Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Why India rapes.

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Lesley Sirimane <lesleysirimane@yahoo.com> wrote:



Can you help this go viral ..... its a real eye opener and im sure most Indians will agree

 Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.  ~ Melody Beattie
 
 
 
An emotive article … anonymously authored … by an “ordinary” person … worth a read.
 
WHY INDIA RAPES
 
 
Sadly, it's for the same reasons that India bribes, honks unnecessarily, drives drunk and over speeds, why it pushes and pulls and can’t form a queue, also why it spits and urinates where it wants and why it insists on scratching its balls before dishing out food with the same hands.  India rapes because it lets its kids throw tantrums in public while turning a blind eye, why it looks at foreigners as dollars and Indians as trouble.  It also rapes because it makes fun of the handicapped, weakness and intelligence.
 
 
It rapes for the same reason it cheats people of their money, treats animals without respect and lives for society.  The same society that would be the first to run you out of existence, to ensure that your life is not worth living and that rape means your life is over.  The same society in who’s fear we dare not fail our exams or grow our hair too long or sing a song or wear revealing clothes or come home too late.  It’s the same society that can’t protect and is the first to blame the system.
 
 
The impotent system made of impotent self serving politicians and the impotent police and the impotent water & electrical supplier and so on.  If there was no crime, the police wouldn’t be able to put their kids in school, the under paid and under equipped constable is not going to risk his or her life for you.  That is the reality.
 
 
To blame comes easy, but who are you blaming?  The police that can’t fire a bullet without written consent, the one that can’t use handcuffs, the one that in most cases carries Gandhi’s dunda?  I don't blame the police and I don’t hail it.  It’s an impotent symbol just like our ruling party and the non ruling ones.  I don’t expect better from either and I won’t cry hoarse about it either.
 
 
I will however preach respect and practice respect.
 
 
I will also learn to live for myself, with respect to society.  I will also teach myself to be equal.  The Indian woman herself needs to wake up to a new India as well.  She needs to stop cowering to society, to her own family and to herself.  Man and woman can't function without each other.  A woman can do anything a man can, it's the man who can't give birth.
 
 
The Indian woman covers her head and her face, she eats after her husband eats, she is weaker because she feels that she is.  She needs to be shown that it’s not.  She needs to be feel empowered and she needs to stop feeling like she's lesser.  The Indian man, needs to learn that he isn't in control, that he is no one to control and that it is not he who is more than a woman.
 
 
There isn’t a competition between the sexes.  When the Indian man lacks personally he takes out on the woman physically.  He takes it out on her for a sense of betterment and ego.  For the lack of respect and self respect.  The Indian man rapes for the same reason.  He has no respect for himself in the same way he has no respect for his job or work.  If he can't respect his livelihood, how can you expect him to respect anything let alone a woman.  Preach respect, teach respect, respect yourself and the other, man woman or child.
 
 
Rape is not sex, sex is pleasure and for both, rape is brutality, there is no pleasure in brutalizing someone, anyone.  Any man who has ever looked at a woman and said cover up is as pathetic as the man who molests her.  What sort of impotent men are we that we can't protect our women.  How unaware do we pretend to be that we can’t stand up for her dignity and fight for her?  Are we only looking at demoralizing her and showing her that we men can do what we want but she cannot?  Stand by her and protect her.  Travel a bus and be aware for her.
 
 
Walk the road at night and keep an eye out.  Open your ears and eyes to trouble for her.  Not because she can’t do it for herself but because us men have crushed her faith. Our sex has let hers down.  We have historically raped her mind in to fearing.  It’s time now to change.  To create change.  To be the change.
 
 



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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

British humor


 Fw: Beautiful & Catchy Pub Video-"Buggar The Bankers"(British Style-U Wd LOVE IT !)
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Lakshman Karalliedde
1:11 PM (17 hours ago)
Good British humour  sensitivity  reality please watch the clip on Einstein  should make the few grey cells work!

 
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From the Journal ;Thuppahi' - Early years of motoring in Ceylon.

A fascinating study of the history of motoring in Ceylon - Referance forwarded by Dr.JKS Weerasekara,

http://thuppahi.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/the-early-years-of-motoring-in-british-ceylon/#more-8223

Monday, January 14, 2013

New Year Survival kit - email sent by Gallege De Silva


Subject: Fwd: Fw: Survival Kit for your New Year 2013





HAPPY NEW YEAR
YOUR DAILY SURVIVAL KIT FOR THE NEW YEAR


Today, I am giving you a DAILY SURVIVAL KIto help you each day............
 Toothpick ... to remind you to pick the good qualities in 
everyone, including yourself.
 Rubber band ... to remind you to be flexible. Things might 
not always go the way you want, but it can be worked out.
Band-Aid ... to remind you to heal hurt feelings, either yours
 or someone else's.
Eraser ... to remind you everyone makes mistakes. That's 
okay, we learn from our errors.
Candy Kiss ... to remind you everyone needs a hug or a 
compliment everyday.
Mint ... to remind you that you are worth a mint to your 
family & to me.
Bubble Gum ... to remind you to stick with it and you can 
accomplish anything.
Pencil ... to remind you to list your blessings every day.
Tea Bag ... to remind you to take time to relax daily and 
go over that list of blessings.
This is what makes life worth living every minute, every day.
Wishing you love, gratitude, friends to cherish, caring, sharing,
 laughter, music, and warm feelings in your ,heart in the
2013 year.

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Some wonderful oldies


Long before 'Rap' we listened and got enchanted by music and the words sung with the melody. Here are a few of them to tickle your auditory senses. I hope you enjoy them. Click on the blue underlined web-links of each song with the internet connected.

Bing Crosby - White Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yg5g_Xl-uU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY - Boney M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPBvSBRaLfo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Boat on the river - Boney M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oac4W2VUSZM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

By the rivers of Babylon - Boney M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CnYWCWAeA

Country road take me home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNuIDpmkTFw

Oh Susannah - Old Confederate song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfv9FDnMcaI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

When Irish eyes are smiling - Joni James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-tJwnMRCDA

Whispering hope - Mary Duff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8kW1GpzidM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

And Finally - 'Danny Boy' - Celtic Woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3hpGpaMbgc

Read the speculations about the origin of this song:-

DAVEW0071
06-10-2000, 05:12 PM
I always assumed the song was a father talking to his son about being the boy being called to war. Don't know about Irish bagpipes being used as a call to arms, but the line "'Tis you must go and, 'tis I must bide" I took to be the father's way of saying, "I've already been to war, I'm too old to fight. You're the one being conscripted now, so don't go out and get yourself killed. There will always be a welcome home for you." And "the summer's gone and all the roses falling" could be a poetic references to the father's advanced years, being in the autumn of his life.
This is all mere speculation on my part, of course.

The song sung by Bing Crosby in the mid 1940s:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2QtBYR7NJs