would this judge hav said something like this had the lying complainant been a man?

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 5/16/2013 2:03:00 PM

'ofcourse not, no one would EVER imply that simply because one man made a false complaint, the entire 'male species" were lying bastards would they? atleast not on judicially stamped judgements they wont... but please feel free to paint ALL women black because one woman lodged a false complaint against her friend's  ex boyfriend... even when you don't actually have any proof that the complaint in question was actually filed on the ex's say so.. you just take the fact that its "p(...)'

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harder to breathe

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 4/25/2013 4:22:00 PM

'Songs change their meanings as times change........"Harder To Breathe" Maroon 5 How dare you say that my behavior is unacceptableSo condescending unnecessarily criticalI have the tendency of getting very physicalSo watch your step 'cause if I do you'll need a miracleYou drain me dry and make me wonder why I'm even hereThis Double Vision I was seeing is finally clearYou want to stay but you know very well I want you goneNot fit to fuckin' tread the ground that I'm walking onWhen i(...)'

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the answer key

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 4/8/2013 6:28:00 PM

'call me selfishgo ahead.. i won't mind..maybe i am.. maybe i am a self centered child with atrocious people skills and even worse people reading skills..so bloody what?I am ME. I may become better, more caring, more understanding, more mature..but guess whatat the end of the day... when i have had a long day and feel like kissing my pillow to show it just how much i missed it and need it, i WILL choose my sanity, my sleep and MYcomfort over whatever the fuck it may be that's going o(...)'

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sometimes the silliest songs can be so profound..

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 3/31/2013 7:29:00 PM

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a journalist's confession....

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 2/24/2013 4:17:00 AM

'I joined this professions with starry eyed idealistic dream of "doing good" that as a reporter, what i print will bring justice to people, that i will help someone somehow by putting their story out to the world...where does one draw the line between the 'official written word' and one's own misgivings?? a story that I have written today is something that i was questioning while i was writing it.. but i tamped down on my misgivings because it was all there is Black and white with a (...)'

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"If you leave who will prove that my cry existed?/ Tell me what was I like before I existed.

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 1/6/2013 2:40:00 PM

'yes i am selfish and spoilt.. i am, really... because while the world is talking about crimes against women and people are working their asses off all over the city, i'm wrapped up in a little bubble of mourning and memories...in the past one month, i've lost three people who spent nearly my entire childhood pampering me, who were there in the background and foreground, often scolding my parents for scolding me, or hiding me when i wanted to escape the world... my grandmom, almost-s(...)'

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goodbye...

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 1/4/2013 7:01:00 PM

'I was a spoilt, pampered child.. as much as i may whine about growing up taking care of teh brats, the truth is that i never lifted a finger till well into my teenage, and i was the only child at home long enough to be pampered silly... i've done stuff like listen to stories all afternoon and all evening and have 'favorite' soaps brought from the market before i'd consent to bathe, and 'run away' from home because mom scolded me for something and LOVED to put my head in someone's la(...)'

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nirbhaya

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 12/27/2012 4:23:00 PM

'Sing with me, sing for the yearsSing for the laughter, sing for the tearsSing with me, just for todayMaybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away.........the songs says 'dream on'i hear something completely different..I can see them, hear them.. the don't expect me survive, but they're terrified to let me die.. I am too stubborn to let go... the world will erupt in flames if i do, don't you know..My heart gave out twice, they pumped it back on, my body has been torn to shreds, b(...)'

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wake up! its not just the police, its us too...

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 12/18/2012 7:26:00 PM

'"protest' they say, 'Raise your voice', 'down with government", "down with police and inefficient justice"... does anyone remember that a whole lot of bystanders, the so called "PEOPLE" stood by and stared while the rape victim and her friend were bleeding on the road and inching towards death...???? Civility, civic sense are dead.. social values are dead, what use is your 'outrage' when you still don't stop to help someone in desperate need? what price 'humanity' when you are so qu(...)'

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amma

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 12/4/2012 6:41:00 PM

'to the woman who was the nest that everyone flew back to, as much as we flew away..the fighter who embraced only the 'practical' traditions and fought against the world to study, work and live with dignity before 'feminist' became a fashionable word.the disciplinarian who got our huge scattered family to behave themselves for yearsthe one who was always there.. even when you didn't particularly want anyone to be..the reason why i, who haven't stepped foot in the puja room in years s(...)'

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penrose staircases...

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 12/2/2012 5:48:00 PM

'The bright azure of the open sky with fluffy white clouds scurrying across it make me stop and wonder at my life sometimes.. think of the things I’ve planned and dropped, of the paths that I almost took or got turned around in.. I feel like I’m at the bottom of a glass walled well and while I can see everything around me reflected in the glossy shards that enclose my existence, the only open sky that is within my reach is that little patch that is visible where that glass and stone (...)'

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o nadan parinde ghar a ja...

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 12/2/2012 5:01:00 PM

'Raghav turned 11 today.. my baby brother, the one reason i learnt to play mommy to everyone and revel in it coz his smile lit up my world.. i was too young when the brats were born to make any contribution to their younger years... but with almost 14 years between me and this little thing that my chachi brought home, i played nanny and surrogate mum whenever she had to take a break/nap/get work done.. and i would sit and rock him in my arms and sing him to sleep and tell him all my (...)'

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watching a devotional movie with the eyes of an atheist

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 11/15/2012 3:32:00 PM

'So what makes Jab Tak Hai Jaan's Meera different from the dyed in the wool devoted sati savitris of yesteryear Bollywood? the type that we saw in movies like "jai santoshi maa"..??The intensely devoted to god with a Pooja ki thaali perennially in her hand 'good girl' of the days gone by has been replaced with a "i don't wanna marry an Indian boy" cigarette smoking, minidress wearing 'businesswoman', but she is still following the 'god will do as i ask if i pray hard enough" motto of(...)'

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quoth the raven, nevermore

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 11/1/2012 7:43:00 AM

'came across a reference to this poem while reading randomly.. then decided to look up the poem... its so beautifully haunting that i had to share.... THE RAVENOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore —While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this (...)'

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if i lay here.. would you lie with me and just forget the world..

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 10/18/2012 8:06:00 PM

'if I were in a better mood, I’d look at that picture of the skinny young man sitting on a bench outside a staircase and that picture of the girl rushing down a stairwell as eager young lovers flying past the centimeters that lie between them and the seconds that it will take for them to be togetherif I were in a more fluffy pink clouds and hearts and roses mood I’d see the bunching of her thigh muscles as she takes the stairs two- three a a time to run towards the light and the warm(...)'

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how does one say "i love you"?

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 9/20/2012 4:42:00 PM

'there are days when i have words and emotions pouring out of every breath i take, there are days when i am just so numb that i can't feel anything around methere are days when the slightest breeze makes me gasp with joy, there are days when the clouds on th ehorion seem to be thee just to darken my dayand tehn there are days lik yesterday when i get jolted out of my confort zone and throw in front of a mirror, to SEE just what i am and hat i've done and not doneto notice teh cracks (...)'

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Has anyone seen this show called 'PunarVivaah'?

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 8/16/2012 6:22:00 AM

'Having grandparents at home guarantees that you will be exposed to those god-awful saas bahu sagas that run on TV all day.. I get fleeting glimpses of most of them since I tend to drift in and out of the living room at various points of the day..Has anyone seen this show called ‘PunarVivaah” on Zee?? It started out as this progressive sounding show about a widower and a divorcee who get married to each other via an arranged marriage. It started out showing the heroine as this awesom(...)'

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hot cakes to hot potatoes

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 7/17/2012 4:38:00 PM

'So this judge made a rather interesting observation today... "The questions raised by the arrest and detention of SM Kazmi will have repercussions on the entire judicial process that is being followed under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act"... No shit sherlock... I, a barely graduated law student cum rookie journo could've told you that....when the police and courts start taking decisions without clarifying points of law, somewhere or the other the laspse will come b(...)'

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the curious case of SA Kazmi

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 7/7/2012 7:32:00 PM

'so the law is either the written word or customary practice.. but what about when the written word is ambiguous and the practitioners are stumbling all over themselves to figure out what to do??? then we get the case of a man in Judicial custody being taken up and down the judicial ladder while judges all over the place try to assign authority to each other.SA Kazmi was arrested under the provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, the UAPA.He(...)'

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the little blue stone thats taken up a corner of me

Author : anne      Blog : a tentative step      Date : 7/6/2012 6:33:00 PM

'so you say that men and women can't be just friends,.. that the only reason you were around was because you thought you had a chance to get into my pants...fuck youi have far too many friends who negate your little stream of thought.. better peopler than you.and i'm done feeling guilty for hurting you.there was a time that i blamed myself for the mess that you were in... a time when i promised myself that i'll be there for you through everything.. just to make sure you didn't ge ups(...)'

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