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Culture Shock
Nargis: Bhubaneshwar...I'm not surprised. I've lived there most of my life, I know what you're talking about.
Keshav: Thanks...
...(I wish there was a better blush smiley on this site)
Wait a moment...you ragged him? I hope you didn't do anything serious there. Ragging is one thing I hate.
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Stalked
Stalkers are freakish. And it doesn't help if any of them have violent intentions. Standing up to these creeps is the hardest part- for any girl.
Nice story, although making Swati a brilliant orator made her speech to the stalker a lot less effective. Having an average person- someone not too good at speaking, but not bad either- would have been perfect.
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A Son is Born
Interesting, although I doubt that the newspapers would downplay an incident where the "enemy" (Militants, terrorists, infiltrators, or whatever) would have blown up a bunker. That kind of thing can't be an isolated incident, and if any big guns were involved, it means that things are serious. Nice to make it a happy ending!
Also, the glossary is a nice addition.
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Culture Shock
If anything, society has a problem finding out what is strong and what is weak. For one, I found Uncle Ben's words to Peter Parker (Spider-man) "Great power brings great responsibility" rather hollow. As true as it may be: what is it to be responsible? How does one responsibly use one's power? When is someone right when using the greater power (in this case, freedom) that he gains when he goes from a teenager to a young adult and when is he wrong? These things change so much from situation to situation- what might appear to be the responsible way of doing things might turn out to be the most reckless and irresponsible when we look back upon it.
As for seekers, the History Channel had an interview with people who experimented with LSD in the late sixties. Some of them had a profound personal change in their lives, not necessarily for the worse. When LSD got banned, it stopped a lot of scientific experimentation using the drug in very controlled doses. Of course, LSD did vast amounts of damage as well. Abusing anything does a lot of damage- drugs are easy to abuse and do a lot of damage. (And they're addictive, which is the very worst part of it)
In the end, the non-conformists are the ones who dare to change. Smack down on them too hard, and you're stuck. And like the Red Queen said to Alice in Alice in Wonderland, one needs to keep running to stay in the same place. It applies not just to human society (which is a very new thing in the history of the world), but to evolution as well. Inevitably, whatever can't evolve to meet the situation it faces must become extinct. And the situation always changes.
Society often does not like them, and often fails to realize how much it needs such people.
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Culture Shock
Character is a very complex thing, and its formation and shaping can happen in entirely unexpected ways. Thank God for that...if there existed any exact rules on how a person's character could be shaped, the world would be a very static place indeed, and people would live their lives like robots. People who are different, people who dare are the ones who try to initiate change- and that works both ways.
There are a very small number of people who have actually discovered entirely new things about their life when exposed to drugs, but that number pales in comparision to the millions of lives that are laid to waste by drug addiction. In the end, one needs the will to do what one feels is the best- and have the will and the strength to pull himself or herself out of whatever mess he or she got into. The latter is much rarer than the former- which is why it is best never to get into something in the first place.
Values and social systems can change- but in the end, the system that prevails will the be one that is most beneficial for the time period. It isn't a matter of tradition- it's a matter of what is best to survive, which is why the even the values of Gandhi faded out of the modern world.
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Culture Shock
Preconcieved notions, as always, are the devil. They might help out a stranger visiting a strange land, but they can't help a person coming to settle in that land, not in the least!
Glad you got thought twice and went for architecture, although I wonder what the course must have been like. My roommate was an architecture student and he had to work like crazy.
Doing what you want to do...that's superb.
In my experience, the biggest factor in not being able to adjust is a sense of alienation. If you constantly feel like you don't belong to a particular place or with a particular group of people, adjusting is that much harder.
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Another world, another time (Part 4)
Don't worry about the surreal part. Things will start making sense sometime soon.
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Predators Everywhere!
It's disgusting, but it's true. Society can be so blind and can condone such horrible things- often with most people not even realizing it.
Those girls are condemned if they remain in their work and condemned if they returned to their families. They're stuck between the frying pan and the fire all the time. Miserable. Just miserable.
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The Daring Robbery
Very da Vinci-code esque. Although the curator of the museum was quite a fool to let unidentified men appear to restore such priceless masterpieces. If he'd only been a little smarter...and the positioning of his CCTV system a little better, those crooks would never have succeeded.
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