A pale blue dot

Today I watched a movie called Men, Women and Children and it jus struck a chord within me. I cannot put it in words why I liked the movie so much but something about how it portrayed the reality of what’s happening in life without being too overwhelming.

“Pale blue dot by Carl Sagan

That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you heard of, every human being that ever was lived out their lives. Every young couple in love, every mother, father, hopeful child, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there on the mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. How frequent their misunderstandings, how fervent their hatred. Our imagined self importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe is challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In all this darkness there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. Like it or not, for the moment the earth is where we make our stand. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we have ever known.”

One of the most underrated films I have ever seen.

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As an Indian boy what would be the one piece of advice you'd want to give to an Indian girl?

  

 -Akshat Seth, A Marxist

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Come out on the streets

Come out in large numbers

Come out in defiance of those that have for thousands of years kept you indoors- trapped, miserable and oppressed

Come out to shame the  bad fathers, the  violent husbands, the 'possessive' boyfriends, the oppressive khaps, the greedy market- to shame all the patriarchal forces and power structures enforced in the name of tradition, morality and honor.

Come out to shatter the the myth of 'beauty' imposed by Fair&Lovely.

Come out all ye women- young and old, married/unmarried, white, light brown, dark brown with your tresses or your hair loosened down in defiance

Come out shredding the pallus, the hijabs and all the symbols of oppression that patriarchy forced upon you.

Come out on the streets- shout, clap, dance around a bonfire and sing the songs of protest, singing them all through the night.

Come out and stay through the night, in large numbers and relegate the myth of 'night being unsafe' to the dustbins of a past to be forgotten.

O women of my country, come out and assert your right to live as human beings- equal in dignity. Spread the sweetness of your warmth, your music, your art all about you.

And still, if you so desire. give us a part of the music, the warmth, the compassion and the beauty that you are. Give us love, give us warmth and forever break away the inhuman tendency of mankind known as masculinity from us.

Come out- for freedom, justice and love.