When truth gets burnt alive : 1

As a child, sky has fascinated many and slowly when we grow up we come up pointing out different planets in the night sky or read and repeat them from our textbooks. You are given a score everytime you name them correctly. But he was burnt alive for doing the same…

Giordano Bruno, whose name has hardly been heard as many times as when the court ordered to put him in raging flames. Ironically, every exoplanet confirms not the cosmology of Kepler, but of Bruno, the Italian philosopher who learnt to decipher the sky with naked eye since telescope was just an idea then.


Bruno left his home town of Nola to travel to nearby Naples when he was 14 years old to study there. He attended lectures on humanities, logic and dialectics in Naples and it was at this time that he was influenced by one of his teachers towards Averroism. This was Christian philosophy based on an interpretation of Aristotle’s works through the Muslim philosopher Averroes. Its basic belief was that reason and philosophy are superior to faith and knowledge founded on faith.

The church was bound to the beliefs of Aristotle who remarked the planet where jesus was burnt was the centre of the universe and anyone who denied that was punished. Bruno escaped few times but then was sentenced to death for stating the following:

This entire globe, this star, not being subject to death, and dissolution and annihilation being impossible anywhere in Nature, from time to time renews itself by changing and altering all its parts. There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the centre of things.

-Bruno

In January 1593 Bruno arrived in Rome and his trial began which was to drag on for seven years. Initially Bruno defended himself with the same arguments as he had used when tried by the Venetian Inquisition. The Romans, however, declared that his views on physics and cosmology were theological and demanded that he retract. Bruno answered quite honestly that he did not know what he was being asked to retract, trying to convince the Inquisition that his views were in accord with Christianity. Pope Clement VIII demanded that Bruno be sentenced as a heretic and the Inquisition passed the death sentence on him. On hearing the sentence he responded:-

Perhaps your fear in passing judgment on me is greater than mine in receiving it.

And thus he was burnt alive in CAMPO De FIORI on 17th February 1600.

-Campo de fiori ( the place where bruno was burnt as an example and a threat to all those who thought of going against the greatness of GOD)

Other insights amaze physicists today who can see ideas of quantum theory in Bruno’s writings. However, others feel that the inclusion of much which is magic into his works minimises the importance of those remarkable insights.

But indeed this was the start that provoked many to stand up for their truth as burno still left some burning sparks inside many minds.

SOLANIN!

SOLANIN POSTER

Characters Meiko Inoue and Naruo Taneda graduate from college university two years ago. Unhappy and unsatisfied with their current lives, and the hunger for hitting something big and going professional eats them from their back.. Meiko decides to quit her job and encourages her boyfriend to rebuild the band with former band members in the University Katou Kenichi ( 6th year in college) and Jirou Yamada ( owner of father’s pharmacy) and go professional music making after singing in college stages.. They ultimately fail and get rejected by CD record companies.


Taneda becomes depressed and continues with his average life and says his last prayers to his family and friends for some reason .. and is overwhelmed by emotions while having realised he has to return to his mental profession and have failed in his dream, he speeds thorugh a redlight on his motorcycle dying on the spot..

Everything comes to a halt for the team and they fall silent… When MEIKO finally decides to move on, strap on naruo’s stratocaster and standing in front of the livehouse light and singing the last song that naruo wrote for her, which was ” SOLANIN!!!” basically meaning ‘goodbye’… And performs a debut gig which concludes Meiko taking the job and the other band members returning to their daily regimen.

The film teaches me about our destiny, real work peace, sense of home ,good times , and a lot more…
It was a solid 9/10.. a solid whole number because it deserves.

The manga illustrations are pretty cool as well..
check it out
https://myanimelist.net/manga/3731/Solanin

THE SONG SOLANIN!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZD1B1TskXs

Why Feminism Matters ; Part 2

“MAN HATER”

Countless times, strangers on the internet have referred to feminists by this term. “You are a man-hater”, “Do you hate your dad too?”, “Feminists want to kill men” etc, are some of the most common arguments, or rather comments, that are made whenever feminism is being discussed.

But what really has feminism achieved that can be termed as “man hating”?

Is it the fact that “some” women are now at par with the men in terms of opportunities and freedom? Is it the fact that now “some” women can exercise the right to their body to some extent? Or is it the fact that now a very small, teeny tiny percentage of women can go and file an FIR against harrasment without being ostracised and shamed by the society?

Let’s discuss what the strangers on the internet think.

” Women have more rights than men nowadays”. False. Women in some countries are now being given an opportunity to be equal to men, in terms of political rights and freedom. Social rights are still lop sided. Social stereotypes hurt all the genders, but most of the time its the feminine traits that are seen as evil and unfit.

” Women get child support and alimony. They don’t even have to work”. According to the law, the partner who earns less and cannot maintain themselves is entitled to alimony, so its not just women who qualify for alimony.

“Women make false rape cases and ruin the lives of innocent men”. False rape cases are obviously wrong, and the person who makes such cases should be punished very harshly. But consider this; Thousands of rape cases, but people say “not all men”. Few false rape allegations, and people start questioning and rejecting the credibility of survivors.

” Women want men dead”. Truth be told, it was a twitter hashtag. No one would have thought that a twitter hashtag could get such a massive response.

This hashtag got famous just to rile up toxic male right activists (MRAs). Is the hashtag wrong? Probably. But this is obviously not the worst hashtag out there. Humor is a way to tackle trauma, and many women use this hashtag to share their own experiences of assault and harrasment. “Rapeallwomen2020” was an actual hashtag which was made as a response to it. In a society where one out of every five women has been sexually assaulted in one way or another, the formation of this hashtag not only reflects the arrogance of men, but also their ignorance towards the current situation of women in the society.

Feminism never stood for hating men. It stands against patriarchy, which is a system through which men are benefitted in numerous aspects. A move against patriarchy thus gets translated to a move against men, who have always been at the top of the power structure in the society. This is why, men feel attacked, whereas all feminism is trying to do is level the field.

Nowadays, women are labelled as man-haters just for being queer. It is thus clear that society will call any act that does not pertain to the servitude of men as “hating” men. It doesn’t matter whether one is a feminist or not. If they are not constantly serving men, they will get painted with the same brush and get labelled as “man hating, raging, crazy feminists”.

(As a cis woman, I will only be using cis terms in my blogs, as I am not really sure about the struggles that non-cis people go through)

Why Feminism Matters ; Part 1

“LITTLE DID I KNOW”

Real life incident:

A guy came up to me and asked for some pages saying that he didn’t have a notebook. Being his batchmate, I gave it to him. Little did I know that it was ‘leading him on’. Later he asked which subject I liked the most. Little did i know that answering him was ‘leading him on’. Little did I know that wearing a kurti was ‘leading him on’. And slowly, all these things led me into a spiral.

” I like you”, he said. I was bewildered and taken aback. “Like me? But why” I asked him. He shrugged but didn’t answer. “Okay I guess, but I am not interested in such stuff” is what I replied. Little did I know that it translated to “Make me like you. I am just playing hard to get”. “But why? I like you a lot” he argued. ‘Scary’, is what came to my mind. I didn’t want to continue this any further, I wanted all of this to stop but the whole class was now looking at me. I hated being the center of attention for such kind of stuff. “I am sorry, but I don’t like such stuff”. “I will make you like such stuff then” he replied stubbornly. At that point, my mind completely went blank. It almost sounded like a threat. A shiver went down my spine. All the eyes were on me. “Please, I am really not interested”, I replied as coldly as I could.

So, what do you think happened after this? Did he respect my wish or just forced me into liking him?

If you chose either of the options, you are wrong. What he did do was the thing that almost all the girls have faced atleast once in their lifetime; Stalking.

What’s stalking? Let’s see what the lexicon says: Stalking is to “pursue or approach stealthily”. However in the above context, its not about stealth, but rather to create a sense of dominance over the person getting stalked.

Over the period that I was getting stalked, I wondered “why me? What did I do wrong”.

AND THAT’S WHERE FEMINISM ENTERS.

The first thing feminism dismantles is “victim blaming” and holds the perpetrator accountable. It teaches not only the society but also the victim, to not blame themselves for any kind of harrasment or assault that they faced or will face.

Feminism also tries to empower the voices of the victims, so that they can speak up about their own experiences. When one person speaks out on injustice, it gives the others a sense of comaraderie and helps them to speak their mind too.

This is one of the most basic aspects of Feminism that a lot of mysoginistic and sexist people look over whenever they try to “cancel” Feminism or reduce its meaning to “man hating”.

(As a cis woman, I will be using cis terms in most situations, as I am not really sure about the struggles that non-cis people go through)

माँ |



बिना कुछ पुछे मेरे मन की बात जान लेती हो।
माँ तुम ये सब कैसें करलेती हो।
पहले गुस्सा करती हो, फिर मनती हो।
रोता हूँ तो झट से हस्साती हो।

रब से अपने लिए तो कुछ नहीं,पर मेरे लिए सब मांगती लेती हो ।
चोट मुझें लगती हैं पर महसूस तुम कर लेती हो ।
मेरी लम्बी उम्र के लिए कैसे भुकी प्यासी रह लेती हो।
अपना दर्द मुस्कुराते हुए कैसे छुपा लेती हो ।

मैं जब-जब गिरा तब-तब तुने सम्भाला ।
हमेशा मुझे प्यार से पाला ।

रब से अपने लिए कुछ नहीं पर मेरे लीये सब माँग लेती हो ।
माँ तुम ये सब कैसें करलेती हो ।।।।

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