Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Very Disturbing.
Two recent incidents have really shaken me. I am really shocked at things happening around me.
Have you seen the film Kadhal Parisu in Tamil starring Kamal, Ambika and Radha? For people who have not seen the film, here is a brief of one of the scenes of the film. Ambika and Kamal are classmates. Ambika has a crush on Kamal and during one of their college trips, Raj mixes some drugs in Ambika’s drinks and has sex with her. Ambika thinks it was Kamal and develops hatred towards him.
How will you react if I tell you that this has happened to one of my distant relatives? Let’s call her P. So, this guy (Let’s call him X) who was her college mate had a crush on her and proposes to P. P denies it saying her family is of most importance to her and she will marry the person that her parents choose. They attend a farewell party of another friend in a hotel. During that party, X has mixed something in P’s drinks and god knows what happened. And one fine day, P informs her parents that she wants to marry X. Her parents oppose it vehemently because he is not well educated and is from a different case. A few days later P writes a letter to her parents saying that circumstances have forced her to marry X and asking them to forgive her.
I just can’t believe that something like this is actually happening in this society. I still can not accept the fact that she has actually married him, married someone who has actually cheated her. I do not know what forced her to do it. The family is shattered. I just can’t see her fathers face. He is a very jovial person by nature. I can’t even imagine the fact that he cried badly.
V is my cousin. She completed her engineering and is working for a MNC. She lives outside India and is earning well. She is in love and wants to marry a person from another caste. Though I have always supported people in love, some of her dialogues just makes me wonder if she is actually in love.
She says she can not marry someone from our caste because she wants to wear western clothes, move around the world and can not follow our traditions and hence wants to marry this guy, whom she knows from college days and she thinks he will always be in her control.
Her mom is still very traditional and just can not accept that such things are happening to her. She is losing her self-control. Again, I feel bad for her.
Is this love? You do not want to marry someone from your caste and hence choose someone who will say yes to all your needs.
When such incidents happened with others, I guess it was easy for me to ignore. But when things happen in close quarters and you know the persons involved, it just hurts badly.
What kind of society do we live in? I am just shocked. And to think I have brought a child into this kind of world worries me.
1.
Have you seen the film Kadhal Parisu in Tamil starring Kamal, Ambika and Radha? For people who have not seen the film, here is a brief of one of the scenes of the film. Ambika and Kamal are classmates. Ambika has a crush on Kamal and during one of their college trips, Raj mixes some drugs in Ambika’s drinks and has sex with her. Ambika thinks it was Kamal and develops hatred towards him.
How will you react if I tell you that this has happened to one of my distant relatives? Let’s call her P. So, this guy (Let’s call him X) who was her college mate had a crush on her and proposes to P. P denies it saying her family is of most importance to her and she will marry the person that her parents choose. They attend a farewell party of another friend in a hotel. During that party, X has mixed something in P’s drinks and god knows what happened. And one fine day, P informs her parents that she wants to marry X. Her parents oppose it vehemently because he is not well educated and is from a different case. A few days later P writes a letter to her parents saying that circumstances have forced her to marry X and asking them to forgive her.
I just can’t believe that something like this is actually happening in this society. I still can not accept the fact that she has actually married him, married someone who has actually cheated her. I do not know what forced her to do it. The family is shattered. I just can’t see her fathers face. He is a very jovial person by nature. I can’t even imagine the fact that he cried badly.
2.
V is my cousin. She completed her engineering and is working for a MNC. She lives outside India and is earning well. She is in love and wants to marry a person from another caste. Though I have always supported people in love, some of her dialogues just makes me wonder if she is actually in love.
She says she can not marry someone from our caste because she wants to wear western clothes, move around the world and can not follow our traditions and hence wants to marry this guy, whom she knows from college days and she thinks he will always be in her control.
Her mom is still very traditional and just can not accept that such things are happening to her. She is losing her self-control. Again, I feel bad for her.
Is this love? You do not want to marry someone from your caste and hence choose someone who will say yes to all your needs.
When such incidents happened with others, I guess it was easy for me to ignore. But when things happen in close quarters and you know the persons involved, it just hurts badly.
What kind of society do we live in? I am just shocked. And to think I have brought a child into this kind of world worries me.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Heights of addiction
My boy,
Aren’t you addicted to television already? I mean if you had started talking, I am sure you would be speaking only to TV. Whenever someone smiles in TV (for example, the saravana selvarathinam advertisement in which Surya smiles), you smile right back; when someone cries, you look dull; when someone shouts angrily (remember vadivukarasai in mudhal mariyadhai), you cry; when some kid appears (the new Super Singer Junior 3 ad), you are happy and make a lot of movements.
All this when TV is played for a maximum of two hours in a day. Whenever TV is on, you fail to recognize that there are other people in the room. Not fair I say!!!!
And since I made a mention of advertisements, let me say the new Super Singer Junior ads are too cute…. Especially the one where the small boy sings “kaal kilo karupu puli manja thool da…. ” Totally hilarious :)
Aren’t you addicted to television already? I mean if you had started talking, I am sure you would be speaking only to TV. Whenever someone smiles in TV (for example, the saravana selvarathinam advertisement in which Surya smiles), you smile right back; when someone cries, you look dull; when someone shouts angrily (remember vadivukarasai in mudhal mariyadhai), you cry; when some kid appears (the new Super Singer Junior 3 ad), you are happy and make a lot of movements.
All this when TV is played for a maximum of two hours in a day. Whenever TV is on, you fail to recognize that there are other people in the room. Not fair I say!!!!
And since I made a mention of advertisements, let me say the new Super Singer Junior ads are too cute…. Especially the one where the small boy sings “kaal kilo karupu puli manja thool da…. ” Totally hilarious :)
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