Break the barrier : SEXPLOITATION

Today, I was seeing some TEDIndia2009 talk videos. One talk by Sunitha Krishnan deeply influenced me. Her topic was SEXPLOITATION IN INDIA. She is the founder of a social organization called Prajwala, which helps trafficked woman and girls. She was very bold and was straight forward in putting her facts to the audience irrespective of the sensitivity of the topic. After seeing that I got an urge to contribute something to her cause and I decided to write a post.

Sunitha started of by showing pictures of three children of ages four, five and seven respectively and later told that these three were sexually exploited and were infected with HIV virus. That startled me to a great extent and I am sure it will to you also. This shows the cruelty of Indian men. How sex craving men are? To what extent they can go? All these questions have really disturbing answers and something needs to be done for that. Sunitha then told that she has saved around 3000 exploited woman and most of them have been infected with HIV. She then told that mostly every sex worker has been tortured to a great extent and those people are affected badly by that and are not able to come out of trauma easily. Also, an important point which she mentioned was the role of society in rehabilitation of such woman. The basic barrier to these people is the civil society who talks about these issues but never actually accept them as fellow beings. She gave an example of her friends who were working along with her in helping out woman. One day her mother became ill and she wanted a lady to take care of her and she asked Sunitha to arrange a woman and also said " I don't want one of our girls and please find someone else". This portrays the selfishness of human beings at a great level. It is just weird to see people telling various things but changing their decisions when it comes to them. She has rehabilitated many of these women by training them in welding, masonry, carpentry and other works which are generally considered to be done by men because these women have more will power to fight in the male dominant society. These women are working in many big companies now and making a living out of it. Finally she pleaded everyone to break the barrier and see them as one among us and not to see them as a victim or as a different person and also asked to pass on the information so that it creates awareness among fellow human beings.

Here is a You-tube link of her speech and interested people can watch it here.
Thanking-you.

The nature of human minds

It is more than a year since I made my last post. Those were days i had interest in computers and was full of energy. but slowly all the energy went away in due course of time. So now i return to post my feelings about my friend.

Friends are important part of life. I value my friends next to my parents. Friends help you the most in times of hardships. But sometimes, they are the creator of hardships in our life. When many people are against and you have your friend to support you, every problem can be tackled. But when our friend becomes the problem it gets complex. Thousand words that come from enemies don't hurt you much. A single word from a person who is close will shatter our heart so easily. I am telling all these because my mind is not at peace and it has been bruised by a good old friend of mine whose name i wouldn't like to disclose.

After all, life goes and you need to live it till your time comes. Awaiting comments.!!!

Mumbai terrorist ttck

On 27th of NovemberIndia faced another terrorist act which shook the whole nation. Terrorists carried out a well planned attack in various happening parts of Mumbai killing nearly 300 people. Hotel Taj, Oberai, Trident and Nariman house were targeted and terrorist held hostages for three long days. National security guard(NSG) commandos carried out the operation of killing those terrorist. many higher grade officers were killed in the operation. Also the terrorists first attacked the Chatrapathi Sivaji termnus first. The aftermath of the aact was massive and has caused huge loss to India.
Lets hope these never happen again.

My second blog

I have started another blog to put out my feeling on life. In that blog i have decided to write my opinions about various emotions in life. LIVE LIFE is the title there too but it is about how we can life the life. So please give it a try......
http://friendsandlove.wordpress.com

Festival of Lights

DIWALI has come-The festival of lights.It is among the famous festivals celebrated in a grand way in our mother INDIA. It is said in history that all evils will be removed and brightness will be brought home during this festival day. So people burst crackers,enjoy delicacies ,geet relatives and friends. Also an awareness among people on not to pollute the environment by burning the crackers have gone up as the rate has come down drastically. SO LET THIS DIWALI BRING LIGHTS INTO EVERYONE OF US .

Manchester United's slow pick-up

Last season's premiership winner ManUtd stared badly this season. With star player Ronaldo's return in their fifth match and the new player "Berbatov" boosted its confidence and now it is on a three match un-beaten run. Hope it continues.

Sastra's Silver jubliee

Sastra,my college located in Thanjavur celebrated its silver jubliee this year. Former president, Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalaam was the chief guest for the inaugural function. His speech was enlightning and he requested the youths to take up a project to serve the society.