Blank
sitting on a yellow rickshaw seat
red-faced girl
clutches new pink frock
as a brown hand
lifts blue lungi
slowly, deliberately.
White.
In search...
of just about everything... since a little learning is a dangerous thing.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
| TOWER OF BABEL | [â] |
Beaten Track
- An Ordinary Life 6 - Chellam
- Ode to the Original Pulippu Muttai
- Leech
- Between the devil and ...
- Of life, longing, death and love in test tubes...
- Running ... nose.
- Mera naam Chin chin choo
- EH?
- An Ordinary Life 5 - Davidraj
- Lag
| TELLING TALES | [â] |
| LINKIN' PARK | [â] |
true and sad! and it is very disturbing RK....have been affected myself and i know the pain!
8:53 pm
shudder...everytime i read some such thing, i want to run and hug my baby...and hold her close and safe...why is the world so cruel? and there are moments, believe me, when i feel we just cant do anything...there are too many perverts out there, and too few voices protesting...
shelob-the-mum.
9:19 pm
IBH,
everyone, every girl, has faced this at one point of time or the other...
it's true.
cheers!
ramya
10:09 pm
shelob,
it is scary, very. a friend's young daughter was very recently accosted on her way to the swimming pool... shudder...
10:11 pm
God! Ramya that was chilling......
but it got the point across.
loved it.
Megha
11:10 pm
i dont like to hear the truth...its soooo sad :(
8:59 am
meg,
very chilling. it happened, you know. I saw it, a rickshaw-wallah and a little child he would ferry everyday. I could shout at him then, but did that make a difference to that little girl?
i wish it dint happen. i wish none of this ever happened.
r
3:19 pm
c-m,
me neither.or even talk. but that's part of the reason why it happens so often. blanknoiseproject is a great idea, methinks!
r
6:14 pm
mahadevan
very very upsetting. warped basic instinct.
r
6:15 pm
that is very very upsetting....they should be shot like pigs!!! crazy people on earth...stay away....oh my god!!!
3:36 pm
its very powerful. upsets me as i read it.
thankyou for sharing
12:09 am
Ramya
Even though I have heard similar stories, this one un-nerves me and is spine chilling. Bastards!
5:54 pm
Akka,
If someone tried this with my little one, I can assure you that he can forget his so-called 'manhood'!!
The S.O.B's...this kind of deterrent ought to be made into a law, if you ask me.
Unfortunately, our lawmakers are themselves bereft!
:(
7:54 pm
Disturbing. How sad that this can be true :(
8:04 pm
just brings back a rush of memories... many many memories...
tell me Ramya what is the BlankNoise project all about...I read thro your link but didnt sorta gather the jist...
8:17 pm
i got it!!! sorry for being so short sighted!
8:25 pm
I work as a paediatrician and saw a similar child brought to my attention.i wanted to make a formal complaint, but the parents ran away with their child and i didnt have a proper address to file it, that 7 year olds cry is still echoing in my heart. i will probably take it to my grave
8:53 pm
Whats this Ramya. Are we really living in a civilised society. Its indeed nerve wrecking.
I suppose Ravi and for that matter the Middle East countries have the correct answer to these evils. Sometimes I really feel Tsunami was after all not such a bad thing to happen to us, it was only nature's means of cleaning our sins or say the sinners among and within us. Disgusting, I say.
10:46 am
bunky,
appalling and true.
jasmeen
which is why i think blank noise is a great idea and that it should come to chennai as well. when you are ready.
ramya
2:15 pm
rajesh,
man, dint know you had a blog. you are right, there are bastards. where you least expect them to be. they mostly creep out from corners
ramya
7:04 pm
ravi,
in my dotage, i'm becoming a pacifist, but i totally agree with you. it is the thing.
r
7:06 pm
perspective,
it is the stuff of memories of girls grown up in urban, semi-urban india. i'm willing to be all women have a tale or two to narrate.
ramya
7:09 pm
anon,
it is unfortunate people do not want to help themselves or their children. but don't persecute yourself. you tried, see.
ramya
7:10 pm
hari,
i agree with the punishment, but i don't know about the tsunami. was it cleansing? cleansing whom?
ramya
7:13 pm
Ramya,
Looking at such evils happening around us, I really feel it was a kind of cleansing, cleansing the sinners and the sins within us.
8:48 am
woah. Nice writing. Sent chills thru' me. Whats white? BTW. Cdn't understand that. Does it mean the little one fainted?
3:21 pm
How true, how true. Just that the pink frock can morph into blue jeans and yellow rickshaw seat can morph into front seat of a car.
6:30 pm
hari,
o.k.! :)
manoj
thanks. white for pain, white blanking out innocence.
Krithika,
absolutely.
ramya
9:10 pm
pathetic is the word we all are looking for...
12:44 am
jammy
yes, pathetic and a whole load of other expletives i've left out of this blog, because it is sanitised.
ramya
1:47 pm
You have put it so simply, yet powerfully. Just to share my own thoughts on two subjects that bloggers have discussed here, I set up a blog only today: http://bloggingtrinkets.blogspot.com
ajnath
12:04 am
hi,
I was looking for an article that you had written for the blank noise project. It was about your exp. with sexual harrasement and how young girls think etc. I really liked that blog and am trying to find it...am almost sure it was written by you...cud u pls. send me the link if so?
thnx in advance!
1:14 am