Kohinoor

KHAP KA PAAP By Disha Gahlot Nurtured in a  family where daughters are not just cherished and loved but worshipped as well, my heart skips few beats when the electrical activity goes haywire as the ears hear,'breaking news' like 'A couple was shot dead due to inter-caste love affair, Khap saves honour of the family.' What disturbs me more is the inescapable truth that Khap and I share the same caste and creed, however, due to stroke of luck, I'm far away from their sadistic rules which are in alignment with their immortal 'parampara'. I can't even begin to express even if I step in the shoes of those who have been 'honoured' since shoes may be the only thing they were forced to leave the world with and they better be left to the families of those crying souls but if I were to hear the 'sacred' conversation between Khap panchayat and their 'parampara', I wondered what it would be like. Let's see how it unfolds. (Dialogue...

What is it? By Disha Gahlot Ever heard about the unsung heroes in your life? Of course not, hence unsung! Not-so-similarly, a lot happens under the ground and it doesn't meet the eye even through your magnifying glasses! We have volcano, tornado, katrina and tsunami inside of us; it's just a matter of time when it chooses to be not-so-dormant at a certain point which manifests in the form of tragedies that we encounter during that phase. You see smiling faces, oh! you  see laughing faces, cheers!  you see a lot of faces, but do you see it?! One of those faces lost their mother last month, the second one broke up with his long-term girlfriend, the third one lost his job three days back, the fourth one got diagnosed with AIDS about two months back, the fifth one is just sitting in the corner wondering if he should live or commit suicide and the sixth one is getting married next month. Aha! Finally something to smile for, right? Well, he's getting married for the thi...

                                                             MEET THE MEAT                                                              By Disha Gahlot While we tend to submit a blueprint of how our lives should be to our imagination process, a grotesque path usually crosses our way to create a crossword with its own significant plots, twists and turns! Whether we choose to get lost in the puzzle or make our way back to the printing machine depends not just on our ability to think clearly but our creativity to play along while making a new way out of it! What often thwarts Mr.Z from doing what a rational being needs to do is his conceived notions about himself and his life. Ther...

                            Are we women less than human?   By DISHA GAHLOT A Part of me rebels, A part of me goes in denial mode, A part of me surrenders, while a part of me dies every time I witness a case of violence against women. Women, in different phases of the society, are being tortured for no reason. Are women personified as a pitiable figure? Is it the society's curse for women to be objectified, to be blamed, to be bullied, to be humiliated, to be molested, to be raped,.....to be.....,to be treated less than a human or is it the ignorance of the people of the society who sit and 'watch news in their free time' and fail to do anything about it? If just being aware about what's happening around the world makes you a wise person, then Congratulations,you deserve a noble prize for the surplus knowledge you have in your head about who raped who, when that murder case happened,where that wom...