Kartikey Sehgal
On being asked what ‘what people do at an auto-expo’, and not willing to speak, I wrote the following on some napkins:
let us go to an auto expo
scratch our chins
and act informed.
like in a fashion show,
which is a gift to hypocrisy
where we watch the models
but ogle at the fabrics
let us discuss
engines and powers -
not of the model,
who sashays around the bonnet
moving hers in style, -
but of the car
let us …
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 …
I was in a condition of emotionless disquiet on hearing the news of Roebuck’s suicide. When I became acquainted with the events triggering his suicide, my thought immediately revolved around the Hindu/Indian notion of ‘Kali Yuga.’
Eminent cricket writer Peter Roebuck’s suicide in a South African hotel in the paradisiacal city of Cape Town has been a source of copious astonishment for the cricketing society in general, which includes present and historical cricketers as well as writers of the game. Roebuck, whose wordsmithery …
Kartikey Sehgal
Foreigners are silly. They are not very smart. I don’t deny this assertion by certain Indians used to traveling the world villages. Instead, I accept that foreigners are silly.
And therein lies their charm and power. It takes a certain silliness to live life merrily. And to know life.
This ‘foreign silliness’, which comes across to Indians as ‘lack of intelligence’, is simply a case of delayed mental boredom.
They don’t know as much maths and science at a certain age as we …
Kartikey Sehgal
[Anna Hazare anti-corruption movement: reference]
So these people are not the anti-corruption heroes? Ask around, see how many of the supporters know about them.
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J. Gopikrishnan, second from left (with mic) [photo source]
Subramanian Swamy [photo source]
Without the brains (head), how does the body function?
Or is it just easier to support whosoever is ‘in the picture’.
We complain of the caste system, but is it not ‘the legs’ that gets the most mileage? [Along with the arms?]
Mumbai …
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
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
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
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 …