Black Super Hero! Obama Makes the difference!

I was wondering why there was never a black Super Hero – from days when I was a kid and was growing up reading Phantom, Mandrek, Flash Gordon, Super Man, etc, until today (my nephew plays with lots of miniature Super heroes, I don’t even know the names of half of them!) I don’t seem to have come across a real Black Super Hero!


I was thinking about this yesterday when I went to watch a movie in Inox. Well, the idea came to my mind when the theatre was showing some previews of their upcoming movies. One such movie is about a man who has immense power and can do all such things which all super heroes have done innumerable times to save our life and this world.

What intrigued me was the actor, or rather the choice of the actor - the versatile Will Smith. Well, well, I thought - is this the first time that a black has been given the power of a super hero by the Hollywood veterans?

If Keanu Reeves is considered a Super Hero in Matrix, he has an interesting ethnicity - one-quarter each of Chinese, Portuguese, Hawaiian and English. If Halle Berry’s ‘Cat Woman’ is taken as a Super Hero character, please note that her mother is a Caucasian, while her father is an Afro-American! Therefore, no real Black Super Hero...

While reading through today’s newspaper, I came across a news where Angelina Jolie has complained about the absence of any known / new fariy tale with a black princess’ story. She was particularly concerned about her black and brown daughters who are now reaching that reading age and has started asking question why the princess in their story books don’t look like them!

This made me wonder more. Why is this new super human (read super hero) movie with Will Smith? Why now? Why it was not done, say, 10 years back?


I don’t know if it’s ‘inspired’ or ‘encouraged’, but Barack Obama, it seems, has already started to change the rule of game. And I am, among every body else is waiting for a real change to happen... Let it begin

Shut Up you Jealous Folks!

As a single woman living in a big city, I face this question (or a variation of this) quite often:
“You don’t have a boy friend! You don’t feel lonely?” Initially I tried to explain that I don’t need a boyfriend to not to feel lonely, or I may still feel lonely even if I have a boy friend. But then as the course of the conversation would progress and the number of times it happened with me, I realized, its not my loneliness or the lack of a ‘boy friend’ in my life that these people are worried about; the main question that they want to ask, but cant ask me directly is “how often do I have sex” or “how do I satisfy my sexual needs!”

As I slowly got to realize the main interest behind people’s sympathized face for my loneliness, it made me mad initially. Then it made me laugh quite a bit to myself.
Women & Men, however, react differently.

If it’s a woman, she, unless she is a single too, will look at me disbelievingly with her eyes clearly telling me “who do you think you are fooling?”. But, luckily for me or for them, they leave it at that and don’t proceed further with their inquisitiveness.

With men there are two kinds of reactions:
Either the man becomes so sympathetic with my ‘pathetic loneliness’, that he is up and ready immediately to curb such a situation by ‘offering’ to sleep with me. No, this is not done so indiscreetly, but trust me they suddenly become so ‘kind’ and ‘understanding’, that even a child can clearly understand how much he is ready to ‘sacrifice’ himself just to make sure, I don’t feel lonely for that precise 11 minutes.

The second kinds are even smarter. First they will ask me “how is it possible that an attractive woman like you do not have a boy friend!” Then, when they don’t get any more answers or ‘explanations’ as they would like to get, they say “but last time when we met, you told me about that married guy you met”; or , “I remember you telling me that you met someone in that party thrown by your friends!”

Wah! Wah! Wouldn’t they have been better being in the law profession or written exams for IPS? Man! They would have really made the hardest core of criminals confess their crimes. What a loss !!!

Interestingly, no one has yet made any comments about me being a lesbian. But may be soon, I will hear that too. But that’s ok. As a rebellious girl child of a middle class Bengali family, I have chosen to lead an unconventional life strictly as per my principles and values in life. So, there is no way that I will be bothered about petty jealousies by people who couldn’t dare to live their own life. Sorry folks. Try some one else…