Indelible Musings

I am a bird who loves to fly over the limitless sky who loves when it rains to sit beside the branch and nurture thy self who loves to pick and drop things that lead to the making of my house who loves to lie around like any other being on this earth I am the bird who can traverse across the world to destinations unknown to a land of my own to the interminable end I am the bird who will never let you snatch away my freedom freedom to fly freedom to speak freedom to lie freedom to spread the joy Joy that'll make me smile make me cry make me love make me live and let me FLY!!!

I was reading an article that was published in the magazine supplement of  The Indian Express,  called "eye" last Sunday. The article was about how the world of "Toys" have transformed the childhood by introducing the children to the adult world at a very nascent stage.    The article made me ponder over the fact that it is not the just the toys that have explicitly made children groom themselves like the toys but it is also the Cartoon characters that we get to see on television nowadays. The Cartoons are no longer a means of entertainment for the Children; they have been full of such high-voltage action that the children try to imitate in the normal life.   The likes of Mickey, Donald, Goofy are long gone and have taken the shape of Dragon Ball Z, Power Rangers, Ben10 etc. What baffles me all the more is that now the children are more attracted towards such action packed cartoons and do not associate themselves with cartoons ending with moral lessons anymore.   In...