Eye humped you

As always, the people around me are responsible for/inspire most of the stuff I write.  Little things often lead to monumental Fails or Wins. (If things don’t lead to either of the two, then they aren’t worth character space).

Edit having recently visited Goa, was describing his trip to me.  In the middle of describing the scenic beaches and the amazing sun, the conversation veered to an erstwhile discussion between the two of us which was primarily about the dearth of attractive women in his(our) life(lives).  This was when he suddenly launched into a graphic account of how he saw a large number of amazingly attractive(?) women in a street outside a night club in Goa.  As is protocol, I asked him the customary question

Explorer: Did you get laid?

Edit: No.

Explorer:  Atleast dry-humping?

Edit: No.  No dry-humping.  Only eye-humping.

These were his exact words.  My friend Edit did not realise that he came up with an apt term which accounts for the sex lives of millions of Indians.  ”Eye-humping” can be broadly defined as  stripping people naked with the “mind’s eye” and performing gross/obscene sexual acts with them within the said “mind’s eye”.

Stud-max terms now have fresh company. Eye-humping is here to stay, it will soon be as much a part of India’s sexual history as Kamasutra or Khajuraho.

Issued in public interest: Eye-humping is a severe lack of respect towards women and is in no way condoned by anyone. It is utterly derogatory and painful for subject of aforementioned eye-humping. Respect women, be civilised.
If not, UP yours.

Passing thought

Slumdog Millionaire. The new movie everyone’s raving about. Probably deservedly so(because I haven’t seen the movie and am in no position to judge it). It talks about a slum kid who appears on Kaun Banega Crorepati and wins the show.
But my point is not the book, nor it’s premise.
When I read stuff about this book, it’s the way people say the slums and the poverty and the sheer apathy shown in the movie/written in books such as Maximum City, Slumdog Millionaire etc is the “REAL INDIA”.
I agree totally when you point out that India has slums, poverty and more than it’s fair share of unscrupulous people, but in compensation, India also has brilliant infrastructure, a strong foundation of education, India has some amazing cities and beautiful sights and historic places.
What I mean to say is, you cannot simply magnify a singular part of an entity and identify it with that single attribute. The “REAL INDIA”, is the sum of it’s parts. It is an amalgamation of villages, slums, towns and cities. Of poverty, mediocrity, riches and more. Just like you cannot say for example that New York City is the “REAL AMERICA” or for that matter that Eastern Europe is the “REAL EUROPE”.
Examples taken are purely those that spring to my mind immediately and may or may not appear relevant or conclusive to you.
But the message I wish to convey is, India is more than just the sum of it’s parts. When even the sum of it’s parts cannot completely depict India, how can you try to summarize our country in a single strata of society.
Peace.