Sometimes I Look At Kanha And All I Wanna Do Is Hug Him Tightly And Cry My Heart Out.

I say I love Krishna but this is how I actually love him

I found it funny (but actually it's sad)

I actually find it interesting. It's funny to see how our art influences other people's perceptions, don't you think?

Do you guys know that we brought back more than a 100 tonnes of our gold from the Bank of England on the day of Dhanteras?

Talk about celebrating at a large scale 😆

If you have a problem with destruction of TERRORIST CAMPS , then I'm sorry to reveal this to you but YOU are the problem dawg 😭

the youth of india that has submitted to facism and right wing politics very conveniently complains about reservations but not about the lack of opportunities and seats by the government.

like do you really think by removing reservation, there would still be enough seats in institutions for lakhs of students?

the entire entrance system is a symptom of govt incapability to provide basic higher education and jobs and trap the youth into giving exams and blame their failure on students/candidates/people for not cracking them.

again, what good can come from the generation that believes that the government's responsibility is to build temples rather than focus on important things like education, infrastructure, development etc. these terms are almost non existent and alien.

Every time, every single time, anybody is raped in India, it gets brushed off, and when once in a while it reaches the national television, the general public stages protests and screams for justice, yet nothing truly comes out of it.

A resident doctor getting brutally raped and killed just days before India's independence day shows just how far behind India is. Economically we might be progressing but we keep on stepping back when it comes to protecting our women or people in general.

She was found in a half naked condition, bleeding from her privates and other parts with her pelvis broken. Even in such a bad state, the hospital didn't allow her parents to even see her, lied to them that she commited suicide. Only after hours of waiting were they allowed to look at their daughter.

Just last year, India had its major Shraddha Walker case. She had been cut to pieces by her boyfriend and kept in the fridge until he slowly disposed every piece off in different areas. There was widespread rahe and anger. People were disgusted, they revolted but soon the news died down and now nobody's sure what happened. And this happens every single time.

This independence day, what do we even have to celebrate? We most certainly do not feel free. A place where even my workplace could be my crime scene is not a place I would like to celebrate. This revolt will go on, and then it will die down and then, it will start all over again, every time, every single time.

Can people please talk about the absolutely disgusting thing that got uncovered in Tirumala?

Honestly I don't engage with many politics or news posts, as they can often end up in conflict- but this absolutely disgusts and saddens me to no end.

There are so many things on so many levels that hurt me about this- and I'll be talking about it in this post.

If you do not like this post, or disagree with my opinions, please do not engage with this post.

QUICK RECAP, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW OR NEED A REFRESHER:

Recently, it was uncovered through lab reports that there were animal products (such as beef, pork and fish) in the prasad (food given as offerings to the deity in the temple, in this case, Lord Venkateswara, and then given to the devotees) of the Tirumala temple, more specifically, in the Laddos.

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The following is my view on this is my opinion on this whole incident, from what I know about it.

Again, if you do not like or disagree with the contents, please do not interact.

First of all, the fact that this went under the noses of so many people, so easily, is a complete dissapointment.

Hundreds, if not thousands of devotees visit the massive temple complex every day- and consume the prasad- hell, this doesn't even include the people who get the prasad as a gift from people who visited Tirumala.

Not even counting faith- this was so wrong on multiple other levels- including health. This was obviously a massive food safety violation.

Fine. Let's say that this alarmingly large issue went unnoticed accidently. But that still doesn't justify the responses of the people in charge.

And then going into that temple and saying that 'if we did this wrong then the lord will take care of us' is absolutely shameful.

Pushing all the wrongs onto god's name, just so that no-one will question them, instead of acknowledging a huge, huge wrong is just absolutely so so disappointing and shameful.

I am just immensely, immensely disappointed by this chain of events- and all I can say is that I'm absolutely ashamed of it all.

This whole incident speaks a lot about these 'organisations' and their actions- and just breaks my trust in them even more.

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I was scared to post about this incident- but after a point, I simply could not take it. Tirumala is a place very, very close to my heart and honestly I considered it a safe haven- but now this incident has shaken me up. Tirumala will never lose its divinity- but this just makes me so much more reluctant to go there- not because I don't like Tirumala, or that I think of it as different- but because of my distrust at the organisation handling matters regarding it.

I'll probably add on more to this post soon, but for now, this is it.

"No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well."

— The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

lets out a noise like a wounded animal and doesn't elaborate