The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

Women often pick and choose morals to suit their purpose. Others would argue that they don’t know how to choose in any case. (and therefore, say, should not vote)

Recently, a man killed himself after writing an essay on the desperate condition of men in society. Mainstream media ignored his death in favour of the ‘slutwalk’. In brief, this is what happened to him, in his words:

“My story starts with the infamous slapping incident of April 2001. While putting my four year

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Kartikey Sehgal

“Do you have Jay-Z on your computer?”

“No.”

“Do you want me to put it in?”

“No, I don’t.”

She turned to look straight at her table, not far from where we were seated. Her malfunctioned laptop lay there, along with an empty cup of coffee.

“You don’t really listen to Jay-Z, do you? And you don’t like wearing such skirts either.”

“No, I do. I mean I listen sometimes… “, she halted and looked at her skirt, probably worried if it showed …

Siddharth Kurian

Of recent, when famed woman’s lib author/thinker Germaine Greer was asked to comment on the issue of children being sexualized, she began by panning the Barbie doll saying that the doll itself is a fetish and that it is a descendant of a sex toy. And in the same breath implied that fathers too belonged to the same coterie of wanton sexualizers and did so by helping their daughters learn how to "flirt" just by asking them to "kiss daddy goodnight".

I find …

The Young India

Reproduced here, in full, is the last statement of Tom Ball before he set himself on fire to protest the decline of men in society. We consider feminisation of men to be one of the most pressing issues of modern society. You’d see it too if you got out of the feminist ‘slut walk’ mould.
Media would give this attention if he had killed his wife, or a judge or a policeman.

Last Statement

by Tom Ball

A man walks up to …

Kartikey Sehgal

[Modern Society.]

Outside the bathroom, Mother 1 knocks

Mother: Son, I want you to come out, now!

Son 1: Yes mom, just after I take this bath.

Mother 1: Good.

In the Living Room

Son 1: Here Mom, I have come out. What is it.

Mother 1: No son. I want you to come out.

Son 1: I am out now mom.

Mother 1 : No son. Come out. Come out. To come out… tell me that …

Naren Sabarish

"Jokes are grievances."
- Marshall McLuhan

Sunmen was not a joker, he was a special child.

Once upon a time, a cottage in Angolia:

Inside the cottage, a baby was born. He was named Sunmen. His father did not like him because he was not beautiful, he looked like a joker.

As a small child, Sunmen poured milk upon his head. He liked to joke. He was interested in joking, joking, joking!

When he grew up to be a boy, he went to …

Kartikey Sehgal

The outrage over V S Naipaul’s views on women writers is overdone and, in actuality, proves his apparent superiority.

It may be said through one glaring example in one of his popular books that that the standards V S Naipaul expects from women, he expects from men. His criticism of the “narrow view of the world” of women also applies to popular Indian author R K Narayan. Like in the case of Jane Austen, it may be said that Naipaul does not share …

Kartikey Sehgal

Sitting in a library inside a coffee house. Outside, there are fragrant flowers. I remember a conversation with my friend at this very place a long time ago – between 1948- 1950. The setting was different then. Two friends talking about a girl.

Flowers are in an alliance with the vanity of women. At once, the romantic would breathe the air of jasmine flowers and harbour notions of never-ending love. It is when we can smell the unseen fragrances that we can imagine …

Ananth Venkatesh

Standalone story. You may like to read ‘The Case for Israel’ by the same author.

The Palestinians today have to accept certain ground realities. They refused to share their land with the Jews in 1947. The Palestinians have no land for themselves even now. Palestinian leadership has to discontinue making unrealistic demands such as to accommodate refugees from the 1948 war.

Israel can’t accommodate the descendants of the Palestinian refugees from the 1948 War. It isn’t a feasible demand. That will …

Ananth Venkatesh

American president Barack Obama has recently outlined his vision as regards the solution to the cancer that has bedevilled the Middle East since 1948 i.e. the Palestinian-Israeli territorial conflict.

What Obama spoke was, basically, a reaffirmation of the policy pursued by his conservative predecessor, George Bush, on this significant issue. Obama, unequivocally and lucidly, voiced that an independent Palestine would have to be created on two of the four territories that Israel had occupied during the June War in 1967. The two territories …