The rape shook me like all the others had in the past and the brutality horrified me. But I was amazed at every one who spent time writing #Rip using her name as a hashtag. It generated more likes and retweets but little else. Nothing changes with silent marches and candle light vigils. New days share more horrors and past brutalities seem like minor infractions compared to the new senseless depravity that we are being subject to.
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Monetizing the #MeToo movement
There must be a special place in hell for those who not only stamp all over the #MeToo movement , but think it’s okay to monetise it! It wasn’t just a movement … #MeToo was a cry for help, for acknowledgement, for people to take responsibility for their boorish, lecherous and downright despicable behaviour! ButContinue reading “Monetizing the #MeToo movement”
I want to change the world by doing NOTHING!
It didn’t happen to me… It happened on TV… And that’s our attitude… Buildings fall. Women get raped. People get murdered. Terror attacks happen. A cyclone devastates… But it didn’t happen to me! We want a better world for ourselves, for our future , for the future of our unborn children or our friends’ unbornContinue reading “I want to change the world by doing NOTHING!”
Silent Tears
Disclaimer-: Sorry for the self absorbed , soppy post…I needed to write and needed to vent and needed to process…this is my personal diary and my outlet for me to remember what happens in my life- good or bad! All is fine. And all else will be… I’m positive. I cry when you disregardContinue reading “Silent Tears”
Raping me.
I am your sister, your wife, your mother, your friend. I am your conscience, your feelings, your creativity, your inner most thoughts. I am your blood, your hair, your eyes, your soul. I am all that you have and all that you need. I am you. You exist because of me. You live because IContinue reading “Raping me.”
What I WANT from THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT & what I think INDIA DESERVES!
What happened on the 13th of July 2011 was unforgivable and I wrote about it! the responses and calls I got were overwhelming…it seemed like alot of us felt this way. Someone from the BBC called last night and asked me a very pertinent question- what do I want? Well I though I could listContinue reading “What I WANT from THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT & what I think INDIA DESERVES!”
Mumbai can’t keep bouncing back! IT’S NOT A BALL!!!!!!
Yesterday’s blasts were a familiar reminder of the tears and horror that Mumbai is systematically put through almost as a sad reminder every 2/ 3 years! We call the city, ‘Ma’ (mother) and ‘Devi’ (Goddess) and yet we allow terror to rape her heartlessly and brutally repeatedly again and again and again!!!! And sureContinue reading “Mumbai can’t keep bouncing back! IT’S NOT A BALL!!!!!!”
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