It’s now 8yrs since we’ve been seeing pictures of the widows of Vrindavan celebrating Holi among themselves.
But every time the newspaper headlines read as if it’s for the very first time in eternity.
Fighting tradition, bashing patriarchy etc. etc.
But every time the newspaper headlines read as if it’s for the very first time in eternity.
Fighting tradition, bashing patriarchy etc. etc.
However, among families & friends it was much, much earlier. In fact my city bred generation didn’t even know that it was something out of the ordinary.
Similarly, women lighting pyres has been known to us for at least a couple of decades. Daughters, brother & sister together,
Similarly, women lighting pyres has been known to us for at least a couple of decades. Daughters, brother & sister together,
mothers, wives with their minor children have taken to the responsibility & quietly broken the norm.
Why is it then that the media amplifies & magnifies anytime a well known female personality performs the ritual as if it’s never been done before,
Why is it then that the media amplifies & magnifies anytime a well known female personality performs the ritual as if it’s never been done before,
thus diminishing the unknown woman who has handled the very same moment privately & stoically ? 
Also, the misleading media content not only shamelessly milks a private episode but also reduces it to a circus. No service at all to the grief stricken.
Isn’t it time we stopped tom-tomming such occasions as a battle against this or that ?
It ends up as an opportunity to grind axe, voice one’s own pet peeves, expose one’s own unawareness instead of taking it in our stride - as a natural evolution of the times.
It ends up as an opportunity to grind axe, voice one’s own pet peeves, expose one’s own unawareness instead of taking it in our stride - as a natural evolution of the times.
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