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What's wrong at the moment?

Everything!?! Like the scenario before half time of a typical Indian or Nepali movie where the hero is the ultimate crime fighter but who has not quite found his ground yet-and so the city where he resides is still infested with heinous crimes, and what not-I find myself squarely planted in that "before half time" scenario. All the crime dramas that I see unfolding in such movies-corrupt cops, even more corrupt justice system, atrocities right in front of people's eyes, power, paisa and the "bad" having a field day-everything is happening right before me. My life is not a movie, where I reside is not a movie set. Yet everything so eerily resembles the plot of such badly told, heavily exaggerated, and repugnant male dominant movie. In such movies, the heroine or the victims generally feel helpless until the hero comes along, fights all the bad guys, the corruption the system everything until everything is sorted. He makes everybody's life perfect. ...

Rattle Away My Wandering Mind

so why is it called White Butterfly Movement? makes no sense. To me. so why was it called Occupy Baluwater Movement and then "satyagraha"? makes no sense. To me. Why do they want to protest cutting down of trees when its being done for road expansion? Do they want the trees to be in the middle of road standing like a pole? Or do they not want the road to be expanded?