(K)not for Women!!!

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We all must have heard of the saying "Behind every successful man, there is a woman.". And there is tag to it too - "Behind every unsuccessful man, there are two women.". So, if we go for statistical correlation - success has nothing to do with women being there with men but failure surely has a strong correlation to women. Though often referred to as the "fairer sex" (note the pun), women have not done much credible in the past centuries, as is usually potrayed. And it is utter nonsense to believe that men have degraded the status of women in the society. On the contrary, men, in fact, have toiled hard for the emancipation of the "woman-kind". Nature has been cruel (or just) on women too. God, at some point of HIS creation-spree must have decided to act as a Capitalist and endow men with power and....

Name Sake

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What's in the name, one might ask? But have you ever wondered what would have happened if your boyfriend was christened Gajodhar (no inspiration drawn from any stand-up comedy show!!)? Or how would you have felt if you were called Chameli?( Not that i think its a bad name!!) Even if people cry out loud that a name does not hold much significance in their life, reality shows a different angle altogether. Radhika Premani, an MBA student,once told me "My name holds a lot of meaning for me. It reminds me of the inner me; that I am supposed to take the right path in life." So much so for spiritualism!! But for every head there is a tail. For all those (un)blessed souls who have really common names, like Ashish, Abhishek or Neha lament and wish that their parents had named them....

Identity Crisis

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Twins. Born apart. India and Bharat.Or should it be Bharat and India? The charade is more complicated and confusing when one sits down to contemplate that between the two, which is more "real"? Or probably, which one does he truly represent? The interrogations may be varied with a plethora of facts put down on a table like popcorns in front of a couch-potato but the solution still seems elusive, if not solitary and unique. In today's jet-set world of spam technologies and cyborgs, a manhunt begins. To hunt the real identity of a nation, which dates back to time immemorial. The hunt sounds easy to naïve ears-just narrow down on one suspect and crown the other with a scepter as the "brand" of the nation. But to a more seasoned and adept mind, this particular hullabaloo causes more creases on the forehead than the fake "wrinkle-free" khaki trousers bought....