How gender imbalance screws a class...

When a great friend forwarded an sms to me asking me to spread awareness to 'Save the Girls, not the Tiger!' I simply took it as one of those msgs as another forward chain started by some jobless idiot...

But in a few days I realized that gender imbalance can actually screw anything around it like hell!

Here's what happens when girls are in serious minority in a classroom:

1> Most boys forget the existence of girls in the class and use whatever language & signs for communication :D

2> In a day, Atleast one guy talks to his old friends and says this once, "Damn, no chicks in the class... Barren!"

3> Above Statement repeated atleast once in a group inside the class...

4> If the rest of the college has good looking girls... The class gets named as "Dharaavi" and rest of the college as "Town"

5> Boys have no one in the group who studies real hard and jots down word to word notes of each and every teacher without missing a lecture :)

6> There's no chance of most boys ever talking directly to a girl till the end of the course...

7> Some wise guy always tries to make an impression on the good looking girls, living in constant optimism that he's gonna be lucky real soon... While others sulk...

8> Talking to a girl is one of the biggest social crimes... and turn you into a public laughter matter...

Forget terrorist attacks, Save Mumbai from this media!

Catch this!

TheIndian says that "Kasab's verdict has been overshadowed by a strike!!"

They say that Water Woes and Motormen strikes have overshadowed the Kasab Verdict. What's wrong in that? Get stuck away from home at the end of a tiring day, with the temperature and humidity levels soaring high, and any Kasab verdict would be the last thing that hits your mind.

And there the common man is strangled in a jeopardy as motormen go on a hunger strike, which cut off Mumbai's lifelines. Who is to blame? Didn't the common man already know about the warnings given out by the motormen? Ah ha! Caught you there! If you happened to switch on your idiot box to find out about this pre-warned 'strike', you'd only see one AND ONLY ONE news in the air! 

'Kasab ka Hisaab', 'Kasab's Judgement day!'... Our media has a flare for overdosing particular topics to sell their shows... Be it Sania & Shoaib's wedding or Sachin's Birthday...

Oh yes, these are hot topics I must say... Who is not interested in discussing these topics? Almost every local train commuter must have once or twice discussed such topics with his neighbor during the perilous local train journey... And kasab's case could have become the most gossiped about topic too! 

The only trouble was we did not have trains today... Everybody was very eager to catch their usual locals, to sit or stand or hang out with their group of daily commuters & talk about Kasab... Alas! Had they known that the Strike was going to be so severe... If at all any of the news channels had flashed atleast once that there's a possibility of these strikes reaching a high intensity level... if at all the media actually cared for something that makes a bolder impact on the lives of the common man...

Long live Freedom of Speech & Expression... Long live Free media! 

Stepping out of Economic Growth to step into Ethical Growth...

We all start the new year with a few hopes for ourselves... A few promises to others & sometimes ourselves too... That's all... As soon as the new year week is over... We're all on the same tracks again... No worries... We're like that... Everyone is...

You read the 'Economic Times', and you find out that India is progressing... Oh yes, didn't you know that? Everyone says so... They say our GDP (Whatever that means!) is very close to 8%, they say we're being preferred over China in the US board rooms... We've overcome the Global economic meltdown faster than any of the countries... etc etc etc... Alright... 

But aren't we just growing economically? Where is all this growth going? In the hands of the Government? Top 400 CEOs of the country? Is it doing something good for the common man? Isn't it supposed to do good for the common man?

Yes, we are growing... Daily commodities are being sold at rates that look like 6 times the daily wage of a mason or a sweeper... You cannot tell the difference between the number of T-shirts being sold in a shop at Fashion Street and the number of suicides being attempted... People want more and more partitions in the country, new states... Yes... We are definitely growing, aren't we?

Its time we did something new this year... Its time we extend our hands to those who need it... Find someone today...

The constant carelessness...

Am I meant to be like this? Or is it only the brief interval of disillusionment... I don't understand... On the materialistic scale of marks, reports & certificates, I stand nowhere... Simply nowhere...

A man is judged by the worthiness of his opponents, they say... Mine have already overestimated me and stepped out of competition... Or is it my carelessness? My arrogance? Do I label my opponents as 'unworthy' only to console myself when I loose? Or Am I so used to the pampering and favoritism offered to me by my surroundings that I've developed this tendency to let go?

Even when the whole day is wasted... I do not let any night go without the rehearsal of my grande speeches, success conversations with my family, friends ... Overconfidence? Whom am I to blame?

A new but disillusioning dawn...

There hasn't been such clear mist before... Nor has there been such clarity in my confusion... Sometime back I craved for responsibilities, now I have more than I can take... Do I need a break? No. I've had enough breaks already. I guess its these breaks that make me think that I'm overwhelmed with responsibilities at the moment. And yes, there's always the grief of being left alone without my partner who was always there with me to share my responsibilities...

A close friend said once, "Some people believe in themselves only when Others believe in them." Somehow, he's right... But I guess I'll rephrase it for myself... "I believe in myself only when the people I believe in believe in me."

A new dawn rises... I still still need someone to show me the light...

Where are my colors?

I can't recall how it struck me to do this... But when I saw this pic of mine, I suddenly realised I wasn't there in the pic... Am I lost? I could have processed this pic in 5 mins flat, but something made me work on it slowly, very slowly... I used a small brush size to recreate every color in the picture except my face only to see how all the wonderful colors contrasted with my desaturated face... It made me feel hollow, empty... Am I lost? People say I make them smile... I make them laugh... Where is my laughter? Where has my smile disappeared? There are times when people feel low in their life... When's mine gonna end?

Convincingly False!!

Oxygen is a very toxic gas and an extreme fire hazard. It is fatal in concentrations of as little as 0.000001 p.p.m. Humans exposed to the oxygen concentrations die within a few minutes. Symptoms resemble very much those of cyanide poisoning (blue face, etc.). In higher concentrations, e.g. 20%, the toxic effect is somewhat delayed and it takes about 2.5 billion inhalations before death takes place. The reason for the delay is the difference in the mechanism of the toxic effect of oxygen in 20% concentration. It apparently contributes to a complex process called aging, of which very little is known, except that it is always fatal.

However, the main disadvantage of the 20% oxygen concentration is in the fact it is habit forming. The first inhalation (occurring at birth) is sufficient to make oxygen addiction permanent. After that, any considerable decrease in the daily oxygen doses results in death with symptoms resembling those of cyanide poisoning.

Oxygen is an extreme fire hazard. All of the fires that were reported in the continental U.S. for the period of the past 25 years were found to be due to the presence of this gas in the atmosphere surrounding the buildings in question.

Oxygen is especially dangerous because it is odorless, colorless and tasteless, so that its presence can not be readily detected until it is too late.

-- Chemical & Engineering News February 6, 1956