So I am back...for those who dont know...(thats everyone..:))I used to maintain a blog earlier.
That was just for a week or so..Its been almost 5 months..I have promised meself to be more regular.

One of the most disturbing sight I ever saw was the anti-abortion pictures I saw in a school campain. One fine day, very sunny and warm day, I was walking from home to my department and as I approached the student center, I saw a whole lot of people flocking around some hoarding..and a number of people still bringing more boards. As I got closer, I could see horrifying pictures, a lot of blood. Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw. It was a campaign against abortion. There were dozens and dozens of pictures of babies, unborn, covered in blooed, severed limbs, heads, young mothers doing drugs. The huge hoardings were almost two storeys high. They drove their point home. After all that was the stark reality they were trying to project. The next day again there was a similar crowd. The student center I knew was always full of kids who were fooling about. That day there was a somber atmosphere, it seemed as if the sunny warm day, had suddenly turned bleak. Irrespective of what you felt about abortion, nobody wants to see pictures, blown up to show each detail. There was a lot of debate about whether such a thing should be allowed in schools. The team that took those pictures said they faced a lot of criticism. The reason i remembered all this was today when I decided to blog again, I mistyped the url. wwwblogger.com, and that seems to be owned by a similar group. I have to be honest, the memory of those pictures made me close the browser even before the entire page loaded. Call me a coward, but being as protected as we are, it is hard to accept such things when they stare at you in your face.

Made me want to type a more serious blog than I would have wanted my first blog to be after such a long time. After all a lot happens in 5 months. But it is something that is a growing problem all over the world. I have an aunt who is a gynaecologist and who tells me stories of the number of young girls who are getting abortion done in India. Girls from so-called "good" families, so-called "cultured" familes. It is all very alien and yet it is happening. So it makes you question the very rights of women, the rights of that unborn child, the mindset of people towards single mothers, the issue of the girl child. There are so many issues that we seem to conviniently ignore, after it does not happen to us? We are afterall educated individuals from "good" families. It just does not happen. Such things donot exist in this Utopia that we live in. Probably that is why those pictures scared the wits out of me...