Munnu Chunnu Engineer!

Unfortunately this isn’t a title for any Sanjay Dutt starrer from the Munnabhai camp. Engineering is the most sought after career choice along with medical. From early days of messing up in the sand to protesting for not going to pre-school, weren’t told that we are supposed to become an ‘anjeeneeer’ or a doctor one day. That’s instilled in the minds from the age of innocence and we kids too carry that forward until we realize getting into those hard paying job profiles isn’t going to be a cakewalk. We’re told that no matter what we have to stick to the ultimate goal of earning lots of smiling Gandhis. Being a kid I always wondered why would Gandhi want to be on our currency notes and that too smiling to glory where we would like our own memorable pictures, at least on the cash we owned! Anyways that would be a totally different topic.

Coming to the point let’s talk about engineering. That spells doom I agree! It took me the whole of ninth grade to learn how to spell the damn word. Let alone pursuing something that sounded like a cheap Chinese diwali cracker. So coming on to engineering again (Damn that word!), I was supposed to be a born engineer just like the million other kids whose parents make them feel their only potential is to become one. Me and my parents only realized the truth of potential a few years down the line. We just moulded the whole subject of engineering into a fluid concept and today I love the world of engineering. Though I am not yet very comfortable with certain circuits I still try and make something that would help explode the entire world. Again that would be a totally different topic!

What men say? And what they really mean?!

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

While Albert Einstein may be true from his own personal perspective it seems gravitation and attraction are the only two things pulling people down and making them fall in love. Harry says, ‘Love is a totally fluid concept today.’ According to him people are defining love their own way and making it suit their own taste. Somehow I agree with his conception of people fiddling with the true meaning of love just to satisfy their thirst for having a partner.

Guys always seem to be ready to explore the hidden temptation islands at any cost. They end up naked, dirty, broke and hungry for more each time! Their attempts to discover the unanswered quest of knowledge about women seems to be vast! They leave no stone unturned to capture the highest peak and leave no soldier alive in their battle for ultimate supremacy over the fairer sex. Pity that they don’t seem to understand the basic principle that women aren’t all that dumb that they think are! No offense to any man in particular!

Naked Conversations

Twenty years on the streets of London made me. People back home in India think I have crossed the limits of maan-maryaada and our sanskriti when their raise their eyebrows looking at me. It’s easy to make assumptions. Thing’s aren’t the same everywhere. How do they expect me to dress up in tradtional attire each time I step out. It’s me. I’m free. I’ll be the judge of what I have to cover myself with. I’ll decide how much of cloth can cover myself. Why should someone without any idea about me pass on a judgment and tell me what to wear? Lay off!

It disgusts me the way girls of my age in India suffer. From the kinds of dresses to wear to the kind of friends they should keep up to. From staying away from guys to strict curfew timings. From no partying till late night to cooking alu-gobi, Indian girls are subjected to high levels of mental and physical torture right from the day one. So what the heck? Let’s look at the main issues here.

Premarital Sex - Will you…?

Premarital sex has been an issue of discussion ever since we Indians came to know of the term ‘premarital’. Now the land of Kama Sutra claims that premarital sex is highly immoral and the highly skilled likes of RSS and BJP party workers are always ready to rip down anyone speaking about the topic out in the open.

So the question is, is premarital sex really immoral? Or are just filling unwanted hot air into this balloon? First of all let’s understand sex. Now sex is a very serious issue when it comes to a country like ours. But what is sex? Sex is simply an expression of affection and feelings that two people share amongst themselves. There’s no specific time frame that is supposed to be tagged along with sex. It can happen anytime, anywhere but not everywhere mind it! My point is that it should really be upto the couple to decide how and what they want things to be. And that brings me to another question, are we really open to premarital sex? What do you say…will you or won’t you?!

Sex? Shut the fuck up!

Thirteen year old Pranav asked an obvious question to his father last week, ‘Where do babies come from?’. Last night he went a step ahead and directly asked his nervous father, ‘What is sex?’.
His father followed what his own father said, ‘Go study!’. So there you are. Our so called Indian sanskars and maryaada prohibits our parents from discussing sex with us. Sex education is indeed necessary when kids reach the curious growing-up years. When all we see around us starts puzzling us, we turn towards our parents for a solution. But that’s just the first and the last time. After such an incident, Pranav won’t ask his parents the same question again. Indeed he’ll Google his way through, ask a couple of friends and end up not knowing what he’s supposed to know exactly. Thousands of guys and girls like him end up with a different understanding to the word ’sex’ here in India. Sex is something we’re not taught at school, not discussed at home and certainly not anywhere else. It’s something we see on television, internet and discuss in great deal with our close friends.