The Brave Pedestrian

I would like to stick my neck out and make A MARRIED MAN'S POSITION abundantly clear in the context of the MARITAL-RAPE DEBATE. Yes, I may end up being considered brutish, but still, I believe these are the down-and-dirty facts of life. Deal with it. The situation for a married man is like this: 1) Regardless of whether his wife has sexual needs or not, a man definitely has sexual needs. 2) If on a particular day, if the wife is not available for satisfying his needs (not in the mood, unwell, tired, generally unhappy with life, doesn't feel loving towards her husband, the presence of kids and relatives in the house are hindering, etc.), then a man normally waits... but there is a limit to his patience, and his patience wears down over a span of some days or weeks. 3) If the wife continues to be unavailable, and the days turn into weeks and months, then a) he must act like a monk and stay content with masturbation, OR b) he must find a suitable consenting sexual partn...

If our new Prime Minister is really a common man at heart, he should take initiatives to ensure that judiciary becomes accessible to the common man. Like  ·  Comment  ·  Share

January 2, 2008: There is an important social principle currently being violated by many manufacturing activities:   While engaged in a profit-making activity, one must not leave a mess behind for the rest of society to clean up. This principle can easily be understood as common decency. If I come to your house as a salesman in order to market something, I must clean up any mess that I make while selling my product. But this principle is continually breached by manufacturers and marketers on a large scale in our country, and nobody even thinks of objecting! Have you ever pondered how mineral water and soft-drink manufacturers who sell their product to you in a PET bottle take no further responsibility what happens to their non-biodegradable bottle? Most often, it ends up as litter in the environment, because the consumer simply does not know what to do with the bottle, other than tossing it away. This is not how it should be. At the time of conceptualizing and designing t...