Wedding Woes…
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on August 16, 2008 – 7:10 pm -One of my Aunt married a Muslim and obviously converted due to the very reason. I was invited to this wedding of her son and believe me, i was excited like hell. I’ve never been to a Muslim wedding before and this was my first time. I aspired to acquaint myself with my aunts in laws, get to know them more and hang out with them more since i’ve never done that all of these years during my childhood and i decided its time to set the record straight.
Coming from a typical Hindu Brahmin family, although there was not any opposition to this wedding of my aunt to her muslim boyfriend in a way the family ties were kind of loosened and broken and none of us family guys really kept in touch with her and i felt this was my chance to set it straight. Of course when she comes over to family occasions at our house there is always a distance because of the difference in cultural aspects such as language, behavior and perspectives. I frankly did not like this much but never did much to change things until now.
I pack my gear and im 2 hours early for the wedding and im thinking im gonna have a great time. Little did i know that i was going to be the biggest fool of all times sitting here like duck to witness sexism, male chauvinism and trade in the name of a wedding go on right in front of my eyes while i could not find the nerve to say nothing or do nothing in the situation.
The wedding hall was very small and all the men were lodged in the ground floor where the wedding ceremony took place and guess what? All the women were debarred from staying downstairs and sent to the first floor, including the Bride whom i never got to meet in this entire agenda of the wedding. The grooms father paid a sum of "13 grams of gold" and purchased the bride for his son, the groom. The agreement or the contract of the wedding was signed and everybody went to dig into the food like it was nobody’s business.
I ask this guy who looked like a politician, about the bride and he said that the wedding was over and the bride will be seeing the guests in the evening at the reception where she will be together with the groom. It strikes me as the most inhumane and barbaric act of sexism on a woman, in the 21st century that based on some book a pedophile wrote 100′s of years back you don’t even look at the fact that there is someone important uninvited into the wedding, let me correct that. "Her Wedding", the bride!
While being repeatedly preached about the importance of gender equality in an Anglo Indian school for 12 years, running around a 2 day occasion of the bride and groom doing various religious stuff at a Hindu wedding and the mutual consent at a Christian Anglo Indian weddings that i’ve been to i frankly find not having a person who is getting married not to be during the wedding process so unacceptable and sadistic in nature.
Today while i finally mustered up the courage to post these pictures and write these words from my head, i admit that im afraid of such people. The world Islamaphobia as i realize is not some cooked up stuff by the liberals, it exists very well in real life and there is ample evidence for it and i feel it first hand.
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Moving On..
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on July 28, 2008 – 1:15 am -
More blasts, more people killed, more rubbish useless statements that aren’t worth a paisa from our world class politicians and leaders. We still move on after burning/cremating our dead and yelling a few words in pain, shedding a few tears in despair and accept the fact of the matter that this is India and our lives are cheaper than a white man or black man elsewhere. No racism here, honestly.
When a Caucasian woman can complain “suspecting people taking inappropriate pictures” of her, when the bitch ventured out at 2 AM in the morning with two complete strangers in an alien country that she stepped into 15 hours ago (despite her husband’s orders to the driver to drop her in the hotel room, which she promptly ignored by skipping the driver and her own car) and the cops closing down every pub in town at 10 PM and frisking every brown man and woman on the road, even the innocent everyday call center job guy/girl driving to work with his/her company badge/ID.
What makes this brown man’s life negotiable? Is it because we are brown, dear government of India or is it because we spend in rupees when you could expect dollars and pounds? The white man left in 1947 or rather we chased him out! I wonder why we are continuously trying to kiss his ass, still?
What I would like to know is does India have an “Intelligence” department? If we do are they doing something or are they still jerking off to kinky DVD’s in front of their computers? Why am I getting the feeling that this is total intelligence failure or maybe lack of intelligence?
I now start getting forwarded SMS about some bomb alert in Chennai tomorrow and to avoid public places where there is a lot of crowd. Do people even know what they are talking about? Do you know that you are talking about a country like India where tailgating and sometimes bruising the bumper of the vehicle in the front is normally the accepted way of driving? Do you even remember how people come and beg you to “adjust” with an unreserved ticket in a reserved train compartment, when there are already 5 seated in a seat for 3?
There is no such thing called “not crowded” places in India. Oh wait! There are family planning hospitals and corporation public schools. It’s always empty and we never go there, not even take shelter when it’s raining like cats and dogs. I guess all of us are safe there. I guess we finally found some use for these places, our crores of rupees blown and completely safe and inhabited bomb shelters!!!
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Hell’s Angel – Mother Teresa
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on April 8, 2008 – 12:22 am -A perspective nobody wants to hear about Mother Teresa. One does not need to be an expert in social work or political history to open your eyes and see what is reality. Just take into account what she claimed to be doing and then compare it with what she actually did in reality and you see an enormous gap in the data.
So where did all the money go and where is all that 1500 plus feeding centres established by Mother Teresa in Calcutta? I mean, I was there in Calcutta not a year ago, all I saw was like one broke ass centre which was accessible to a hand picked few Dalit Christians who possessed the food card that allowed you entry into the home that gave away free food.
Secondly, where are those 15000 plus odd people that are fed? The last time I heard it was nothing more than 300 people out of which close to 190 are employees of the Mother’s Home themselves.
What more, with all the money and funding she had the Home was nothing better to a refugee camp in Africa. They provide minimal medicines to their sick and ailing inmates, like say brufen, anacin, procin kind of basic tablets doctors do not even prescribe anymore because of their well known side effects and ineffectiveness and also because of the availability of better drugs in the present time.
Then there are mentally challenged women who are almost nude. They don’t have proper clothes to cover what a woman needs to cover up in public space, beasts and crotch. Yes, you can see all of that here and no you don’t need to be a pervert to keep a peep at the cleavage, Mother’s home makes it easier for you by purposefully not dressing up their inmates properly. Why? Because they want you to see starvation, sickness and pain everywhere so that your money will flow into their bank accounts.
They don’t treat the sick well because they believe in salvation of the human soul through pain. Jesus Christ suffered at the cross. Similarly they believe in suffering at the hands of disease and attaining salvation through pain.
Hygienic standards, oh yes. They are the best, I could say and I could not be more sarcastic. There is a 6 by 4 bed that everybody lies in, all of them lined up in a hall. No room to move, no adequate ventilation because there are not much fans for the huge hall but for a few. With a high number of communicable disease and the inmates not being able to bathe in a daily basis due to water shortage (because the home cannot afford to buy water, apparently) infection is a critical issue that no one gives a damn about in this place.
It’s very confusing to me, Hindu temples like Tirumala and Tirupathi have to pay taxes (approximately US$700 million) and declare their income which is used for maintaining churches and mosques. However Mother’s home and any other church/mosque for that matter have a free run here tax free unquestioned about their income and expenditure activities. We know for fact that donations from India alone cross approximately 80 Million US dollars every year.
Where is that money, why do these people have to live in such pathetic conditions despite such enormous funds at their disposal. If this were for anyone else "Human Rights Violation" the press would have screamed, oh well its a Christian outfit and its Mother Teresa, I mean its not some ordinary pauper whom you can do all your yelling on.
All is fair in love and war but Mother Teresa, sorry bitch, you aren’t getting my money. I will give it to the local church or nunnery who really feed the poor and take care of them and voluntarily declare their income and expenses and don’t convert people and secretly baptise people in the name of charity. You are dead anyway’s and you can peacefully burn in hell if there is one in the first place.
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Hell’s Angel – Mother Teresa
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on April 7, 2008 – 6:52 pm -A perspective nobody wants to hear about Mother Teresa. One does not need to be an expert in social work or political history to open your eyes and see what is reality. Just take into account what she claimed to be doing and then compare it with what she actually did in reality and you see an enormous gap in the data.
So where did all the money go and where is all that 1500 plus feeding centres established by Mother Teresa in Calcutta? I mean, I was there in Calcutta not a year ago, all I saw was like one broke ass centre which was accessible to a hand picked few Dalit Christians who possessed the food card that allowed you entry into the home that gave away free food.
Secondly, where are those 15000 plus odd people that are fed? The last time I heard it was nothing more than 300 people out of which close to 190 are employees of the Mother’s Home themselves.
What more, with all the money and funding she had the Home was nothing better to a refugee camp in Africa. They provide minimal medicines to their sick and ailing inmates, like say brufen, anacin, procin kind of basic tablets doctors do not even prescribe anymore because of their well known side effects and ineffectiveness and also because of the availability of better drugs in the present time.
Then there are mentally challenged women who are almost nude. They don’t have proper clothes to cover what a woman needs to cover up in public space, beasts and crotch. Yes, you can see all of that here and no you don’t need to be a pervert to keep a peep at the cleavage, Mother’s home makes it easier for you by purposefully not dressing up their inmates properly. Why? Because they want you to see starvation, sickness and pain everywhere so that your money will flow into their bank accounts.
They don’t treat the sick well because they believe in salvation of the human soul through pain. Jesus Christ suffered at the cross. Similarly they believe in suffering at the hands of disease and attaining salvation through pain.
Hygienic standards, oh yes. They are the best, I could say and I could not be more sarcastic. There is a 6 by 4 bed that everybody lies in, all of them lined up in a hall. No room to move, no adequate ventilation because there are not much fans for the huge hall but for a few. With a high number of communicable disease and the inmates not being able to bathe in a daily basis due to water shortage (because the home cannot afford to buy water, apparently) infection is a critical issue that no one gives a damn about in this place.
It’s very confusing to me, Hindu temples like Tirumala and Tirupathi have to pay taxes (approximately US$700 million) and declare their income which is used for maintaining churches and mosques. However Mother’s home and any other church/mosque for that matter have a free run here tax free unquestioned about their income and expenditure activities. We know for fact that donations from India alone cross approximately 80 Million US dollars every year.
Where is that money, why do these people have to live in such pathetic conditions despite such enormous funds at their disposal. If this were for anyone else "Human Rights Violation" the press would have screamed, oh well its a Christian outfit and its Mother Teresa, I mean its not some ordinary pauper whom you can do all your yelling on.
All is fair in love and war but Mother Teresa, sorry bitch, you aren’t getting my money. I will give it to the local church or nunnery who really feed the poor and take care of them and voluntarily declare their income and expenses and don’t convert people and secretly baptise people in the name of charity. You are dead anyway’s and you can peacefully burn in hell if there is one in the first place.
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The Invisible Children
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on April 4, 2008 – 4:38 pm -The Invisible Children
I came across this video from a friends GMail Status. 1000′s of Children, abducted, killed, mutilated and being made to live in nothing but fear every moment of their life because some stupid woman was a witch and she died and some guy now claims to be her cousin and does witchery to overthrow the Govt. of Uganda? What the holy crap is happening here?
I have no belief that we are in the 21st century. I’m reassured by such happenings that we are mere cavemen who know nothing other than hunting and humping for survival.
Every single day they hide in the homes and every single night they walk miles to sleep in the Bus Stop Verandah and Hospital Urinals and Sewers so that the John asshole terrorist guy from the bushes does not abduct them. 9 Year olds with AK-47 guns and they kill like perfect, mentally deranged and delusioned i’m disgraced to acknowledge things such as this exist in todays world.
Surprisingly, every damn child and every damn African in there speaks marginally good English. Everyone of them have a name and its “John”, “Jacob”, “Mark” and so on. Why the heck are these people speaking English having Christian names and still having to suffer like this? I will tell you why. The English are here too, converting and preaching as they always did with every freaking place they went. Good, they speak English. We can now know whats happening there but hey, when you can find the time and money to teach them English and convert them to Christianity, i ask, why can’t you spend some of that money and buy weapons and arms for the Ugandan Govt. to suppress these rebels who kill the children?
The USA sends aids, its barely enough and it does not contain crucial things. Food, Medicines and Clothes. I don’t know what else they can send in a gunny bag printed USA in bold?! Why isn’t anyone hearing these people. The vedio has some 9000 hits on youtube. 9000? Damn it, video’s of Islamic Pricks shouting “Alla who akbar” have 1 million views! Oh did i forget to mention that these children are in the verge of their puberty and that exposes them to sex related danger because there is no sex education. Children use plastic rags as condom’s and re-use the same plastic rags from the sewer repeatedly as contraceptives.
Wonderful! I’m so filled up to my neck i cant speak more a word. If you think you can’t really do anything about it then i suggest at least you can blow Rs. 600 (US $15.00) and buy a T-shirt. Yes, i know its expensive for an Indian but hell, A Large Vodka in a Pub costs Rs. 750. A good John Players Trouser costs Rs. 1700. An Adidas T-shirt costs Rs. 779/-. All of this money goes to the bank account of some rich dude like Vijay Mallya.
Rest assured, your US$10 is going to the Children of Uganda, hopefully.
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The Invisible Children
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on April 4, 2008 – 11:08 am -The Invisible Children
I came across this video from a friends GMail Status. 1000′s of Children, abducted, killed, mutilated and being made to live in nothing but fear every moment of their life because some stupid woman was a witch and she died and some guy now claims to be her cousin and does witchery to overthrow the Govt. of Uganda? What the holy crap is happening here?
I have no belief that we are in the 21st century. I’m reassured by such happenings that we are mere cavemen who know nothing other than hunting and humping for survival.
Every single day they hide in the homes and every single night they walk miles to sleep in the Bus Stop Verandah and Hospital Urinals and Sewers so that the John asshole terrorist guy from the bushes does not abduct them. 9 Year olds with AK-47 guns and they kill like perfect, mentally deranged and delusioned i’m disgraced to acknowledge things such as this exist in todays world.
Surprisingly, every damn child and every damn African in there speaks marginally good English. Everyone of them have a name and its “John”, “Jacob”, “Mark” and so on. Why the heck are these people speaking English having Christian names and still having to suffer like this? I will tell you why. The English are here too, converting and preaching as they always did with every freaking place they went. Good, they speak English. We can now know whats happening there but hey, when you can find the time and money to teach them English and convert them to Christianity, i ask, why can’t you spend some of that money and buy weapons and arms for the Ugandan Govt. to suppress these rebels who kill the children?
The USA sends aids, its barely enough and it does not contain crucial things. Food, Medicines and Clothes. I don’t know what else they can send in a gunny bag printed USA in bold?! Why isn’t anyone hearing these people. The vedio has some 9000 hits on youtube. 9000? Damn it, video’s of Islamic Pricks shouting “Alla who akbar” have 1 million views! Oh did i forget to mention that these children are in the verge of their puberty and that exposes them to sex related danger because there is no sex education. Children use plastic rags as condom’s and re-use the same plastic rags from the sewer repeatedly as contraceptives.
Wonderful! I’m so filled up to my neck i cant speak more a word. If you think you can’t really do anything about it then i suggest at least you can blow Rs. 600 (US $15.00) and buy a T-shirt. Yes, i know its expensive for an Indian but hell, A Large Vodka in a Pub costs Rs. 750. A good John Players Trouser costs Rs. 1700. An Adidas T-shirt costs Rs. 779/-. All of this money goes to the bank account of some rich dude like Vijay Mallya.
Rest assured, your US$10 is going to the Children of Uganda, hopefully.
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