OLD~- GOLD

Old Age...
It was my first year, ‘Lady Sri Ram’ BA in Psychology... and Boy was I happy. My deep seated interest, perhaps for the comfort scene that it symbolizes, was to get hired at an old age home as a counsellor. Though now it makes me think... Is there an automatic presumption here that senior citizens need support? Let’s see...
The first teacher I truly humbly loved at LSR was Parul ma’am. Take me back someone! (*sniffs loud*)...she took General Psychology and introduced me to the term – Gerontology. Studies about old people.
I didn’t explore any further, not because seemingly I lost interest(?)... But because the fast turmoil that finding direction can sometimes become... simply sticking to syllabus and day-to-day work was accomplishment enough. As a psychology graduate 6 years later, my agenda here indeed, is to just dedicate an article to heavenly ideas that my mother sometimes devise!
She takes it that since the real work of parents finishes when the kids take smilingly to their OWN lives, anything that comes n the way of settling couples and parents needs to be tackled. No(!), PLEASE don’t just presume that she is being All-super good since her idea seems to reflect the Western world’s “I’d rather be own my own” stuff, mostly judged as ‘attitude’ or ‘individualistic’ arenas. Ahem.
So what exactly should this refer? This is to convey that should any sincere newly wed couple, so to say the ‘newer generation’, seek to devote finer energy support to career and family (considering the hurdles even these seem to have become!), sitting and showing the positive side of shifting to an old age home might serve the purpose in less ‘inhumane’ fashion as depicted in most bollywood and even real-indian scene. This doesn’t undermine the sacred scene of joint families, the fun of seeing one’s grandkids everyday, and the simple availability of everyday elderly nick picks-cum-suggestions-cum-guidance... this is to highlight that some parents INDEED would prefer having their own-like company, sharing black-and-white screen days, making efforts to stay active (which could get overshadowed by fast urban life often seen as ‘better’), making an assumption that their kids are indeed comfortably set into their schedules and serving nation and community as offshoots of their sincere hardwork.
Thanks everyone for taking time to read the undeveloped nestling hovering idea... Since the ‘empty nest syndrome’ seems to have been chirped about way too often- to see the other side of coin. Thanks!

p.s. i love you... Extempore ;)

I happen to be a person who RARELY dislikes a movie. This however, is just as long as nothing better to be done is at hand. Seriously speaking, be it sunset or sunrise, am addicted to ‘doing nothing’.
SO!!!
p.s. I love you was suggested, sent and mostly talked about by a sweet cousin and the friends I have tamed (wink) over the last two years. Though very particular about keeping myself afr-eshed in case of ever B(h)ollywood flick, me went stale with this one. That being done, my feedback:
Sniff. Sniffy sniff. That’s the sentimental aspect. Sugary marmalacious—lustful lumpsome... Makes your heart weep, makes the eyes watery. OMG – Anyone who dislikes this movie should get himself/herself cross examined. Oh-alright, me is bing too melodramatic, but then half the praising seems to be (also) engraved through EVERY person who saw this movie. Upon that, I was being repeatedly requested cum ordered to watch it.
Ummmm. Letters that arrive after demise of the writer.
Fishy.
He steals every girl’s heart. He seems to be around when he is not. That’s Jerry. But, make that totally ‘as portrayed by girls’. In reality, he might just be any other guy... Personally, me didn’t find him too sexy or like-able... Funny and considerate – Yes.
Speaking of the heroine... The charm would have missed without her two silly spooky friends... Throughout...
The theme, direction, naturality and totality is fun... Must watch must watch!
YEAH I KNOW IT’S ONE IDIOTIC REVIEW. COULDN’T DO BETTER!

Women Empowerment

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
When I was told the Presentation had to be on ‘Women Empowerment’, my first thought was “Shit”. I apologize for the language, but, since the topic has been so often spoken about, mentioned in debates, and discussed over feminist classes, that my interest began to shudder.
It implies that it doesn’t excite me much, speaking about women upliftment, empowerment, feminism and the like. However, the decision to talk on this topic also emerged from within me. Should I wonder ‘why’?
Maybe yes, maybe no. The biggest and all encompassing term ‘Feminism’ has been subjected to much discussion. Having studied in a feminist institution myself, I can’t help, but, make myself aware of the facts. So, what is feminism, the buzz word?
[Invites answers]
To simplify, Feminism is EQUAL RIGHTS IN EVERY SPHERE OF LIFE. This doesn’t really pertain to just women. Just actions for both sexes is the main aim of feminism. That women have been the victimized section, apart from certain exceptions, can’t be denied. But, this same harping, and misuse of extra concern by women is sensibly noted by men. Sex not being an agenda of feminism, RIGHTS are more like it. Individual rights. Human rights.
Feminists—that is, persons practicing feminism—can be persons of either sex.
Women today shine alike their male counterpart is a cliché. That 21st century girl has dreams as lofty as skies, can’t be skipped. So what is the catch?
1. Of the 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the globe, 70 percent are women. For these women, poverty doesn’t just mean scarcity and want. It means rights denied, opportunities curtailed and voices silenced.
1. Women are paid way less than their male counterparts, for same and equal work.
2. Throughout world, women hold only 7% of the property.
3. Certain cultures in third world states consider women as cattle – to be kept, fed, and used to profit building.
4. Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, according to the United Nations Millennium Campaign to halve world poverty by the year 2015. The overwhelming majority of the labor that sustains life – growing food, cooking, raising children, caring for the elderly, maintaining a house, hauling water – is done by women, and universally this work is accorded low status and no pay. The ceaseless cycle of labor rarely shows up in economic analyses of a society’s production and value.
5. Women earn only 10 percent of the world’s income.

In India, an NGO project working
with adolescent girls noted that
“they are often seen only as temporary
people who will cease to be – at least for
the father – once they have disappeared
inside a marriage.”

MEASURES:
Instead of just holding presentations and awareness camps, for populations that don’t need it; let the pitfalls of female foeticide reach nooks and corners of rural India.
Provide women with safe environment.
Reservations are just a baby step, empowering women needs psychological upliftment, a vision for themselves, and some perks like safe zones.
Ending all sorts of discrimination, oppression, and encouraging education should be the key ideas.
Conveying to the hard core patriarchical society that baby’s sex is not in the hands of mother.

Psychology of Women
Women and politics
Eve teasing
Datin issues
Safety ~