Letter to God

Dear God,

This isn't a post for forgiveness , we have brought on this calamity on ourselves as a human race that had become a bunch of egg headed megalomaniacs . We bungled up big time and it's pandemic that is going to mutate later into something worse. In the last two months we have become a population united by a virus that has us on our knees killing without mercy and not differentiating between the rich or the poor, black or white , Hindu or Muslim or Christian . All the divides and the class lines drawn by us have been erased and it strikes all without any discrimination .

Covid-19 is a virus that was first detected by a start up company called the blue dot that found that there was a large amount of pneumonia cases in Wuhan way back in December and then slowly and as fast as magic it spiralled out of control and we know of it as it is now . I cannot stress the importance of social distancing and isolation and washing of hands , you've had that by all the messages , forwards and bomabardments of media .

The lockdown by the governments,sealing of the borders and laying down of rules and regulations is the only way we can tackle with this . 

As humans , rather than pointing out fingers who did what or when , we have abused , scarred , raped the ecosystem systematically without paying heed to the calamity . Yes,we have had warnings and God we haven't paid any attention. The hubris of mankind is that we think its not going out affect us , but is someone else's problem not realising we all are sinking together . 

You are having the last laugh , God .  I know maybe this is a great game plan of yours to slow us all down . We all were in this mad rush and now have time to take it slow , to be with our families, to read , to get to know each other and to be still .

 All we need is to reconnect with ourselves, our inner selves that has been burdened and weighted down with the rat race and  to be one up than the other the upmanship , to be better , to have more , it all seems futile now to shop , to buy and to hoard clothes or material things , when the next victim could be you . This forced introspection given to us by you , makes us realise that all we have is the time , which is transient and we are visitors on this planet , guardians for the future generations to come, and the animals and the flora and fauna were here before us . 

Maybe , this all was done to take a pause and reconnect . But , I bow  down to your bigger plans and know that you will find a path for us. In the meanwhile ,

Love Always .

Being a woman

Last night , I had a bunch of half -assed hooligans sitting in front of me who had also come to watch the movie that has been trending the charts since it was released.Thappad is a movie that is a must watch for everyone , and it has stayed with since last night and will do for as long as I live. Woman's Day is a day that was given to us to remember and resolve that how far we have come and how far we have to go . It is meant to celebrate the achievements and to recognise this power force in the paid economy , and more in the unpaid economy and the real Thanos . She is the glue that keeps and binds us all together.

Glance and see , she wakes up first and works as a silent well oiled machine that foresees everyone's needs , desires, anticipates everyone's wish before they even voice it . Does she get the respect , recognition she deserves or is she rough shod in every walk of her life , at the hands of the conditioning that is seeped so deep into our skewed society that she is ridiculed , hurt and beaten ,abused , degraded , demeaned, disgraced and physically violated , abused by sex , and subdued. 

We are battling the largest , scariest pandemic right now,but half the population is killed , abused and scarred just because they can , and there is no remorse over it .

These young boys in front me , kept on giggling , checking the Instagram story and using their snapchat . It was a movie and why have the screen lights on or why continue with the messaging and impertinent behaviour with complete disregard for the brevity of the movie .

I loved  Taapsee for her powerful portrayal as a woman who is wronged and tried to tell that her soul was hurt and she didn't have a problem with him but her self respect was injured and abused .Its a fight for her self respect for one and all , as she had given up herself her entity her being to be his wife and what did she get in return? She was told to shrug it off  because these thing happen and she should get over it and move on . A diamond bracelet was the apology but it was all about him , his promotion , his machoisim and his image , nothing about her . He got emasculated as she moved out , but her hurt is immaterial . 

How many of us truly are told to get over the hurt and move on for children , family , status , or being weak ? But what about the beautiful you , inside who shields her pain every time as that is what is expected from .

I applaud the courage of the director , the vision and thank you for making me realise what it means to be a woman . We can only give love forth , if we love ourselves first . 

And , no this not from Rumi or a forward . 

Happy woman's Day !