Have you ever thought, if we really - Must mean by what we say or read... ??
Or are we part of a materialistic cycle, where we should just treat our interest as a commodity??
Most of the time, I desperately try to put pen to paper about something which does not pose a threat to my frontal lobe (read, दिमाग की दही न कर दे…) and can somehow induce a chemical to soothe my cerebral hemisphere. Many a times, I threw the written in dustbin to avoid such situation and rather watched "Funny kid’s videos" that made me laugh out loud.
But today evening when I saw news I could not stop myself and dared to bore you.
It was something like - "A newlywed girl kicked out by An Educated family for Dowry…"
This heading evoked tons of questions in fractions of second. For a moment, I got perplexed with meaning of "Educated".
"दहेज़ प्रथा एक अभिशाप है…" I still remember those lines which I used to write in essays during my primary classes. But what I don't remember is, whether I had mugged this up or even had a bit of feeling while writing.
I am sure, every one of you at some point of time would have written this, in whatever language it may be. But perhaps we were too young to comprehend the meaning of these lines.
I am afraid you might feel, as if I have gone insane and writing something that sounds like inspired from some newspaper which in turn is sponsored by some “Mahila Samaaj Kalyan Samiti...”
Well!! With this, I don't question the presence of the inspiration, but more of now, meaning of Education is sounding equivocal to me.
I thought, dowry itself is too rural a word to be read in an English newspaper. But then, this is so frequent of today in so called every Metro supplements.
Disgusting are the fact that Engineers, Doctors, NRI's and so called white collar people being part of such articles. There are national magazines that even carry the annual survey of latest rates for all kinds of Groom available in Market.
More shocking is the reality that this observable fact entirely belongs to Youth, who always beats the bush around of changing the Society.
It reminds me of a funny quote that few of my friends, who recently got married or getting married soon, used to voraciously say – “If your Father is Poor – its Ur fate, but if your father-in-law is poor, it’s Ur Stupidity!!!”
Luckily (for all those to be In-Laws) they fell in love with someone and forgot to explore if their In-Laws were indeed a ticket to get rich quick.
That creates some space for an interesting question here, does people really think of dowry only in case of arranged marriage or in case of Love marriage, the Guy does not have courage to face their sweet heart......... or is it that they suddenly get the guts to convince their family that somehow dowry word is a fucking shit in itself.
Has LOVE anything to do with Dowry???
Well! It’s too individualistic thought and I can't even think of concluding anything here; also, despite of my strong wish, eradication of it seems too vigorous a thought to be legitimate.
Having said that, this one is indeed a hard one to pass on, especially as I know many of you who know me as well as others who are in, and about this blog, would sympathize, appreciate and… might even laugh...
But then, I can’t help it... You are the one who would take call about your wish...
Millions of thought hit the mind before I go to sleep. At least now, I wish, I MUST mean by what I write and hope you too would MEAN by what you READ!!!
I had published this years before but down the line removed the post for some reason.
ReplyDeleteToday, I did put it back becuase of the simple reason - "I did what I wished..."
Also, in the process, I realized, not only the groom but brides family too is no less responsible who encourage buying groom at any cost.