Friends and NUJS

My friend Sonal is writing a paper on rights of transexual and Sonal, Shriti and I were discussing about the issue at length in the afternoon. I've not seen Shriti arguing and sharing her thoughts about some thing that has to do with academics till now and the experience in room was very unique and passionate. I was thinking how lovely is to have people like Sonal and Shriti in life and then I suddenly realised that we are the RSS gang. We've made this gang to talk about weird thinks about sex, and here we are ,advocating for rights of transexual. The feeling was really different, it was not the normal kind of discussions and heated debates that we used to have in sociology classes. I felt that they're really going to fight for transexual's rights and ask those rights from the government and society. The other day Sonal was telling me how transexual rights are not recognized by the society and how she wants to be friends with transexuals. I was so excited about it, like talking to them like you talking to your friends, sharing their ideas, problems and happiness and all. OMG!!! that was just amazing, and knowing the kind of person Sonal is, I can bet you that she can be best friends with them.

I don't know, I've the feeling that we are all going to be those persons that we all like to be. Like Sonal is really weird and likes all the things in the world, and believes that everything is the way it has to be. You know, I was watching an interview about Bharathan, and one of the greatest lyricist in the Malayalam film industry O N V was telling how for Bharathan could place everything, however strange those may be, in a way that would take away its strangeness.

I like my college now and I realized that I don't belong to the mainstream culture (if I can term it like that) which is about mooting, debating and preparing for highly remunerative jobs. We had our NUJS Night last night, I realized that all the lame joke that guy who was doing the compering was cracking was about studies and moot. But we are so different and I like the difference!!!!!