A Stubborn Show

Reading is something that is always pleasurable and I can't help smiling to myself like a little child everytime I finish a book. Just finished reading 'the stars tennis balls' by Stephen Fry. Amazingly written to include thriller and comedy in one single book. Just when I thought he was only a good speaker and actor do I add another to the list. A Damn Good writer

People get offended if you Crack a non veg joke at them, if you make a statement about a political party or if you riducule their religion but it's perfectly alright for them to say that you are a wasted person and that you speak without thinking. The last statement is true, still it is not offensive to the person. The prior statements even though just satire or comic is offensive to degrees that even apologies don't seem to work. It's apparently so pathetic that people develop a sense of disgust and some even resort to violence. When did directly attacking a person's personal character become less offensive than making general statements about a community?

I was quite an irritating child as far as I can remember. I used to pester everyone around me for anything that seemed out of place to me and enquire as to why was it so and I always wanted to clear things kept on my slate. My first tryst with books came about when my aunt gave me and my brother a novel to read, it was titled 'the God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy. Though we were quite small by then to read them ofcourse being aged about 7. But in me started the spark for reading as I picked up that book and couldn't understand much. I waited for the school library period and picked up my first Enid Blyton book, who would happen to be my favour author for years to come. And unknown at the time, I would draw huge amounts of my moral code from the children in her books. It Continued then as such with me reading mystery novels and horror stories. Then as I grew up and when I felt I was ready I headed on to the books that i felt I was unable to read back when I had start...