I had to have a Women's day post

I really don’t know how or why Women’s day began to be celebrated. Today it’s mostly a day to talk either about how women today have come of age or about how they haven’t yet, and needless to say both sides find enough illustrations to prove their point effortlessly. Personally, I think that’s a rather pointless debate. We are talking about roughly one half of the entire world population. It’s ridiculous to put it all under one blanket. Each has her own definition of progress and happiness and shouldn’t be measured against a set standard.

To me Women’s day is about celebrating the amazing women we know and for me, that most amazing woman is my mom. How she manages to do everything she does and as effortlessly and beautifully is something I can never fathom.

It's a privilege being your duaghter, Aai. Love you! 

That thing called Media

Call me paranoid, but I really don’t know how much of what I read to trust these days.

For one, there was this game ‘Chinese whispers’ that I played as a kid. You whisper a sentence into the next person’s ears and see what becomes of it when it reaches the last person. No doubt, a very amusing way to pass time when I was a kid, but I often wonder if the same thing happens with news.

But anyway, if we assume that these guys have gotten their facts right, the media, something that was supposed to be just a tool for communication, has become way too powerful for that. It has the power to decide what we know and what we don’t. It has the power to decide how we feel about a particular issue. And it also often has the power to decide whether we feel anything at all about that issue or not.

This just makes me wonder whether the media has indeed become a powerful manipulator and I am but a stupid idiot (I know one of the words is redundant, but that’s how stupid I feel) who is walking into a carefully set trap.