Its always about the people and the city...

Offices are crazy places...most of them. They are full of disinterested and dispassionate people giving there best, or trying to appear so for the sake of earning money to do what they like. In terms of personal endeavors, its full of single people hoping to finally find that 'someone' they couldn't find in school/ college/ friend's circle. There are bored married ones who look for visual pleasures from alien men/women's proximity while thankfully there are those who do not think in this regard at all.   We are all well aware of the presence of 'Anti-sexual harassment' committee in our institutions. In fact I recall few sessions on introduction of such a committee and reaction of people. There were non-Indians in my first job who got extremely traumatized that their cultural difference and behavior may get tagged as harassment one of these days. By definition, patting a women's back or calling her by any name not perceived to be acceptable is also ha

A lot has been said and out-poured recently about Article 377 of India and the latest Supreme court verdict. Principally I would be with the masses who have termed this as sheer stupidity, going backward, violating right to freedom and practice personal preferences. But being a devil's advocate that I am, I tried to figure out why was this done. I mean, no matter how 'dummy' our democracy is, the judiciary is obliged to provide valid reasoning behind everything being said or done. Another point about court verdict is- it does not try to get influenced-emotionally or in any way by the populist opinion and demands. So a Supreme court would not really log on to Facebook accounts to see how the young generation feels so strongly about something (which is mostly based on peer influence, half baked believes and several other motives including impressing someone, making an image, attracting attention etc. etc. but sound logic and reasoning.)   So here is it- facts, meaning an

You would've probably heard  of this phrase recently if you watched 'The Perks of being a Wallflower.'     The Perks of being a Wallflower- Misfit toys scene     It actually refers to a children's book called "The Island of Misfit Toys." In this story, all the weird toys are sent to an island to live together. They are all defective and mostly unwanted. Irony is, they think of themselves as really special!   To understand this concept, which by all means I believe today we are more than aware of, picture the characters. There is a bird that doesn't fly but swims, a boat that can't float, a beer with wings, a train with square wheels and jelly squirting pistols. So much so that toys are misfits even because of their names! It is commendable how many parallels can be drawn from them. On one hand, characters and their 'mis-fitted-ness' is kept simple for a child to understand, on  the  other, it poses a question- where is the line betwe