Friday, May 12, 2006

Hate joblessness

I can not possibly say this without being hypocritical, but at least my joblessness does not harm/harass anyone else. Guess, however, what happened to my friend tootsie and five other women who had taken part in the sprite meet sania mirza contest that was organized by Times Of India, one of the bigger English language dailies in India.
so one fine morning at around 6:30 tootsie wakes up to a call from an unknown number on her cell phone. It was a man who wanted to congratulate her because she has won the contest.
and how did the man know her name and phone number? Because the numbers that the contestants had given to the newspaper for communication purposes, had dutifully been published along with their names.
and then it started.
there were on an average seven calls every ten minutes, from men who just wanted to congratulate, to men who wanted to make friendship and men who wanted to meet up and men who just wanted to fuck (after all, since your number was on the newspaper, you had no business acting coy about your availability). There were innumerable missed calls, and messages that asked her to call them back, to reply, to become good friend, to be my sweetheart and what not....
incidentally all of the calls were from men, who refused to say anything everytime one of our male friends said hello.
we yelled at them and told them not to call up anymore, threatened them with the police and actually took one of the calls to the nearby police station.
this guy had the galls to say, since something like two hundred people must have called you up already, why wont you talk to me yaar?
there are calls still coming in, from people who claim to be friends with india's biggest film director and actors, who have diamonds worth seventy five million, who are captains in the army and who call up because they have the same initials. When you ask them why do you want to spend money, they would say, don't worry I have enough.
tootsie alone has received something like 250 calls in three days, and 500 missed calls and I don't even know how many messages.
and each and every one of them were men.

the times of India however has so far had nothing to do to redress the situation.

9 comments:

  1. I think I might change my number...

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  2. Anonymous3:11 AM

    what do they callu in orkut? i cudnt find u there!

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  3. Men feel threatened easily. They quickly get on the offensive.

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  4. i am speechless! cant believe this actually happened! but then this is india.it had to happen this way. TOI should take some action afterall they r the ones who put ur friend in such a mess.

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  5. he he...15 minits of fem o chai...malsa bhora doi aar....chona chai na? emon ki kokhuno hoy..tai na?
    ei toe pluralism go..dekho na loke koto karone ph kore

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  6. what????u should have forwarded allt his calls to TOI office, then they'll understand what they have done.
    and men!!! some men do not have anywork and are making our already bad impression even worse...

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