I didn't know there is a body called Law Commission in India. But apparently there is and it has come up with an interesting proposal. That the marriageable age of men should be brought down from the current 21 to 18. And it also says that there is no reason why there should be any difference between marriageable ages of a boy and a girl (this is at 18).
Hello, how about making both marriageable ages 21?
With both ages at 18, India will surpass China in terms of population in just one year. And that too because babies take 9 months to arrive on earth! Thank God for small mercies!
Thursday, February 7, 2008
I read a beautiful story about children growing up.
Gautam Budhha was walking by a field when he saw a farmer toiling away. He stood there watching him work. After a while the farmer noticed him.
Budhha smiled at him and asked what he was doing. The farmer said that he was growing grains.
Budhha asked him what was he doing to achieve that. The farmer replied that he was digging soil, removing weeds, watering the earth, adding manure.
As the farmer spoke he realized that he actually didn’t do much to grow grains. He just created favorable conditions. Actually growing was done by Mother Nature.
It’s the same with children – nature makes them grow, parents’ job is to create favorable conditions. :-))
Gautam Budhha was walking by a field when he saw a farmer toiling away. He stood there watching him work. After a while the farmer noticed him.
Budhha smiled at him and asked what he was doing. The farmer said that he was growing grains.
Budhha asked him what was he doing to achieve that. The farmer replied that he was digging soil, removing weeds, watering the earth, adding manure.
As the farmer spoke he realized that he actually didn’t do much to grow grains. He just created favorable conditions. Actually growing was done by Mother Nature.
It’s the same with children – nature makes them grow, parents’ job is to create favorable conditions. :-))
One of my friends forwarded me an email today – a shot of Aaj Tak’s Breaking News screen with the words “Amitabh ko thand lagi”. For those of you who don’t understand Hindi, it means Amitabh is feeling cold.
I laughed at it but then wondered if it’s a correct reaction. Definitely not, if recent media behavior is anything to go by. Anyone who has watched the media circus for some time should have taken the endless clips of stone-pelting and beating up of North Indians shown during the recent disturbance in Mumbai with a pinch of salt. But what about thousands of gullibles who will take anything reported in media as pure Gospel? Won’t this spread violence in other areas where the people to suffer most will be ordinary law-abiding citizens and in many cases, the poorest of them?
I am not denying that these incidents didn’t take place. But the media blew it way out of proportion. Some of my friends were asked if there is curfew in the area. Anyone watching the news would have thought the Army is out patrolling the streets.
This indicates what damage the media is capable of and what damage it is already causing. I am afraid, very afraid that one of these days the media will go just too far and cause some serious damage.
There is one more danger. Many of these channels keep routinely showing news about some impending end-of-the-world event like a meteorite on a collision course with earth, a possible storm on sun that could block all electricity on earth, the earth’s softening core and so on and so forth. Many of these news pieces do have their origins in definite scientific research but the way they are shown (without reference to when the event is going to happen) could cause mass hysteria. On the other hand, people could get used to such stuff being telecast and God forbid if there is any real danger any day, no one will believe them, like the boy who cried wolf. Who is going to be responsible for the loss of lives?
What is needed is just one channel that will stand up and refuse to jump on the bandwagon, that will show only facts for news, that will appeal to citizens to keep calm in face of calamity, that will broadcast good news along with the bad, that will spread goodwill and hope, that will do what is expected of it and what is needed……
Is there anyone out there? Hai kisime itnaa dam?
I laughed at it but then wondered if it’s a correct reaction. Definitely not, if recent media behavior is anything to go by. Anyone who has watched the media circus for some time should have taken the endless clips of stone-pelting and beating up of North Indians shown during the recent disturbance in Mumbai with a pinch of salt. But what about thousands of gullibles who will take anything reported in media as pure Gospel? Won’t this spread violence in other areas where the people to suffer most will be ordinary law-abiding citizens and in many cases, the poorest of them?
I am not denying that these incidents didn’t take place. But the media blew it way out of proportion. Some of my friends were asked if there is curfew in the area. Anyone watching the news would have thought the Army is out patrolling the streets.
This indicates what damage the media is capable of and what damage it is already causing. I am afraid, very afraid that one of these days the media will go just too far and cause some serious damage.
There is one more danger. Many of these channels keep routinely showing news about some impending end-of-the-world event like a meteorite on a collision course with earth, a possible storm on sun that could block all electricity on earth, the earth’s softening core and so on and so forth. Many of these news pieces do have their origins in definite scientific research but the way they are shown (without reference to when the event is going to happen) could cause mass hysteria. On the other hand, people could get used to such stuff being telecast and God forbid if there is any real danger any day, no one will believe them, like the boy who cried wolf. Who is going to be responsible for the loss of lives?
What is needed is just one channel that will stand up and refuse to jump on the bandwagon, that will show only facts for news, that will appeal to citizens to keep calm in face of calamity, that will broadcast good news along with the bad, that will spread goodwill and hope, that will do what is expected of it and what is needed……
Is there anyone out there? Hai kisime itnaa dam?
Sunday, February 3, 2008
A good quote
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
-- Antonio Porchia
-- Antonio Porchia
Once there was a good old barber in Bangalore.
One day a florist goes to him for a haircut. After the cut, he goes to pay the barber and the barber replies: I am sorry, I cannot accept money from you; I am doing a Community Service. Florist is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the Barber goes to open his shop, there is a "Thank You" Card and a dozen roses waiting at his door.
A Confectioner goes for a haircut and he also goes to pay the barber he again refuses to take the money. The Confectioner is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the Barber goes to open his shop, there is another "Thank you" Card and a dozen Cakes waiting at his door.
A Software Engineer goes for a haircut and he also goes to pay the barber again refuses the money saying that it was a community service.
The next morning when the Barber goes to open his shop, guess what he finds there?
A Dozen Software engineers waiting for a free haircut... with Printouts of the Forwarded mail mentioning about free haircut. :-))))
One day a florist goes to him for a haircut. After the cut, he goes to pay the barber and the barber replies: I am sorry, I cannot accept money from you; I am doing a Community Service. Florist is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the Barber goes to open his shop, there is a "Thank You" Card and a dozen roses waiting at his door.
A Confectioner goes for a haircut and he also goes to pay the barber he again refuses to take the money. The Confectioner is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning when the Barber goes to open his shop, there is another "Thank you" Card and a dozen Cakes waiting at his door.
A Software Engineer goes for a haircut and he also goes to pay the barber again refuses the money saying that it was a community service.
The next morning when the Barber goes to open his shop, guess what he finds there?
A Dozen Software engineers waiting for a free haircut... with Printouts of the Forwarded mail mentioning about free haircut. :-))))
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