Random. Jumbled. Chaotic. My Thoughts And This Post

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It humbles you when you do a story on street children and realize that there are millions of children struggling on the streets trying to survive, getting into drugs, messing up their lives, getting tortured and some selfless people trying to help them out.

And then you do a story where small kids are going to fancy pre-schools and schools so they have a better future. They have access to the best food, clothing, education, life.

Fate. This is the word which decides the have and have-nots. It decides if you will be born in a farmer’s family and who will eventually commit suicide because he can’t pay the debt. Or you are born in a family which didn’t have to struggle like this.

Obviously there are some who change their fate but most become resigned to it.

After a while you become immune to all this and accept it as part of your life. The beggar child on the streets, you sitting in a car with a filled stomach and shooing them away, your child sitting beside you eating that chocolate while the child on the street wistfully stares at you. The light turns green and you speed away.

Its a piece of a jigsaw puzzle which fits together to create a mosaic, an image of this country, of this disparity.

And that’s when we start to lose the battle. Because we accept everything passively, without trying to change it.

Also check out Savy's take on the issue by clicking here

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SS - As of now I am not taking up the tag. It is too much on a strain on my poor brain to come up with answers to inane questions while I in a state of limbo, grapple with the questions regarding the bigger picture.

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A question:

I want an opinion from both men and women on this -
Do you think that women dress up for men and vice versa? And why?

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Another random thought:
I am reading Shantaram these days. It's an awesome book. I hope the movie version of the story does justice to the book.

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* Updated my photo blog. You can check it out here

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* For people living in Delhi, and especially women who are fedup of eve teasing, do something about it here

Originally posted on Monday, September 18, 2006 2:08 PM