The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal

(Many/Most) Men are idiots when it comes to understanding women. They choose the logical over the emotional. If she is smiling, soft-spoken, and makes my favourite dish, then she must care for me. Why else would she take such trouble upon her? Women use this logical reasoning of men to their advantage.

Women love their daily soaps on television. They are able to identify the ideal woman and the vamp. Men also watch these serials, especially if they want to observe and study the …

Kartikey Sehgal

In a shocking development, aliens gate crashed the finale of the popular television reality show, ‘Raakhi Ka Swayamvar’ claiming that Raakhi was one of their own. When asked by the security to leave, the aliens expressed shock and regret at not being welcomed by somebody who if not by looks then at least by antics was one with them.

When this reporter asked one of the aliens for his story he replied in a language not decipherable by anybody but to which Raakhi …

Kartikey Sehgal

Women’s interest in cricket is a sudden development, propelled mostly by the advertisements projecting cricketers as demigods. In the year 2003, model and actress Mandira Bedi became popular for hosting a cricket-discussion program during the World Cup cricket matches.

Her immense popularity had little to do with her knowledge about cricket and more with the plunging necklines of her saris and the unavoidable amount of cleavage on exhibit.

Kartikey Sehgal
My mother and I made fun of Chinese babies while watching the film ‘Christmas in August’. Then we discovered that the film is Korean and we promptly implied all Chinese jokes to Koreans.

In this film, actor Suk-kyu Han plays the role of Jung-won, a terminally ill photographer who owns and manages a photo studio. We laughed whenever Jung-won smiled; he smiled almost all the time. We laughed when his father, who knows about the illness, stared passively or solemnly at people and things.

Kartikey Sehgal

I went to the sea and the waves were eager to meet me.

A Marathi television channel crew was shooting an entertainment program near the sea. A crowd of men had gathered to look at the shoot and the girl in green who is the anchor of the program.

The anchor sat on a rock.

Kartikey Sehgal
Shows like Dadagiri make me wonder why nudity is banned in Indian cinema halls.

The image of a naked woman clasping a naked man under a satin sheet of a colour opposite to that of the bodies is less likely to make you violent than the image of a television crew member asking a contestant to get his sister so that he can rape her.

The host of this show is a skimpily clad girl with a whip in her hand who fights with one of the contestants and they talk in obscenities. The girl slaps the contestant and he slaps her back. This irks ‘the man’, the archetype of the modern muscular youth, whose latent sexuality is awakened by the slaps and who decides to express his self in generous physical and verbal abuses.