Indians and white color

I am back after a long time with a rant post And it is mainly a result of discussion with a friend yesterday and what I have been experiencing for a long time. It is a very cliched topic but I still wanted to have a post about it on my blog.

You guessed it right, it is about the obsession with fairness that Indians have. Why do we Indians think that white people are better? I mean, what is wrong in being dark?! Why do we crave for white skin so much? We were dominated by white people for 100 years and we still crave to become fair? Or is British rule the cause for our liking towards white skin? I guess we have been brainwashed ever since we were born that white skin means good looks. I have seen so many white people who lack any facial features and there are plenty of dark skinned women/men who are beautiful. But still if you look at any matrimonial site, the first and foremost requirement even from the darkest guy will be “fair girl”.

I feel like punching someone in the face when they start talking about skin color. No, seriously I feel like doing that.

Will we ever stop obsessing over skin color? What can be done to stop this kind of discrimination? We must ban fairness creams from the market to start with.

My friend and I were checking Google to see what Indians really want and you will not be surprised to see the results. Check out what Google has to say:

This is what we want : Fair skin, to become white

Indians “love” white people. Indians were treated like scum in the past but still they love them.

Indians like Cricket alright, but fair skin?!

Indian men seem to be famous for holding hands of probably each other

I do not understand why within our own country, we have to discriminate people based on their skin color?! And yes we think we are inferior because we are not fair.

Deviating from the topic, here are few more searches on Indians:

Engaged :)

Past two weeks have been crazy. I got engaged and I am still living in that dream world ever since. All the last minute rushing made me so tired and I am so not interested in working these days. I feel this is so weird since I never imagined myself in that position. Now you know why I am missing completely from the blogging world. Give me sometime and I will be back soon

I have always been a pretty practical person, who has always put my career in front of everything. I always wanted to marry late and had been proclaiming that everywhere. I always thought marriage would be some kind of hindrance, restriction etc. But now my perspective has changed, since I am in love And I like the fact that my partner is pretty understanding and down-to-earth too. I somehow seem to be losing interest in career and education now that my marriage got fixed. I think it is just a phase and after couple of years I will again become normal.

And talking for hours together on phone I always wondered what people spoke on phone for so long. Now I understand that. Even though there is nothing to talk, either of us don’t feel like hanging up the phone.

A new phase of life has begun and I am really excited about it. Waiting for my engagement snaps to arrive.

Wish me luck guys!

Magic lost

How many of you have watched a movie in theatre recently?

How many of you have attended a musical/rock concert recently?

Many of you would have been to atleast one of the above forms of entertainment. However, if I ask a question – how many of you have been to a magic show or a stage drama or circus or puppet show or a ventriloquist’s show, I may not even get a single ‘yes’ response back.

RIP Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of C programming language (my favourite language) and co-inventor of UNIX Operating system (my favourite OS) is no more. He also co-authored the famous K&R book, along with Ken Thomson. Sad day for all programmers who love C language and its pointers.

My friend Suraj came up with a poem on pointers. Go ahead and read it, if you want a good laugh-

Ready Player One – A Review

by Ernest Cline, Wil Wheaton(Narrator)

Published August 16th 2011 by Random House Audio

Recently, audio-books have been in rage and people have started preferring them to e-books. I always wanted to listen to an audio-book but never gave it a try. This time I got a chance to listen to one and simply loved it. I never even imagined that audio-books can be better than the ebooks/paperbacks.

Award and a tag

Shobhit gave me this award and asked me to reveal 7 secrets of mine. Thanks for the award Shobhit It’s been so long since I did a tag.

And Gils had given me the same tag some months or was it years back. He would have forgotten about it.

It is rather a tag-award with the following set of rules.

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.
2. Share 7 things about you.
3. Spread the love and honor.
4. Award and contact 7 recently discovered bloggers.

Pretty bad week

Two sad news in just a week or so. First it was closing of my most favourite bookstore chain – Borders and then Steve Jobs resigning from Apple’s CEO position.

Two news to make sure I feel bad this week.

Two things that really meant something to me in the past.

Borders – was the first bookstore I visited while in USA, since there was a store right below my department in college.

3 Favourites

Thanks to the enormous work pressure, I was in hibernation mode for couple of months. All these years in my life, I was so busy making my career, completing my studies that I hardly had time to sleep, forget about reading books. So I decided to make up for all those lost years by reading as many books as possible this year. All those books which were on my to-read list from ages are now being pushed to read list.

I have been reading blogs whenever I get time. But I was too lazy and also kind of busy to login and comment. Sometimes I have commented too. Hope to come back to regular routine of blogging soon.

I have decided to put reviews for 3 books that I read this year, which have now become one of my most favourite books ever. I would strongly recommend these books to everyone.

Countdown starts..

It is almost June and in July, the last potter movie is going to get released. This will be the last thing about Harry Potter that we are going to hear. After this, there wont be any Harry Potter release and I will not be eagerly waiting for anything in my life. Feels sad. Atleast from past 10 yrs or so, I have been anticipating for some or other HP release, either book or movie. I cannot imagine my life without HP gossip, news, pictures, discussions. Just cant imagine.

July 15th. Waiting so eagerly for it.

Why are you back?

Something that a friend of mine and I discussed for a long time. Even she moved back to India like me and is getting tortured from the so called “Indians”.

People keep saying that once a person goes to US, they will never come back. And if somebody does come back like me or my friend, they ask “Why?”. I am fed up of answering to this question. People cannot believe that somebody came back because “they” wanted to come back. I mean is it so difficult to believe?