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Shasha

India just celebrated its 64th year year of independence. But are we really independent? Is our country as democratic as it claims to be? Where people like Anna Hazare are locked up in jails only cause he raised his voice to protest against corruption. Where rape, murder, theft, corruption is on the rise.Where society is a major threat to your freedom of expression, where people murder couples in the name of "honour killing" and the government looks on.

Delhi held the "slut walk" for the first time in India and yes, I feel it was necessary. Why blame women all the time? Why categorize them as "sluts" for the clothes they wear? Is it reason enough to rape a woman just because she was candidly dressed? Or is it even justified to touch her inappropriately just because some man finds her seductive? Is it the fault of a woman to look good, to dress well, or dress seductively when the situation demands so? Blame it on those men too, who have no control over their sexual desires, who treat women as objects of lust, who marry only to mask their true nature. Our society is so male dominated that the act of a man standing and peeing by the side of the road is considered "utterly normal" whereas, people frown at a woman who has to breastfeed a hungry baby.

Could you define independence for me? I guess it would mean something different for every person. For me, freedom is the liberation of women. The day when we wont be looked down upon, the day when I can travel in a public bus without being groped for or stared at. The day when if I raise my voice to protest, people won't frown on me and doubt my voice.

For me, freedom also means the freedom to express love. Look at the couple walking down the road hand in hand, look there, he's put his arm around her waist, look there, he just stole a kiss, look she's sitting with her head resting on his shoulders. Now, look around those couples and count. Count the number of people frowning, count the people taunting, count the number of people ogling, count the people ready to protest against such "inappropriate behaviour". Why? Is love a crime? Ironically we're born in the land of Kamasutra, a land which extensively boasts of love in its purest form even in the Vedas.

This is what freedom means to me. What are your views?

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The Rules of Attraction

Ashu

Ashu says : Guys fall for girls (in general) and vice versa…ever thought why? It’s a knotty question. Here is a guy, walking along the road with not a worry in the world and voila! He gets hit by a mountain… Guys know the feeling…:). From a personal point of view, I can put it this way, every cell in my body can sense the girl.

It’s not an exaggeration, ask the nearest guy. So what weird stuff is going on? Are we some programmed beings who are just triggered in an instant? Those white-coat-scientists say it’s all about the hormones and chemicals. Well if they are right, then we know god is damn good at chemistry (no pun intended). And the worst (or the best?) part is - every single girl crossing us is a walking remote, we are kind of pushed into checking her out.

And one fine day you just get hit, not by a train or a mountain, but by the entire universe, and the world just stops spinning for you. We don’t dare take another breather for fear of disturbing the scene… And man! are u finished… No more checking out after that…So what the hell happened? Did some bigger hormone kick out the smaller one ?Is there some chemical war going on inside us? How else do we explain why all the other girls suddenly lose their charm, you categorize them as plain now, or even ugly, they just stop existing, fading away, except one, around whom your universe revolves…[ And I’m loving it :-).]

Shasha says : Talk about boys waiting to be hit by a mountain, girls go searching for one, take a girl's word for it. The ever-dissatisfied girl has a long list of “wants” in the to-be-man of her life:

Tall

Handsome

Funky

Good sense of humour

Interactive

Not Secretive

Respectful towards ladies and on and on it goes...

She certainly does not “sense men”, but she prefers to check them out at a more personal level. Usually, strangers are a no-no to her. And the poor man whom she IS checking out, does not even realize it, that such a girl could ever have a crush on him and so, when he does propose to her with a 50% hope rate….BADABOOM! That’s when the mountain drops on him and the world stops spinning. He’s got more than he hoped for while for her , “ it was inevitable, it was bound to happen some day or the other.” So, as the two pair up, the “girls-list” aka the “scare-your-man” list is often a forgotten factor in the matters of her heart.