Yours Sincerely

According to me, mutual trust and respect are the founding stones necessary for the success of any  relationship  - atleast that's how I choose mine to be!! I cannot imagine myself being sincerely in love with anyone whom I can't respect. ( Note:  Respect and obedience are not the same in my dictionary . Mutual respect means that the comfort-level between two people is so high that they can agree to disagree. Obedience means that you're not allowed to have a conflicting point of view at all ). I think it's impossible for me to keep a  relationship  alive if I cannot innately trust the other person. ( Note: Trust does not mean blind faith . Trust allows for rational questions and arguments to arise so that you're reasonably convinced whereas blind faith doesn't allow for you to perceive facts ). I also think that for a  relationship  to be successful, you shouldn't take the other person for granted . One should understand that love, affection and tr

If you've never really understood the evils of patriarchy ( link ), believing that feminists blow things out of proportion, may be you should open your eyes to this. Let me show you what's wrong. Below are the guidelines for women translated from a Telugu book on marital bliss which was being distributed at a wedding last week . We need to take this seriously - because our rituals are not evolving with our mindsets. The book advocates this code of conduct for today's women  to restore values in today's society of  Kalyug . We must not let anyone defend this sort of inhuman abuse under the name of Indian/Hindu culture/values . I'm giving scanned images of some of the guidelines along with the English translation of these guidelines. Adding my response to some of the guidelines  in red . 1. Every task performed by a wife must be upon the husband's order .  Are we talking about a wife or a slave here ? Or worse, the book doesn't see any need to

In case you happen to be indifferent towards your government and don't believe in voting, you need to be made aware of the story of Andhra Pradesh - How bad can become worse. Now, I'm not pro/anti Telangana and this is not about whether or not Telangana should be formed. This is about the way a non-issue has been politicized to play with the sentiments of the people. This is about how political gains have motivated every party to stray the masses, fuel riots and stall progress in the state, ultimately destroying normalcy in all the regions of the state. As a former resident of Andhra Pradesh, let me give you a first-hand account of what happened. Mr. K. Chandrasekhar Rao was an insignificant candidate in the Telugu Desam Party, who was denied a lucrative ministry in Mr. Chandrababu Naidu's cabinet when TDP was in power. Now, KCR decides to form his own political party and chooses separate Telangana as the party's agenda and joins hands with Congress which was then