I’m An Untouchable. Keep A Distance...

I was born in a highly religious family. Prayers and fasts were parts of our daily life. Everybody used to pray and read holy books everyday n night. But soon I realised that my mother was exempted from praying for 4 – 5 days every month or so. She was also privileged to leave fasts in those days while everybody else was fasting. After few years I observed that she was actually not exempted but barred, and also she was barred from touching holy books or visiting shrines in those days.

With time and with more intelligence in my head, or I must correct that with more intelligence in my friends’ heads as they were the source of all these information, I got to know that not only my mother, but most of the women were barred from holy duties as those were ‘dirty’ in those days.

More knowledge I gained – they discharge dirty blood from their bodies thus they become filthy and untouchable in those days and we must stay away from them in those days.

More knowledge with time – when they become pregnant, this discharge stops as that blood is used in the formation of child’s body. That blood starts running in the child’s veins.

The final outcome – that I know now that the same blood is running in me. If that blood makes a woman dirty and untouchable, I am an untouchable by birth. Please stay away from I.....

Untouchable

This is entirely my personal opinion about myself. I am not talking about anybody else in particular or in general. Thank you.

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Your Love is Forever Ashley

As a soldier returned from Iraq, his wife sensed him suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The condition of other soldiers was no better which could result in suicide attempts in future. Help was needed. She decided to strip off to spread the word; to save her husband, and the husbands of many other women. And Battling Bare was born. 

Hats off to you Ashley..

Battling Bare

the news as read at Mail OnLine - The women who are Battling Bare: Army wives strip off in bold bid to combat military suicides

Physical : The Sexiest Song Ever

‘Physical’ by Australian pop singer Olivia Newton-John has been voted as sexiest song ever in a poll. I don’t know if ever in life I’ve heard this song. It was released in September 1981. I was a village teenager in those days. Perhaps I was aware of only one name; the name of some Michael Jackson, who used to sing English songs. The truth is, that’s the only name I know now in 2012 too. Several names of western singers appeared in life with time and were lost. Madonna reigned for many years. Meat Loaf, Bon Jovi and few others also left their impressions. But Michael Jackson was always at the top. And still is. Long Live Michael. I love you.

Physical by Olivia Newton-John

I Love Walt Disney

The Walt Disney Co. has decided to ban all junk food commercials on its TV channels, radio services and websites that don’t meet Federal nutrition standards for fat, sugar and sodium. They also have their own internal nutrition guidelines to mark any food or drink healthy for its theme parks’ little visitors. Now a Mickey Check seal will be awarded to all the products they are going to advertize on its channels starting in 2015.

I hope the Indian TV channels are also reading this news. They can at least ban miracle babas and lifesaving oil and fat reducing tea type advertisements. Channel officers clearly know that these commercials are fake and are only meant to fool the public.

I Love Walt Disney

The news as read at NewYorkDailyNews and other channels.

The Day The Earth Shook

With the new research coming out, as reported in the journal International Geology Review, scientists believe that Jesus was crucified on Friday April 3, 33 A.D.

The Gospel of Matthew mentions in Chapter 27 - “And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open.”

With the help of the details of crucifixion given in all Gospels and other books and the study of earthquake activities at the Dead Sea, located 13 miles from Jerusalem during the same period, researchers have come out with this date as most appropriate. 

 

The Day The Earth Shook

as read on Discovery News.

Happy 250th Birthday to Dear Sandwich

Our very own dear sandwich completes 250 years today. Well, actually I’m talking about its given name Sandwich only.

We find references of sandwich from ancient times. Like the ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs between two pieces of bread.

But it was the 4th Earl, the First Lord of the Admiralty in Britain from whom the sandwich got its worldwide popular name. John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English aristocrat, ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and because Montagu also happened to be the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, others began to order - the same as Sandwich. 

Happy Birthday Dear Sandwich

Marks & Spencer launched the first packaged sandwich in Britain in the mid-Eighties. Its believed that more than three billion sandwiches are sold in Britain every year.

Harper : A Nine Months Old Brand Ambassador

A nine month old brand ambassador is not a very big deal. But the interesting news is – the offer is made to the child at her cradle address. Harper Beckham, the daughter of David and Victoria Beckham has got the offer from the website - My1stYears.com.

The offer letter she received is even more interesting than the offer itself. It reads – “From what we have seen of you since your first public appearance less than a year ago, we know you have implacable style and taste……… Due to child labour laws we cannot negotiate a contract or salary directly with you, that is why your Mummy and Daddy have been copied in on this letter.……. We hope it would make your Mummy and Daddy very proud.”

Good going Harper. Congratulations. We all love you. World is yours. Go get it.

Baby Harper

The news as read at Marie Claire site.

I’m not happy with PETA

So, PETA has signed Sunny Leone for its campaign for homeless dogs. I have heard some people are not happy with it… Well.. really! Well.. yes!! What reason they have for being not happy?? Why Sunny concerns for dogs only when men are dying searching for her pictures online….?? Perhaps. And PETA!! What a great cause they are supporting. All the beautiful actors around the globe are going naked for its campaigns. Who cares for fur? Good going PETA… till now!!!! Sunny Leone is supporting fully dressed up… Awww.. Bad. Very bad. Oh. Now I got it. That’s why people are not happy. I’m too not happy with PETA. Certainly not….

Hail Mayor Garcia

Today I wish to share very interesting news I have read recently. Mayor Julian Atienza Garcia of the town La Toba, 70 miles northeast of Madrid, has banned the persons from farting, burping and slurping in public. The carter also includes strict no for adjusting underwear or picking noses and also yawning without covering mouths and speaking with mouth full. I wish we will also get a mayor elected for our city sometimes who will teach some ethics to our city folks.

La Toba

the news was read on Mail Online and other news sites.

O My Tooth and Your Ache

Badly suffering from toothaches these days. Doctors are no help. Toothaches or teethaches??? I don’t know what’s the right word for it. Different varieties of aches are appearing in different teeth all the time. I am never sure which tooth is actual sufferer. Seven teeth have gone through the procedures. Three are in queue. I’m sure all those seven victims were innocent and suffered more in doctor’s hand. The one with actual problem is still at large. Anyhow, they keep on reminding their sufferings now n then.

We live in Google world. Every remedy lies in Google, and Google only. But here, Google is no better than doctors, even worse. Thousands of remedies are available with no true help. It hasn’t reduce the pain, but I must admit, has increased my knowledge bank.

Clove and peppermint were always in my list for toothache. But I never knew that onion and garlic also worked. (I didn’t try anyway). Asafoetida is the new finding. It’s useful for toothache in my old-age too. I’m going to try it for sure. It’s my childhood friend. But the true friend in my old age – oats, could also work miracles. And what’s this wheatgrass and how to find it? somebody tell me please. Thank you very much. But the best discovery is the name of Whiskey. It numbs the gum which results in lessening the ache. Wow. Now would you please excuse me. I’m going for the treatment.

O Mother Earth. Tell Me…. Who is My Father?

What I am, but mud and water. This mud and water comes from the earth. My Mother Earth. She is my mother. But where does the soul come from?

My soul comes from the sun.

O Sun. You provide life to my body. My body belongs to my mother earth. My soul belongs to you.

O Sun. when you come up in the morning, it’s my duty to welcome you with open eyes. I offer you water, pouring it to you up above in the sky. It creates a film before you n I. It scatters all different colours from your rays which purifies different characteristics of my body. And your rays united in colourless white purify my soul.

O My Sun. O My Father. Bless me. Bless all.

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O Mother Earth. Tell Me…. Who is My Father?

O My Bird....

Now Twitter has jumped into internet censor war with a pre-assurance that it would block all contents objectionable to any specific country…. or I should say government. With all the hullabaloo already going on, and in the view of the running debates that who wants to block what, I can’t say how will they manage with India. Here, everybody entertains the right of freedom to curse others for what they are saying. I would love to see what Twitter is going to block…. the word Elephant perhaps…

Do Not Block Me Pleazzz

Hate Night Matches….. for What???

Serena Williams says she doesn’t want to play at night for she hates bugs….. uninvited and unruly audience of her matches.

Is there anyone on earth, or at least in India, who would say he or she wouldn’t play night match for it’s wastage of electricity. Any one…. While thousands of our villages and even hours of our cities go black, no one ever cares how big danger we’re posing to the environment wasting hard earned electricity for a three - four hour show match.

 
I don’t take things negatively. I always look for a brighter side. But the bright side here is dark.

I Hate Night Matches

Paracetamol is God

We are unwell. Running high temperatures. We take Paracetamol. We are cured. Fever is gone. We are happy.

There’s a person, who has no faith in this white, round shaped tablet. He says - okay. I don’t have any faith in it. But if you say so, I’ll try it. He takes it. He’s cured.

There’s another person. He says - okay. I don’t know if it works. But anyhow, it looks like a medicine. It may work with me. And he takes it with some faith. He’s cured.

Another’s there. He has full faith in Paracetamol. He takes it. He’s cured.

Paracetamol doesn’t ask if you have faith in it. Also it doesn’t see if you are a Jew, or a Christian, or a Hindu, or a Muslim, or to which cast, or community, or state or nation you belong to. It cures you.

There’s only one condition. You take it.

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Paracetamol is God

Till Facebook Do Us Part......

The 1^st news paper of this New Year (1 January 2012) delivered a fantastic news at my door step – Facebook is responsible for one third divorces around the globe. It was the front page news in both the papers I generally read on Sunday morning. In today’s world, a news related to the president of any country, economy crash, war in neighbouring countries may not get place on the front page across all nations of the earth. But anything related to Facebook, Twitter or Google is certainly going to get prominent place in each n every nook and corner of this planet. Only one day before this news was published, a Google survey was also placed on the first page that we, Lucknowites, are second in searching about ‘Sex’ on Google. And we are not behind New York, or London, or Tokyo. These poor cities couldn’t even secure a place in top ten list. Colombo is at the top. Shame on us Lucknowites. Com’mon. We can beat Colombo easily. But what should we do with the Facebook. Wait till Facebook do us part???? Whew!

Till Facebook Do Us Part, Do It With Google