Spamming Cheddam Ra

[Chitti_Robo_Rebuilt]

[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I always love your writing, Candace, and this is no exception. Your stories are always so vivid, even without the photographs. Then the photos come and I’m blown away again.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I love hearing your perspective, and I’m torn a bit. Having traveled a bit by myself, though certainly not as extensively as you do, I recognize that one woman’s experience does not adequately describe an entire culture. Hundreds and thousands of women’s experiences do not adequately describe an entire culture. This I know. I’m saddened to hear of women not wanting to travel anywhere due to fear.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
Some of your readers have commented that Michaela’s problems stem from things other than what happened to her in India and that all a woman has to do is smile to change the mood in the room/train car/ etc from being threatening to civil, even jovial.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I’m torn because that dances on a very fine line between recognizing we’re all responsible for our own actions, and thinking we’re also responsible for the actions of others, which can then lead to questions about how much she had to drink and what she was wearing. That is an extremely dangerous side of the line, though our American culture (and perhaps others; I’m most familiar with my own, after all) seems to dance gleefully on it.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
Keep writing, keep engaging these conversations. Thank you for sharing.[/size][/font][/color]

[Chitti_Robo_Rebuilt]

[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I always love your writing, Candace, and this is no exception. Your stories are always so vivid, even without the photographs. Then the photos come and I’m blown away again.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I love hearing your perspective, and I’m torn a bit. Having traveled a bit by myself, though certainly not as extensively as you do, I recognize that one woman’s experience does not adequately describe an entire culture. Hundreds and thousands of women’s experiences do not adequately describe an entire culture. This I know. I’m saddened to hear of women not wanting to travel anywhere due to fear.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
Some of your readers have commented that Michaela’s problems stem from things other than what happened to her in India and that all a woman has to do is smile to change the mood in the room/train car/ etc from being threatening to civil, even jovial.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
I’m torn because that dances on a very fine line between recognizing we’re all responsible for our own actions, and thinking we’re also responsible for the actions of others, which can then lead to questions about how much she had to drink and what she was wearing. That is an extremely dangerous side of the line, though our American culture (and perhaps others; I’m most familiar with my own, after all) seems to dance gleefully on it.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
Keep writing, keep engaging these conversations. Thank you for sharing.[/size][/font][/color]

[paampachak]

[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]ivya, I really thank you for your insightful and balanced comment, as an Indian woman now living in the States. You actually expressed something that I was close to writing in this post [/size][/font][/color]

[Chitti_Robo_Rebuilt]

[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Thanks for sharing this Candace. I have traveled to India, have family in India, and have had lots of people I know travel to India before. It is good never to characterize an entire race, culture, country based on the experiences of one person. I’m glad to hear you had such a wonderful time there. When I try to explain India to people, it is such a different place, it can be overwhelming in some cases with the people, sights, smells, poverty, etc. But it is also so beautiful as well. I won’t say that bad things do not happen in India, certainly they do, and India has a ways to go in improving itself and its treatment of travelers and women. There are certain cases and with the rape case issues and not reporting, they do need to do some inward looking and improve themselves. However bad things do happen everywhere, and to mark this as simply an endemic characteristic of Indian men really does nothing more than vilify a entire culture and is wrong as well. I know with family and friends who travel that it really is terrible that women do have a more difficult time traveling solo, and that such things can and do happen in the world. What bothered me a bit about her writeup though was her antagonistic approach to India before going. Her expectation of being treated as a sexual object prior to even visiting the country. I’m not saying inappropriate actions did not occur to her, but I feel that she wrote as if every look, every photograph, every interaction was taken as predatory in nature. I know though that for myself sometimes I tend to be a bit more ignorant of dangers abroad then I am at home. I go to areas that in my home country I would not find myself in but when I’m traveling I never think the same way about the level of danger. There are areas of DC I do not go to, but would I react the same to the Delhi equivalent of those areas? I’m not sure if I would even register the same level of fear internally. I am certainly angry when I see women being subjected to these types of treatments abroad and I pray that these issues can be solved. But thanks again for your beautiful writeup of your trip, it is important to read about the positive aspects of travel to India as well[/size][/font][/color]

[Chitti_Robo_Rebuilt]

[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Thank you Candace for taking the time to write out this lovely piece and putting a little something out there in India’s favor.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]I am an Indian and even I have had my share of unfortunate experiences but you made me sit down and take stalk of the number of amazing,kind hearted and wonderful men that I have come across.Some known and some strangers.And those good experiences definitely outnumber the unfortunate ones.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Thank you again for writing this.[/size][/font][/color]

[paampachak]

[url="http://www.andhrafriends.com/user/7498-canny-surya/"][color="#334466"]canny surya[/color][/url]

[Chitti_Robo_Rebuilt]

[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
Hi Candance![/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
Your post touched my heart! [img]http://www.candaceroserardon.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif[/img][/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
You have portrayed the true essence of what India really is!
Yes there are all these bad things but those aren’t the only things happening in India… There are so many beautiful things as well – that you have shown through these wonderful pictures & written about.[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]
To all Indians I would say – We have to take action against the wrong that is happening in our country but at the same time we should be proud to be a part of a country that is so beautiful & vibrant! A country that has metros & villages growing side by side. We are very lucky to be a part of a country such as ours.[/size][/font][/color]

[Chitti_Robo_Rebuilt]

[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/4edf07f444d1c672a842a2fca4194e82/tumblr_mqiz99Clrl1spvnemo1_250.gif[/img][img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/4edf07f444d1c672a842a2fca4194e82/tumblr_mqiz99Clrl1spvnemo1_250.gif[/img]

[Avataar]

[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The [color=#366388]BJP[/color] said Tuesday it would participate in two discusssions in parliament on the state of economy and the rising prices of onions and seek answers from the prime minister on the missing files on the allocation of coal blocks.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]
"We will discuss the state of economy in the Lok Sabha, the rising prices of onions in the [color=#366388]Rajya Sabha[/color]. We will also expose the corruption of the government and will demand the prime minister's answer on the missing coal scam files," [color=#366388]Ravi Shankar Prasad[/color], the deputy leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha told reporters after a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party's parliamentary party.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]
He said that to make the National Food Security Bill more effective, the party had put forward some proposals but these was not accepted by the government.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]
"So there was an elaborate discussion on it (during the meeting)," he said.[/font][/color]

[Avataar]

[b] It's Not Rahul vs. Modi, It's Rahul vs. The Congress[/b]

[b] Who is Rahul Gandhi? What does he stand for? Does he like boondi ke ladoos? And while we're at it, how is he planning to become India's next prime minister? Some questions currently puzzling the Congress party.[/b]

[paampachak]

[list]
[*]
[b] [url="http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=45"][color="#2518b5"]Onions - The World's Healthiest Foods[/color][/url][/b]



[color="#00802a"]www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=45[/color]‎
[list]
[*][url="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rtr00lyrR0sJ:www.whfoods.com/genpage.php%3Ftname%3Dfoodspice%26dbid%3D45+onions&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us"][color="#2518b5"]Cached[/color][/url]
[*][url="http://www.google.com/search?safe=active&biw=1140&bih=490&q=related:www.whfoods.com/genpage.php%3Ftname%3Dfoodspice%26dbid%3D45+onions&tbo=1&sa=X&ei=uCcdUsPkNtXHsASc44CoDg&ved=0CDgQHzAB"][color="#2518b5"]Similar[/color][/url]
[/list]
What's New and Beneficial About [b]Onions[/b]. The flavonoids in [b]onion[/b] tend to be more concentrated in the outer layers of the flesh. To maximize your health benefits, [b]...[/b]
[/list]

[Chitti_Robo_Rebuilt]

[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/4edf07f444d1c672a842a2fca4194e82/tumblr_mqiz99Clrl1spvnemo1_250.gif[/img]

[paampachak]

Publishing....

[Chitti_Robo_Rebuilt]

[img]http://epaper.eenadu.net/pdf/2013/08/28/20130828aA001101013.jpg[/img]

[Avataar]

[quote name='Chitti_the_ROBO3' timestamp='1377642317' post='1304172690']

[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]Hi Candance![/size][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3][size=6][b]Your post touched my heart! [/b][/size][img]http://www.candaceroserardon.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif[/img][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]You have portrayed the true essence of what India really is!
Yes there are all these bad things but those aren’t the only things happening in India… There are so many beautiful things as well – that you have shown through these wonderful pictures & written about.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#333333][font=Georgia, Times, serif][size=3]To all Indians I would say – We have to take action against the wrong that is happening in our country but at the same time we should be proud to be a part of a country that is so beautiful & vibrant! A country that has metros & villages growing side by side. We are very lucky to be a part of a country such as ours.[/size][/font][/color]
[/quote]


[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/4edf07f444d1c672a842a2fca4194e82/tumblr_mqiz99Clrl1spvnemo1_250.gif[/img]