There are certain things that are distinctly Indian as a behavior. I don’t intend to list them here. But just talk about only one such trait!
Blame it on the Bhagavad-Gita maybe. But how many people in this country have read the great book? So it should be something that is ingrained in our DNA by our forefathers who would have read the marvel. But there is a problem in reading it and understanding yourself and passed on wisdom. When it superficial it becomes a question of your own interpretation.
The Gita says that you keep doing your duty and don’t think about the outcome. We all get a hand me down of this wisdom from the mentors and the management guru’s too. Just focus on the efforts, results will automatically come. This is the catch phrase. If someone does not say that, then he will be ostracized from the Management community. So, all of us do that.
But the flip side is that, everyone thinks that the converse of the theorem is also true. End justifying the means!! Let me be honest, I am one like that. I would employ all honest & fair means (according to me) to get what I want. The corollary of the theorem becomes even more interesting.
Like when they make a movie script and the subject is an anti-hero one who resorts to illegal ways, they invariably establish somewhere that it is all for a good cause. He is bad, but then not that bad, he has his sense of fairness is what everyone would want to say. Or, there will be a movie where the hero has an affair because he is incompatible with his wife, but in the climax it is the lover who will come between him and the bullet, not the wife. Or let us say that the heroine gets raped by a drunkard, it is imperative that the drunk is her mother’s brother or her own cousin. In effect, it is like saying ‘yeah she got raped, but then in all fairness he could have been her husband if we go by relationship’. That is giving some credence to the guy that he can afford to rape. This will go a long way for the heroine to shed the taboo of a rape victim. And then, come what may the heroines will not remove their mangalsutra. Even if it is tied by a dog!!
There is an inherent fear to be iconoclastic in this nation. Things should be accepted by the larger society is what everyone’s desire. Let us say that there is something which is deviant from normal way of life. The thought will be ‘Fine, let us find out how much we can limit the damage’. This is so very pseudo. Bunch of hypocrites we have preaching for us.
Look at this news item. ‘Desi Porn start strikes it rich, to marry’. I said wow to myself even before I clicked the link. Here comes the crunch. Apparently she is an admitted bisexual, but has done only one male- female film so far, rest had all been lesbian stuff. And now the guy whom she is marrying is that male co-star. The only guy she has had sex with (in film of course)!!! Completely bamboozling!! She is a porn start all right, but she has been a one-man woman. Hahaha!!
I don’t know what is running in the lady’s mind. But one thing that bothers me is that, having chosen porn as profession, why this charade. ‘I am willing to do something on camera, but no males please’ is an odd condition, when she is clear about sexual preferences. She anyway is a bi. It takes a lot of courage to chose a profession like this and having done that, why these Indian traits?! People in the US, do porn movies as part time because they want to get through college. For you know, if you are working in the US, your boss could have been in porn films earlier.
Maybe I am being too cynical about everything in life. That’s what it should be. But I am unable to accept many things that go around me. Wish people could be brave, really really brave.
Blame it on the Bhagavad-Gita maybe. But how many people in this country have read the great book? So it should be something that is ingrained in our DNA by our forefathers who would have read the marvel. But there is a problem in reading it and understanding yourself and passed on wisdom. When it superficial it becomes a question of your own interpretation.
The Gita says that you keep doing your duty and don’t think about the outcome. We all get a hand me down of this wisdom from the mentors and the management guru’s too. Just focus on the efforts, results will automatically come. This is the catch phrase. If someone does not say that, then he will be ostracized from the Management community. So, all of us do that.
But the flip side is that, everyone thinks that the converse of the theorem is also true. End justifying the means!! Let me be honest, I am one like that. I would employ all honest & fair means (according to me) to get what I want. The corollary of the theorem becomes even more interesting.
Like when they make a movie script and the subject is an anti-hero one who resorts to illegal ways, they invariably establish somewhere that it is all for a good cause. He is bad, but then not that bad, he has his sense of fairness is what everyone would want to say. Or, there will be a movie where the hero has an affair because he is incompatible with his wife, but in the climax it is the lover who will come between him and the bullet, not the wife. Or let us say that the heroine gets raped by a drunkard, it is imperative that the drunk is her mother’s brother or her own cousin. In effect, it is like saying ‘yeah she got raped, but then in all fairness he could have been her husband if we go by relationship’. That is giving some credence to the guy that he can afford to rape. This will go a long way for the heroine to shed the taboo of a rape victim. And then, come what may the heroines will not remove their mangalsutra. Even if it is tied by a dog!!
There is an inherent fear to be iconoclastic in this nation. Things should be accepted by the larger society is what everyone’s desire. Let us say that there is something which is deviant from normal way of life. The thought will be ‘Fine, let us find out how much we can limit the damage’. This is so very pseudo. Bunch of hypocrites we have preaching for us.
Look at this news item. ‘Desi Porn start strikes it rich, to marry’. I said wow to myself even before I clicked the link. Here comes the crunch. Apparently she is an admitted bisexual, but has done only one male- female film so far, rest had all been lesbian stuff. And now the guy whom she is marrying is that male co-star. The only guy she has had sex with (in film of course)!!! Completely bamboozling!! She is a porn start all right, but she has been a one-man woman. Hahaha!!
I don’t know what is running in the lady’s mind. But one thing that bothers me is that, having chosen porn as profession, why this charade. ‘I am willing to do something on camera, but no males please’ is an odd condition, when she is clear about sexual preferences. She anyway is a bi. It takes a lot of courage to chose a profession like this and having done that, why these Indian traits?! People in the US, do porn movies as part time because they want to get through college. For you know, if you are working in the US, your boss could have been in porn films earlier.
Maybe I am being too cynical about everything in life. That’s what it should be. But I am unable to accept many things that go around me. Wish people could be brave, really really brave.
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