The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

I realise that I can’t be writing about ‘male ego and feminism’ and decoding human behaviour in the current political and social scenario. The recent Mumbai blasts have affected me; it’s proof that I am still sane as compared to other Indians who are essentially mannequins or puppets depending on the time of the day. That series is postponed.

I also realise that ‘sarva dharma sambhava’ is understood to mean ‘all religions are equal/possible’ and that the term stands for multiculturalism. It does …

Kartikey Sehgal

Imagine:

I threaten you to leave your city or face certain death. You leave your city, turn refugees. Of course, there is no genocide involved because you listened to me. Then the editor of DNA [Daily News and Analysis] says that though your condition in the refugee camps is deplorable, at least you are alive! And he reminds us that there was no genocide involved.

Then some of your friends complain about me. They say that I am evil and I drove you …

Kartikey Sehgal

How the people of Mumbai (and India) are stagnant

When we are attacked and killed, we look for ways to humiliate ourselves. This Indian habit is seen through the media, particularly the newspapers. Hindustan Times carried out a series on potholes in Mumbai roads. They did not investigate the habit of terrorism in Indians. That is a difficult and a controversial topic. DNA invited arm-chair columnists to make up for their lack of investigation. They printed an article by Subramanian Swamy and then …

Kartikey Sehgal

It takes only 2 photos to understand. Plus, enjoy the poem at the end.

This is slutwalk-Delhi’s founder Umang Sabarwal’s Facebook profile photo [edit: changed today]. And this is what the movement is really about.   

[the smileys are my creations]

Sometimes, fun things indicate much more.

Male-shaming

Starts at school. Makes minions out of men.

This is:

a. a regular photo. nothing to read into.

b. a photo designed to imply servility – man looking up to woman

c. role-reversal: woman as ‘Romeo’ …

Kartikey Sehgal

So says a poster – “Boy’s Just Eat Grape And Stop Girl Rape”. Here is the slut-walk (s-walk) movement examined and ‘uncovered’ [wink].

Remember: S-walk is not against terrorism or rapes. It is in favour of women bossing over men – or so it seems. If you had to really stop rapes (or generate ‘rape awareness’ as they say) would you do such a thing?

There’s a poem at the end that tells you what the movement is really about.

A defining photo …

Kartikey Sehgal

What if Rajbala were your mother?

Then you would post facebook updates in her support. You would make facebook groups and pages.

Why don’t you? Because Rajbala is not someone you aspire to be. If an author/pilot/astronaut or a rich woman were in Rajbala’s place, then you would show sympathy and rage. What does Rajbala wear? Salwar-kameez? Does she converse in English? Then why should we bother. If she were a minority member then we would have something to complain about.

Nobody bothers …

Kartikey Sehgal

Indians have a lot to learn from the Norway blasts and murders. Indians – that’s you, the middle-class to urban category; the rest of the Indians don’t have to think so much – they have to look for food and survive.

Norwegian police arrested 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who rocked Norway in twin attacks Saturday. Breivik is responsible for Friday’s bombing and youth camp massacre in Oslo, Norway. source

Such attacks will happen when society is closed for discussion. When …

Kartikey Sehgal

[The proposed series on Male Ego and Feminism has been postponed. Read on India’s first ‘slutwalk’, here]

DNA (Daily News and Analysis, a newspaper) has successfully deflected the entire blame of the Mumbai blasts onto one person. They have successfully indulged in the Indian habit of deflecting from issues and indulging in needless drama and theatrics.

No, the person who planted the bombs at bus-stops and bazaars may have been an Indian local (an Indian Mujahedeen Muslim), but what DNA’s self-flagellating subs …

 Kartikey Sehgal

Black leather shoes that casually stepped on a child’s yellow faeces spoke better of India’s problems. The faeces had more character than the men.
At best, these people will offer you condolences should you lose somebody in a bomb blast. That would be insufficient, considering that these are people with no vision, who choose to live in dirt and muck… What can they possibly offer you intellectually or spiritually.  

“Would you like to visit Dadar and Opera House together? I could get …

Kartikey Sehgal

[Previously written:
‘Misplaced Morality’ of Women
Women hurt Women through Feminism]

We said in the earlier story that feminists in power make laws to suit women and their followers change society to suit women. When society is changed to suit women, feminists come to power.

Who are these feminists? They are political leaders, writers, social activists and other women in power. They either make laws or exert considerable pressure to make laws.

Some of them do so in the belief that they …