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Copy? Or Create? -On Individuality.

I do not understand why parents have to indoctrinate their belief system into their kids. Religion, organization of stuff, way of living.. Now, one boils milk and then puts tea. Someone else puts tea at another time. Both get tea for heavenssake! One believes in a christian god the other in a hindu god and yet another does not give a damn to any of these. All of them die in the end! And I will get mad if I get into the religious fanaticism part of it. I dont care if 'your god' protects the crap out of people. I am an atheist. At least borders atheism. I dont understand crap like,"god decided to bless us cos we pray but decided to kick syria's(or afghanistan) ass cos they are a pack of blasphemic individuals." God is a pretty selfish fill up the blanks if that is the case. "Blessed are not those that are hungry for righteousness, but those that pray to me 5 times a day." Wonderful! Nobody cares if you are very Monica-ish about cleanliness and orderli...

Indira, India and fuels.

You know, if Indira was there, she would have nationalized crude oil and petroleum sector. :( This was a status I had put up some days back and you can see how that went here . I was expecting someone to point out the glaring hole in this whole idea. Nobody did, and hence I will point it out myself. While it is a good idea to nationalize the crude oil sector so as to keep a check on the oil imports and the forex changing hands, we need to see what happens after that. Reliance, if nationalized, will bring down the prices of indigenous oil produce. Now, there will be reduction in prices (reliance/desi oil bringing it a bit down). But that would also mean more people find it affordable. Or people will stop thinking twice before using a car for that 100 m drive.-which they think twice about, right now- While they get back to 'I can afford to' mode, the requirement will rise up further. Every tom dick and harry will be using his car to show off and travel those petty distanc...

Pre-marriage and Post-marriage with Pre-mish and our family.

à´Žà´´ുà´¤ിà´¯ിà´Ÿ്à´Ÿ് à´•ാലങ്ങൾ ആയി . This is going to be a mixed post. In terms of language and themes. It would also include the problems of a writer who has been out of touch with writing for a long time now. Wanted to write before marriage about the hullabaloo people make around the bride. You feel special alright but you also feel awkward and disgusted sometimes. Wanted to pen every incident. But was kinda busy, what with my marriage and all. Still, some that stuck a glaring picture, penned down... Co-worker before marriage one day - Are you shy? (Does it help that it was a guy who asked me this?) Although taken aback, I was like "No, I already know the guy. And am not really the shy type." à´•à´²്à´¯ാà´£ം à´•à´´ിà´•്à´•ുà´¨്നവരെà´•്à´•ാൾ à´¡ൌà´Ÿ്à´Ÿ് ആണി à´•à´²്à´¯ാà´£ം à´•ാà´£ുà´¨്നവർക്à´•്‌ . "Love marriage ആണോ ? സത്à´¯ം പറ !" There were women in my extended family who came and declared "You donno how to cook. How are you going to survive there? Oh you are gonna lose face for the family." I find ...