The Young India

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

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). …

Kartikey Sehgal

Mumbai woman throws off son, jumps to death (source)
What horror pushed Malad mom to this? (source)

Men may do the same; throw children off the verandas and terraces and then kill themselves. While all observable qualities may be ascribed to either genders, we hold certain malaises as specific and incidental to women.

What is a woman’s sense of destiny. To what extent do they bring their emotional self into the realm of destiny. Rather, how easily do they …

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 …

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Two drunken policemen pointing AK-47′s threatened to march a colleague and me into a shack for “some fun.” We got away untouched, so why bring up the matter? I didn’t want my boss to think that my gender was a liability. (source)

but of course woman, it is. Secularism is your enemy. Righteousness in suggesting, that, all men are essentially good, everywhere, in-all-parts, draws on short-term emotions.
Of morality.
Of goodness.

It draws immediate praise, and certified fan-following; attention—of the …

Kartikey Sehgal

In the previous story, I had said that men should not get consumed by a woman’s sweet words (not always). Natural manipulation is acceptable to a certain level, beyond which it is poison for man. (The definition of ‘level’ deserves a separate story)

If a woman, while serving food to you, nags you and assumes superiority through the act of serving, then it is acceptable to walk out of the scene without a goodbye. Let her come to the table and see it …

Kartikey Sehgal

The ‘conservative’ fathers end up marrying off their daughters to morons that their daughters would have otherwise chosen for themselves.

It is not expected that the conservatives know better about human behaviour than the ‘others’. They are conservative because they are expected to be conservative. Fathers asked their sons to be conservative because, well, that’s the way to be, or because that’s the right way of life, or because that’s the job of a man. Their children are told that keeping your women …

Kartikey Sehgal

Talented people are often alone and relegated to lower ranks in a social group.
Unless:

• They are conventionally good-looking
• They behave like they are conventionally good-looking
• They are very rich/powerful
• Brilliant women are a part of the group

Otherwise, they are ‘respected’, a term that has come to differentiate the talented from the ‘others’. He becomes an ‘other’ who is talented, and who may not pose any immediate threat to the position of the ‘haves’.

I was scheduled to attend three of the …

Kartikey Sehgal

While reading a document on ‘Women in Hinduism’, I noted the sentence:

“While today we normally assume that the ‘husband is the breadwinner of the household’, traditional Hindus say that it is Devi Annapuurnaa who is the presiding deity of Foodgrains.”

Of course. This is how it works. A man goes to earn food for himself and his family. To what man would Devi give food? To a man who is honest and hardworking. And what is this idea of praying?

Take this …