Once Again a  Celebration Turned into Nightmare

“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition.” These words stated by an American writer Mark Twin, really make us feel proud of what we are. But the long lists of dreadful incidents taking place in India seems to have forgotten its inner soul. The latest uproar in Bangalore on the New Year eve says it all.

Few years ago a heinous crime occurred in the capital of India and it made people realize, the place was not at all safe for women. And yet again many such incidents continued to occur again and again, and the Capital was famous as the crime capital all over the world. But when it comes to the safety of women, the IT capital of India, “Bengaluru” is always a better place. It is known to be the decent city in India. But it finally confirmed that in India no place can be called safe for women.

According to a report, on the New Year eve a chaos turned out on the streets of Bengaluru, after 11 pm in the heart of the city to welcome the New Year. But regardless of heavy security arrangements, many women out on the streets of Bengaluru were molested by a mob of men. Moreover, even the male friends and relatives found it tough protecting them in that uncontrolled scenario. Although, such an incident of mass molestation is very rare in the Southern parts of the country. As it always has the reputation of being safe for women than Delhi. But it was sad to discover that none of the city in India is left untouched from such experiences.

Even more heartbreaking was to know that 1,500 policemen were deployed in the area, substantially remained a spectator. Moreover despite all the CCTV footage, photographic evidences and many eye-witnesses, the city police officials claimed that not single cases of molestation or harassment were registered by them.

The whole scenario of amusement and celebration turned into turmoil in the presence of regulatory bodies. This not first time when an incident of mass molestation took place in the country, few years ago, same situation was reported in Mumbai.

Now whom to blamed for such incidents occurring very often in the country?  Mentality disruption of people in India, failure of system, women herself, their freedom or yet again the women will be judged by their dresses. If yes, then what about the woman in the burqa, who got molested in Bengaluru just after a week after the new year eve incident.

Many questions are left unanswered. However, I believe with a more cautious security system and persistent protests from civil society, the protectors of law will hopefully resolve to be more vigilant towards such incidents in time ahead.

     Social Media And Its Effects On Youth

Social media is very interesting platform where one can contact to their friends, family, relatives anywhere anytime with and internet connection. It also gives us platform to share our views, feelings, and share the information. But it is well said that excess of everything is bad. Social media is good as well as bad at the same time and it depends upon its usage. But mostly youth are getting diverted from their objectives of life due to social media.

Social media affects youth's health and they suffer not only physically but mentally too. Because of the social media people used to at a single place for hours keeping their eye on screen continuously for hours and the ultraviolet rays coming out of it affects the eyes most. Mostly youngsters go for social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter etc., where they spent hours chatting with friends and do not concentrate on their studies. Social sites increases pornography as every kind of information, images, videos are available on social media. youth are engaged in cyber crimes such as hacking someone's account.privacy is enclosed  on social media and it affects girls the most. Many times people upload the girls image on porn sites and this harms their respect and dignity and girls committee suicide due to the same.

Social media has affected the whole life of youth in a away that they cannot live without it even for a single second. It has disturbed the whole routine of their life, late night chatting with friends and then in morning wake up late and then for everything late. Social media is good at an extent therefore excess use of it should be avoided by the youngsters.

                                                                         Sonalika

         Empower Women Empower Generation

Women are the most important part of the society,and considered as the most beautiful creation of god. Every year 8th March is celebrated as International Women Day with a determination to commemorate the achievements of women and to acknowledge the special status they deserve in society. But the question is that what difference has it made to the position of women? Have women become really strong and have their long term struggle ended?

 Though women have progressed a lot in many spheres of life but if looking at a wide prospective the situation is still same it has not changed a lot. It is the fact that two third of the 774 million adults in the world  who cannot read is women. The condition of  women in developing countries is worse. Women here are still being ill treated, are the subject of honor killing, they are still deprived of their basic rights of freedom and education and face abuse and violence. In India domestic violence is acceptable to women, and cultural and ethical implications are imposed on their freedom. What does these incident mean? It simply indicates that nothing has changed as a number of organizations are working to mitigate the problems, yet there is a long way to go. 

Women empowerment depends upon many factors such as location,  social and financial status, traditions, cultures and age. Though different schemes such as ICDS , Dhanlakshmi, has been introduced by the government but still India needs to do to improve the position of women in society  in context to health, education, and economic participation of women. Empowering women empowers the generation one educated women in every house can teach many other women and thus the generation.

                                                                    Sonalika  

           Lack Of Awareness In Indian Village

Development  still needs a long to go in India in India specially in rural areas. This is the truth of Indian development that one side government has made big building and provided good infrastructure in cities and at the another side in rural India many people don't have pukka hoses to live in. Government is making rich people more rich and poor more poor. Beside many rural development programs still village people are deprived of them. 

Due to lack of education village people are being made fool by the sarpanch of the village and are kept away from the facilities that government provide them. During my visit to village i got to know that they are facing lots of problems but no one is there for them to listen their problems. The question is that where is the media, why can't they put their problems in front of government. Due to lack of education and awareness village people do not knows and understand their rights hence not able to raise their voice for them. The most popular example is Haryana's khap panchayat who is not authorized to punish anyone brutally or kill them but still they do it and people there have to listen what ever they say because they are not aware of the things. Many funds comes for the development of village and people living there but sarpanch instead of investing those in the developmental work they keep all of them in their pocket and village people don't even come to know about any fund was sent by the government for them.

Poverty and illiteracy is the main factor which does not allow India to move ahead. People are not aware of the things because they do not have proper education thus corruption also increases because behind every work the government employers ask for some money from them and they easily give it to them anyhow without knowing it is legal or not. Awareness is must and for that government should start a special awareness campaign every month to teach them at least  their minimum rights and educate them about their health too.

                                                                Sonalika

       Wrong Portrayal Of Women In Media

Women in India are seen with a due respect and portrayed as goddess. But it seem like media has become a bit more modernized that it has no respect for women left. The picture of women framed by media is totally in negative shade and portrayed as the goddess of sexuality. In one of the advertisement of men underwear by Amul Macho a girl in a very seductive style pronounces the word "ye to bada toing hai". Similarly, women pictured in the advertisement of men deodorant in a very sexy bikini and looking for boys in a seductive way. There are a long list of these kind of advertisement shown on television.

Media is known  to represent and reinforce the mainstream ideology into its audience and are the most effective communication system. And we all know that it affects the mentality of people the most as it is the most  persuasive medium, but still media shows such kind of programs and advertisement which affects badly to the young generation. The way media shows the women the youth take it in the same way and the reason is that youth today get distracted from their goals and hence increases pornography. This is also a reason behind increase in rape cases.

The media needs to follow the Social responsibility theory and should stop advertising sex on television.These kind of advertisement should be banned by the government and there should be cross-check of the content of programs broadcasted on television by the government itself. The media itself promote sex and then blame girls for being raped. This is totally wrong and the way media is portraying women is not actually the same. There are women like sati sawitri, parvati, kalpana chawla, but do they promote them no, because that do not sensationalise the things and do not help them increase their TRP. Media is a good thing but only if not misused.

                                                                                                    Sonalika

          Indian Politicians: Unknown From India 

India is really great, smile appears on my face when i come to know that the next PM candidate from Congress party Rahul Gandhi gives his speech in English in rural areas where people don't even have minimum level of education. Our leaders are our representative and we choose them so that they could represent us and could present our problems behalf of us in front of government for the solutions. But what if the person who is going to be our representative and  calls himself as if he is very familiar with our problems and and can feel it deeply, had never ever seen even the shadow of those problems. 

Rahul Gandhi is the PM candidate from congress party who had been out of India for his studies and had worked earlier in a firm in London. He belongs from the most known and popular party of the country and always lived in luxury, can it be expected from him that he would be able to understand what poverty is...??? According to Rahul Gandhi "Poor people should dream the biggest dreams as it is important for progress of the country" during a function in Allahabad. But he cannot understand that when a poor person do not get food even for one time a day the only dreams comes to their mind is about worries and pain poverty. A person who wears costly clothes, how will he know the pain of wearing a single tore and dirty clothes for more than a week. The person who sleeps on comfortable bed and luxurious room how will he know the pain of having sleepless nights on street. The person who has got room heater in winters, how will he know  the feelings a poor person experience during winters who do not have a single woolen clothes to wear.

All the politicians acts same whether belongs to any party. They come speak and go and always play with the emotions of poor people. All the politicians play their mind game with these innocent people and make them fool by their fake promises and gifts during elections. The truth is that they can never understand the feeling of a person who had not eaten food for weeks and had to sleep on the streets in winters. These politicians actually are unaware of the need and feelings of their own people and that is the main reason why they don't care about these people and look for their own benefits every time.

                                                                        Sonalika

  FOOD SECURITY OR VOTE SECURITY?

Large population of India lives in villages, works in farms, could hardly arrange food for two time a day so that they can serve their family. In spite all these critical conditions government is bringing food security bill, with Wheat 4 Rs/kg, Rice 4 Rs kg, Salt 3 Rs kg. A very good mind game is being planned by the government which is visible through this Food security bill. If you throw light over other side of government policies itself, we have BPL card, AAY card etc., which is very similar to this upcoming food security bill. There were an investment of 350 Crore for BPL card. There are many similar schemes and government organizations are working for same phenomena again. Now the question arises that what's new government is going to provide this time to the people or as usual again planning to make them fool?

If we have a look at some fact and figures, India has 75% of  population living in rural areas. At the base of national food security bill government is promising to provide a better facility of food resources to the people and for this government needs 950 billion Rs/year investment. Congress has been in power for over 57 years and figure says, still 75% of the population is poor. While there has not been seen any positive result in last 57 years of rule how is it possible that a heavy investment for "National Food Security Bill" could reach to a poor's pocket?? Yes, it will reach till them for sure but only on papers as before.

Bill promises to provide 5 kg of rice/wheat per head per month, that means 166 grams per day or 83 grams per meal, but the minimum daily requirement for rice/wheat is 450 grams per adult per day. This implies that a person need 13 to 14 kg of rice/wheat per month. It means 8 to 9 kg required from open market at exorbitant price and thus the condition is same for rice, salt and other food also. Now the question is that if we have schemes like BPL similar to the Food Security Bill, what is the need to invest billions for the same, instead government could have spent the same on education or other sectors. There are so many other bills pending which are more important and required like MMB(Mines and mineral bill) and it is pending in parliament from last so many years, but no one is looking for that.There are more than 82000 illegal mines and mineral supply cases registered.

Why the focus is only on food security bill.??? Reason is that 2014 election is about to come and congress need a proper game to play with the common people to make them fool once again. The Congress party knows it very well that now people are fed up of congress as it has been failed to control the law and order in the country and an increase in crime has been seen during congress rule, so people would not bring them in rule this time. And Congress can feel the nerves of Indian people and as per their planning they are  launching the Food Bill, as they know that 75% population of India lives in rural areas and need a proper food for at least twice a day and are the major voting section among the population.Till yet whatsoever government did, indicates that public is somewhere not happy and satisfied and need a change.  So it’s the main strategy of congress “to have the vote,provide the food” and 'Secure food, secure vote".

Government says Food security bill will help to drive away hunger and malnutrition but the fact is that 5 kg of wheat/rice per head may keep hunger away for the day but not malnutrition.Congress is trying to use this food security bill as a mask to cover up all its past misdeeds such as scams, poor governance and economic mismanagement.Unless and until the government augment the indigenous food production substantially over present production the dream of providing the balanced nutrition food for all people will be only an unfulfilled Dream. 

                                                                           Sonalika