Picture Imperfect.
'Killer virus', 'breeding mosquitoes', 'the big bad bite'… and so on. These have been the headlines dictating every newspaper for over a week now and now, I have become passive to such articles. Well, finally today something really ridiculous caught my eye. It was about two girls in Hyderabad being married off to photographs of grooms in foreign lands. The story read “the trend now, is to perform the marriage to a photo of the groom.” the girls then get to know after days that they were married off to mentally ill guys. Now a case has been filed on the grooms and the middleman. Seriously, how silly can people get? They don’t think before making a move and then create an issue. What were the girls doing atleast? Its about their lives- they have every right to question their future. How ironic, there are so many such insensate things happening around us and guess what? We are talking about India turning into a Singapore in the coming years.
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On the lighter side, I am quite contented that for the first ever time any radio station actually played my request (not like I am this maniac who spends money on requests always). Radio Indigo is new and they happened to play my song... in any case I think that the station is a lifesaver for all the other stations are loaded with ads and more over they do not play english music 24/7. Radio Indigo is the true colour of music!! Talking about requests, I just thought I must mention that Anju’s (yes, our very own Lingham!! Lol) first ever letter to the editor got published in the DH Education. Way to go Anju (I am proud of you).
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On the lighter side, I am quite contented that for the first ever time any radio station actually played my request (not like I am this maniac who spends money on requests always). Radio Indigo is new and they happened to play my song... in any case I think that the station is a lifesaver for all the other stations are loaded with ads and more over they do not play english music 24/7. Radio Indigo is the true colour of music!! Talking about requests, I just thought I must mention that Anju’s (yes, our very own Lingham!! Lol) first ever letter to the editor got published in the DH Education. Way to go Anju (I am proud of you).
8 comments:
tanx poorni!!! :) hmmmm n bout u not bein a radio request freak, u msged every1 u knew on plnet earth and told dem bout t sooooooooo.... hee hee
Thanks Poornima for dropping into my blog and putting down your comment. I have replied to that there.
Regarding your post on marriage... o, yes such strange things happen. One reason is poverty, the other is lack of education, the third is the sort of environment in which these girls live. What choice they have... it's sad. There are some NGOs which help them out, but not all girls are also willing to come out and seek their help. It needs some courage after all.
Met you at Pradeeps blog. Will drop back later - keep blogging
What happened to the women in Hyderabad is disheartening. I guess it goes to show that although India's advanced, there are still those people who are not given the liberty to make their own choices.
In terms of India becoming the new Singapore, it's entirely possible. However, there's bound to be those traditional/conservative people who will ignore the change, and perhaps make us seem backward. To value marriages with foreigners (which really isn't that great a feat!)above valuing them for the character of the person they choose really shows how little pride they have for their Indian selection of men. This is actually a very sticky subject, and I'm aware that all situations are different...so I'll stop there.
(happy poorni? i posted a comment :D)
lemme see... ur comment is the longest in the page and u said u were not a 'comment' person?? anyhow happy...muah!!
and anju darlin,dont give me rough drafts and fair drafts of coments..lol.
cool. so ur request got heard.
but u didn't mention what song it was
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