Starbucks Sodality

I walked into the park this morning and I found the place infested with people with white clothing with a pad in hand. The anxiety of being accosted by some real estate salesman clouded my head. There was one guy who broke free from the group overcoming few obstacles and came straight to me with a pad and pen in his hand. “Sir I need your signature to petition against TASMAC”. Why do these people ever assume that morning walkers are health conscious and stable people who wake up in the morning and live a puritan lifestyle?

I gave him a resounding NO and walked away. White shirts and there was a van standing with the photo of GK Vasan, the politician,  apparently this was a activity for gain. It was so frikkin apparent and on to the face.

Few steps into the part the challenge of the walk made me forget all this thankfully.

45 minutes later while I was leaving I saw 15 youngsters with a black attire armed with brooms and other cleaning accoutrements surveying the area. Now I was curious I wanted to know who they were.  I strained my eyes for some hint. There was this familiar logo on their T Shirt it was on of those whispering types.. not the screaming ones.  I knew it was the Starbucks stuff and then I saw familiar faces.

The first question I asked was how often do you do it?  its not mandated for us to do this task so we do it when ever we want.  I infer its a team effort gently facilitated by Starbucks.

The purpose was to keep the place clean obviously and then to set an example for the youngsters and kids especially to be conscious about throwing filth around. Even as I was talking to Kevin a group had already started cleaning the roads. No fan fare no noise .. just quietly cleaning.

Sun and the sackcloth

People who stand valiantly against discrimination against women in public secretly share what really lies within them  with those innocuous whatsapp messages posted in closed groups. Talking about handling duality –  one brain seems to handle the science of Astronomy and age old belief,  that is astrology.

Just that the brain that houses astrology  seem to be active these days. How else can you explain the case of a  class 10 social science textbook in Chhattisgarh that claims that ‘working women are one of the causes of unemployment in the country’?

This cannot be an idea of one nitwit but a group of people who share similar thinking must have got together in one room and conceived what must go into the text book. What are the chances of getting a group of men with such regressive thinking gathering in one room?  Very very high indeed in India it is very high.

My question is where did these guys suddenly emerge from ? How did they suddenly get into the decision making roles?

Even as you think of answers… just look at some pictures I have put together.

‘Don’t measure a woman’s worth by her clothes’ is a slogan that comes from a Swiss organization called Terre Des Femmes. Terre Des Femmes focuses on gender equality, and for this specific issue, not judging women based on the length of her clothes.

These strong and empowering ads were created by students at the Miami Ad School in Hamburg, Germany—and Theresa Wlokka.

And only yesterday I saw a cover story of a tamil magazine on how leggings have become obscene. Can you believe it some perverted photographer has actually taken a pic of these women without their knowledge and another perverted editor of the magazine has made it into a cover story. Talking of group of similar morons in the same room

And finally here is something that will make you smile.