Society's rules - sky is the limit :(

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-comedian-mother-in-law,0,2777028.story

Comedian Daughter-in-law sued by mother-in-law for making jokes on her.

Here's something that shocks me more...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/08/27/howard.bestbuy.firings/index.html

Best Buy fires its employees after they tried to stop a shoplifter. It hurts more when I understand why Best Buy has such a policy. No company wants to deal with a situation where the armed shoplifter starts shooting other shoppers. Also, there is a possibility that the employee who chased the thief gets hurt and then later demands compensation from the company for getting injured while at work. Now, these are just possibilities and companies don't want to leave such options open. So they just fired two employees who acted on their instincts.
The company does not worry about the items that were stolen because insurance companies will pay for it. Huh...insurance companies - that's a whole different sad story.

So where is our society going? We are controlled by too many things and we only talk freedom. We are not even allowed to take responsibility for what is happening around us. I am atleast happy that there is a law to protect 'Good samaritans' - who try to save someone in a life threatening situation. Otherwise, people may not even come forward to help someone whose life is in danger.

Green Tirupur Movement

Green Tirupur Movement - click here for details

If you know Tirupur you know how badly the environment has deteriorated there(sadly, as in most places of the world). Green Tirupur movement was started by the citizens of Tirupur with Project Green hands(an Isha Foundation initiative). Please click the link above to see how these people have taken a wonderful step to change their environment before this city gets plagued by diseases and famine. It'll be great to see more cities and countries joining the band wagon.

Please share this news with everyone you know, especially children. Children should know about such people-led initiatives so they grow up knowing that people do care about the world. They will also learn to appreciate these efforts and care for the environment as they grow up in a 1.7 billion people country(by 2050, that'll be India's population).