I was just going through updates of my friends. On women, where women actually stand. I feel a bit disturbed which I can choose not to. Women are not allowed to enter holy shrines in a particular period of time which has got a simple physiological relevance. I can't even say "are not allowed".
I cannot say my mother wasn't allowed. But she was in considerable discomfort when I accosted her in my late teens, the day I came to know about it. What was she afraid? Social backlash? Divine Decadence? That she will fail to be a normal mother?
It was Guilt. ?? Women still continue to feel guilty, as a regular member of a regular family. Now why don't we finish off this litigation once and for all so that a human being can feel being human, not a criminal of some crime not committed by her.
Women are still not allowed to study The Vedas. I've never comprehended what brought about this decadence from the times of Gargi, Maitreyi as spiritualism - (just a school of thought, isn't it?) was chucked into the garbage, gave its place to religion- a pattern of thought, an instinct that cuts across every possible classification that studies Man - the gods came in as man feared, revered and bribed the natural forces as he survived, sustained and procreated.
At 43, I can choose not to be agitated on a relaxed sunday afternoon. I really don't have to. If I do, I'll close my eyes, go through the same questions. I look at myself.Is the abstract called Shame out of the social psyche? Or have I ceased to feel?.
Does that mean that I'll continue to be shameless in your eyes bereft of respect,or you in mine,for the next 43 years,being a son,a brother,a spouse,a father,a Friend?
What does that make me?An intellectual?A protagonist?a bastard born out of an unholy alliance of faith corrupted when consciousness compromised with Time?
Dr.Anirban Chaudhuri,
Consultant Physician, Mumbai,
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