the setting was ....the first week of October 2006 .... i was correcting end of semester test papers .... my right hand was in a cast from shoulder to the wrist ....i had a stitched up open wound near my wrist and 3 rods in my hand ...pain was excruciating and i had nearly 1500 answer sheets to plod through the winter break from the 2 colleges i taught in ....
those papers kept my mind off the pain
for the 1st time post reaching back to Pune .... the kids father insisted on subscribing to cable TV
TLC had me hooked to shows by chefs and Star World and Indian channels had me hooked to movies ....English and Hindi ....something about the movie Australia hit me in my gut....
the Poems hit a nerve ...
the aura of the Artists .... the setting and the songs sung by the aborigines ...
the Hero of the movie is definitely Female ....it was Nicole Kidman's character that shone through more fiercely than a Star ....when she Openly acknowledges 'Creamies' we call such people anglo indians here in my country
the Nonchalance with which she speaks about the Real Reason she knows her husband is living Down Under and her Steely Resolve to go visit him in person
the very opening of the movie sets the tone for Heroic from an otherwise ...typical English Noblewoman who has never stepped outside England
the fact that tugs at one's heart is how We Women Accept and Never Question the excesses by the men in our Lives ...we keep taking and taking and taking Abuse and keep Quite
...
no matter how educated we are and no matter how liberated we imagine we are ...
that Theme Runs through the movie ...
When the Boss Lady Asley wants to adopt the little interracial child living or rather hiding on her cattle ranch Faraway Downs ....and openly talks about it during a ball in that city town hall .... the Aghast silence that follows ...
not one White woman in the gathering there will Ever acknowledge or mention .... Extra Marital Affairs or like or acknowledge the interracial children called Creamy ...
be it Australia or The Sleeping Dictionary or any movie that talks about extra marital issues ... those who live with this ...will avoid talking about it ...unless it was in America and an Amazing Mrs M
like how presidents get impeached in America ...we in India are more Accepting of such issues .... one person makes a mistake due to his Urges .... we Indians do not get into a Song and Dance about libido .... hmmm we are the land of the Kamasutra after all ...only thing we Evolved to treat sex as Taboo and talk about sex even more Taboo ...
and...Yettt we are the second most Populous nation on Earth ...LOL
hmmm we are Weird that way ....
point is ...is straying bad per se and does losing public office become necessary ...
yes if the person used his/her Power-given to the person by the public of the country via a vote ...to manipulate anyone employed by his government for sexual favours is reason enough to lose office and most importantly --the chair..
we have quite a few people with murder cases against them being part of the Decision Making Units in the govt of India ....
everyone who Errs ...needs a Second Chance
but we Draw the line when it comes to Continuously Misusing Power entrusted to said folk by the public of a country
now...
the women who accept men who make a habit of straying and vice versa ....and also the Line in Society that demarcates ....talking and making Conversation ...and Flirting ....
when conversation about mundane humdrum things is equated with Flirting
Self Appointed Pseudo Moral Keeping raises it's Medusa-esque head
who decides that men and their predatory ways are a given to be accepted
and any woman having conversations with men is a Slut of the Worst kind ....even if the woman in Question has never had coitus with any of the said men
being friends and/or emotional attachments are sin too???
and then the Silence and Hidden Tears of the Richest Second Sex in my country or any country of this world
would any of these husbands Tolerate their wives going out and having an Affair .... very few ...next to negligible are men Enough to deal with such issues and/or deal with Stronger and More Successfull Partners
sooooooooooo many women ...including me ...take a break ...time and time again to please in-laws and the man i married ....the best years when i could have built my career in the field of teaching in assam ...i was made to be in a maid mode and yelled at Daily ...for Not Being Good Enough
when relatives post marriage actually tells one to end their life .... the Will to Survive Becomes the Strongest
also when a lady is carrying and is going through a Crisis ....the unborn child sends healing to the mother's body .....a rare case of the Dependent Variable and unborn child ...healing the Host/Mother ...
Nature is weird ...if you notice Trees ....they will weather storms and invite all kinds of creatures to peck on them and burrow down in their cocoon ....
and Even Offers Shade to the person who will cut it down ...
we women have a Resilience that Nature built into us ..to deal with childbirth and the Hardships of Nurturing Men who refuse to grow up
all that is Perfectly Fine but the Parasites among men always get the most Forgiving of wives
what kind of Karma is that and who Decides this kind of
Burning ...Searing kind of Circle of Life
some days the Injustice in the systems of our society
Astounds and Amazes me in equal amounts ....
🙏🏽
those papers kept my mind off the pain
for the 1st time post reaching back to Pune .... the kids father insisted on subscribing to cable TV
TLC had me hooked to shows by chefs and Star World and Indian channels had me hooked to movies ....English and Hindi ....something about the movie Australia hit me in my gut....
the Poems hit a nerve ...
the aura of the Artists .... the setting and the songs sung by the aborigines ...
the Hero of the movie is definitely Female ....it was Nicole Kidman's character that shone through more fiercely than a Star ....when she Openly acknowledges 'Creamies' we call such people anglo indians here in my country
the Nonchalance with which she speaks about the Real Reason she knows her husband is living Down Under and her Steely Resolve to go visit him in person
the very opening of the movie sets the tone for Heroic from an otherwise ...typical English Noblewoman who has never stepped outside England
the fact that tugs at one's heart is how We Women Accept and Never Question the excesses by the men in our Lives ...we keep taking and taking and taking Abuse and keep Quite
...
no matter how educated we are and no matter how liberated we imagine we are ...
that Theme Runs through the movie ...
When the Boss Lady Asley wants to adopt the little interracial child living or rather hiding on her cattle ranch Faraway Downs ....and openly talks about it during a ball in that city town hall .... the Aghast silence that follows ...
not one White woman in the gathering there will Ever acknowledge or mention .... Extra Marital Affairs or like or acknowledge the interracial children called Creamy ...
be it Australia or The Sleeping Dictionary or any movie that talks about extra marital issues ... those who live with this ...will avoid talking about it ...unless it was in America and an Amazing Mrs M
like how presidents get impeached in America ...we in India are more Accepting of such issues .... one person makes a mistake due to his Urges .... we Indians do not get into a Song and Dance about libido .... hmmm we are the land of the Kamasutra after all ...only thing we Evolved to treat sex as Taboo and talk about sex even more Taboo ...
and...Yettt we are the second most Populous nation on Earth ...LOL
hmmm we are Weird that way ....
point is ...is straying bad per se and does losing public office become necessary ...
yes if the person used his/her Power-given to the person by the public of the country via a vote ...to manipulate anyone employed by his government for sexual favours is reason enough to lose office and most importantly --the chair..
we have quite a few people with murder cases against them being part of the Decision Making Units in the govt of India ....
everyone who Errs ...needs a Second Chance
but we Draw the line when it comes to Continuously Misusing Power entrusted to said folk by the public of a country
now...
the women who accept men who make a habit of straying and vice versa ....and also the Line in Society that demarcates ....talking and making Conversation ...and Flirting ....
when conversation about mundane humdrum things is equated with Flirting
Self Appointed Pseudo Moral Keeping raises it's Medusa-esque head
who decides that men and their predatory ways are a given to be accepted
and any woman having conversations with men is a Slut of the Worst kind ....even if the woman in Question has never had coitus with any of the said men
being friends and/or emotional attachments are sin too???
and then the Silence and Hidden Tears of the Richest Second Sex in my country or any country of this world
would any of these husbands Tolerate their wives going out and having an Affair .... very few ...next to negligible are men Enough to deal with such issues and/or deal with Stronger and More Successfull Partners
sooooooooooo many women ...including me ...take a break ...time and time again to please in-laws and the man i married ....the best years when i could have built my career in the field of teaching in assam ...i was made to be in a maid mode and yelled at Daily ...for Not Being Good Enough
when relatives post marriage actually tells one to end their life .... the Will to Survive Becomes the Strongest
also when a lady is carrying and is going through a Crisis ....the unborn child sends healing to the mother's body .....a rare case of the Dependent Variable and unborn child ...healing the Host/Mother ...
Nature is weird ...if you notice Trees ....they will weather storms and invite all kinds of creatures to peck on them and burrow down in their cocoon ....
and Even Offers Shade to the person who will cut it down ...
we women have a Resilience that Nature built into us ..to deal with childbirth and the Hardships of Nurturing Men who refuse to grow up
all that is Perfectly Fine but the Parasites among men always get the most Forgiving of wives
what kind of Karma is that and who Decides this kind of
Burning ...Searing kind of Circle of Life
some days the Injustice in the systems of our society
Astounds and Amazes me in equal amounts ....
🙏🏽
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