When you had been asked to prove your relationship with your partner who can be either friend or fiancee or even spouse, whom you are absolutely comfortable / crazy with? What was your reaction such demand? I can surely claim that such demand must have validated the widening gap instead of cementing the relationship. Ofcourse we feel hurt by the people who matters us the most rather than some non committal relationships. But demanding the proof of the relationship is something extreme and even breaking point in many relationships, no matter how much intense the love is.

{mosimage}A couple of days back in NDTV and other news channels this case made headlines - In Delhi, a teacher recently stripped a 7 yr old girl for not doing the homework, tied her hands in the back, made her walk parade in front of the class. In Bangalore there was a case reportedly a teacher hit her student hard that her little finger had broken, another case with the student's left eye blinded. A couple of rape cases of 12th std girls by their chemistry teachers in the lab and more & more sexually abused students. All the incidents mentioned had happened in an years' span and reported in NDTV. This is only the cases that were brought to limelight by the media and volumes of similiar incidents might have gone undisclosed to public.

{mosimage}என்றோ எங்கோ ஏதோ வழிப்பயணத்தில் படித்த சில கதைகள் நம் மனதில் புதைந்து காலத்துக்கும் பாரம் கொடுக்கும். சிலவற்றை அதை எழுதியவர்களே கூட மறந்திருப்பார்கள், ஆனால் படித்த நம் மனதில் நங்கூரம் பாய்ச்சி தங்கியிருக்கும். சமீபத்தில் என் தோழி ஒருத்தி ஒரு குறுஞ்செய்தியினை (SMS) அனுப்பியிருந்தாள். படித்த கணத்தில் அது சொல்லமுடியாத ஒரு வலியை தந்தது. Lateral thinking என்பது போல அந்த கவிதைக்கு பல வளமையான சூழல்களை உருவகப்படுத்திக்கொள்ள முடியும் என்ற போதும், மனதில் பதிந்த முதல் பிம்பம் என்றும் நிலைத்து நிற்கும். என்னை பாதித்து மனதில் தங்கியவை பெரும்பாலும் வறுமை பற்றியவையே. எனக்கு அவள் அனுப்பிய அந்த குறுஞ்செய்தி (SMS) இதோ.....

It is the voice for all IT personnels who are being exploitted by the society. I have to shift my room by this month end so I got in touch with some brokers. He introduced himself saying that he dealt with only IT people. He showed few places and nothing was satisfactory. Literally he was bullying me to choose the portion in his house at Sozhinganallur and I put my foot firmly down against. On a casual note he said that previously the house owner was finding tough to get the tenant for Rs. 3500/- and due to his 'prowess', he got an IT guy now shelling out Rs. 6000/- for the same portion. I felt irritated and left the place. Just because IT people draw higher salary at the early stages, they are being taken for a ride. People like these brokers, even groceries hike their prices eyeing the IT money but others make a hue that it is only because of us IT people, the cost of living went sky high. Why can't they realise that it is we being taken for ride? Even though the salary seems higher it is a meagre of what we are billed at the foreign client. Nobody wants to take this point..... conveniently.