The Dawn-HA!

Hello folks! Ha! Whom am i greeting? When i know that there are no potential readers of this blog. But i guess it nourishes my publicity hungry conscience to pretend greeting people, like i have an actual readership.

Hey what am i waiting for? Obviously you guys don’t have time to waste. You must have left your very important friends on facebook chat to read this blog( hell i am expecting too much from my readers. If there are any!!). Let me spare you the crap and get down to the base talk.

This morning i woke up at something around 5 a.m. and 10 minutes later i was bored from facebook. So the next thing i decide is to call up a friend( yeh! I know now you are gonna come after me with a shotgun). But HA! he is asleep. And texts me back saying

“itni sube missed call...go back to sleep again”

Well once i am awake i am not gonna go to sleep again. I guess this world needs my attention and creativity ;). So the next thing i do is to go in the search of the newspaper. Luckily the newspaper guy is spared of all the abuses and comments on his laziness cuz i find the newspaper at my door step. But unluckily the newspaper happens to be a Hindi daily. Now frankly speaking i have nothing against Hindi dailies except for the fact that the go out of their way to publicize a topic hoping desperately for improvement in their readership and good God! It works sometimes.

Having nothing else to kill my time i settle down with copy of “Dainik Jagran”. The first headline is about Rajesh Gulati. Now if you tell me that you don’t know him, you have my vote for the most uninformed person in the world; ok just in India.

In case you are ignorant enough that you don’t know who he is then let me tell you that he is the guy who married his girlfriend and then killed her when she asked for money and then borrowed idea form a cheap Hollywood flick(which by the way is favourite movie of certain facebook fanatics—yeh! I come across the movie a lot of times while browsing through various profiles) to get rid of the corpse. According to the reports he hacked her body into pieces, froze the pieces and then disposed them off one part at a time. Well rest i leave to channels like “Aaj Tak” or “India T.V.”. They are going to keep you updated even when there is no update. What? you missed the news? Don’t worry they are gonna repeat the telecast again and again till the government disconnects their power connection because they didn’t pay their electricity bill. Which obviously is improbable. So the chances are that they are gonna play on the same tape again and again till they get to cover another story where a boy fell into a pit or where a godman was indulged in a sex scandal or where a cricketer in sheer show of disrespect to the game, slapped a fellow teammate.

So here i was reading it all again in the news paper that calls itself the “voice of the nation” a newspaper whose name roughly translates into “daily awakening”. Bravo!

Hey! I am not against the press reporting a story which obviously needed national attention. But my point is- report it once. Fine make it a headline for a day or two, then shift on to the matters that are more important. The matters which if not pursued are never going to be resolved. Why are you after a guy who killed his wife in cold blood and has no remorse? Why dedicate you precious news space(for which you charge a hefty sum) to a psychologically disturbed criminal who cuts cake with the dead body of his wife to celebrate their second love anniversary. There are other matters to take care of. Matters concerning the state. There are roads left unconstructed, unfinished parks, flats which were promised in the manifesto of political parties, government vehicles being used for dropping kids to school and a lot more issues which any one will agree are of far more importance than a psyched software engineer who is making headlines of the newspapers. And this is true for every form of the media be it the Hindi Dailies or so called of esteemed English newspapers who go out of their way to addict young minds with soft porn (ever heard of “delhi times” or the international page on toi) and yes same goes for the 24x7 news channels whose form of work i have alluded earlier. My suggestion is, why not report the real news, instead of wasting time on these stories why not report the political frauds; why not come in support of Julian Asang who happens to be one person who brought out the raw truth, who for once used the media the way it is meant to be used. While i know that this blog entry is going to be rubbished the moment you finish reading it or wait a minute you have already quit reading it. But if you haven’t all i ask for is just some time to pay an honest thought to the aforementioned problem.

parishrut

Mirrors

...Yesterday while strolling down the road in the evening I happened to hear a conversation...rather an argument between a couple. Now frankly speaking i am not much into eavesdropping(however thrilling the prospect may look) and i know we hate to admit the fact that we all have eavesdropped sometimes and i also know that we humans as a self gratifying species hate to admit all the things not acceptable by social standards. Sorry that i digressed from the topic. So what i overheard were bits of an argument which went something like this (given below is english translated version of the conversation)

man: now why the hell are you upset. please try to understand.

woman: why don't YOU understand me and for a change see my perspective.

man: you know you are impossible.

woman:forget it!

I had slowed down my pace and the man now noticed that i was eavesdropping on them and one stare was enough to make me leave. But i was left with a question in mind. A question that perturbed me throughout the evening and that was what was the real cause of the argument. And though it may appear that the real cause was never mentioned in the conversation but the reality as i see it is different. The reality was that through the entire conversation the very reason was repeated a number of times and the reason was "lack of understanding". As a ruminated over it while walking i realized that we humans want to be surrounded by mirrors.

Confused? Let me elaborate. We humans want people around us to understand us and what they call as understanding i call desperate effort to find an image of oneself in others. All we want is world to silently approve of out ideas and if they don't then they don't "understand" us. i think "understanding" is a really misused word. What it has come to imply is that a person is not entitled to have his own opinion about the subject if he "understands" you on that subject. An if understanding means what it has come to mean then i guess understanding someone is a silent surrender of your free will. And trying to understand someone is a willing effort to surrender you free will which i guess is not what humanity should strive for.

---parishrut

(the outcast)

An Introduction

...Through An Outcast's Eye is an attempt to understand life....as the name itself suggests(hell i introduce a blog with a cliche) this blog will be what an outcast by social standards thinks about life. i call myself an outcast cuz throughout my life i have desired to be different, to think differently and in a society where every one wants a mirror around them to reflect their opinion being different sums up to being alone--being an outcast. so here I am giving you an insight into life--my view of it. You can call it my revenge against the society or my effort to change it into something that it never thought it could be but truth be told it can't be either cuz a voice too small coming from An Outcast doesn't carry weight enough to change the world--to change the perceptions and that too when people rejoice with their inflated ego being nurtured and their false sense of achievement being rewarded...so in reality Through An Outcast's Eye is a nothing but me hoping against hope(cliche again God!) that the views will be read and a thought will not die an inevitable death...

--parishrut