Control nahin hota?

I was at the right place at the right time, that is at the time when we would want to discuss gender-based issues at teenage, I was in a fairly liberal girls' pre-university college that posed no hindrance for such discussions,be it with lecturers or with fellow students.We used to have innumerable discussions of such sort, when the students and lecturers alike would express their experiences,personal or what they had witnessed in the daily life. As I said, the topics were innumerable,considering the fact that it was almost close to a decade ago,I would have forgotten all the topics of discussion, well I might not be able to enlist the topics, but surely they have had a permanent impact on my life. Recollecting some of the instances;one of the lecturers was saying that she used to notice a girl wearing a jacket to college everyday which meant even during hot summers.Out of all curiosity, when she asked the student why she had to wear a jacket even on hot days, the girl instantly said that she was wearing a jacket not to protect herself from the harsh weather but from the misbehaving conductors or other men in the bus!! Such discussions were a way of making us aware of prevalence of the wickedness in the world,helping us realise that innocence that was still very much embedded in us at that age could blind us from confronting the incidents with seriousness or caution. Only after having such discussions and listening to others' experiences did we realise that every other day, the guys (and uncles and grandparents too - well, shameless uncles and grand-parents of god-knows-whom,not mine!!) that fall or lean on a girl in the bus need not necessarily be doing out of helplessness in a jam-packed bus!
Another of such instances that I can recollect, something that can't afforded to be forgotten more so for its prevalance is the case of men pissing in public places. Barring the gentlemen,I wonder how some men shamelessly get into the act in public as if with a strong feeling that the whole world is his home! Well, the urge is unbiased to women too, but the urge to control the urge exists in women, but why not in most of the men?
When it comes to such shameless acts or girls, I guess some men can only tell "Kya kare, control hi nahin hota"!!! No cure for this weakness, is it?

Well, gentlemen out there, please note that all the offense intended is for the sinful folks, not a generalisation in any case. We do believe and hope that sane men exist on earth.

SMS mania

You wish to vote for the Indian Idol or Sa re gama pa Contest? You wish to voice out your opinion for the potboiler surveys on the news channels? You want to choose a song to be aired on radio? Want to vote for the seven wonders of the world? Just SMS so-and-so at so-and-so. God!! It amazes me how omnipresent and omnipotent SMSing has emerged to be!
What a Superb Money-making Scheme this giant SMS turns out to be!! I hope it does not so happen that a time will come when a person who manages to call an ambulance after having met with an accident gets his request turned down for calling up while he should actually be SMSing!! People consider it such a hep thing to SMS that the media and telecommunication industry is exploiting this weakness to reap huge profits. Just recently, my dad so proudly said that he had SMS'd to vote for TajMahal to be one of the seven wonders of the world! On the way home, whenever he wanted to ensure that I had reached home or I need to be picked up, he used to SMS me saying "Wher r u? " . Well, a person who considered language and semantics so important also is bitten by the SMS-bug , I suppose. En masse influence it turns out to be, if not obliging,one looks out-of -fashion,not hep, not open to new ideas,not in the "in" generation which makes even people who were quite away from such short-cuts get comfortable with it. Well, it takes a lot from me to type 'you' instead of 'u', 'right' instead of 'rite', 'what' instead of 'wat', 'where' instead of 'wher' etc ,the effort although is reserved only for formal write-ups! When I stood against using the shortcuts to keep myself and my language sane, I was teased,suggested,advised to be crisp and follow short-sweet style for which I too budged for all the huge number of SMS conversations that happen,it indeed is tedious if not followed. Thanks to the SMS-magic,no doubt innumerable people escape from getting ridiculed for not having decent language skills. Of late, it's never even thought if the person has a weak grammar or vocabulary, it's presumed that it's the SMS-style of English which in effect, relaxes the need or compulsion to be right in saying what needs to be expressed. Ruin of the language it sure is,me a potential contributor to it. When time means more,everything else seems to have taken a back seat.

K.. if u wud lyk 2 cmt on d post ,do SMS me @ so-n-so!! :P