The Young India

Shaival Thakkar

“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 …

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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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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 …

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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 …

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[Previously written:
‘Misplaced Morality’ of Women
Women hurt Women through Feminism]

We said in the earlier story that feminists in power make laws to suit women and their followers change society to suit women. When society is changed to suit women, feminists come to power.

Who are these feminists? They are political leaders, writers, social activists and other women in power. They either make laws or exert considerable pressure to make laws.

Some of them do so in the belief that they …

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misplaced morality: women picking and choosing morals to suit their purpose.

Every woman has the support of feminism and feminist-based laws. A woman may be comfortable with her husband’s peculiarities and behaviour but should she, on any given day, decide to teach him a lesson, she could complain of harassment.

Say, a woman is okay with her husband’s uncleanliness, drinking and pinching. She will, always, have the power to use these very habits to label her man a sadistic monster who, ‘pinches my …

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Women often pick and choose morals to suit their purpose. Others would argue that they don’t know how to choose in any case. (and therefore, say, should not vote)

Recently, a man killed himself after writing an essay on the desperate condition of men in society. Mainstream media ignored his death in favour of the ‘slutwalk’. In brief, this is what happened to him, in his words:

“My story starts with the infamous slapping incident of April 2001. While putting my four year

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The outrage over V S Naipaul’s views on women writers is overdone and, in actuality, proves his apparent superiority.

It may be said through one glaring example in one of his popular books that that the standards V S Naipaul expects from women, he expects from men. His criticism of the “narrow view of the world” of women also applies to popular Indian author R K Narayan. Like in the case of Jane Austen, it may be said that Naipaul does not share …

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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 …

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Let us look at it from the point of view of conscientiousness, of a woman as a decision-maker.

What is soul? You may consider ‘soul=I’, and ascribe to it qualities of honesty, loyalty and trust among others. A common (or at least ‘important’) factor of these qualities  would be the quality of decision-making. Decisions are a window to conscience. They determine honesty and are a pre-requisite to loyalty. Human values, as such, are interlinked (and hence the perennial decision dilemmas we face daily). …