1. In our exams in school, why do we reward only answers and never questions?
2. When our parents say, 'We want to have a talk,' why do we always assume we are going to get told off for something? Why are we never wrong?
3. When did it become classy and acceptable for restaurants in India to say they don't offer carry bags for excess food on the table? Why do we allow it in a country where over 20,00,00,000 people will sleep hungry tonight?
4. Why do we ban the advertising of cigarettes and alcohol? Why do we then allow these companies to advertise music cds, parties and other promos in the name of the alcohol they sell? Why is surrogate advertising acceptable?
5. Why do we ban the commercial sale of hookah, but not cigarettes?
6. Why do traffic cops let drunk drivers back into their cars if they can pay the bribe?
7. Why do we start most conversations with people we've just met (or met after a long time) with, 'So, what are you doing with your life now?' (Or, 'Where did you study?') Is that really the question that will shed the most light on someone?
8. Why are we so quick to impose our own value judgements on everyone/anyone? Why can we not accept that different people are different and therefore will live their lives differently? (Live and let live?)
9. Why do we assume someone who plays Poker is a degenerate gambler while someone who plays Chess is a genius?
10. Why are the choices available to us in elections always a decision of voting in the lesser evil? Why do none of us in India grow up wanting to be a politician? Why isn't something being done to change it? (My Grandmother to me, 'Whatever you do with your life, don't join politics.')
11. Why can't moccasins be worn with socks? Why can't Devashish bluff more when we play Poker?
I'll probably write more about some of these questions/thoughts in time. For now, needed to get that off my chest.
2. When our parents say, 'We want to have a talk,' why do we always assume we are going to get told off for something? Why are we never wrong?
3. When did it become classy and acceptable for restaurants in India to say they don't offer carry bags for excess food on the table? Why do we allow it in a country where over 20,00,00,000 people will sleep hungry tonight?
4. Why do we ban the advertising of cigarettes and alcohol? Why do we then allow these companies to advertise music cds, parties and other promos in the name of the alcohol they sell? Why is surrogate advertising acceptable?
5. Why do we ban the commercial sale of hookah, but not cigarettes?
6. Why do traffic cops let drunk drivers back into their cars if they can pay the bribe?
7. Why do we start most conversations with people we've just met (or met after a long time) with, 'So, what are you doing with your life now?' (Or, 'Where did you study?') Is that really the question that will shed the most light on someone?
8. Why are we so quick to impose our own value judgements on everyone/anyone? Why can we not accept that different people are different and therefore will live their lives differently? (Live and let live?)
9. Why do we assume someone who plays Poker is a degenerate gambler while someone who plays Chess is a genius?
10. Why are the choices available to us in elections always a decision of voting in the lesser evil? Why do none of us in India grow up wanting to be a politician? Why isn't something being done to change it? (My Grandmother to me, 'Whatever you do with your life, don't join politics.')
11. Why can't moccasins be worn with socks? Why can't Devashish bluff more when we play Poker?
I'll probably write more about some of these questions/thoughts in time. For now, needed to get that off my chest.
