On Christmas Eve

While letters to Santa Claus are secure under our pillow, the state of anxious sleepiness prevails tonight. A movement near the windows or footsteps outside the door, signifies the much waited arrival of the only individual who has the capability to fulfill all your wishes and also read your not-so-legitimate handwriting. Then you slowly start to grow up and you find stark similarities between your Santa and your father, like Santa using the same pen which your father owns to write you a note.

Then finally when you are all grown up and ready to take on the world, this idea of Santa Claus reveals certain startling truths. There are certain people in the world who will go to any extent just to make you happy and put a smile on your face. There are also people in the world who will want to you to believe in the world of fairies and pixies just so that you can find your mundane life magical. Just when you had started to grow cynical about everything under the sun, these are the same people who will not want your innocence to be lost so soon.

Christmas is the time of giving and receiving, caring and sharing. Stop and think about all the people who have made you want to believe in magic again and keep them in your Christmas prayers and wishes. And tomorrow when you go out with all the Christmas spirit running high, remember to give smiles to be able to receive many more! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Short Clothes: Freedom of Expression

Let us assume for a second that wearing short clothes is a violation of public decency. So the natural reaction to wearing short clothes would be eve teasing, ogling,, disapproving glances and so forth.  Now I have faced all of these reactions not when I was wearing short clothes but was fully clothed in a salwar kammez and returning home by a bus at seven in the evening. Hence proved, that wearing short clothes is not a violation of public decency. As per our country’s standards, girls who are going out of their houses to earn a living are a violation of public decency. Because when we say public we generally mean “men” and men being the slaves to their carnal urges will even jump on another man wearing prosthetics.

In the largest democracy of the world, and a country with deep rooted problems such as poverty, unemployment, corruption to name a few, ministers and public are busy taking notice whether girls are fully clothed or are dressed in “indecent” clothes. Clearly proving what is on the mind of these important people who are busy working to the greater good of the nation.  Freedom of expression is a term which has become a subject of mockery in our country.  Whenever any snide comments are made regarding “indecent” clothing it is conveniently put on the Freedom of expression. Hence, short clothes are in a way is freedom of expression. It allows every man in this country, the freedom to express how the women of this country are becoming “maryadaheen”. That is also allows moral policing is also an interesting fact because women have such wavering morals. If not for the men we would become absolutely “charitraheen” for men have absolutely unwavering morality.  Hence, it can be rightly said that short clothing is indeed a freedom of expression.