LSD - 4.5/5

‘Love Sex aur Dhoka’[LSD], is a 2010 Hindi movie which attracted many criticisms for obvious reasons. I saw the movie few days back and for me personally the movie is far better than any other stereotyped Indian movie. Most of our movies give us back nothing but the deja vu effect on us, but LSD has shown us something new and for that matter the director deserves full credit for his efforts.What is that aspect in this movie which is totally new?,it’s nothing but the whole movie has been made with a unique filming style.LSD, the whole movie has been shot with a handy cam and security cameras. The movie is innovative atleast from the techinical point of view, having said that LSD is not the pioneer for this kind of innovation. Hollywood makers have already done movies like Look and even the latest one Paranormal activity is similar to it’s kind. The movie looks real, the actors who have acted in LSD must have surely learnt something about 'Method acting' otherwise it might not have been possible to bring in real life emotions for their respective characters. The story of the movie is not impressive but LSD should nt be missed at any cost especially for those who wish to see something different. This movie has a lot to say about our society which does all the dirty work inside including [honor killings] but covers it with a decent cloak and more importantly it justifies everything with the help of a protective gear called ‘culture’. The director has used realism and an innovative style to express himself through this movie. Most of our film critics have given the movie a positive feedback which is healthy for our film fraternity and for all the film makers who wants to make experimental movies like LSD. It’s strictly an Adult movie is what our Censor Board says but i don’t find anything explicit in the movie except for few foul words, anyway don’t miss to check this out.

Tattoos!

Tattooing is an beautiful art undoubtedly but many fail to witness ‘the’ real dangers involved in it. I thought tatoos belong to India but later only i realised the truth that tattooing has been practiced for centuries world wide. In India ,I have seen tattoos only on the hands of old people but now things look a little different though. Many youngsters are quite interested in getting inked. Everything is good until it brings us some problems, in that way tattoos too carry its share of dangerous side effects on us. People who have a tatoo are at a higer risk of getting Hepatitis C than those who have none. Many medical reports have emphasised the fact that tattoos are highly risk but many are quite reluctant to accept it. During the process of tattooing, the needle punctures the skin around 80 to 150 times so that colour pigments can be injected. Skin could get infected if the tattooing machine or tattoo gun is not properly sterilized, highly dangerous diseases like HIV could also affect a person if the equipment is contaminated. Reports, say that more young people are addicted to this because they feel this is the best possible way to communicate their feelings, emotions or whatever it is. Tattooing for many is a profession as you can see in reality programmes like ‘La Ink’, i still do not know why Katherine Von Dranchenberg (Kat Von D) is so proud of having so many tattoos on her which literally covers her whole body but i guess she has not realised the fact that programmes such as these can be always be a wrong influnce on others esp youngsters. There is nothing a tattoo can do for us is a plain truth, it is like a new pair of dress which gives us that initial excitement but later it just disappears but unfortunately a tattoo once worn cannot be removed as easily as you may think,infact removal of a tattoo is more a complicated business than applying it. Tattoo removal is somewhat successful but one should’nt forget the fact that it is still a costly affair. According to a study conducted in 2006, approximately 20 percent of people want their tattoos removed. So next time when you think of getting a tattoo better look at all the negative aspects involved in it.

The Holocaust

Jews had it all with them except for the freedom to live freely. They were humble, clever and affectionate but nothing mattered for racists like Adolf Hitler. No living Jew will ever forget ‘The Holocaust’ during the regime of Hitler. For more than a decade from 1933-1945, Jews were massacred and statistics say more than 6,000,000 were murdered in which 1.5 million were children. They were not killed by some other country men during the time of war but they were brutally murdered by their own countrymen. It was Hitler’s deliberate attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population not only from Germany but from whole of Europe.
After the World War I, Germany suffered a lot and was humiliated by the Versailles treaty and as a result, The German Empire was destroyed and a new parliamentary government called Weimar Republic was formed. The republic suffered from huge economic instability following the crash in New York stock market which forced Germany to face unemployment and poverty. On January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler leader of the National Socialist German Workers [Nazi] party won the crucial election held in 1932. Hitler sited the incidents after math World War I as a tactic to win the elections. Hitler started to accuse the Jews for German’s failure and used Der Sturmer a weekly Nazi newspaper to spread his ideas about Jews. This paper was the powerful tool of the Nazi’s propaganda against the Jewish community and it also carried funny caricatures of Jews. Soon Hitler turned out to be a real danger not only for the Jews but for the whole of Germany. The Nazis arrested several political leaders, banned their parties and went to the extent of murdering them. Everything started to change in Germany including basic individual rights like Freedom of speech which signalled the demise of German democracy.
Hitler hated the Jews for no convincing reasons. Nazis claimed that Jews were the ones who corrupted the German culture; they even portrayed Jews as evil and cowardly whereas Germans were considered hardworking, courageous and honest. Hitler noticed that everything in Germany was dominated by Jews which probably might have made him to think about Holocaust. He hated the Jews like anything because he felt that Jews might swallow the Aryan race with their clever thinking. Jews were slowly restricted from participating in social gatherings, their books were burnt, they were removed from professions and their properties were confisticated . Jews were not allowed to marry or have sex with Aryans. Each New Year saw harsh policies against the Jews. They were alienated by their own people was the worst of all. They sensed that they were not secured enough in their own country so many Jews decided to flee but unfortunately for them they had to wait for several months to get past few immigration rules in Europe. Many countries in 1932 decided not have any refugees in their countries and blamed the Nazis for creating problems unnecessarily. After several conferences, Europe eventually decided not to have any more of these immigration problems and hence decided to not allow any more Jewish migration from Germany. In the late 1930’s saw some of the worst disasters in World History. Hershel Grynszpan a 17 year old shot Ernst vom Rath a secretary in German Embassy in Paris, Nazis used this as an opportunity to loot and destroy several Jewish homes. As a result of this thousands of Jews were killed and more than 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and established ghettos- compulsory residential quarter for Jews, for the Jews of Poland. Having learnt that Jews are in majority in Poland, Hitler implicated a cruel plan that is to forcibly send the Jews from their homes to specially designed ghettos. The Ghettos lacked basic necessities like food, water, shelter and not even proper sanitary facilities. Many died mainly because of deprivation and starvation.

Final Solution
Several death camps were created to kill as many Jews as possible at the earliest. In the infamous Babi Yar massacre 30,000 to 35,000 Jews were killed in two days. Nazis established six Killing centres [Death camps] in Poland near railway lines so that Jews could be transported easily to these camps. All these camps were extremely brutal. The number of killings took place in these camps are still unknown. Hitler’s aim was not reduce the Jewish population in Germany alone but in other countries as well. In every country over run by Nazis, the Jews were forced to wear badges marking them as Jews; they were rounded up in ghettos or concentration camps and gradually transported to killing centres. Within a few hours of their arrival, the Jews had been stripped of their possessions and valuables and gassed to death. Later the bodies were burnt in specially designed crematoriums. Many healthy young Jews were not killed immediately. The German’s war effort and Final Solution required a great deal of man power so the Germans used them as slave labourers, Jews were not given proper food and rest even during their work and they had to work from dawn until dark. They literally worked to death by Germans. The Germans forced the starving and sick Jews to walk hundreds of miles, most died or shot along the way. Children from the Jewish camps were sent to experiments, Dr Josef Mengele was hugely responsible for this inhumane activities. Jews had to suffer all of these till 1945, when finally Nazis were defeated. After this horrible act [The Holocaust], Jewish population in Europe started to move to other countries. Now there are some Jewish communities spread all over the world continuing their silent lifestyle unable to digest their past disaster.

Trust them

I don’t show too much interest in the field of medicine because for obvious reasons, neither i can understand the terms nor the nuances involved in it, but recently i got some time to flip over the pages of a medical journal, in which i found something interesting and i wanted to share it with you guys. Gynaecology,hope you all are aware of the medical practice involed with female reproductive system. A woman being a gynaecologist is not a big deal but there are men who are equally interested to deal in this business, is something which makes people esp women to think twice. There are serious considerations whether men should be allowed to study this particular medicinal subject. In the article which i read mentioned more about the psychological aspects involved in it and it also mentions about the Gynecologist -patient relationship which is always extremely problematic irrespective of the gender of a gynecologist. ‘It is a well known fact that a great number of men have considerable psycological problems in relation to women and that the male psyche is naturally directed towards the female sex. According to Carl Jung, in men’s psychology there is the ‘anima archetype’- is the female within the male,which corresponds to the primal images of women,to the inner women who inhabit and energise male psycology’. M. Jacoby observes that ... “ she is the Eros....man’s anima manifest in the way he relates himself to women..”
A man need to understand and aquire a better knowledge of women to enter into the mysteries of female nature, this quite simply is the demand of the Anima archetype. Medicine can be one of the ways to achieve this aim. Medicinal practices grant a specifc power to the medical class and that is where omnipotence arises in many physicians and it is also possibe that many male gynecologists make use of the speciality ie the power to able to do that is desired. Having said this, the longing for omnipotence seems to have no relation to the physician’s gender, since it is found in both male and female doctors. The reasons that attract many doctors of female sex to gynecology are not clear though but possible reasons are, for better understanding , to explore more about ‘their’ own problems, but Jung claims about the interference of the Animus archetype [the male side of the female psyche] may also exert considerable influence. Apart from all these things the article also throws some light over obstetrics that a psychlogical need of male intereferance is needed during pregnancy and child birth. In the area of obstetrics, there is a psycho-social cutural factor that greatly influences both male and female doctors: it is deeply rooted and archiac view of women that they were mainly destined to have children. Male Gynecologists are professionals like lawyers and engineers and there is no doubt in that but many still doubt they are perverts and just look at this question a woman had asked, nothing wrong in it though.
I am not against doctors and medical care at all. But I believe that men have no business being gynecologists. It's just wrong. I also believe that nudity before the opposite sex should be reserved for spouse only.How can i allow men including doctors to see and access certain parts of my body that should only be reserved for my future husband. I am not against doctors or medical treatments at all. I feel like we have been brainwashed by the medical industry.
Ans: In order to preserve the dignity and privacy of female patients, it is standard procedure to give them garments and sheets that cover up anything not being examined at the moment. Women patients just do not lie naked on exam tables! Doctors go to great lengths to keep women from the intense discomfort of nakedness. In addition to that, any ethical male doctor will have a nurse in the room with him to protect both the patient and the doctor. They truly examine women's private parts without being distracted by an erotic component.God designed their brains in a way that allows them to compartmentalize, concentrating on only one thing at a time.It is their profession.

Having said all these one has every right to choose their doctor and it is their freedom and nobody can force them but still the person who wrote this article who himself a gynecologist does’nt completely ignore the claims of the patients that male gynecologists are perverts.

Ex- Coach Maradona

Diego Maradona is no longer the coach of Argentina, a news which was very much expected after the German match but somehow it took weeks for the Argentenian Football Association[AFA] to take a concrete step regarding Maradona’s future as the coach. The delay was certain because they did not want to take any hasty decisions and they were careful in their steps because they are dealing with their national hero-Maradona. Though few criticised before the World cup that Maradona won’t be a proper coach for the national side but the whole nation backed him and pined hopes on Maradona,unfortunately the former could not do much against ‘that’ match against Germany,poor Maradona’s face said it all.
Argentina were the first ones who succussfully executed their plans to reach the next level but eventually lost it to one of the best teams Germany. That particular clash not only made Argentina to move away from the tournament but much to their anguish lost it pathetically to Germans 4-0 despite their Group wins. People of Argentina still welcomed their heroes back home after their terrible exit from the world cup and immediately Maradona offered his resigination which was a quite obvious decision to make but the AFA intervend and made Maradona to reconsider his decision. Now AFA had sacked their national coach mercilessly they could have done it before or accepted his resignation quite simply, but why make him wait so long to give a shock like this is what the fans ask the AFA. There have been reports that Maradona did nt accept certain conditions like sacking the support staff;he doesn’t have any power over those issues whatsoever, but AFA could have acted much smartly by letting him go when he first offered his resignation.

Angry Driving

Anger has now become a predominant problem for the people of Chennai on the roads. Guess what, it is all because of the traffic which is the main culprit in the eruption of people’s anger. There can be many reasons behind this anger but many are not realising the fact that it can be reduced if we are sensible. Our world is set up with boundaries and every action is governed by a set of rules but unfortunately many do not even bother to consider one of the basic rules-traffic signals. They are not ignorant but they are adamant to abide the rules. One cannot deny the fact that ours is a metropolitan city, so we have signals everywhere and every time we wait for the green signal to come we may lose couple of minutes and nothing can be done about it since we live in a city. It seems that nobody is willing to accept this simple truth. Having said this there are people who are willing to accept the rules but even that is not possible these days, when a person calmly waits for the signal they call him a fool and some go a step further by persuading him to move by blowing horn constantly and sorry to say this but most of our own MTC buses does this quite often than any other vehicle.

Few weeks back while I was travelling through Nungambakkam I witnessed two people indulging in a fight. One was well dressed and looked like someone working in a corporate company and the other one was a call taxi driver, I could see their face red in anger and the reason for this rage was nothing but the call taxi driver had been blowing the horn continuously even after learning there is a traffic jam. If you go around the city you can observe scuffles like these, but do not think it cannot be prevented. Few of the important things we have to follow while driving are -Keeping anger away while driving is more important ,try to create a pleasant mood while driving some good soundtracks would do, use horn only when it is necessary remember horn sounds are not soothing and more importantly obey the traffic rules.

Pleasant Smile
Ignore people who try to get on your nerves by verbally abusing you if you drive slowly instead give way for them to go because it is not a place to show our ego. A smile speaks million words so try to throw a pleasant smile on them because people always appreciate warm gestures. Make sure your smile is pleasant enough because there are people whose smile looks sarcastic and remember a sarcastic smile would worsen things.

The most destructive habit.........................Worry

The greatest Joy...................................Giving

The worst pastime .................................Criticism

The best award ....................................Appreciation

The greatest loss..................................Loss of self-respect

The most satisfying work...........................Helping others

The ugliest personality trait......................Selfishness

The most endangered species........................Dedicated leaders

Our greatest natural resource......................Our youth

The greatest "shot in the arm".....................Encouragement

The greatest problem to overcome...................Fear

The most effective sleeping pill...................Peace of mind

The most crippling failure disease.................Excuses

The most powerful force in life....................Love

The most dangerous pariah..........................A gossiper

The most incredible computer.......................The brain

The worst company..................................Privilege seekers

The best thing to be without ......................Jealousy

The worst thing to be without......................Hope

The deadliest weapon...............................The tongue

The two most power-filled words...................."I Can"

The greatest asset.................................Faith

The most worthless emotion.........................Self-pity

The most prized possession.........................Integrity

The most powerful channel of communication.........Prayer

The most contagious spirit.........................Enthusiasm

The most beautiful attire..........................SMILE!