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sat, 20th sept.

exaltation — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:01:04 +0000

I m in Bombay..Shifted here on Tuesday..Still coming to terms with the fact that I have come to a place, which is made known, in the books as maximum city; in business newspapers as a city of stock exchange and in the films as city of dreams. Each night I sleep without knowing what will I do tomorrow. Each moment I think how to spend the next one. Never in my life I have lived my present so fully. I m a narcissist and that makes me optimistic.

A pigeon sits on the window, every time my room partner shoos it away, it returns to the place. Swimming pool in the opposite building appears to me like a crystal blue carpet of water with shining threads. Far right are the mangroves and above them the open sky. A perfect view, seeing which, I wake up every morning.

I m without work right now but I m with hope and self belief. Whatever decisions, whether good or bad, I have taken in my life till now were my own. And today I feel happy I took them. I m writing this post so that few years later when I will be Somebody, I could read this n reminisce what I felt when I took the plunge.

I m a narcissist and that makes me optimistic J

feminism or humanism

exaltation — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:00:42 +0000

This was the article written by me long back. It got published in Hindustan Times e-paper. It will give you some insight about feminism and will break some myths. It will also put some light on the stringent conventional structure of the society which asks men and women to behave in a certain pattern. For more visit the link:
URL :
Why feminism is not such a frightful word
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=f0995bdb-0ade-48c5-bfa8-6242f9998b4f

today

exaltation — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:00:55 +0000

Sunday…I slept at 5a.m woke up at 2p.m….got a good news of a new project that I was waiting for…a plan with friends was made to see a movie…by 4.45 I was in the movie hall watching the new release “Jannat”. Another Bhatt flick, much in the news because of the onscreen kisses….however thanks to the censor board “generosity”, there were few of them left to be seen….without going into the debate of whether censor board should exist or not, I would like to say that I enjoyed the film….after a long time I enjoyed a movie on the silver screen….I don’t know why because there was nothing extraordinary in it..Still, it made me think and feel and that’s what I liked in it….how a woman, transforms and influences a man’s life even while staying submissive…she is meek but not weak…a woman who has the strength to change the life of the man in her life….the age old wine in a new bottle but appeals and tastes good as it is still wine….

On our way back a friend played A.R Rehaman’s cd….rehman is one of my favourite music directors…it was literally music to my ears….”tu bin bataye” the track from Rang de Basanti, made me cherish …

The day was fun…I m more than happy for the past few days… after long span of years, I m happy…having a strange feeling of happiness…I want to jump…fly…dance…travel…see the world…tell the world…I m happy…. I won’t say that everything is still fine…but I m feeling free…I don’t know because of what…but I m feeling free…I want to stay like this forever…I want to rejoice even when everything is not alright…I want to find solutions and if there aren’t any, I want to move on………………..

Dance

exaltation — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:01:18 +0000

I feel complete when I dance alone for myself. A sense of satisfaction and emptiness prevails; emptiness not in the sense of worthlessness, but in the sense of something fresh, ready to embark upon a new experience. I vent out, de-stress, create and in the process enjoy myself to the fullest; my beauty, my being, my existence. And the interesting aspect is that my mind is in complete action at that time. It is not at peace. It is able to create what it can’t otherwise when it is under the baggage to perform, to deliver and to illustrate.

Dance makes me feel that the whole universe resides in me; that I am capable of accomplishing everything I dream of. It gives me an inexplicable strength and courage to face anything that comes my way. A support system lying dormant within me comes alive when I start dancing. It is my expression, passion and obsession.

Women and State

exaltation — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:31:28 +0000

Reservation to any marginalized group be it Scheduled castes, Scheduled tribes, religious minorities or women, has always hung like an albatross in government’s neck. Instead of becoming a tool to empower, reservation has turned into a political farce. In order to bring about equality it is important not to establish equality of status but to provide ‘equality of opportunity’.

This is true in case of women reservations too. In place of offering 33% reservation to women in legislature, it should become mandatory for the political parties to give 50% of election tickets to women and reserve a percentage of party posts for them. The Election Commission can play a major role to maintain this inner party democracy and to make political parties more representative. This step if taken will help women to reach power positions on the basis of their merit rather than merely on the basis of reservation.

The UN has stated Gender equality and women empowerment as one of its Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. Adequate representation of women in politics is one of the important steps in this direction and there are many plausible reasons to believe so.

First, the State as an extension of society has since time immemorial ensured the organization of power relations on a gender basis. Men are naturally associated with leadership and women are accepted as leaders if they accept masculine notions of power. Moreover the state has formalized and institutionalized these power relations by retaining male domination at the level of top personnel within states. The state and the entire society systematically favour men in defining of job merit. A man’s physiology defines most sports; their socially defined biographies define workplace expectations and successful career patterns; their objectification of life defines art; their military service defines citizenship; their presence defines family; their wars and ruler ship defines history; their image defines God. This structure which is based on men’s interests and values can only be transformed when women will come to acquire power positions. The “spillover effect”, gradually and eventually, will flow from top to bottom. The promotions of ten women IAS officers done by Mayawati immediately after becoming the CM of UP exemplifies the role of powerful women in altering the customary structure.

Second, women were kept out of many kinds of work and this resulted in the belief that the work is unsuited to them because when a group is kept out of something for long enough, it is most overwhelmingly likely that the activities of that sort will develop in a way unsuited to the excluded group. The palpable example is the incompatibility of most work with bearing and nurturing of children. If women had been fully involved in running the society from the start, they would have undeniably found a way of arranging the work and child rearing to fit each other. Thus to ensure equality between sexes in true sense women should initiate, lay and ascertain their own distinct social structure, which will happen only when women take to power and authority in the political sphere.

Third, the ideologies and values of men as a dominant class are so deeply internalized by women as a subjugated class that such customs and beliefs have inadvertently become a part of their “unquestioned common sense” to a large extent. In order to stir their consciousness and bring about a revolution in the established structure, our society desperately needs women as power holders.

Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati, Sheila Dixit, Vasundhara Raje, Renuka Chowdhary have already made their mark as powerful women. Reservation for women in political parties can thus prove to be a welcome development both for the women and the society at large. Because all said and done society and state tread the path of progress when women, constituting half the population, participate fully, effectively and effeminately in all spheres– economic, social and most importantly the political sphere.

what if…

exaltation — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:21:52 +0000

what if u don’t want to do something and u have to do it?
what if u want to do something but u can’t do it?
what if u can’t say yes?
what if u can’t say no?
what if u can’t hear ‘no’ ?
what if u are scared?
what if opportunities are knocking at your door and u are sleeping?
what if u become famous?
what if u are jealous?
what if u try to impress?
what if u show someone down?
what if u r dependent?
what if u are alone?
what if u blame someone?
what if u are “INSECURE” ?

In The Name Of…

exaltation — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:15:54 +0000

The so called……

Ethics and morality

Rights and wrongs of society

Culture, customs, traditions,

Rendering the renditions

Caricatured systems and realities

Blindfold individualities

Lingering on and on…..

On beliefs, minds, souls, so on…

Telling what to do

What’s a virtue, what’s taboo

Unwilling….

To undergo anachronism

Accept undercurrent of transition

Stifle, stigmatize, suppress

Human good, happiness…..

The so called custodians of society

In the name of ethics and morality

Hello friends!

exaltation — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:25:07 +0000

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