I rule the world....from home- what an interesting thought!

[shalinilahiri]

Well, suffice to say, I was going to be on hiatus for a time, but looks like the universe had other plans.

Calcutta (or Kolkata, as in it's new moniker) was waterlogged. Not flooded as yet, but the clogged drains couldn't contain the incessant rains, and the city was reeling. More than half of the city was in a problem, with waist-deep water even in

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[shalinilahiri]

No, no , I'm back in Hyderabad now. *shudder* In all probabilities, I'll be moving to Goa...for college. Sun,sand and beaches, woot!
Now I have to do shopping etc.

Yea, fight the power!!!! I hate this sort of mentality in dumb-16 year-olds.

[shalinilahiri]

Younger ones, who fancy themselves to be messiahs. "I've come to save the worldz!", that sort of ideas.

So you cannot give er..blowjobs? How the hell will they know unless they have CCTV's?

Butt secks on the lawn, now that's a policeman's nightmare. Or happy dream!

[jojo_kun]

Wow! Big flood! Too bad the admission dudes are such pricks, but I guess they can afford to be, can't they?

Narrow-mindedness is a disease all over the world. Humans are super-slow to change, so it's not a huge surprise when we run into bigotry and prejudice... but still, that's crazy that India is still living under nearly-medieval British laws!!

But then again, sodomy is still illegal in several countries (including at least one state in the US that I know of), so the State is still getting into the bedrooms of the people. It's sickening. All we can do is raise the next generations of children to accept all races, colours, creeds and sexual orientations. Fear and ignorance are terrible cancers in our society.

[shalinilahiri]

Not when they pronounce "What are you doing?" as "Bhaaat are you dooong?" *giggle* No, they act like kings there.

I really like your insight. Fear is such a terrible cancer, and creates so many problems in society. This law just shames us. India has so many things to be proud of, and then this...

Sodomy is illegal...that's strange. Even a year ago, there was a big ruckus about legalising gay marriages.

[jojo_kun]

I can only imagine the amount of posturing that must go on there. It must be absolutely hilarious!

Well, I hope that the powers that be in India will abolish that silly law!

Yes, it's illegal in the Dominican Republic for sure.. and I'm not sure if the US state has taken away that law of theirs, but I kind of doubt it. It's one of the square states in the south (forgets which one).

As of right now, Canada has legalized gay marriage, so that's a comfort where I live. It was the last government who did it though, and the present government would prefer not to have it... but they can't really get rid of it once it's been granted, can they? I know that I would have a few things to say about that (would NOT be impressed).

[shalinilahiri]

Oh god, believe me, it's so horrible there. A mom was screaming at her son in half-Bengali, half-English across a hallway, asking him to put his buttons properly. WTF?

Well, now they're in a tight spot,hee. It would take miilions of years to undo the law now...*claps for canadians*

India....heh. No government would dare do it, or they'll be out of power, and the next government will remove it.

[aiffe]

As has already been noted above, there are sodomy laws in the US, but I've never heard an American call homosexuality criminal. I've heard them say it's disgusting, wrong, sick, unnatural, against God's will, blah blah blah, but not criminal

[shalinilahiri]

I think he used "Criminal",because the laws says so. Stupid kid.

Well, about the Hijras now. Hijras are actually not males or females mostly, but what science calls hermaphrodites. In quite a few cases, children are born with some hormones and genes mixed up, so the children born are literally mixed. Hijras are not cross-dressers in 99% cases.

Yes, Indians have the whole purity and chastity thing going on, but in most of modern India, people have relationships and often sex before marriage. Many people accept it, of course, you can't tell your family all the time.

And an interesting thing that most cases of same-sex unions, are from rural India. Of course, a few in high society have also come out, other than that nobody says anything.

[aiffe]

I was aware that some Hijra were actually genetically not male or female, but I remain unconvinced about the numbers. The book I read was a small-press anthropological essay, which recounted closely the author's one-on-one experiences with the Hijra, who varied in profession from priests to prostitutes. While of course I know reading one book does not compare to an entire life in India, or being Indian, the author of the book was herself Indian, and noted that it wasn't something most people there talked about, or even know much about, and part of her goal was to separate the fact from the fiction

[shalinilahiri]

Oh, I have heard about the surgery, but haven't heard seen the surgery as such.

Hijras are actually called during a wedding or during the birth of a child, to bless the couple and they are given money in return. Nowadays, they have become quite a nuisance, coming up to people, and demanding money or else...cursing them.

As for languages, there are a lot! Varies from state to state, region to region. When you go from one state to another, it's like a completely different culture. For instance,I'm actually from bengal, in east India, but have been born and brought up here in South India. And I'm hardly bengali.

As for languages, I know Hndi, bengali and Telugu and bits of other languages. Wanna ask something? XD

[nokomarie]

You make it sound like you were wet to the waist.

[nokomarie]

I need to think about that. About homosexuality, I mean. Some of my very good friends are homosexual, it is part of them and I don't deny it.

There is something else there that is so complex that in the end I will have to write it down. There is a lack of constancy and to make a true marriage and to have a true family one must be very clear.

I think most marriages fail for good reason; it's not at all easy being married and to make the marriage work we are talking decades, not a few weeks.

The boy is a dipshit, instead of trying to persuade you he attempts to bully you, no good either way. Aren't I just setting you up to defy and annoy your parents?

Be safe but don't let go.

[nokomarie]

I was actually. We went shopping, and since that road was blocked, and we had to get to the other side. Many people were walking through the water, and so did we.

I agree with you on that. Families are made, not by the sexual orientation of the parents, but the parents themselves. And Marriages are never made in heaven, they're always made on the choices you make.

Oh, I told him that I didn't care what he thought, but that I thought being gay was normal. I also told him that he would take some time to realise the facts of life, being only 16.

He told me I was 17,how did I get such ideas?

I told him that I had my ideas set, and was more knowlegeable than him. (Not to be vain, but to put him off).

And I told him to get the hell off my f-list.

[nokomarie]

Oh, dear. Sounds like you are in for a tough ride. My fantasy suggestion? Fall in love with a guy your own age sometime in the future and be clear in your own head (thus influencing his) how you are going to run your life. I'm afraid you will have to fight.

We are a very traditionalist family and we know who the cheaters were. Oh, yes we do and most of the men don't think it's O.K. Even if you don't marry the boy you choose for love, make sure his morals are excellent. His, never mind yours, that goes without question. The instant you get questioned, break off negotiations; you are never to be insulted.

::Sigh:: Is he so very arrogant?

[shalinilahiri]

I don't know the guy really, he's a relative of a friend. I found him more stupid and immature than arrogant.

Of course i would never like questions on my character..and I'm wary of such guys. I've actually never seriously thought about love. Maybe there's a right guy somewhere there....