The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

Commenter Kay wrote detailed responses on the story ‘What the slut-walk is really about’. 

my dad was an attorney, and had more flexible hours than mom, yet it was mom, every evening who came home from work, cooked, cleaned, helped us with homework, and on the weekends did an entire cleaning of the house, my dad always got the full plate of food ready, before any other member, he on the other hand never handed a glass of water to her…..the

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Kartikey Sehgal

[Happy Independence Day. Independent in thought. Yet a challenge - The Young India]

My grandfather’s friend wanted for him to come and live in Norway. This is a good time – he told him in the 1990s. Things will take a bad shape. The Asians are coming over (he named the communities). He was not happy with immigrants coming to Norway. He was an immigrant himself.

He further informed my grandfather: There will be a geographical section in Norway that …

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 …