The Outcasts

It suddenly struck me today as I was uploading my resume on one of the popular job sites. I was asked to specify my sex, and suddenly I thought what if a eunuch tries to do the same? Don’t they have their rights to make email ids, log on to so called “social networking” sites and so on?
I could find many celebrities raising their voice to modify article 377, but aren’t we stuck up with the two dominant genders? Aren’t the eunuchs human beings? Then why aren’t they treated like one? That remains one of the biggest blots on the human rights.
Most of us start to run away in the opposite direction as we see one of them coming towards us (as they hardly come alone). Have we ever pondered how they lead their daily life? Have we ever seen any one of them, holding a respectable position in a government office? Forget about being “bada babus” , no one lets them come near them. So how do we expect them to earn their daily bread? Beg? And then also, we move to a safer place as we hear them in the next compartment, however, they have just good wishes to shower on us.
It will be interesting to see who will take up to their long due rights and we could find the third gender option as well, this, being just one amongst the thousand deprived rights, or better put, a sign of respect.

The journey....

I’m sitting in an air conditioned compartment right now. I’m listening to Kaminey, working on my system. I was in the same environs yesterday. But just see the irony; I don’t know whether I will have a roof over me tomorrow night or not.
It’s a completely new beginning for me. All on my own and I guess, a bit challenging too. I’ve to go house hunting and that too in a place like Bangalore. And lemme tell you, its just the beginning. Its hardly been a month since I finished my bachelors, and I’m back to books again. This time for a more professional degree. Everyday, I log on to Gmail at least a dozen times, not to forward mails, but with a hope, to see a mail from TCS, informing me my joining date. But alas! I just hope the wait ends soon.
I’m in, I guess, one of the biggest dilemmas of my life at the moment. After landing myself in one of the biggest economic crisis of recent times, when getting a job in hand is like fetching a star from the sky. I consider my self lucky to be amongst those chosen ones, but then the fear of voluntarily quitting it, even before I join is killing me.
I can see a small group of hillocks lining the locales, with a lake in the vicinity surrounded by coconut trees. I just wish the train moves on and the journey contnues….