The Problem is Sex

The problem is/was/will be that women can get sex any time they want to, and with whoever they want to. Well, mostly. This is simply unacceptable to a society where the man is seen as the lord of everything. Which is why they need to have so many rules for women. Which is why you have to tie her modesty irredeemably with her sexuality. Which is why a family’s “honour” is so unscrupulously intermingled with only women. Which is why Rape is not as heinous a crime as murder. Which is why her character is termed “loose” if she is sexually proactive. Which is why the legal definition of rape is only vaginal penetration by phallus. Which is why Sodomy is not even a thoroughly recognized sexual offence.

And which is why the authorities believe that fellatio can’t forced. Groping and pinching in crowd can’t be avoided. Because, when you’re in a mob, your hands develop a carnal instinct of their own.

Manu knew it all along. He sure was a visionary.

And so was Nietzsche when he believed that morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior human beings.

A task excellently done!

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Love-All at Breakpoint

FYI- I don’t like Tennis. Not as much as some of the other people do. So for those “some” people, this post might be a little rude, offensive. My apologies to them in advance. I’m not liable to any acquistion if you choose to read further.

So there was this tritely [in]famous final between these two giants of lawn tennis, for the umpteenth number of time! Had Federar won, the papparazi would have again showered condolences on Nadal, empathizing with him like hell.. Big Deal! The repercussions, in that case wouldn’t have been as stirring as they are now. They say that it’s ‘an end of era’, ‘a new dawn of hope’ and all those clichés. I say it’s nothing. Just a win doesn’t prooves anyone’s mettle. India beating Australia in that final of triangular series down under didn’t make India the better team than Australia. It was just the matter of “that” day. It was India’s. Like it was of Nadal’s.

When a Tennis Match goes up to 5 sets, it’s really unfair to decide a winner. Then, the luck factor comes into play as well. Remember, Goran Ivanisevic? Beating Rafter in what was called a marathon game. And the final set of it? This game was no different than the present one, as for the sheer determination of both the winners. The only difference (which overshadows everything else, sadly) being that Ivanisevic wasn’t as well known as then as Nadal is now.

This doesn’t mean that I’m pro-Federar or something. I support no one, as I aforementioned. But definitely, Radal’s win is kind of change from monopoly (and monotony) of Federar. All in all, it is good for Tennis.

Here is why I don’t like Tennis. I don’t like it because I never played it. Hence, I can’t appreciate the finesse, nuances, the technique of the game. For me, [mostly] tennis is like a foreign film, with no subtitles. And this goes for every game on which I never had a first hand experience. I only started liking football once I started playing it. The better I got at it, the more I enjoyed watching it. I don’t know what it takes to hit a perfect ace. I don’t know how much practice it takes to win a point from baseline. I don’t know the strategies of net game, of hitting volleys. All this, despite the fact that I’ve played Badminton professionally, which isn’t much different than tennis, theoretically.

And here is why I don’t like tennis even more. Of all the Tennis-Crazy people, I believe almost 80 % have never seen a tennis racquet in real life. And yet, they go ‘Go-FedEx’. What the hell! Do they even know how much stamina it takes to run up-and-down court infinite number of times? To hit just that one ace, do they have any bit of idea how much he or she has worked over it? Backhand doesn’t come naturally to many. Have they ever seen Gustavo Kuerton’s powerful backhands? I’ll consider anyone a die-hard tennis fan if he/she can answer all the above questions in affirmative, and perhaps point out my mistake which I’m sure have made. Coz I’m not a fan of tennis, I can’t answer most of them in affirmative with conviction. This is what it takes to be a fan.

What deserve to be done, deserves to Overdone. – Harry Crews.

I might sound too strong in my opinions, but I’m not. All I wanted to say here is that don’t make a charade of you being ultimate tennis fanatic. Coz if you really are, you definitely wont. And don’t get too  hyper over one Federar loss or Radal’s win.

I don’t have much knowledge on tennis, so it’s still Love-All for me. Which, by the way, is a very useful maxim to be followed otherwise 😉

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Errr..

I just realized I haven’t blabbered casually here for a long period of time now. Probably, I’ve been too busy with some other, more important stuff. This post, was never conceptualized, it’s just materializing right now. Perhaps, for the first time ever, I haven’t written anything in my mind before hand and whatever crap am scribbling here is produced dynamically.

• First things first. I just wish -and wish pretty badly- that this weekend turns out to be my most memorable weekend. I just hope I do not screw up things.
• 16th to 23rd of Dec ’07, 28th Jan ’08 and 24th Feb ’08 are dates to be memorized by heart.
• India winning in Australia, India [U-19] winning in Malaysia, Jeev Milkha Singh, Jyoti Randhawa doing unprecedented wonders in Golf… ’tis arguably one of the best phases of Indian Sports. India Shining, rightly and Brightly.
• Haven’t seen Jodha-Akbar yet. I wanted to see it so very much in theater. But it’s getting banned gradually in all over the state, and if I may add.. Shamefully! I don’t understand. Ain’t these people have any thing better to do than just to create fuss about every movie which is even remotely related to religion or history? Can’t they just keep their asses on their seats and take things as they are supposed to be taken? Ashutosh Gowarikar never claimed he is recreating some historical incident. It is just a story based on history. Not history itself. So what if he distorted some facts and figures. They were all done in good spirits, just to make the screenplay more captivating. Thats what my tini-tiny filmi brain comprehends.
• On similar lines[I mean filmy], I saw Juno a while ago. Some movies have got that thing in them. I’m not sure what “thing” am I talking about… the effort which they put in to make the movie seem effortless makes for “that thing”, I believe. The feel-good-factor which the movie gives is seriously commendable. Pretty much like TZP. No! I’m not comparing anything.
• Lastly, but definitely not the least, the traffic on my blog has increased mani-manifolds! Yet people aren’t commenting in the same proportions. Some think that my posts are too good to comment! Whatever! 😛 Nonetheless, I’m loving this all.

Imminent- Minors, Poltu.. and a whole lotta futile hardwork. It’s a formal declaration, that I’ll not be involved in any kinda politics henceforth. Concerned people make a note of it. I’m damn serious. I’m not making any such proclamation for minors though. No matter how ardently I want to, I just can’t afford to 😦

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I think I’m looking good these days 🙂

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R.Dravid c.&b. BCCI

Sunil Gavaskar once said, that there is no cricket team in the world in which Dravid won’t be included. Pakistan coach Javed Miandad said, that Pakistan only lacks to two thing-Madhuri Dixit and Rahul Dravid. And that very Rahul Dravid is not in the team anymore! Are our selectors insane? Keeping Sachin and Ganguly does make a lot of sense, after all, how many matches they have won for India.. but more important is how many tests have they saved? You just cant keep a player of class of him out of the team, be it on account of bad form, or politics or whatever!

Agreed, that the new crop is pretty good, all of ’em are brimming with confidence and alacrity. But we’re not considering the most crucial test herein, none of them had withstood the test of time. Can anyone of you tell me, where are Dinesh Mongia, Hemang Badani, Hrishikesh Kanitkar(match winner against Pakistan in the finals of Independence Cup 1998), Vijay Bhardwaj(Man of the Series in his debut tour to Kenya in Nairobi Cup), Iqbal Siddiqui(aka the next Kapil Dev), Amay Khurasia(opener during ’99 world cup), Akash Chopra(unprecedented success during Australian tour).. and they were just batsmen. India has always been on look out for a quality pacer since Sreenath, so we would not discuss the plight of plethora of Bowlers of any genre here.

A very recent add on to this list would be Sehwag and Kaif, I believe. God forbid, but this could very well be the case with Uthappa, Gambhir or any other member of the winning team of Twenty20 world cup. Dravid has been through all, by all.. I really mean all! He made test debut in ’96, alongside Ganguly, and was at once installed permanently in the test team. But it took him 4 years of toil to cater to the needs of ODIs. How many people in world cricket have that kind of temperament to change their technique so drastically.. notwithstanding his determination alone. Leaving out Sachin is always justified technically, coz I always believed there is absolutely no comparison between him and Dravid. They are a league apart. Sachin is more like a show-piece nowadays, he had always been the cynosure of mob. He is only best when he is at his best, which is a rare and most unlikely thing to happen. Dravid, on the other hand has always been the subdued backbone of the team. Somehow his moments of glory were always overshadowed by other’s greater feats. Be it Laxman with his knock of 281, Ganuly with his knock of 183 or Sachin at 189 not out. One common factor to all these seemingly disparate innings was Dravid with 154, 145* and 153 respectively. He was the guy around which other big boys built their fortunes. And he was coolly in the shadows, but he never cribbed.. no big words by him, just bigger and bigger innings.

Speaking about record books, he is the only batsman to have been in partner with two biggest partnership in ODIs- 318 with Ganguly and 331 with Sachin. He hold the record of fastest 50 by an Indian Batsmen, of 20 balls. He was the only successful batsmen of the otherwise forgettable tour of South Africa in ’97, hitting Alan Donald for two consecutive straight sixes. All this by the batsmen who once wasn’t considered fit for One Day cricket, and He prooved all of them wrong, with nonchalant elan. He has scored more double centuries in tests than legendary Gavaskar. His average in both forms of the game has been right at top. His only rival in test-average being Ponting, no one even close enough to bother. Statistics, as in the words of Mr. Sidhu (the talking surd) are like bikinis, revealing everything but hiding the most important. They do not tell us under what circumstances, against whom have the big guns being smashing records. Upon acute vivisection of all his innings, things would be even more crystal clear. Not to mention, He is the only batsmen after Steve Waugh to score a century against every test playing nation of his time( which are ten, to be precise) and the only batsman of all time to to score a century in every test playing nation. Howzzat? Do we still need reasons for him being in the team?

I must say, I’ve never been devastated more than any decision of BCCI than this one. The selectors are much better than me in every aspect, I know.. then how can they even think of doing something like this? Lets be frank, Sachin and Ganguly are in twilight of their magnificent careers, but not Dravid. Batsmen of his class get more mature, and consequently more lethal and indispensable. Classic examples are Gavaskar, Border, Boon, Getting, Rice, Lloyd and ofcourse Bradman. Can Brazil play against Argentina with Ronaldinho out? Could Australia face England without Ponting? Then how can India imagine themselves playing against Pakistan without Dravid? Dravid is sine qua non for Team India, irrespective of rare bad patch. Get him back guys. Against the kind of quality fast bowling of Pakistan, we stand no where without him.

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