Kartikey Sehgal
A woman, who breathes in and out the concepts of feminism and equality, is unable to apply them in real life. Interestingly, we don’t question the ideal; we just want to hear the sob story.
Meena Kandasamy, in her article in Outlook dated March 19, 2012 (I Singe The Body Electric), gives an account of the abuse and torture she faced at the hands of her lover, who beat her, whipped her, forced her to perform fellatio, among other atrocities. She …
Kartikey Sehgal
Present day girls are lonely, alone. Vultures, with cultivated despondency and measured smiles, feed on the girls, – adopting themselves to emotions of deceit, forsaking masculinity.
It is the test of a girl to adapt to cold mountains and narrow roads, or perceptions of hollow people dancing under bright lights. It is the test of her growth, her family, when she refuses charming propositions of misery, thereby, saving herself from that which is turning common to women – bleakness.
Bleakness – the once …
“India, on an average is a country which denies people the right to love. But love explodes on the screen.”
- Indian Cinema class notes, SAA, JNU
Ting ting ting ting ting ting
Ting ting ting ting ting ting
Ting ting ting ting ting ting
Ting ting ting ting ting ting
I might have missed out on some ‘ting tings’ but basically, this is the sound of Shahrukh Khan pretending to play a romantic hook on his mandolin and giving cheesy looks to …
Kartikey Sehgal
On moods and desires of men. And their idea of romance.
What remains, of days gone by? Remnants of nights – broken in pieces. Of rains that lash on to the nonchalant mind.
There is no fire. No motivation. All of it is just desire. Desire. Called variously as fire, motivation, quest, courage. If desire be the root of all that is creative, then I have seen desire. It burns like fire, and motivates you towards a quest.
Why are places important. …
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
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
When women can’t believe their happiness and success, they demand subservience from men to justify their status. They become ‘queens’.
Women are self-critical; to be right, they must have the backing of the other gender – the gender that is markedly different from their gender. The other gender abounds in logic and self-assurance, which is a pre-requisite to fight wars and maintain civilizations. When the warrior-creative gene backs them, women work happily.
Needless to say, the warriors and poets must be honest to …
Kartikey Sehgal
What if the elixir of life is discovered.
Even then, in such an exalted world situation, human quest for the unknown will not halt. For human preoccupation with creation is not dependent on life and death. Humans create during death and after death and before death. All symbols and rituals, rules and religions are creations.
But, argue now, but is the man not motivated by death. The thought of leaving behind his self through his work. Then how is he not dependent on …
Kartikey Sehgal
If you believe in emotions, then life is essentially a tragedy. Which is why women cry a lot; they pass through a jigsaw of emotions. And men, supposedly, don’t cry as much as women. They are the logical side to the woman’s emotional being.
Furthermore, happiness is relative to sadness. Happiness is, despite the tragic nature of life; of deaths and innumerable stresses. Happiness is not absolute. If it is absolute, then only as a state of mind; but that state is not …
Kartikey Sehgal
How many of you wrote Facebook-slogans when Shahid Afridi (Pakistan cricket-team captain) asked his country to not hate the Indians? How many of you commented on his ‘character’ and welcomed him back to India? You were probably not praising him but seeking self-approval. You were being decision-makers, policy changers. And you knew that you’d find ‘support’ and ‘similarity’ from other commenters.
If somebody had written in the negative about Shahid, you would have had reason to ‘fight back’ in favour of ‘peace and …