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“Are you mad at her?”
I gave him a look, “yes, I am. How did you know?”
I hadn’t made it THAT explicit. I had dropped very few hints.
“We were talking about it yesterday. Why?” he asked again. Read the rest of this entry »
A random thought as I finished hearing a lecture in church. We spend our entire lives blaming society. Society prevents me from doing this. This society is corrupt. This society will not let me live the way I want. This society is wronged. This society is full of evil. And so on goes the drab. But question- who is this society? what is this society? It’s us. Me. You. The lady next to us. The boy across from us. We are the society. Who are we blaming for each mistake we make? Ourselves, of course. So just one quick question. We keep saying that this society should change, so why don’t we?
The Rise of Fascism in Modern India
“There’s something pitiable about a people that constantly bemoans its leaders. If they’ve let us down, it’s only because we’ve allowed them to. It could be argued that civil society has failed its leaders as much as leaders have failed civil society. We have to accept that there is a dangerous, systemic flaw in our parliamentary democracy that politicians will exploit. ” – Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Injustice.
Today, Indian politics often seems to be just another topic to joke about at the dinner table. Something for the Eastern world to laugh at and the Western world to stare at, utterly confused. If an outsider is looking for anything else to be confused about in India (other than of course the religious hypocrisy and the various vernaculars), he can find it in politics. For me, as an outsider-insider Indian looking at my own nation from half way across the world.. you can only imagine my confusion. Read the rest of this entry »
Is American blood really special? Sweeter, perhaps? Does it have more color than that of a deprived non-citizen? Why then do we count only attacks on America? Why do we find it so easy to ignore its offenses? The thousands it constantly continues to kill. The hundreds who ‘disappear’ from the face of the earth. Just like that. How many has the U.S killed in retaliation for 9/11? How many innocent lives have been lost for this false idea of revenge?
Imagine a hot day. Sunny perhaps, with just the right amount of wind. You are walking home quite happily today. After all, exams will end tomorrow and in another month… the long awaited graduation! Finally, you will have your degree. Finally, you can enter the real world. Suddenly, as you are walking, a group of men surrounds you. They ask you for your name. You answer, a little confused and a little more, scared. They order you to come with them; and when you open your mouth to question, pull you down and drag you to a van. Dark blue with a touch of white. You recognize the van. From a documentary you had recently seen. You realize, with rising terror, that undercover members of the American Intelligence had arrested you. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Woah’ is all I can say. I’ve always been quick to spot racism towards minorities but it was only as I was browsing through blogs today that I saw the depth of racism towards Whites. They talk about all the wrong things Europeans have done to them in history yet they’re doing the same things to them now. How hypocritic is that? Read the rest of this entry »
I always try to see the best in things. I am an optimist in that sense. I believe that every person has a certain amount of “goodness” in them. But now, I feel betrayed; betrayed, by that belief. I feel like I can’t change anything that bothers me. I’ll finish high school, then some college, then get married and fix my life. The system is set, all I need to do is follow. I feel like there are no side roads. It’s just this..
Hypocrites annoy me. Wow, did I say annoy? Annoying is when your little brother repeatedly pulls your hair. No, hypocrites bother me to the point of insanity. I’m a peaceful person. I don’t even yell at people when I get mad. Yet, they make me want to punch them. The only thing I hate more is ignorant, narrow-minded people.
What is the point? This generation, my new “youthful” generation, which is supposed to change the world, is raised the same way. We will do the same thing. The system just continues, bounding as with its shackles. Its claws trap us as we continue to be led into its mouth. It has no pity, no sympathy. Not for us, not for the world, not for the next generation. We will continue this mess, this long line. History books, if they even exist by the time we’re done, will deem us evil. Students of the future, if “future” exists by the time we’re finished, will hate us. Perhaps they can.. and will kill that monster. So all we have to do is let them live, leave a little bit of the world intact for them to correct. That is it.
I’m no philosopher. I am no writer. No Arundhati Roy or Nandhita Das. No social worker. No peace activist. No feminist. No politician. No prodigy. Yet I am human. And I can’t help but notice the things the around me, the injustice and the hatred. And so I spill my unorganized, poorly written words on this pathetic page. Because I am a coward. I can’t do anything outside of this keyboard. I can do absolutely nothing.
What they said..