It seems that the modern Indian beauties have long bade farewell to Victorian values and puritan morals, and have really come out of their conservative shell. Agreed that Indian men still pine for a perfect Bhartiya Naari as spouse, who is submissive and sacrifice all her comforts and priorities for the sake of familial prosperity and peace, but now our men have to face tough time finding one such bride. But why am I writing like this? Well, everything has a reason. So my small story has also a reason.
It was a normal post-lunch chit-chat in our office and suddenly my colleague proposed an idea of watching a movie at Drive-in cinema; well, the idea didn’t lure me much as I knew that I had to drive all to the cinema in my car. So I was little interested in this; but others showed some readiness. Immediately after that came rates of tickets and consequently the class-conflict rose. My colleague, who was the ideator, declared that benches cost less and car-park would be more expensive, though more comfortable and enjoyable. However, he also added that benches are mostly occupied by “vulgar public”, who raise dust while occupying their seats. On this, our Fair & Lovely queen blurted, “Vulgar public is ok, but my skin gets dusty, which I cannot tolerate”. Lo and behold…this comes from the mouth of a Lady, who is happily married into a rich & cultured family. Not that she is a two-timer and indulging in sex-spree with other guys, but her extra-love for skin and disregard for self-esteem was noticed by all present there. Everyone raised their eye-brows on her statement that clearly reveals that she didn’t mind those lustful eyes of rogues and loafers at cinema.
On second thought, I pondered that the population of moral majority is decreasing day by day and hence, such stories are bound to crop up. Yesterday, when I was getting my beard shaved, the barber showed his barbarism and unwittingly cut my right nostril while trimming my moustache. My nose was bleeding and the barber expected some flak from me; to his surprise, I was silent and asked him to apply alum to stop the blood flow. Again the stream of consciousness began and I thought that perhaps I was a tomfool, who failed to take that barber to task or was too generous to forgive & forget. What would be the reaction of that Fair & Lovely queen had her face got damaged?
I don’t know whether such attitude (the one narrated in second paragraph) is ok in today’s India, where moral values have began to fade away. But at the same time, India should not bind herself in the hyper-moralist chain through which women are subjected to atrocities by men.