Saturday, 19 September 2009
On punishing the girl-child
The biases of long time ago evolves in time and the context where we are ... The frustrations and disappointments of yesterday may not hold the same impact always...
Browsing through the papers of today, I came across a controversial 'request' by the Catholic schools of the country. I read some friction in here... a 'moral' segregation somewhere.
My reaction: how do we realize in its fullness, the 'best interest of the child' principle? Are we back to the time of scarlet letters?
Browsing through the papers of today, I came across a controversial 'request' by the Catholic schools of the country. I read some friction in here... a 'moral' segregation somewhere.
My reaction: how do we realize in its fullness, the 'best interest of the child' principle? Are we back to the time of scarlet letters?
Friday, 18 September 2009
All for nationalism
I planned to write about a line that I read somewhere in reaction to a friend's graduation picture-- "and now, service to the country?" Reading that comment froze my state of being for a day. Yes, I forgot when I've uttered that line last but for the young people commenting on a simple graduation picture, it was very natural for them to claim service to the motherland.
I long for the time when in my country, we would also be able to do the same... people of all 'kinds' would ask these without fail and in utter sincerity.
This led me to ask... have I served enough?
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