Sunday 8 February 2015

Can someone translate EQUITY


Today while viewing the videos of the play, my friend cum editor asked, "what are the Hindi & Gujarati translations of the word "EQUITY"?

I replied, "It is an abstract term, but you can write Justice".

http://youtu.be/Q7UPzbACA70



The video we created (link above) is based on one simple TRUTH

Every action has EQUAL & opposite reaction.
It is human instinct.

At first, the reaction in the video was laughable. What the **** is he doing? Is it a joke? It is just not real. One cannot say this to his own Father! It is not PRACTICAL!

Hindi cinema lovers may have watched Amitabh Bachhan starrer LAWARISDrunkard foster father losing everything on alcohol. When son realises that he is being used for money to buy him alcohol, he tries to hit him back for what he did.

Then, not one of us thought it impractical or unreal. Why?

"Are isne to amitabh ka istemal kiya. Iske sath to aisa hi hona chahiye" (That is what I thought while watching.)

Was it equity? Retributive equity? (An eye for an eye) or Reformative equity?(Improvement instead of punishment)

But then, Is this not what we do?

One may not take it out on the parent but it DOES come out on someone else in some or the other form.

Then why is this reaction wrong?

And why do fights happen?

Because we love to prove our manli/womanli + ness? NO
It is because the fight is just a reaction. 

Of what we receive, we give it back.

The question remains. . .IS THIS A SOLUTION?

& of course, What is Equity?



As I am writing this, I know that I will drink milk reading newspaper headlines about rape,murder,cruelties & wish I could change the society by discussing about it!

Do not sit there & answer or You & I will be same.

Tuesday 20 January 2015

P is a part of people's prejudice

YOU DISCRIMINATE


18/1/2015:
seva cafe- time 7:30 pm

New faces were introducing there talent on stage when the atmosphere changed. . .

Fun was replaced with Fear

Fear... for me
I got a tight resounding slap from my fiance. . .
in front of everyone

The suffocating silence was broken by some theatre artist calling for attention to enact their play on gender discrimination.

The play displayed a girl getting suffocated in her home by her strict and orthodox parents treating their brother like a king, and daughter, like a convict.
"Tu khud ko badal, tu khud ko badal tab hi to zamana badlega" - song sung by the performers between the scenes

They paused the play at critical points and replaced the girl with a member of the audience resulting in heated discussions. The play ended with the girl sitting in the temple like a devi and everybody worshipping her while the mediator recited a poem by Kamla Bhasin,

"Tum ladki ho, tumhe kyu padna hai?" (poem)

I was watching the play. I was watching the paradox.

Moments before the play, my fiance was shouting at me 
like a loudspeaker because I earned more than him & he slapped me. 
Nobody reacted. They just watched.

The same people were discussing on the issue they just ignored. WHY?




        I discriminate. 
        I am a part of it.

Saturday 3 January 2015

What is Culture? Everything Is Untouchable

Girl: Mom I am going out with friends for a movie.

Mom: What? Have you seen the time? Its 8:00 pm. . .Go back to your room

Boy: Mom I am going out with friends for a movie. Bye son. 

Mom: The scene above look similar yet belong to vastly different planets.-
                                                    
                                                                MARS & VENUS



Criminalizing Section 377, Gang rapes etc are topics for protest yet no one looks to the root cause of it. Every crime stems from its home.

Why was section 377 criminalized? With all due respect, because the mindset of the judge giving the judgement was what he learned while growing up: Unnatural "sex". Prey tell me someone, who gave the definition of natural sex? His childhood.

Rape happens not because of the so called "uncontrollable urge" but our habit to wield power over someone. Had the uncontrollable urge been really uncontrollable, condoms would replace money.

In Indian Culture, generally, the woman of the house always brings the array of refreshments for a guest. A male would never do that!!! I talk from my own experience when I requested my mother to let my big brother to do it instead of me.

Men wearing shorts to a departmental store is normal. They are guys after all.They can't be expected to dress up properly for morning or night trips to a departmental store. I went in shorts to the departmental store. Why was I receiving weird looks from the aunties present there?

Its not that I gave a sultry or seducing look(usually the charge on a girl, "She asked for it!!")A guy there looked rather the picture but got no looks.

All of this is not the fault of our culture but of a game, "CHINESE WHISPERS"

Humans mold everything with time. What might have been a beautiful custom centuries ago was twisted into something rigid and choking.

For just an example, Unnatural sex was never unnatural. History is PROOF

The Sun Temple at Konarak in Orissa(some of the very few works that have survived the government's attempt to erase homosexual traditions from Indian history) where lesbian love is cast in stone. Artistic works depicting Male love  can be found in the world's most prestigious museums, including the Louvre, the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Smithsonian.

'The word of man is defeated by a stone.’

Why do we discriminate so much? Between a daughter and a son, between the roles of a husband & a wife, between a gay couple and a couple from the opposite sexes? Most importantly, why do we blame it on culture? Its not culture, its ego, its a resistance to change because we are comfortable where we are.

I got my definition of culture.

Culture is the battle of the sexes

Friday 26 September 2014

Uncomfortable Conversations - Part 4 (EVERYTHING IS UNTOUCHABLE)

True Story

A man was hit by a truck at around 12 pm. One of his legs severed from his body.
He was half dead from the pain itself ,forgetting the broken and tangled mass, blood & nerves.
There were 2 policemen on the road but who would touch the now gross looking puke inducing mass(leg) 
The man walked on one leg carrying his broken leg all the way to the hospital around 4 km away. 
He finally reached hospital 2 hours later.

Next day on duty, the policemen were showing their concern over the morning tea, “I hope. . .Someone took him to the hospital.”
Had it been their daughter or son?
Then, would the situation be reversed?


Where the courage to let the wings open or
burning them can change a life

COURAGE...is all it takes

For the better or worse

Witness the educated hypocrite churning out careers hidden behind the doors while the naked back is out for everyone to see.
Answer the invisible words & If you Can
Make a choice with us in the first of its kind live exhibition

                                “EVERYTHING IS UNTOUCHABLE”

VENUE:
Conflictorium
Gool Lodge
Opposite R.C. High School of Commerce
Mirzapur, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Date: 02/10/14-08/10/14

BY
AKSHAT DRAMA GROUP
Because the dream never dies

Tuesday 23 September 2014

Uncomfortable Conversations - Part 3

Gopal does not have a job
People call him unemployed
Gopal’s wife left him
People point at him
Gopal is the talk of sister’s wedding
People laugh at him
Gopal went to coffin .

Gopal was working as a CA in the same firm where my son Krish SHOULD join as a CA
But Krish wanders around in search of discovery wearing pink slippers
He finds happiness having a real conversation with the people society call insane.
What will you do? Support him or become SOCIETY?
Krish became a talk show host.
Society adores him.
Krish still wears pink slippers.
Society does’nt mind.
How do you make your day count?
Ostracize or Accept?
                                                     The truth

Come and question
Come and answer
YOURSELF

The LIVE Exhibition at 
Venue:
Conflictorium, The Gool Lodge, Opposite R.C technical college, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Date: 02/10/2014-08/10/2014
Timings: 12:00 -7:00 pm