menWHOpause..!!

Gloria Steinem, a feminist writer framed an article 'If Men Could Menstruate', amazing peice of work.
An Excerpt

So what would happen if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?
Clearly, menstruation would become an enviable, worthy, masculine event:
Men would brag about how long and how much.
Young boys would talk about it as the envied beginning of manhood. Gifts, religious ceremonies, family dinners, and stag parties would mark the day.
To prevent monthly work loss among the powerful, Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea. Doctors would research little about heart attacks, from which men would be hormonally protected, but everything about cramps.
Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free. Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of such commercial brands as Paul Newman Tampons, Muhammad Ali's Rope-a-Dope Pads, John Wayne Maxi Pads, and Joe Namath Jock Shields- "For Those Light Bachelor Days."
Statistical surveys would show that men did better in sports and won more Olympic medals during their periods.
Generals, right-wing politicians, and religious fundamentalists would cite menstruation ("men-struation") as proof that only men could serve God and country in combat ("You have to give blood to take blood"), occupy high political office ("Can women be properly fierce without a monthly cycle governed by the planet Mars?"), be priests, ministers, God Himself ("He gave this blood for our sins"), or rabbis ("Without a monthly purge of impurities, women are unclean").
Male liberals and radicals, however, would insist that women are equal, just different; and that any woman could join their ranks if only she were willing to recognize the primacy of menstrual rights ("Everything else is a single issue") or self-inflict a major wound every month ("You must give blood for the revolution").

Men would convince women that sex was more pleasurable at "that time of the month." Lesbians would be said to fear blood and therefore life itself, though all they needed was a good menstruating man.
Medical schools would limit women's entry ("they might faint at the sight of blood").
Of course, intellectuals would offer the most moral and logical arguements. Without the biological gift for measuring the cycles of the moon and planets, how could a woman master any discipline that demanded a sense of time, space, mathematics-- or the ability to measure anything at all? In philosophy and religion, how could women compensate for being disconnected from the rhythm of the universe? Or for their lack of symbolic death and resurrection every month?
Menopause would be celebrated as a positive event, the symbol that men had accumulated enough years of cyclical wisdom to need no more.

brain drain OR easy gain

Not long before, it was feared that brain drain would result in a multi-folded loss of quality human capital to our country. The pace at which young Indian minds were being auctioned to the world was worrying the intelligentsia of the country. The ignited brain after years of value addition in our country was working for the benefit of another, it was foreseen that we would live in an era of no-return from the educational skills imparted all through the student life of our countrymen. The cream of the crowd was picked, by international entrepreneurs to back them with the human resource for a bright future, in lieu of massive financial remunerations.

A lot has changed with time, travelling across the globe to get equipped with the best know-how techniques has become the easiest way to do so. The brilliant brains which were transported across the sea have been replaced with the incapable and non competent ones. With fierce competition levels in our country and the ratio, of the lads seeking education to the seats available at moderately rated institutions being inanely high, a big chunk of the youth is seeking easy alternatives, studying abroad being the most sensible of them all, if one has the financial maturity to do so. From leaving the shore with the intention of gaining financial happiness to only the financially happy going, things have taken a definite turn.

Today, majority of the students venturing outside the country for higher education have no clue even as to the curriculum of the course. If one has the money to invest and not think about the kind of returns it would fetch, the preposition of getting a degree on ones resume sounds quite enterprising.

P.S. My friend, who is to go to the States to study soon, differs to agree with the generalisation and argues that there are people who do complete research before going. I totally agree, there always lies a space for the minuscule percentage who do differently, EXCEPTIONS..!!

Hard Rock; Mumbai

Hard Rock Cafe has its own style and assets. Mumbai sports the only one in the country, paradise for music lovers.

amchi Mumbai..!!

Clicked from a moving taxi in mumbai the day before the legend (Roger Waters) was to perform.