This city has gone to the dogs

U R living in the gutters if u dont know what happened this sunday night at Dhaula Kuan.

And its pathetic.
I am slightly cut off from the offline world these days, coz i am in front of this box most of the time. Oh, what a cozy and comfy this place is.Every one is so nice to me. But why isnt everyone the same to my friends who come down from the beautiful hills in the north-east.

I know this isnt organised, and i am sorry for that. But i really dont have words to express my anger. I read about the whole episode when i was munching on a Filet-o-fish grub at McD's this Monday with a frnd and i happened to see the headline on TOI kept there.

Screaming, the headline was, but i dint see any one waking up. Will anybody ever? When will we get out of our slumber? The way we treat women in particular, and all ppl frm the north-east in general. It HAS to change.

It is nauseating, when the shiv sena mouth piece says that, it is the way in which women dress, which is responsible for men behaving the way they do. Think about it, before you label me as another one of those feminist kinds. Because I am not. Is 4 inches of skin all that u need see to get turned on in that nasty way. This friend of mine, i was dining with (?) said, with the way they dress, walking out at 2 in the night, "yeh nahi hoga to kya hoga."
I mean, hello! ppl?!
Do men still have their brains in the head, or has it found place somewhere in their pants?

The ppl who do this, (RAPE is what i am talkin about, if u havent got it still), how do they go home and face their mamas and sisters (and wives and daughters). These are not always the gangster types, always the criminal types. These are very much 'normal' ppl. They have families, work in an office and go back home........

What will it take, to civilise these beasts? Shoot'em on the street, if nothing will. At least it will keep the others from turning into such parasites.

And the stuff about people, who we all love to call "chinkys" and make fun of. These are as human as u and i am. It is not their fault if they look different. Well YOU would look different if you go to their home. They're here not to make our lives worse, but to make their own, better. To look for better opportunities, better life, better education. And it is because we havent given them their fair share. We haven't given them what they need, at their home. We love to call the seven states in the north east a part of india, but dont really treat them as Indians. Most of us in the metropolises are so busy in our own comfi lives that we give a damn about a woman being raped by the army in a distant land, or houses burning or students rioting on the street because they have nothing better to do. My friends are as hardworking and intelligent as we, mainlanders are, if not more.

I dont get as many stares when i ride with another gal, as i do with Sam, who happens to hail frm Meghalaya. I mean, why can't ppl GROW UP. Give them space. The city is as much theirs as it is mine. Just as not everybody in delhi understands telugu, tamil, marathi.....similarly it isnt funny if u dont understand assamese, or mizo. If they speak heavily accented hindi and aren't always able to put their ideas across, d u want to make an effort to understand them, or do you want to laugh them off?

Studying school or becoming graduates doesnt make us educated......it makes us literate.
GET THE DIFFERENCE? That guy selling sabji under the tree, near my home, isnt "LITERATE", but he is EDUCATED & CIVILISED, to the extent, that he knows how to talk to women, to behave with his children, even when he is slightly inebriated, and doesnt bash up his wife at the slightest provocation.

I know young execs working in reputed companies, using public means of transportation, wouldnt think twice before forcefully brushing past a woman, to get his share of cheap thrill. RESPECT, doesnt only have to be outwardly manifest. It is when u think about the other gender with respect, will u be able to alter your thought processes.

Please god, bless the people of this city, and make it a little safer for my female friends to have some harmless fun. At all hours.