One is a vamp, one a stupid old ignorant woman who is blind towards the good woman in her house and the good woman is a heap of tears ready to burst at the slightest bit of stimulation. The background music is dramatic and dragging; sometimes for days on the bounce.
Our daily soaps today are a tragedy of the women loved by the women themselves! It really seems that women love being miserable. Otherwise, why would such poorly tragic and drab reflections be taken to in such big ways?
I agree what they are showing might be relevant is some ways in our lives but you really don’t see your mothers and aunts with lines of water trickling down their cheeks all the time.
Our women are everyday, for days on the trot, being reflected as such tragic, sorrowful figures. That too at a time when women empowerment and equality has been at its peak!
Women are there everywhere in a big way. They are fighting out of the bracket of being just housewives. Mind you, there is a raging debate of a housewife’s services being included in the Gross National Product (GNP) of the country. GNP is the value of all final goods and services in a country. It basically is the basis of assessment for an economy.
So, even at a household level women are now able enough to contribute towards a nation. Gone are the days when women would be abused in the house and all that they would do is shed a few tears on their own.
But, what our daily soaps reflect is exactly that. They are regressive towards the progressive women of today. A tear is an omnipresent tool for the pathetic directors and script writers of our daily soaps. I sometimes feel their story idea is a tear and they then work on building a story around it!
Amongst all the humungous stupidity which literally is hilarious you hear comments from your engrossed mothers and aunts saying, “Bechari” or “Kitni buri hai!” I look at them in utter disbelief as these comments come from a generation who themselves are part of the progressive women brigade. They themselves are having jobs and contributing towards the betterment of their households. Such comments coming from a grandmother is still very well acceptable.
I am puzzled about the existence and success of such shows in a world or India like it is today. These shows do not reflect in any way the so called culture that we project. All of us have such conflicting thoughts on culture and are so lost. But, that is a totally different debate and can be taken up at a different time.
In all if you have a figure of why such soaps are running then please inform me as I am all ears! I really feel the women in our country have made enough name for themselves to deserve some better projections on national television.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Knowledge is optional
‘Knowledge is wealth’ – this is one phrase or anecdote that all of us are taught through our childhood. But, its realization is often attained after an opportunity is lost or a mistake made.
Knowledge is indeed one’s greatest strength but, it is also one’s greatest stumbling block. But, there is another age old adage that we totally ignore. Knowledge is indeed optional.
We choose what we want to know and the knowledge that we acquire over the years eventually determines our life. Everything in our life is determined by the knowledge we possess either accidentally or through our education.
The statement is so simple yet it eludes most of us. In all honesty, I was told about this during a lecture by one of my professors. He said three words, “Knowledge is optional.” And, yes it really was. So simple, yet so elusive for my whole life.
Three words set in motion a chain of thoughts which have eventually led to this article. I thought about what I had chosen to learn and what I had ignored. I had 500 students around me who were clapping in joy because of the knowledge that they had successfully, but out of choice, acquired over the past year. It was convocation time!
Sitting there in an auditorium hummed with the chatter of 500 joyous pairs of hands, I was in an absolute silence of my own. Most people might not have even heard the crazy old man on the dais. But, he knew what he was saying. The colour of his hair and the glint in his eye told me he was right.
I had chosen what I wanted to learn. I had chosen where I wanted to learn it. I was sitting in that auditorium because of the options that I had chosen. It was this knowledge that might eventually give me my bread, but it was just an option; a decision to let this knowledge lead me. So true, knowledge indeed is so optional.
Knowledge is indeed one’s greatest strength but, it is also one’s greatest stumbling block. But, there is another age old adage that we totally ignore. Knowledge is indeed optional.
We choose what we want to know and the knowledge that we acquire over the years eventually determines our life. Everything in our life is determined by the knowledge we possess either accidentally or through our education.
The statement is so simple yet it eludes most of us. In all honesty, I was told about this during a lecture by one of my professors. He said three words, “Knowledge is optional.” And, yes it really was. So simple, yet so elusive for my whole life.
Three words set in motion a chain of thoughts which have eventually led to this article. I thought about what I had chosen to learn and what I had ignored. I had 500 students around me who were clapping in joy because of the knowledge that they had successfully, but out of choice, acquired over the past year. It was convocation time!
Sitting there in an auditorium hummed with the chatter of 500 joyous pairs of hands, I was in an absolute silence of my own. Most people might not have even heard the crazy old man on the dais. But, he knew what he was saying. The colour of his hair and the glint in his eye told me he was right.
I had chosen what I wanted to learn. I had chosen where I wanted to learn it. I was sitting in that auditorium because of the options that I had chosen. It was this knowledge that might eventually give me my bread, but it was just an option; a decision to let this knowledge lead me. So true, knowledge indeed is so optional.
Knowledge is optional
‘Knowledge is wealth’ – this is one phrase or anecdote that all of us are taught through our childhood. But, its realization is often attained after an opportunity is lost or a mistake made.
Knowledge is indeed one’s greatest strength but, it is also one’s greatest stumbling block. But, there is another age old adage that we totally ignore. Knowledge is indeed optional.
We choose what we want to know and the knowledge that we acquire over the years eventually determines our life. Everything in our life is determined by the knowledge we possess either accidentally or through our education.
The statement is so simple yet it eludes most of us. In all honesty, I was told about this during a lecture by one of my professors. He said three words, “Knowledge is optional.” And, yes it really was. So simple, yet so elusive for my whole life.
Three words set in motion a chain of thoughts which have eventually led to this article. I thought about what I had chosen to learn and what I had ignored. I had 500 students around me who were clapping in joy because of the knowledge that they had successfully, but out of choice, acquired over the past year. It was convocation time!
Sitting there in an auditorium hummed with the chatter of 500 joyous pairs of hands, I was in an absolute silence of my own. Most people might not have even heard the crazy old man on the dais. But, he knew what he was saying. The colour of his hair and the glint in his eye told me he was right.
I had chosen what I wanted to learn. I had chosen where I wanted to learn it. I was sitting in that auditorium because of the options that I had chosen. It was this knowledge that might eventually give me my bread, but it was just an option; a decision to let this knowledge lead me. So true, knowledge indeed is so optional.
Knowledge is indeed one’s greatest strength but, it is also one’s greatest stumbling block. But, there is another age old adage that we totally ignore. Knowledge is indeed optional.
We choose what we want to know and the knowledge that we acquire over the years eventually determines our life. Everything in our life is determined by the knowledge we possess either accidentally or through our education.
The statement is so simple yet it eludes most of us. In all honesty, I was told about this during a lecture by one of my professors. He said three words, “Knowledge is optional.” And, yes it really was. So simple, yet so elusive for my whole life.
Three words set in motion a chain of thoughts which have eventually led to this article. I thought about what I had chosen to learn and what I had ignored. I had 500 students around me who were clapping in joy because of the knowledge that they had successfully, but out of choice, acquired over the past year. It was convocation time!
Sitting there in an auditorium hummed with the chatter of 500 joyous pairs of hands, I was in an absolute silence of my own. Most people might not have even heard the crazy old man on the dais. But, he knew what he was saying. The colour of his hair and the glint in his eye told me he was right.
I had chosen what I wanted to learn. I had chosen where I wanted to learn it. I was sitting in that auditorium because of the options that I had chosen. It was this knowledge that might eventually give me my bread, but it was just an option; a decision to let this knowledge lead me. So true, knowledge indeed is so optional.
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