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Are you aware of your mind?

I will narrate this morning routine. I don't know about your mind. My mind has tendency to latch on to negative. This limits my world of possibilities. This kills the curiosity in me. With this dies adventure in me. When I was awake a song was playing in the mind "प्यार बांटते चलो". It was 6:15. I got up twice before and moved around the house and came back and slept. I did not feeeeeeeeeel like getting up. While using the loo a thought came in the mind. I should jog today. Then resistance built around it.  Why today? You are already hungry. You're digestive system is working smart. It is daylight. People would see you. It would have been better if it was little darker.  I kept firm. Looked for the socks. The white sports socks were not found. There was only one.  How will i look in grey thin socks and sports shoes? Finally went to the shoes. Are the shoes okay? Haven't worn them for a while? Aha! the sports socks are in the shoes? They dont sme

Female foeticide - revisited and reaffirmed by satyamevjayate

Aamir provides a balanced perspective on issue of female foeticide in India. It is an evil born in 1970's through government initiative to curb population menace and picked up in 1990's with introduction of ultrasound. And now we have crores of girl infants perish through inhuman behavior across society sections. Nawanshahr's  former Deputy Commissioner  Krishna Kumar could clean a district and reverse the male-female ratio. Why did we and government stop and could not support to help him build a framework through which we could curtail and eradicate evils like female foeticide and others.  Women are still considered objects of desire, only there to fulfill certain needs of male dominated society. Some have had to undergo abortion multiple times. Why cant we create a law that would equal this to murder and hang the perpetrators? It is amazing that noble professionals from medical field including lady doctors have made killing a foetus a business, a means to earn mo