Sexual Favors For work...

Anu's Chatter...

The other afternoon I went to my old neighborhood......met my tailor friend who used to stitch most of my family clothes.....in 2002!
 I was extremely happy about meeting an old acquaintance...and we got to talking....We discussed lives and he was elated over the fact that I had become a full time writer....Over a cup of steaming coffee while watching the pelting rain  in his small store we gossiped to glory....

 After a while ....he  busied himself cutting the designed cloth  while  giving news .He shared that his elder daughter was studying to become a media professional and  he was planning to bring in the much creative second  one into the fashion business...

Anees( My friend) my all time favorite 'Tailor Master' was apprehensive about the big bad world of Bollywood and advertising media his daughter was ready to step in.... The conversation steered to casting couch and the likes....I just moved my head...
"There is no such thing I said .Yes! if one aspired to be an  actress then I cannot tell."
He disagreed..to my trepidation....
 "No ma'm the places my daughter had been seeking jobs they asked  for it. Now in-fact it is  very open.  The big bosses ask for sexual favours in return for a job!"

I said..."I am at least not knowledgable about such stuff."I took leave promising him some good contacts for his daughter and a Job!

After the conversation I spoke to a few people and came off shocked that in-fact such favors were being asked  in very big organizations!

At school I had written  essays Like- 'India Of my Dreams' and 'Women  Prime- Ministers of our country!' Now I am sad to say that  I am writing about sex in the work place!

The bottom line is I feel sorry for the plight of  working women  in our country now? Talk about sex trafficking!!!?

Councelling.........

Anu's Chatter....

I get  a lot of requests for counseling from parents  for youngsters....most of the time  I comply, if  it is not a  clinical case ! .....Recently a friend of my friend called me....

She was crying over  the phone and  talking about her teenaged son who had lately become suicidal....I met the young fellow over a cup of coffee in CCD one evening! ....He looked  a little pensive but opened up at length...

It was a girl in his building......he had fallen for...she  had ditched him for another guy....

He opened out his heart to me about how much he loved this girl and he could not see her with someone else...this boy Raghav( whom I counseled ) was in his twelth standard with a a budding mustarche.....

I did my best ......by telling him that suicide was not the solution to any problem in this world! I worked around the point that- he should be man enough to face the problem squarely  than to run away from it or  to run away from this world too soon. He looked much lifted at the end of our one hour long conversation  ! He even called me up in the night to thank me ! I see Raghav in a  much good shape nowadays and he started to smile too!

On my part I feel quite elated that I could evade an unfortunate event   in the city of Mumbai. (By the way Suicide seems to be a fashion here) .! 
Such incidents dear friends make my life worth living.....

Jiah khan's news is a shocker......

Anu's Chatter........

Dears I am back in India after a long vacation and what do I read the very next day in the newspapers?

Autopsy reports of Jiah Khan Bla Bla say this...I was so shocked I was wondering if this girl had done something stupid and yes she had..she was another frustrated star who committed suicide for her boyfriend...

Today's Mumbai mirror's cover story was - Why successful actresses commit suicide for LOVE!Is it the anger, fear , frustration, or simply ego for getting rejected?No one knows what happens to those who take such a stupid drastic step.... GUYS....a long six page letter was found after three days in her room expressing pain about the abusive relation, her abortion, gory details of her affair  with Suraj Pancholi..today the reports say three letters were found with the guy himself...her Mom says she had marks on her face after they found her hanging in her bedroom...now the latest is Salman Khan was behind the breakup! This is the newest twist in the tale guys.The surprises are not stopping at all! The truth remains that nothing can bring back Jiah to US! 

 This is the second suicide that I am talking about in my blogs. The first one was about the owner of Raj tours and travels last year who died  jumping from the Bandra Sea link .....now  Jiah. Both these people were successful individuals  in their own right ......

 After this shocking news percolated one consistent thought in my mind is   who is the sufferer in all this? Is it the partner , the dwindling business, Career or the family for which these people have given their lives? Is not it like suicide is punishing yourself ?  If Jiah would have lived she would have got married to maybe a great guy , seared a wonderful family ,did many movies for years, might have worked for the society in her old age ...she could have been a role model for so many like her colleagues.... at  a later age...who knows? But she was too impatient ....people will remember her only as a Jiah who went too soon. The one who committed suicide . Public memory is short ....after a while she will be forgotten! I had liked her in 'Ghajani' so much that  I had became her fan of sorts....sadly now I  can only wish her all the best wherever she is and R.I.P.