Fair or not

All along the feminists cried hoarse. Over "fairness" cream ads. Why does the girl have to be fair to attract the "nice boy". Why is love portrayed so shallow? So if a girl is not fair she isn't thought of as "deserving"?

And many more such poignant questions.

But feminists can rest at peace now. Because even as yet another lousy "fairness" ad airs on TV [ with Saif abandoning Priyanka Chopra only to meet her later and see a "fairer" her in part 2 (yeah even ads are like nightly soaps now) (and I haven't seen part 2 yet, I am just assuming she turns fair and he then ditches the model and comes back to her, that is the only natural conclusion to such an ad) ] more and more ads focus on men's fairness. First it was Fair and Lovely (who else!) and now its all kinds. I see more fairness ads for men than women now, no kidding!

So finally the men are also expected to dress up eh? :) Its no longer the girl that has to be fair and beautiful to get the nice boy. Now the boy has to be fair and handsome to get the nice girl as well.

Some victory for the feminists that ! Talk about equal responsibilities ;)

How do you react to pain

I was reading MM's Post on her train experience and I went into one of those phases of mine. When I hear stories of pain. Then I read the newspaper and needless to say, there was more food for thought there.

How do you react to all the trouble in the world? You can help but can you help everyone? You can donate money but can you make a difference? Often the only thing I find I can do at the end of it is abhor myself for complaining about the little discomforts in my own life. When I hear of tragedies or see people around me braving much worse cards that life has dealt to them, I feel so lame trying to make my own problems look big. At least while I last in this phase, I feel really thankful for whatever I have. From the heart.

Getting back to old loves

One of which was the HINDU Crossword. When I was in JNTU, I was a regular with it. The kind that waited eagerly every morning for the newspaper to be delivered, yeah :) Then life happened and I slowly lost touch with it. Renewed it for sometime when my parents were around back in 2005 and lost it again. Since we now get the HINDU delivered, I am getting back to it. I managed to solve one puzzle to a decent extent a couple of weeks back and this made me very happy.

I am trying to juggle that with a lot of other things, so not able to spend as much time as I would like with it but whatever little it is, makes me feel good ;)