It is quite impossible really to stay out of the mass interest events in out offices how much ever one would like to avoid them in general.
So here i was surrounded by the latest news and arguments about the Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi’s daughters elopement. The girl has hurt the great man deeply is the common stance.We use the word great so very easily anyways.
May no father face such situation is the next.
Some though remarked wryly how come a man who preaches the same in all his movies find it hard to accept the same in his own home.
Then there is the ineveitable caste angle to it , but this whole talk is done in such jest that no one will ever conduct a serious debate on it.
It is not that there are no real open minded forwward looking people but they are so minisicule and doubt ridden compared to our masses of blind conformists.
As i repeatedly quote
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell
While one can cast quite some aspersion on the choice of a 19 yr old claimimg to be in love since 13 ,that the girl in question had any choice as an individual is of no one’s concern. It might be a mistaken choice but does every individual not have the right to their own mistakes. One can caution beforehand, support when there is a fall but how can any individual however great claim a right over another human beings choices.
But they can…its been our tradition to allow them to do so i was reminded.
A very interesting read(of which i post a small part here) i came across here on this blog post about Irawati Karve and Yuganta
Bhishma was famed as a man who was completely unselfish…a man who lived for the good of his clan, not himself. When a man does something for himself, his actions are performed within certain limits –
limits that are set by the jealous scrutiny of others. But let a man set out to sacrifice himself and do good to others, and the normal limits vanish. He can become completely ruthless in carrying out his objectives. The injustices done by idealists, patriots, saints and crusaders can be far greater than those done by the worst tyrants.
In her view, almost all the significant women characters in the epic are victims of Bheeshma’s injustices – notably Kunti, Gandhari and Madri, princesses of noble houses who were all married off to undeserving and/or cursed men and yoked to the house of Hastinapur where they found nothing but unhappiness.
Every incident affects a persona differently and as a friend of mine remarked “have you wondered why is this girl is being so scared and repeatedly seeking cover through media….what manipulations must she have seen in the household by the great man or those whom he trusts when a similar if not as dramatic scenario happened over her elder sisters’s affair”
One never gets these stories but it saddens you really when you step into an office with our bright educated MNC working with dreams of US in every eye Indians ,and then hear a conversation identical to the one you hear the autodrivers conversing.
But besides all rhetoric, the people who are familiar with the ground reality in the so called shining burgeoning and growing India know that we still love our old feudalities a lot and its is
only economics that allows us to put up the pretence or try to change superficially.
It is only economics of a double income that started the real need to allow masses of women to join the workforce and that some women used this smartly and some did not is another story.
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