Why??

Well, let me tell about what I want to put light on - Pornograhy.

I was reading in today's paper about some interesting facts about porn industry. Something that is definately alarming.

Today porn industry is very big and is competing with many other business of the world. Porn revenue is larger than all combined revenues of professional football, baseball and basketball franchises.

-> Expense on pornography each second all over world: $3,075.64
-> People watcing porn over internet for each second: 28,258
-> Number of websites dealing with pornography: 42 lakhs
-> Emails related to porn circulated per day: 250 crores
-> Porn industry worth in India: 256000 crores

Accessibility of pornography via internet and mobile phones is termed as the major booster.

It is definately a big challenge in a country like India were every door for a kid to be aware of sex is closed. If there is not a proper channel for this kind of awareness, no wonder kids would get this information from wrong resources and that will be lot costly a mistake to bring youth back into a right track.

Well, the question is how do we deal with it? Should kids be taught about sex as we teach any other thing in this world or try restricting the sources of this information? The later one seems so obviously impossible with the latest media and accessibility!! Come on yaar, even if we open a news website, a pop comes up with a picture that can attract the kids...

If you are trying to address the problem of a child watching porn by taking away the tape or the book from him, you bet you are not addressing the root cause. You are just taking away the source. The problem could be something else. Why is the kid focussing on that? Is it because of biological changes in his body, the friend circle he is in or the lack of focus on other valuble things in life?

Earth hour

I wanted to search for some material and opened google.ca. Interesting, the page is changed, a line in the page caught my attention : We've turned the lights out. Now it's your turn.

It is a google's effort to raise awareness for energy conservation effort. On Saturday, March 29, 2008, Earth Hour invites people around the world to turn off their lights for one hour – from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone.

I felt that this is one effort where an individual can contribute and see the result.....

Make a difference...

I was reading a story in a regional news paper today. Its about a kid from Chennai who lost both his legs and hands in a ghastly accident and his life from that day to the day he is writing 10th class exams on his own. Whole story is really encouraging, hard to even imagine what he would have gone through...I could not but think about couple of things that came to my mind while i was reading that:

• "This is a situation that we can not avoid. But lets live with it. Let us live it. Let us try to be normal. Let us fight it." said his parents. Most of the times, we tend to express sympathy to people facing extreme difficulties...however, a word of encouragement can never substitute an hour of expressing sympathy. We should not allow the people to get into a mode of self pity. Thats what the kid's parents did, a first step for a major change.


• His mother saw that he has got an interest in drawing and painting. She encouraged him inspite of his physical disability. That gave him encouragement to struggle. When all the kids in school hesitated to be friends with him in school becasue of disability, it is the drawing that made people say 'Wow!!' and win him friends.


• A rehabilitation centre has arranged for artificaila legs. Sometimes we forget or tend to not think about the little things that we can do make a huge difference in the world we live in. It is absolutely alright to say that is the first step for the change in the kids life - the artificial legs taught him to be independent for his daily needs. One after the other he learnt to find easy ways of doing things.


• Today if he is the recipent of the state award and first person to write 10th class exams without both the limbs and legs, it is all because of two things, "A desire to struggle" and "A hand to pat and say, don't look back".

With Stephen Hawking as an inspiration, this kid can aspire to be a graphics designer, friends, there is a serious lesstion that we have to learn. We are accountable to everything that we have in life, everything that we have proper in our life, everything that is in order in life...

A step towards a change in our lives can be a step towards a change around us, no matter how small the step is, it is significant....let us make a difference!!

Teaching that can not be ignored...

I can't wait to figure out whats wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be...