40 Inspirational Quotes from SXSW 2014

Just because SXSW 2014 is over doesn't mean the inspiration and excitement have to be. Check out these 40 inspirational quotes from SXSW:

40 Inspirational Quotes from SXSW 2014 from Natalia Hatalska

Men will be men

+The Times of India, +NDTV, +IBNLive - Its all over the media and all over the streets.

I'm not talking about NaMo or Gujarat Polls, but about the girl who met the devils in Delhi.

What happened???

"She was a student. She was 23. She was coming back from a date with her boyfriend. Her fault: she boarded the wrong bus. And oh yeah, SHE WAS A GIRL!!! Six men raped her one by one. Rammed an iron rod inside her vagina. And left her to die on the road. Naked. Wounded. Exposed. Devastated. What’s more no one even turned to look at her. No one even bothered to throw a shawl on the unclad, ill-fated girl. She can never lead a normal married life again. She has gone into coma five times since 16th December. She is unconscious, critical and hasn't been able to stop crying."....and the horror continues...

Yes, I am so ashamed to be an Indian - a country living on double standards since time when other civilizations never existed. 

Violence on women has been happening since a really long time. During earlier days there was the Hindu system of Sati, where the widow was burnt alive with the dead body of her husband. Even today the Muslim system of Burkha prevails. Then there is honor killing, aborting and killing girl child, child molestation, child rape, father raping daughter, brother raping sister, father-in-law raping daughter-in-law, neighbor raping neighbor, teacher raping student, doctor raping patient, and also adding domestic violence to that.....WHERE ARE WOMEN SAFE???? Not in their houses, not in the husbands houses, not in schools, not even in hospitals, and definitely not on the streets of India.

The question is are all Indian men the same? Most would disagree. Ask yourself and find the answer. Most of us do honor our own sisters, mothers and friends but never forget to pass a lewd comment to some other girl who we do not know. DOUBLE STANDARDS!!!

Someone once asked me "...what should men do if they see a girl wearing short dresses or outside at night?" I answered, "What should a thief do if it finds your window open?" If the thief is a criminal then so are you. You are worse.

Yes, chemical castration or death penalty may be a way to teach a lesson to these animals and creating fear in other's minds. But this hullabaloo will die down with Christmas and New Year Celebrations. In the long run laws need to be stricter and most important our own mentality towards women needs to be changed. Start valuing a woman's pride and look her into the eye instead of her bosom and say, "we honor you, we respect you, we'll protect you from the animals in the streets."

Onions had always made us cry...Now it is Petrol

Earlier this year when a new decade had just started, I was hoping to have a sumptuous meal on the first Sunday of 2011. I had got up early and took my wallet and galloped towards Food World (a retail chain in India). After gazing at some of the racks there I went forward to take the most important vegetable, "Onion" without which most Indian recipes are just incomplete. Though I had noticed that the onions displayed for sale were not very fresh but I really ignored it. I took a kilogram of onions and finally billed it paying quite a lump-some amount.

Later back at home while I was cross-checking the things I bought, too my utter bewilderment, I found out that I had paid 60 bucks for those stale onions. I was shocked. Then when I had a talk with my mom the same night, she told me the fact how onion prices were skyrocketing. I had missed the news for some time and on checking some I found out that, irregular rains and export of the vegetable are the reasons that onions in the wholesale market were being sold in the range of Rs 250 for five kilograms before reaching retailers, who were selling it at about Rs 80-100 per kilogram. Uff....that is whole lot of money for a commodity.

The story has repeated once again. Just a few days ago, a colleague of mine received a SMS saying "Petrol prices are going to increase by INR 7.50 by mid-night". We thought it to be a prank but out of curiosity went to the nearest gas station to check it out. That's where I got a shock of my life! More than 100 people were flocking the not so large gas station and the queue for petrol had reached out to the main road creating more congestion on the road. We somehow managed to get our hands on 300 rupees worth of petrol because that's the limit they were offering which showed a clear intention to make some profit.

This sudden rise in petrol by the UPA govt. has caused a stir in the nation which made the opposition mad leading to a country-wide BANDH (strike) today. Further not getting into the economics and analysis of things which you can get in ample from the leading newspapers and blogs.

I would just like to say that if the prices of commodities start increasing in this fashion then there is going to utter chaos in the country. The most affected will be people like us who dream to buy a car but could not afford it because of the high cost of running it everyday. When is India going to become a country where dreams come true. And what is the govt. going to do with all this extra money, they are just going to be stacked in the swiss accounts of our so called politicians who have messed up the country which at one point had dreamed of being worthwhile and add value to society and make its mark in the world.

Ahh!

I would like to quoted from DNA that,

"The petrol price hike has been like rubbing salt on the common man's wound"