SoulfulUnsobriety

7 0th independence day!  15th August, 1947 when India got independence, we thought we are free! We are independent! No more serving the British!  So many brave people laid their lives for us to get independence, so many of them!  But today, after 70 years, when we are putting photos on social sites of our beloved tri-color, and captions of patriotism, wishing each and everyone 'Happy Independence Day', do you think we are really independent? Are we using our freedom in the right way?  Everyday we hear news of girls getting raped!  Politicians filling their pockets rather than serving the country!  More and more corruption! Everywhere!  Pollution and population are uncontrollable! Female infanticide! The nature being chopped off from sheer existence for more concrete jungles!  Fights on religions and caste systems!  Ignorance towards farmers,  soldiers and athletes (other than cricket), education system, the overall g...

“ Y ou are so fat!”, said someone. “You need to join a gym and lose that weight!”, said another. “You are fat and ugly and disgusting!”, exclaimed someone. When someone says that being fat is ugly or disgusting, they really need to understand than fatness is not ugly, period. I as a kid always loved eating cake and biscuits, but I was active in sports and cultural activities too. When puberty hit me, I started gaining weight and the only sports the teachers at my school would ask me to participate were “tug-of-war” or “kabaddi”. The people at my school would make fun of me, would call me “fatty” and would never talk to me. By the time I was 15; I had lost most of the “so-called” friends and had lost all hope of having any left in the near future. I had lost all my self confidence by then! When I had to leave my town for studying grad, I was scared to go because even there people won’t talk to me or would bully me! But the truth turned out to be differe...