Untouchability Still in Rural Areas

Chotto Mind's Blog: Untouchability Still in Rural Areas

The Hindu system of untouchability is still in India's countryside even through there is the fear for law and rising reserchers have seemed to take off some of the devastating rules. These report is based on the National Law School of Bangalore which made a study on Protection of Civil Rights Act on untouchability funded by the Union social justice ministry. These methods were found in Andhara Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal.

Out of the 648 reserchers, 516 were not allowed in the temples and 151 were not allowed to take out processions of their deities. 581 were allowed drumbeat in marrige. 16% of the non-Dalits questioned about SCs (survey counters) being barred from temple activities. Out of those questioned, 13% refused to answer. With 591 invited for wedding feasts, the improvement was still stopped. Around 29% said they wait for others to finish eating before they can eat while 20% non-SCs said they expected SCs to clean the plates.

Many other rules such as these still exists and not to mention, the same lower class being affected till today. On the link below, you can get the complete results of the survey taken by the reserchers.
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Love Aaj Kal : Movie Review

Directed By-
Imitiaz Ali

Produced By-
Saif Ali Khan and Dinesh Vijan

Featuring-
Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Rishi Kapoor, Rahul Khanna..


The drought of good movies that seemed to have taken over Bollywood from the past few months ends with Love Aaj Kal releasing this week. Directed by Imitiaz Ali, Love Aaj Kal in one word is Fantastic. Keeping his previous stint of success with him Imitiaz Ali has delivered a love story that is narrated in a surprisingly innovative way. Shot in different parts of London, San Francisco, Old-Delhi and Punjab, Love Aaj Kal shows a fantastic blend of two love stories one in the past -"Love Kal" and the other in the present - "Love Aaj" crisscrossed, linking the past to the present.

Love Aaj Kal is a cross of two love stories, one of Jai Vardhan Singh( Saif Ali Khan) andMeera Pandit(Deepika Padukone) the other of Veer Singh(Saif Ali Khan/Rishi Kapoor) and Harleen Kaur (Shweta Gulati/Neetu Singh). Jai and Meera two modern independent career oriented people living in London fall in love and as times pass by, decide to break up and move on with their respective careers in a rather happy way with an unusual break up-party unlike other break up's. Here's when he meets Veer Singh (Rishi Kapoor) a owner of a coffee shop, who keeps hinting Jai of the mistakes that he is making considering the break up with Meera. Very soon, Veer Singh( Rishi Kapoor) is then seen narrating his love story with Harleen back in Punjab years ago. The stories of Jai and Veer are then played alternately showing the obvious overlapping instances between both the love stories. The story post Jai's break up and the various fun moments is for you to figure it out yourself.


Love Aaj Kal doesn't really disappoint you at any level irrespective of what expectations you had with the movie. The highlight of the movie is the naive love story of Veer and Harleen, that brings with it a lot of innocent-natural-spontaneous moments that you will surely enjoy and relish even after your out of the theater. Beautifully done are the links between the two stories with hint of light humor.

Imitiaz Ali has yet again selected and used his resources intelligently. Saif Ali Khan impresses you with both Jai and young Veer's role playing it quite convincingly. Deepika Padukone's performance is average and is definitely impressive in certain parts of the movie. Rishi Kapoor is good and delivers a fun performance. Rahul Khanna is seen on a role thats quiet and there's not much for him in the movie. Debutant Shweta Gulati looks raw with her acting and yet is bang on for the role of Harleen surprisingly making you like her as the movie progresses.

The music by Pritam is stupendous and simply one of his best composed albums. The picturisation and the songs compliment each other really well. Tracks like "Chor Bazaari", "Twist", "Yeh Doorian".. being the highlights of the album

Imitiaz Ali has literally left no stone unturned to give Love Aaj Kal that classic refreshing feel.
I will go with 8 BOP's for Imitiaz Ali's Love Aaj Kal.





Don't miss this flick.

P.S: BOP stands for Buckets of Popcorn. New rating system instead of stars, as this site is transforming into new review site. More reviews at- www.raghavthecritic.blogspot.com

A DreaM DaTe..!!

Remembering the most beautiful day of my life with my girl..

A n a N y A



Imagine your first date with the girl you love the most on St.Valentines Day itself,you people will say "What's so special in that,a million would have a date like that?" Well try to imagine this - Your first date with the girl you love the most on St.Valentines day,Your girl crossing a thousand Kms for the date,Spending the day with you and returning back the very same day,6 hours of togetherness with a promise of a lifetime,all of this when you meet each other for the very First time..!!


Confused? Try reading out the tale of love..


Ananya and I became friends through a mutual friend,who did nothing good till date but one thing - he was a medium set up by God himself to make us meet.She's from Delhi and i'm from Nagpur,a thousand miles apart.From sharing jokes online to Pj's through sms I tried everything to impress her,to get her attention.Hell,I got it!I proposed to her on 21st Nov,after a long session of leg pulling she said a "YES!"And here we were,in a soulful pact with each other,a pact to give each other all the happiness and love.The flames of love started burning bright.The cupid had struct and he made us fall madly in love with each other.A love free from every selfish need.We never saw each other,We never met each other!Still we fell in love!Soon the mobile network "Airtel" found half of it's revenue coming from us with the phone calls never coming to end.People around wondering if we both were planning to build a nuclear weapon togetherly by talking so intensly for hours.It went on and on until it was two and half months.

The fire was burning inside.The fire to see each other,meet each other.But how?

Moreover Valentines day was coming over,we had to be together in some way.For others God may find the way,for us she did!She decided to come.She booked a ticket for Nagpur.She had nobody in Nagpur but just me,still she decided to come trusting me with everything.I was flatterred and all in love with her again.Here it was 'Our first date on St.Valentines day itself,The dream date'.I'll be watching her for the first time,i'll be meeting her for the first time.For a moment i felt like a 5 year old going to get wet in the rain for the first time.Yes'it was the rain of my life.The rain of love..

"I've to make it special for her",I spoke to my heart.

With her favourite Orchids and carnations in my hand I went to the airport.I was damn nervous,I could feel the shiver in my legs.I think when love is in the air everybody can feel it and that's what happened to me throughout the day.A man looking at me said to me watching the flowers in my hands,"Girlfriend?,Valentines day?".I said,"Yeah,how do you now ?".He replied back,"I can see it on your face".
Back their in the flight my princess was receiving tips to relax from a fellow lady sitting besides her who could see her nervous too.

She came.She conquered.She became the queen of my life just in one moment when she came out of the airport.My jaw dropped as i was watching the most beautiful girl ever.She came and I gave her the flowers asking her trying to make a conversation,"How are the flowers?"."Beautiful",she said blushing away bringing the colour of love on her cheeks."Has to be,they are for a beautiful girl",I said still stunned at her beauty.

She sat on my bike keeping her hand on my shoulders(She had to otherwise she was too nervous to do that).I took her to a nearby CCD where I had made a arrangement for a table.I made her see a note of love i had written for her on a board featuring messages by lovers as a surprise.I gave a her big card with poems written by me on everyside of it below her photo i had pasted in it.She had tears in her eyes as she read -

"Oceans deep and long,
affection soothing and warm,
In this fill of liar,
your truth I admire,
Innocence of a child,
Stength opf the wild,
Naughtyness the spice,
Is what i see in your eyes..!!"

A few lines completely describing her.

The manager of the cafe was a friend of mine,I convinced him to play songs of my choice(Ofcourse they were all her favourites).As the song "Dilko tumse Pyaar Hua" started playing,I started singing it for her holding her soft hand in my hands.People around us stopped doing everything just to watch us getting lost in each other.A group of school guys and girls looked in and smiled as i kissed her on her cheeks after the song.I kept telling her how beautiful she I found her,how much crazily I was in love with her.Our eyes met for a second then looked down making us more nervous again and again.The house was on fire with the flames of love burning brightly and everybody tried becoming a witness to it.


We came out of there.She sat on my bike again,it was more special because she had never been on a bike with anyone before.We saw some "Shiv sena" people trying to stop us.But I guess Shiv Sena too recognises pure love.They let us go without saying anything.We roamed around the whole day until it was time for her to go back again.
She boarded the flight.We had tears of joy for we realised we were soulmates now.My cell beeped as i saw the text message from her -

"Lifetime membership confirmed.Thanks for coming in my life.I love you baby"

I smiled to myself feeling even more in love with her.

It has been nearly 2 years now,but still every moment of that day is every fresh in me.For i was born again on that day,born again to love to get love.

That is surely the best day of my life,My dream date!

Her love is eternal and pure and so is she!

I love you baby!

Wanna be with you all my life!

Autopsy of Civilization

WARNING : VIOLENCE IS DEPICTED IN THE FOLLOWING POEM.

This poem is a dedication to the scifi game and the movie 'resident evil' - where human race suffers extinction due to the sick experiments of a biotech company for the sake of profits.

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Merciless invasion deep into the crust

Bones twisted beyond imagination,

Burned bodies lying upside down

Skull deformation, this nameless extinction

Shackles of blood rusted barbwire

Tormented visions of the past echoes

A civilization burned by its own fire

Child turned slaves, mother turned whores

Defiant creature in its own miserable curse

Deriving pleasure from an undeniable apathy

Where xenophobia becomes the truest friend

Where pain speaks through a miserable telepathy

Collapse of every ideologies like grains of sand

A disgusting mutant with basic survival instincts

Where poison quenches the extreme thirst

Where nothing ever makes it a place for reasoning

Horizons beyond the horizons awaits in black

A silent wrath with a chaos of perfect demarcation

By the evening they carry the dead in the sacks

By morning another countdown for a fresh annihilation

Hollowness based economy, Deception based capital

Unholy within every sections of the paralyzed mind

Remorselessness has made the sickness immortal

Portraits of mental holocaust , artist for the blind

Insanity corporation, wizards of biochemical hazards

Unclaimed new born , ripped from the skin and torn

Into the windshield of slaughtered humanity

Picture this process for thousands years long

Without a name and face , it grows abnormally

Unaware of its origin, unaware of its quantum reality

Just a purpose of living without a purpose

Its only music is the sound of inevitability

No reason needed anymore

Severely tortured death becomes the order of the day

No conscience needed anymore

Shadows of the blanked past has painted the smiles away

TEACHERS GOING BERSERK..! (who new they can be their own nightmare sometimes)

TEACHERS CAUUGHT WITH THEIR OWN NIGHTMARE..!!.!!!!
( at my college...)

**** and people here That are mentioned are my classmates..( found this bit from our class community) ***

Rohan asking mechanical teacher...."How do we SCREW'....and later....'What to do after we have SCREWED'.....( This happened wen we were checking out the lathe machine)

Math teacher saying....."..its compulsory for those who want to"...

Our EC teacher wen she was pissed at us for constant noise in the class..
"I know what is the sound from inside and what is the sound from outside!!!!".....She is Jhatang trust me..!!!

"Dont murmur on my backside" ( Dont know who said this..I was revolted laughing my ass off..)

Our maha maayi EC teacher again ... "We have to 'anal ice' the circuit properly.."

My friends Microbio sir..."The cell wil become die" (fuck...good shit man..!)

One of my classmates(confidential) spelt Jacob as "JACKUP"!!!!

Lab attender in power electronics lab..." Don't take anything ..., take only that thing.."

Our electrical teacher dictating a problem..." The stator has 'yaaair' gaps of......."
( pronounced as AIR GAPS )

Our VP...we were being told off for making a teacher cry.." We all come to teach here and you people should learn somthing..this is a temple of education..(yawn..!)..We all work very hard..and YEARN ( *TING* again..YEARN) the money..! (Typical tamil accent..) :-P