common practice

Indian girl, 14, wins a divorce from bbc

how the hell did she get married in the first place!!!!!!!!!!

read it carefully... :)

"One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too."

quotes

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
-Buddha

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
-George Washington

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
-Elbert Hubbard

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
-John Churton Collins

horrendous... yet again

A free woman from indian express

"I sympathise. From Karachi to the Khyber Pass, Pakistan is one of the most hospitable countries I’ve ever visited. So, President Musharraf, if you want to improve Pakistan’s image, here’s some advice: Just prosecute rapists with the same zeal with which you persecute rape victims.

Mukhtaran says she can’t talk about what happened after the government kidnapped her. But this is what seems to have unfolded: In Islamabad, government officials ferociously berated her for being unpatriotic and warned that they could punish her family and friends. In particular, they threatened to have the father of a friend fired from his job."

quote

WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
-- George Orwell, 1984

(i think this is so applicable to current world politics)

kids grow up too soon....

Violent teenagers article from hindu.

though it might not be the best written article but it sure does bring up the point where this society is going in terms of bringing up the young.

kids r not kids anymore they grow up too soon. with all the available information or misinformation that is accessible to them. there use to be a time when the younger years were the formative years, the years to learning. where even the games we played or the stories we read were modeled on the fact that they will leave a significant impact on us. now everything is market driven. gone r the days when people would say that is more important to good man than it is to be a important man. now children r taught, either by active or passive means, that money is above work, seek material over knowledge, presentation is more important than the content.
there are years in human life that they need guidance and protection, and no better place than family to get this. we all can be individuals but there is a need to put relationships above individuality.

(rough sketch of my thoughts after reading the article.)

thought

dying a slow death... one blow at a time.