Kartikey Sehgal
Some years back, I thought of four friends and if their close friendship will last.
It may, I thought. But don’t trust the eye that does not imagine the valley of flowers.
Many things don’t last. And the exceptions are etched in glass.
There was a boy in college. He spoke of his four friends, “this too will not last”.
Many years later and after a myriad of tribulations, he phoned one friend. “It did not last”.
He was at once a mixture …
Kartikey Sehgal
The second page of a two page write-up called “Polyamory in India: Then and Now”, published in Psychology Today, prompted me to write this story. The author “Deborah Anapol, Ph.D” guides a married woman named Leela towards sleeping with her friend Karna. According to the author, Leela’s husband Sandeep must come to terms with his jealousy. In my opinion, the application of polyamory here is utter rubbish and a subtle form of radical feminism that is making weaklings out of …
Kartikey Sehgal
The ‘conservative’ fathers end up marrying off their daughters to morons that their daughters would have otherwise chosen for themselves.
It is not expected that the conservatives know better about human behaviour than the ‘others’. They are conservative because they are expected to be conservative. Fathers asked their sons to be conservative because, well, that’s the way to be, or because that’s the right way of life, or because that’s the job of a man. Their children are told that keeping your women …
Kartikey Sehgal
Talented people are often alone and relegated to lower ranks in a social group.
Unless:
Otherwise, they are ‘respected’, a term that has come to differentiate the talented from the ‘others’. He becomes an ‘other’ who is talented, and who may not pose any immediate threat to the position of the ‘haves’.
I was scheduled to attend three of the …
Kartikey Sehgal
The modern man thinks that he is free because he can change between jobs; leave an organisation, join another. However, even slaves wanted to be transferred between masters. They didn’t want to sit idle. Slavery gave them food and security. They also compared notes. Who ate what and who got treated well.
What has actually changed is the perception of slavery. ‘I am not bound to any one company’. But you are. How are you going to otherwise survive and if you do, …