THINKER'S WORLD

To start with, career, ambition, job, promotion, salary hike and high position in any organization, are the requirements of life that take the priority seats and everything else has to travel third class. The competition, from scoring high marks in schools, colleges, to having a successful career, great paying job and high position in a company, is never ending. One never has enough of anything. We always want more. Sometimes want what others have. Sometimes want to build something of our own. And often end up dissatisfied with ourselves, our own hard work, and doubt our own potential. Who and what to blame? The world only recognizes the competitors and achievers. All the others can live in misery and without an identity. So, where is all this competition taking us? To best positions, to best jobs, to best pay scales or most desirable careers? Actually, mostly to a psychiatrist’s chamber or even hospitals. No, not joking or being a pessimist. It is so common these days that young p

If the heading seems awkward, think how it actually came into a writer’s mind! Well it’s not a big or as strange a story as it may appear. If you are an Indian you wouldn’t fail to notice how our open flowing drains and dark corners of any pathway has been a toilet for men in urge, throughout the decades. Or, let’s say since one can remember. Quite a spectacular view it makes under broad day light, men happily relieving themselves wherever they feel like. May not be so spectacular, because we are used to it! Think about the visitors. Tourists. Now, does it seem awkward? Well, it should. Since we are all used to the phenomenal practice of men peeing wherever they feel like, it doesn’t mean we have to live with it till the end of time. But the public toilets that are built around our cities, let’s come down to Kolkata itself, are pay and use. While some are free, maybe that’s the reason the stench reaches you a mile before you cross it. They are still unable to cure the male urinary