightened, shamelessly embossing school emblems with the words: “तमसो माँ ज्योतिर्गामयः”?
Do we really need to ask us about the pros and cons of adolescence education?
C`mon people.. this is not even a debate.. we already know.
Remember the Chloromint ad: Dubaara mat pucchna !!