The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal
If you have read the articles on Jammu and Kashmir (here and here), then you’d know that the Kashmir land issue was political fabrication. While political parties were wasting time in preparing for elections in the state, and provoking people to kill, a bunch of people were preparing to plant some bombs in Delhi.

The politicians and the bomb planters achieved their aim.

The politicians succeeded in dividing people in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) along religious lines but the bomb planters united many religions on September 13 when the survivors and family of victims cursed terrorism despite any prior religious bias.

Kartikey Sehgal

Violence in Orissa is largely a backlash against the murder of a Hindu leader who ran a local campaign against Christian conversion. Maoist rebels said they had killed him but Hindus blamed Christians.” (Reuters)

The people of one religious group should stop killing people
of another religious group.
And supporters of the other religious group
should organise petitions for floods, droughts and other issues; not just
when they are affected.

Kartikey Sehgal
Shows like Dadagiri make me wonder why nudity is banned in Indian cinema halls.

The image of a naked woman clasping a naked man under a satin sheet of a colour opposite to that of the bodies is less likely to make you violent than the image of a television crew member asking a contestant to get his sister so that he can rape her.

The host of this show is a skimpily clad girl with a whip in her hand who fights with one of the contestants and they talk in obscenities. The girl slaps the contestant and he slaps her back. This irks ‘the man’, the archetype of the modern muscular youth, whose latent sexuality is awakened by the slaps and who decides to express his self in generous physical and verbal abuses.

Kartikey Sehgal

Sreesanth is more popular than Abhinav Bindra. He is more popular than Pullela Gopichand, the All England Open Badminton Championships winner. Of course, Abhinav and Gopichand can never match Sreesanth’s salsa skills and his acrobatically constipated face.

Meanwhile, India is celebrating Abhinav’s gold medal in different manners. Some are giving him money; others are naming grounds after him and sending him marriage proposals while a few are planning some controversies around him.

Shruti Garodia
Sahyadri School, was a home away from home. At the age of ten when I went to Sahyadri, it was simply an experiment, a gamble which could have worked out either way. But today when I am 22, I am grateful to my parents for having taken that gamble.

It was where I made a lot of mistakes and worked my way through. I don’t so much remember the syllabi but what I do remember is the lesson of survival, wherein you stand up for yourself, make your own choices and stick to them. It allowed me space, a great amount of freedom and time, to grow and explore various choices in life.

Kartikey Sehgal
The Pope should listen to adult actor Belladonna’s idea to curb paedophilia. The actor has stated that “Church clergy are at a crisis because they get no real street-level sex education but are expected to ply the streets to deliver their spiritual message.” The actor’s insistence is noteworthy because the Roman Catholic Church has for long been under the scanner for regular and repeated child sexual abuse.

Ananth Venkatesh
My voyage to Kerala and Tamil Nadu was an exemplary one. Jet Airways and Jet Life ensured that. The people there, in whose bungalows I was lodged, along with my paternal relatives, were sufficiently jocund. Palakkad is a Tamil-majority city. That was a revelation, much to my surprise. I had data on the age-old presence of Tamils in Palakkad. But I always felt that Tamils constituted a significantly scanty minority community in Kerala. Nonetheless, the presence of the Tamils was omnipresent.

Santa Singh writes on Love Story 2050. He doesn’t seem to like it.
Everybody seems to be lampooning the once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece called Love Story 2050. Poor Harman baba, what crimes has he done? He is so original and does not look like another muscular hero at all. And the songs are so good and refreshing. That robot does not look like a transgender operation gone wrong.

Kartikey Sehgal

This doctor operates from a Maruti Van parked on a busy evening street in Andheri. If you are addicted to alcohol, walk to this van and take some pills home.

Megha Swamy writes about her trip to Tanzania and her experience with the locals and a few members of the large Indian expat population.