Jallikattu?? Shame on us...

The recent decision of the Supreme Court, allowing jallikattu to be held is nothing less than shameful. Worse is the fact that certain 'Tamil' channels portray the verdict as a victory of some sort. The origin of this extremist 'sport', if you can call it that, traces back to a very THEIST legend - an epidemic broke out in the village of Alanganallur and the people, desperate for a cure, prayed to the local deity and offered a blood sacrifice. Miraculously (or un-miraculously) the epidemic stopped. From then on, the local people believe that if a drop of human blood does not smear the village Earth, the deity will wipe out the entire village. Hence, the annual event of 'Jallikattu' is held to make sure that there is bloodshed.
Now, I have just one doubt- If this root of jallikattu is publicized, complete with the THEIST origins, will the 'TAMIL' channels still support the verdict?????
Or, had the origin already been well known,would they have taken a completely different stand, calling it a completely 'Irrational', barbaric act of gore??? Would they have organized processions protesting the issue in their usual style-slipper garlands around idols, burning effigies...
Am wondering...
Altogether, orre comedy in the name of politics!!

The Phoebe Buffet in me...

The other day, I was happily munching my sandwich in the cafeteria, with my friends around me. And when I bit into it, my friend stared at me quizzically and asked me if i eat eggs. Only then did I realize what she was getting at. I ordered for a vegetable sandwich but I had been given an egg sandwich. Having never had boiled eggs before, I didn't know what it'd taste like, I ended up munching the sandwich happily, thought the white bits were soft cheese flakes... I did finish it even after knowing that it was egg. I do have eggs-in the form of cakes and other bakery products. I have had omelets too. But that's not the issue... I wonder how many times I had been given chicken puffs and egg sandwiches before when I had asked for their vegetarian counterparts. And I know I wouldn't have known the difference.

A few months ago, a Bengali gentleman asked me how it was 'possible' for people down south to remain vegetarian all our lives. I laughed it off. My mom didn't find it funny!

Come to think of it, I remember a small story on 'Young World' about a man walking along a beach. He throws back into the sea, all the jelly fish(or some sea organism i can't recall the name of) he can get hold of, that get stranded on the shore during waves/tide. Another man who watches him, comes to him and asks,"You can't throw all the fish back in... What difference is it going to make?". He throws another jelly fish into sea and answers,"Yes, it does make a difference to that single fish I threw in just now".

If the world slaughters just one animal less because I am vegetarian, I am indeed a happy person!

National waste!!!

What can you say about a bunch of engineering graduates who can't differentiate 'kernel' and 'Colonel'????? 18 years of education, a few lakh Rupees, much more... And people think kernel has nothing to do with nuts, that it's a word that was coined only because of the evolution of Operating Systems! Welcome to the world of Software Engineers!!!
Send these people back to class six!!