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Not funny, thank you!

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‘Blackie!’ , ‘Negro!’, ‘Homo!’, ‘Ladies!’, ‘Wear bangles if you cannot do such a simple work!’ , ‘Don’t behave like an eunuch!’, ‘That’s enough freedom for a girl!’, ‘Are you gay or what?’ , ‘I am okay with gay but they should not wear such loud clothes!’, and the list goes on where very casually and supposedly in a very funny way people pass their judgements and comments. But, where does it come from? Why do we still not find topics funnier than casual sexism, racism and homophobia to play cool with? A world devoid of funny things things to talk about seems really gloomy but at the cost of what? A simple ‘Homo joke’ can push a person down the dark by lanes of tragedy, can push someone back to closet who for once thought of coming out and living life. The woman who dares is slut shamed and the woman who is afraid is suppressed further, both sides do not sound enticing. When a whole gender is used to depict anything that is weak and feeble, a different style of misogyny and sexism is
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The convenience of the past

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If I say that there is a thin line of difference between history and mythology, I would actually sound foolish because as similar might people try to make them look like they are very different, but can coexist without harming or dishonoring each other to most extent. Ideally history is something that has happened in the past and it is not about fictional beings or places but mythology has a religious connotation to it and facts are put forward to show the greatness of some religion or culture that might or might not have happened in the past. History nowadays are meddled with to the extent that school kids in Karnataka are being taught that Savarkar used to sit on the wings of a bulbul bird and fly from Andaman to the mainland and if I am not wrong there had been some incident of Narendra Modi fighting a crocodile as a child only to defeat the crocodile.. Blurring these lines of history, mythology, truth, lies, facts and myths is very dangerous because we will have a generation who wi
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Towards a better tomorrow

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Since the time I came to know that an individual can also become parent, a single parent, I have always wanted to become a father. However, as I grew older and realised that I am much more privileged than my parents ever were, I started thinking that I will adopt a child only if I can give a better life to that child when compared to mine. So, I have always liked to believe that the cycle goes exactly like this, a tomorrow better than today and a day after tomorrow better than tomorrow. But, are the privileges granted to us enough to change the world? I would say, ‘No’. But, who is asking us to change the world? Change one life, motivate one person, help one in need and the act will be reciprocated, the act will spread far and wide to make the world a better place. Every time when we are reluctant to help, we are citing examples of other people not doing the same and you doing one good act, noble act, kind act or responsible act cannot really do much. So, in all this confusion and
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'Special' did something quite risky very comfortably to become a casual revolutionary series

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The Netflix series 'Special' ended at its prime and it was just the second season. The show might not be a huge hit across the world but has created the right amount of ripple with its very plain and simple life like treatment of everything that can be made dramatic very easily. The show being semi-autobiographical, Ryan O'Connell (the protagonist and creator of the show) could have gone wrong at multiple points if he tried to do anything else but then rather than treading by the white, sweet, sentimental path always, he treaded on the risky black and grey more often. The protagonist of the show is Ryan Hayes (Ryan O'Connell), who is gay and has mild cerebral palsy. He is a writer and when season one starts, he is staying with his mother and quite dependent on her. His mother Karen Hayes is played by Jessica Hecht with absolute ease. The show is revolutionary but does not make a lot of hype and hoopla about anything at all which makes this casual approach even more impa
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The government has failed miserably but the people are fighting back like never before!

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This country currently has a government at the centre that came to power with a huge majority, a landslide victory and that too for the second time in a row. Great! So, the people of the country must have felt a great sense of support from them and must have thought that they would develop the country to make itself sufficient in every way and take it to newer heights with every passing year. Right? Little did we know that it is the Rs. 3000 crore statue which would reach great heights to become the tallest statue in the world. We are also adding another humongous temple to our long list of temples and mosques and the government is personally looking into its construction. The grand central vista is being built which will have a palatial accommodation for the prime minister besides everything else.  So, what does all these say about this country? The country must be a developed country with all the basic needs looked into and the education, health, food, shelter infrastructure almost
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Whatever be the outcome!

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According to different media houses, India has never witnessed such an aggressive state election since independence like this 2021 assembly election of West Bengal. And that election is finally over! A lot of foul play, a lot of mudslingings, a lot of horse-tradings and of course killings too. However besides the dirty horse-trading which has not been this shamelessly aggressive before there was another thing Bengal politics witnessed this year, and how, religion and caste-based polarisation in politics. This particular style of politics is not new in India and is rampant in different Northern, Southern and Western states but with the years of Left and other secular rules, this style of politics did not find acceptance in the state. The election might be over, the people who polarised might not come to power but what will stay back is the bitterness. That is where the struggle starts, to overcome this hurdle and get back to how things used to be. India is like a continent where each st
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Bhodroloks flirting with fascist forces? Disrupting the Bangla fabric is both tough and dangerous!

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Bhodrolok (the Bangla word for gentleman) is not something that exists only among Bangalis and like many think is the ego of all Bangalis is also not true according to me. However, there lies a very major difference and that lies in who are considered to be part of the bhodrolok society or if I may put, people who are looked up to and are considered as social leaders in a Bangali society and many other parts of India. Bhodrolok here has nothing really to do with money although there might be many who have it but again they are considered bhodrolok for the intellect, for the knowledge, and maybe also for their degrees and secular midset. I would not say that Bangali society is the only society in India who believes in this but surely is one of the few and that is why fundamentalist powers and polarisation politics have failed to make a mark time and again. Like what we are seeing in the case of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bengal is like their last frontier and most probably they d
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