Kartikey Sehgal
Love is nature’s ploy for reproduction; lust is nature in crisis.
It is possible to love one woman for the rest of your life and there are many such women available.
Women are marketeers when it comes to marriage. They make a man believe that he wants it and his time will run out.
Marriage is a compromise for men. Women just have to decide between options.
A man (man) remains a man despite the allurement of beauty. The affections of …
Kartikey Sehgal
[Written immediately after the ‘Tiger Woods Scandal’ obsession and kept aside. Sentences in brackets and italics are current, additional thoughts]
Tiger Woods’s wife should have forgiven him his extra-marital affairs. Who stands to gain; have the children benefited from this drama? Tiger Woods? Or has it ‘improved’ him or made him a ‘better’ man? Nobody except the wife stands to gain. She gains sympathy. And money, of course.
(private affair. Was she a good wife, mother. Has anybody investigated. There must be other …
Kartikey Sehgal
But have you wondered, who is there to protect the men from women? Is their any festival that caters to demoralised men, wherein sisters promise brothers to protect them from evil women (or common women)?
The festival, Raksha Bandhan. Basically brothers get the Rakhi tied around their forearms/wrists by sisters and it means that we have to protect them and take care of them for the rest of our life. If this were true then the festival would be required only once per …
Kartikey Sehgal
An ill man doesn’t want a temptress around him and he may turn down an offer to go out with two pretty women. He would want a woman to take care of him; someone who can comfort him in his ill health. Not all temptresses are known to be nurturing.
So an insecure man would want to marry a non-temptress. And the societally defined sexy woman would wonder what went wrong in her relationship.
When a man is ill, he would be less …
Kartikey Sehgal
A myth propounded by history-killers and aged freedom-fighter manuals is the enmity between pre-Independence leaders in India.
Subhash Chandra Bose and Mohandas Gandhi shared a healthy and principled relationship despite their opposing ideas on the relevance of violence. In effect, they were comrades in freeing India from British imperialism. Yet, it is not hard to come across learned men and women who speak of them as ‘almost-enemies’.
Crimson
For a few moments every week, I allow myself the luxury of slipping into my make-believe world where you and I can pretend that the rest of the world ceases to exist, where I can pretend you are only mine. It might have just been a candid conversation for you when you told me how exactly you felt about me. But it tossed me onto a whole new plane of thought and imagination. Yes, it broke the illusion of platonic love with the opposite sex. Yes, it took away from the innocence of our friendship.
Santa Singh
An acquaintance of mine is dating two girls at the same time. Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays are reserved for the first girl. Tuesdays and Sundays are for the second girl. He takes a well deserved holiday on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Crimson writes about an ex-flame.
I fell in love with ______ for two reasons: One, he was willing to stick his neck out for me and continue loving me until my parents accepted him in my life. Two, he accepted me for what I was without too much nagging or questioning.
Neither hold true today since all the while we were together, he had a hidden agenda. He was hoping he would succeed in changing me, my clothes, my attitude and my aspirations.