Clicked on links and found this from Candides Notebook..
mmmmmmm….cool
Moments such as these, which arrive so unexpectedly in the life 😦 of a blogger, help to brighten it^**^up, apart from the fact that one can always present this with a flourish to hubby every time he cribs “What is there to gain from all of this..you just dont care for me anymore…free time is comp time..lets go to the movies..look what the papers have to say of the internet..it causes depression.. give it up..”
Kaveetaa Kaul
Happened to read a most disturbing piece reported in BBC.
Women ‘get blame for being raped’
Distressed woman
Fewer than 6% of reported rapes result in a conviction
A third of people believe a woman is partially or completely responsible for being raped if she has behaved flirtatiously, a survey suggests.)
The Amnesty International poll of 1,000 people also found over 25% believe she is at least partly to blame if she has worn revealing clothing or been drunk.Amnesty says the “shocking” findings show government policies are failing.
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And the director of public prosecutions told the BBC the report “highlights some areas of real concern”.Ken Macdonald QC, who is in charge of prosecutions in England and Wales, spoke to BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
“The idea that a third of our people think that if a woman flirts she has only herself to blame if she is raped is, I think, quite shocking,” he said.
“These are jury trials. The jury is the community in the courtroom and it is reasonable to suppose the jury brings into the courtroom a lot of the attitudes we have been reading about.”
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Nothing can be traced back to male unreasonability when it comes to battle between the sexes. (more…)
I had always been fascinated by the origins of the festival and why my mother insisted on Palash flowers for the occasion. There was no doubt in my mind that a pithy explanation would unfurl. Hindu festivals and theories , if one bothered to investigate are steeped in logic and reasonability. Not some insane whim of an inane mind… AAhh, our sages!!
The Vedas suggested using the color of the palash(teshu or dhak) flower. If clothes soaked in this colour are worn, then that colour will have its effect on our body by entering through the pores of the skin, and will save one from contagious diseases. It has miraculous medicinal effects on the body. Earlier, the young princes leaving for their Guru’s Ashram used to carry a Palash Danad (stick). It is believed that the stick protected them from diseases, and harmful viruses. Palash flowers and tree bark cures many skin diseases. If a pregnant woman consumes Palash’s flower juice, a very fair complexioned child is born. In addition, the child is bound to be immune to many skin and viral diseases.
The customary ‘gulal’ used on the occasion was derived from palash, in the good old days. Today if you are lucky, all you may procure is the aroma of the flowers, that too, fake, in chemicalized powder.
Life’s been pretty serious recently.
Time to lighten up a bit with these wisecracks:)
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If only women came with pull-down menus and on-line help.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
Never make the same mistake twice… there are so many new ones to make!
If evolution was true, mothers would have more than two hands.
Enjoy yourself. These are the “good old days” you’re going to miss in the years ahead.
Many actresses won’t wear a dress that’s not original, but they’ll take a secondhand husband.
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
A proud moment for Indian womanhood.
A first for Indian history.
A Woman led the passing out parade of the Indian Armed Forces at Pune today.
That she is Wahida, a Muslim from Kashmir is important only to prove once and for all the undoubtedly secular nature of our country. (more…)
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