Infidelity among men and women

Today morning,in radio the topic for debate was "Is infidelity a territory of men?" Though always I wanted to listen to these debates most of the time it would be my breakfast time. So I won't be able to listen it. But today I decided to listen it at any cost. Sure, I missed some part of it still it turned out to be good. There were three panelists. A lady who is a counsellor, an IT professional who is also a member of All India Men's Welfare Association(I never knew such an association existed) and a psychiartist. The lady panelist told the men are more prone to infidelity than women. She quoted from history the stories like Kannaki. The IT professional told that in India the punishment for infidelity is only for men(Section 97) not for women.i.e. evn if a husband same to know that his wife is unloyal to him the person getting punishment will be the other man not his wife although she is also involved in it. Wow...I think when our frist law commission drafted IPC they would have never imagined Indian women will never be unfaithful to their men. Anyway today we know how the situation is and that debate ended with the conclusion that in the case of infidelity both men and women are equally responsible for a man is unloyal to his wife 'coz of another woman unless and otherwise he is a gay. Still all were happy for the fact that in the insitution of marriage Indian marriage is the most trust worthy than anyone else' in this world.I remember reading a survey conducted by a magazine which reveals appalling number of extra marital affairs in Indian metros a few years before.May be its a small minority but still that is the reality. We also have movies and daily soaps which endorses this and the TRP rate for all these we all know how high.So as the number of divorces increases day by day and trying to emulate all which is Western or American I wonder how long we can boast about the institution of marriage in India.

Raining in Chennai

Seems like Chennai is gonna get wet though the down pour is not yet started.Thanks to Laila, the cyclone which has been formed in Bay of Bengal and is geeting intensified further. After Katrina, Nisha, Aila and now its Laila. I don't know why the scientists always name all these destructive cyclones with girls' names? May be they are different faces of mother nature.Yesterday itself I heard its raining heavily in other parts of Tamil Nadu. But in this season its a miracle for Chennai to get drenched. Atleast one day we can sleep peacefully without cursing the extreme summer heat.Anyway I hope this cyclone won't turn out to be a villain just like Aila in the last year which sucked all the moisture in atmosphere and caused shortage of rainfall throghout the country.
Update:I overheard one of my colleague saying that its raining outside.Cool.When you are inside your so called office you will never know its day or night outside let alone raining.

Random Thoughts

Today is May 17. More than half the month is gone. Feel like time nowadays moves very fast. May be in the speed of light. Though it is little exaggerated.But its true. Once Monday comes within no time Friday also comes and two days which you call as weekend. On those two days you just wonder what shall I do or how can I spend this weekend. Before you reach on some conclusion its sunday night and you are opening your eyes on another Monday morning. And my weekend was also not so different from this. I too wasted my weekend with plans and thoughts but not putting anything in practice. Let me talk about something seems to be useful than just blabbering about how futile my weekend was.

May is the month in which lots of results are announced, the ones which may change your future upside down. Tenth and plus two results are out. I think CBSE results are yet to come.I am not much aware of CBSE happenings since I did all my schooling under state board. Now when I look back those were the days when you eagerly waited for the rank holders who scored the highest and stars among their friends.I used to read all the interviews given by the toppers though everytime they used to tell the same winning strategies, motivations and their goals in different voices with different faces.But now the authority has scrapped ranking system saying the ranking system contributes a lot of pressure to the student community and leads even to suicides. I really don't know how by just removing the ranking system we can reduce the pressure on students especially in the current scenario where the parents want their wards to secure first place among everywhere not only in studies but in extra curricular activities also. Today summer holidays are no more holidays but an opportuinity to train the kids for next standard or in some other activities with skilled trainers in all the fields. It has a schedule just like your school. So what's the use of having vaccation if you can't play and have fun or just chill and relax in the "hot sun"?But you can't turn your back from the reality then you will be behind this rat race. The motto of today's world is survival of the fittest and if you want to survive there is no other choice left out. Cool.. When I started writing I didn't have any idea what am I going to write, just started. But now feel good.And one question to you? Do you support ranking system? If you ask me I ll say I like ranking because it exists in all ways of our life whether you like it or not in some or other form. Then why can't you prepare for it from childhood.Ofcourse I oppose the blind competition without any concern for the fellow beings. But a healthy competition is always good for all.

The Meeting I attended

Just now I came back after attending an address by one of our top leaders in company. I don't have to explain how it would be right after you had a grand lunch. The leader came and talked something. Initially for a few minutes I stood but when my eyes couldn't stand anymore I decided to sit in a nearby seat. I was not able to see the person who was trying to inspire in vain when I sat. I thought I can rest give rest to my eyes as I do usually. But surprisingly I din't. Instead I tried to listen each and every word uttered by him.The reason?The person who was talking got a great voice.I was just enchanted by it. Well now this is the only thing which got my attention after all the speech and doubts clarifying session he had.
The conclusion: Sometimes lectures or speech can also be interesting if the speaker has got a captivating voice.

Train Journey - Onward

The past weekend was not so bad except for the train journey. It was a feast for eyes when I reached home seeing the flowers bloomed and full of greenery.

As usual I went home without preplanning. So obviously there were no tickets. I managed to get a WL ticket and went with one of my friends. But there were already two people coming with her. So it was like four of us travelling with one confirmed seat. Three of them sat on the upper birth which was confirmed. I sat on lower birth at the edge of it which was someone else' confirmed seat. It belonged to a tamil family visiting Kerala for vaccation. Now I wonder what's there to see in Kerala.
And because of all these people we are not getting tickets to go home. I sat there and get acquainted with the children. I didn't talk much for kids its difficult to understand my Tamil. I just asked what was tehir names and where they were going to. The answer for where they were going to was an open answer.They told Kerala.Now I don't know what shall I understand from it. I repeated the question for a few more times then gave up.So everything was going happily. Then came the villain. He asked my friend who has confirmed tiket to change her seat. Though she had agreed initially to change after the ticket checking later she had a change of mind. She said since three are sharing a single birth it was convenient to stretch the legs because in the opposite birth the small boy in the tamil family was sleeping. The answer obviously made this villain angry and he poured that on poor me who was sitting on lower birth. The villain knows this family. So he asked me why was I sitting there, wasn't that a disturbance for the lady who happened to be the
mom of these kids. I got up saying its no big deal and stood there. After he left that akka who was lying there told me that I could sit there instead of standing. I went and sat. By the time I got offers of help from other births also like I could keep my bag there and all.But I declined it politely. This akka adjusted so that I could sleep also. It was raining outside then. I tried to sleep in some weird positions and after sometime I went to upper birth and sat there where the small boy was sleeping. When the train reached palakkad he went down and I slept till my station reached. When I was getting down I smiled at the akka who was sleeping properly only then because of me. When I got down my friend came and lied there.

I thought that was vey hectic journey. but I changed that opinion when I travelled back to Chennai.Will post it as a new one.