tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72692192027905094352024-03-13T07:53:16.184+05:30Chronicles of an Unknown IndianMeera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-52361080029764015512021-05-31T18:40:00.001+05:302021-05-31T18:57:56.956+05:30First Blood<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Nx_tb8lekEk/YLTgEpTzt2I/AAAAAAAAB6w/2YMoxaiXggw7uggSsuRJpzFrIMLAZNg-gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Nx_tb8lekEk/YLTgEpTzt2I/AAAAAAAAB6w/2YMoxaiXggw7uggSsuRJpzFrIMLAZNg-gCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I think I must have been just short of thirteen ( may be younger),
when I found a blood stain on my panties. It was a bit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>puzzling. I had heard some of the girls in my
class whispering about something like this. They used words like “menses” “period”.
Since I was not part of what one would call “the cool gang” I did not
understand. Using my naïve thinking, I convinced myself that since it was not
hurting, it would stop . So I ignored the bleeding, washed my panties <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and went about my day<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However within a few hours, my mother was summoning me into
the bedroom. She closed the door and held in her hand <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my hastily washed panties where the blood
stain was faded but still visible. She asked me to explain it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was terrified! I had nothing to explain because I myself
did not understand it. One part of me was worried that I had done something
terrible because my mother’s expression looked like I had and another part of
me wondered how she had discovered it. She answered the later part herself.
Apparently our domestic help had seen it on the clothesline and pointed it out
to her. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was still worried that I would get yelled at – and I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wasn’t sure for what.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amma’s face was a mixture of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>irritation and worry. She looked at me and sighed
“ Why did it have to happen so soon”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I still did not understand what I could have done to
disappoint her or worry her like this. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I had received no orientation from anyone about what to
expect from puberty and menstruation. I still did not get an explanation from
my mother. She just showed me how to use a sanitary napkin and told me that I
could expect this to happen every month. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I guess I should have been thankful we did not belong to those
communities from Southern India where a girl’s menarche is celebrated like a
wedding- complete with invitation cards and guests. I think I would have died
of shame had that been so. As it is , I was dealing with the bullying that
south Indian kids living outside the south faced – being called “Madrasi” and
having my dress, culture and customs laughed at. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But we did have a sort of ceremony at home- presided over by
Mrs K -my mother’s Tam Brahm friend who we all hated. I was horrified that my
mother had shared what I considered my “shame” with that woman. Mrs K had half
a dozen under nourished daughters of which my contemporary had not yet started
menstruating. She looked at my mother and said “ This is what happens when you
feed your daughters too much. Haven’t I told you to feed them less?” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My mother looked suitably abashed. But she seemed to make up
for it by introducing rituals like not allowing me access to certain parts of
the house when I had my period, not allowing me to touch certain things and
keeping my things separate during that time of the month. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To begin with I was puzzled. But I was told that I was “impure”
and so this was necessary. My mother had also followed these things but by the
time it was my turn, she had had a hysterectomy so it was just me who was being
excluded from the mainstream of the house. Whenever I complained she told me “Consider
yourself lucky. When we used to have our period, we had to stay in a shed at
the back of our house. We could not use the front door and we had to enter and
exit the house from the back”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It did not feel like I was fortunate because my life as a
teen in Calcutta was so completely <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>different from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>her adolescence <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Srirangam.
What she had experienced was the norm. But in my case, it was an exception. No
one I knew among my peers had anything like this happening to them when they got
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their period<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Things got worse when we visited Madras during the holidays.
Every relative we visited gave me some money as gift for becoming “ a grown up”.
I was shocked that all of them knew. But they treated it like it was normal. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When we visited my father’s ancestral village, I was made to
wear a half saree. I hated the entire experience! I had never worn anything
like that ever in my life. But to spend seventy two hours wearing that made me
feel like I had entered hell. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kids in the village asked me which college I studied in. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They couldn’t believe it when I said I was in
the eighth standard! “But you look so big. You even have breasts!” mentioned a flat
chested skinny girl who was apparently in the tenth standard. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I went back feeling like I was some kind of a freak. The
feeling continued to stay. It was not until in my mid twenties that I came to
terms with the fact that I was a well nourished girl who had attained puberty
at the right age but who had not been prepared for it either mentally or
emotionally. I also understood that menstruating did not make me “dirty” or “impure”.
If anything, it made you ready for motherhood – the most exalted status in our
social structure. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Attainment of puberty is part of a woman’s life. There
is no right or wrong age for it. Every girl has her own rhythm for growth and
maturity. It is wrong to make a girl feel guilty for attainment or non
attainment of puberty. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Breasts are a normal part of a woman’s anatomy. They are not
obscene organs that need to be hidden. Yet girls are “slut shamed” for wearing
clothes that fit tightly around their breasts or have low necklines. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Menstruation, puberty and growing up are stages where a girl
builds her self image. As parents we should walk with them in this journey
towards self discovery. We can hurt them terribly by transferring our anxiety
and discomfort around puberty, sexuality to them. A lot about being an
empowered woman is to be comfortable with your body. And that is something that
only we as mothers can enable. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let us not shame girls for being female. The problem is in
our minds – not in their bodies. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-87910826376850460112021-05-08T22:00:00.001+05:302021-05-08T22:19:15.319+05:30Until we meet again <p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><b>“To live in hearts
we leave behind is not to die”- Thomas Campbell</b></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l3fJOZTI2VM/YJa8F6Lr9UI/AAAAAAAAB5M/WUrHEw9AAZYbZ3zMsDph11EoecN-Imz4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s604/Dipadi.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="604" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l3fJOZTI2VM/YJa8F6Lr9UI/AAAAAAAAB5M/WUrHEw9AAZYbZ3zMsDph11EoecN-Imz4wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Dipadi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />I heard her voice even before I
saw her. The day was 26<sup>th</sup> April, 2005. I had joined <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CARE - an international humanitarian aid
organization in their Tsunami response program in Chennai. <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Since it was my first day I had
arrived very early. As <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I waited in the
reception, I heard from one of the rooms inside , a sweet voice with a strong
Bengali accent speaking in English on the telephone to someone. I suppressed a
smile as I heard her trying to explain some finer point about the
organization’s procurement policy to the person at the other end . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprisingly there was no irritation in the
voice though she was repeating the same information over and over again. As
soon as she finished her call, she came out into the reception area and that
was when I first set my eyes on what would remain etched in my mind as the
symbol of kindness and warmth. She was wearing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a blue ikkat salwar kameez . Her <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>steel rimmed glasses and well oiled plait <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gave her the image of a school teacher. But
what struck me most about her was the smile of welcome on her face as I
introduced myself. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She was named Dipashree but we
all called her Dipadi. She had joined the organization when she was just out of
college. It was her first and only job. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had worked in almost all of CARE’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>state offices and been part of various
humanitarian response projects . There was no one in CARE India at one point in
time who did not know her. And to everyone she was Dipadi. Even the expat staff
sometimes called her Dipadi. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Dipadi is someone I consider <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my “Soul sister”. And coincidentally , she
shares her name with my biological sister. As a person who had grown up in
Calcutta ,Dipadi to me was everything that I had until then been missing in my
life in Chennai. I loved my <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>job in CARE not
just because <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoyed the work but
because people like her made that work so enjoyable. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A humanitarian project involves
long hours of work as you are responding to a crisis. The Chennai office was a
new one and many team members like me were new to the organization. Though we
knew what we had to do, we were not aware of the policies and the procedures.
We had literally landed running on our feet, as we tried to grapple with the
enormous work load. Dipadi as the lead for finance, administration and
procurement was our “go to “person for almost everything. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I remember sitting with her until
late evening, as we finalized the donor reports, matching outreach numbers with
the financials. As we sat poring into the desk top computer screen , she would
suddenly ask me <i>“Ektu cha khabe”</i> ( Would you like to drink some tea?).
And then at 8.00 PM we would request one of the support<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>staff to make us some tea. If there was no
one around ( which was often the case) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>she would go into the kitchen and make the tea,
grumbling about the mess the pantry area was in, exclaiming “Eesh” every now
and then in true Bengali style as she cleaned it up. A fantastic cook, Dipadi
was as much at home cleaning a tea stained stove top as she was while going
through the CARE accounting program <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( I
think<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it was called “Scala” ) to pull
out some crucial missing numbers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Dipadi had moved from Calcutta to
Chennai, initially to “hold the fort” for the emergency response program but
she stayed on for almost three <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>years
after that. She was single. She had her mother living in Calcutta with whom she
spoke everyday. She also spoke to her mother’s live in household help cum caregiver,
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>discussing in minute detail, the menu
for the day , her mother’s medication or any other issue relating to the
running of the house there. Whenever I thought I was juggling too many
different roles as a woman<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was humbled
to see that she juggled not just roles but universes. She was on one hand the
daughter who managed her elderly mother’s home virtually in one city, maintaining
the equilibrium there, while on the other hand she was an important team member
in the office in another city. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She was an amazing cook. Yet, I
think she lacked the time to cook a proper meal for herself. Her biggest
delight was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i>doi bhat</i>” or “<i>thayir
saadam</i>” ( curd rice) that she had begun to love in Chennai. I would see her
order it for lunch almost every other day. But when she decided to cook, she
could put all seasoned chefs to shame. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5XhIxrFHtfk/YJa8bFJLcFI/AAAAAAAAB5U/BAFQ6oervtUIqfdmAP5L1a4hVDth6_TigCLcBGAsYHQ/s604/Dipadi%2B2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="604" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5XhIxrFHtfk/YJa8bFJLcFI/AAAAAAAAB5U/BAFQ6oervtUIqfdmAP5L1a4hVDth6_TigCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Dipadi%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />I remember an office party that
was organized in 2007 when we had moved into a new office. As the lead chef, she
supervised all the cooking<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we did in the
backyard of the office on a small gas stove. It was one of the happiest o
events I remember in my entire professional life. <o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">One of the “projects” that some
of us used to speak of was to get “Dipadi married”. She humoured us whenever we
spoke about this, joining in the fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
remember travelling with her once to Cuddalore to visit a small grassroot level
NGO partner of ours, whose financial systems she had come to streamline. The
accountant there was in awe of her saying “Yes Madam” to anything she
mentioned. I teased her saying that she should find herself a life partner
like him who always said “Yes Madam”. She mentioned this to our boss during a
call that evening in her Bengali accented Hindi “<i>Boss aap Meera ko yahan program
monitoring ke liye bheja hai lekin woh to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>marriage brokering karta hai”</i> ( you have sent Meera here for program
monitoring but she seems to be doing marriage brokering)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She had her own set of biases.
Like most Bengalis, she would reduce any physical ailment to the lowest common
denominator of “Gas”. I remember one afternoon when I was suffering from a splitting
headache in the office, she came up to me and said <i>“Dekho Gas phas hoyechhe
nishchoy</i>” ( Look here it must be gas or something)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also had that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bengali sense of superiority when it came to culture . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember going shopping
with her to the Lajpatnagar Market <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>during
one of our official trips to Delhi. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After visiting shop after shop that only seemed
to have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bright and gaudy coloured clothing,
she told the shopkeeper in the next shop we visited, <i>“Arre kuchh accha dikhao
na. Yeh sab toh bilkul Punjabi logon ke liye lagta hai”</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( Please show me something good. All these seem like they are for Punjabi people) completely oblivious to the fact
that Lajpat Nagar was a Punjabi area! I had to stop myself from giggling as she
lectured the owner of the shop about how his wares were not catering to “refined”
tastes. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">But despite her slight Bengali chauvinism,
she felt very close to Odisha because she had grown up in Cuttack. She could
speak Oriya fluently and only wore Odisha handloom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would tell her that she was a walking
exhibition for Odisha Handloom Development Corporation. She was the target of a
lot of leg pulling, especially during those rare moments when she got
irritated. But her irritation was just momentary, because she would start laughing
with all of us. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">She was a peculiar mixture of
modernity and tradition.. Dipadi and I were sharing dinner in our hotel room in
Guntur when we watched a particularly bad singer by name Himesh Reshamiyya sing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on TV. Not only was he singing badly , he was
also dressed ridiculously. He had left his shirt unbuttoned and a heavy gold
chain dangled on his exposed chest. “<i>Chi Chi! Ki Oshobho</i>” ( How uncultured
) she exclaimed as I rolled on the bed with laughter, trying to capture that moment inside my head. But
at the same time, she was quite broad minded about many things like inter caste or inter religious marriages, love affairs and live in relationships . <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">When she left the Chennai office
for Bhubaneshwar I was very sad . I couldn’t control my tears. But she
consoled me saying “<i>Ami aar koto din thakbo ekhane</i>” ( How long will I
stay here). She told me that one should not get so emotionally attached to
colleagues like this ,because people come and they go. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday when I heard the news
that she was no more, her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>words - <i>“Ami aar koto din thakbo ekhane” </i>came back to me.
I couldn’t believe that she had left this world because I had just spoken to
her four days ago. We spoke <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for about 10
minutes. She had a lot of questions about how I was , what my daughter was
doing and where was I living now. . She also told me about her older sister’s
demise two years ago, her younger sister who lived in Australia and whose
children were about as old as my daughter. She then spoke about her older
sister’s son and his wife. But when I asked about her health, she sounded very
vague and tried to hide her answer behind laughter. I wonder now if she knew
her end was near! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I feel guilty that I had not kept
in touch with her as often as I should have. I had met her last at
Bhubaneshwar around December 2015. She was due for retirement in January . We
had talked about going together to Kanyakumari where she had visited with her mother while
she was posted in Chennai. Her mother had since expired but Dipadi had a strong
support system at her home in Kolkata and I knew she was looking forward to
going back there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However I was not sure
how she would adjust to a retired life, considering almost all her adult life
she had been working for CARE. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Her demise has in a way signalled
to me the end of a generation of people who used to be part of the development
sector in our country. They had no fancy degrees but loads of common sense. They
led by example. They were <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kind and patient and acknowledged everyone’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>contribution in the team. They gave their
lives to an organization and did not believe in switching jobs simply because
the present situation might be difficult. These are the people who built the foundation
of development and humanitarian work in India. Never overtly emotional about the
poverty and suffering they saw in the field, they carried in their hearts a
deep sense of service to humanity. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It is a new world today and CARE
itself is adapting to this new context of development work in India. But the
contribution of stalwarts like Dipadi can never be forgotten. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Dipadi, I will miss your presence
in this world but every act of kindness of yours will be remembered until I am myself
ready to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>leave this world . And then one
day when we meet somewhere in some other universe, you will probably greet me
again with that smile you wore when I first saw you and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ask your favorite question “<i>Ektu cha khabey”?<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-77303525542630879792021-04-15T22:58:00.000+05:302021-04-15T22:58:38.926+05:30Being Positive <p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m49w0fytdQU/YHh3MNWDDiI/AAAAAAAAB3s/iPRReXsqCSAx31ngK226IpRTnDZ98zymACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="213" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m49w0fytdQU/YHh3MNWDDiI/AAAAAAAAB3s/iPRReXsqCSAx31ngK226IpRTnDZ98zymACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />After one year of dodging the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>infection and taking one shot of the vaccine,
I tested positive for the Corona Virus a couple of days ago. It was a bit of a
shock to see the result because my husband’s test was negative and I had been
hoping that it would be the same for me too, despite the mild fever and the
sore throat I had been having since <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
last three days. Actually on Monday when I did the test, my symptoms were
negligible and I did consider postponing it to Tuesday. Had I done so, I do not
think I would have even taken the test because on Tuesday morning as I sat with
my test results <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in one hand and my
morning cup of coffee on the other, I felt absolutely fine , ready to go for the
morning walk which I had missed over the weekend because I was feeling tiered!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There were myriad feelings going through me as I moved my
things out of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our bedroom to the spare
bedroom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The feeling that was top most in
my mind was of guilt. My husband has diabetes and is hypertensive and is
therefore in the comorbid category. I had brought in the virus into our home
and put him at risk! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The next step was to inform people. I had been in contact
with at least 3 organizations in the last three days as part of an assignment I
was doing with a colleague. So I wrote out <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>emails informing them about my condition and
asked them to test themselves or isolate. Then there was the question of
informing the extended family – my sister who in turn informed my parents. We
calculated the gap in the number of days between when I had met my parents and
whether there was any risk to them. Fortunately it had been the a week ago and
they were not reporting any symptoms. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then came the question of informing our
neighbours. How and when should I do it? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a challenge convincing my husband that we should inform
our neighbours . His take was that we should just quietly self isolate because few
of the six families <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the building
visited each other regularly. In case someone did visit us we could always tell
them through a window that they should stay away. But then there was the question
of the Chennai Corporation health authorities. Some one from there was bound to
visit and if that was how our neighbours got to know about this it would not be
nice. We argued through our masks about this until I retreated behind the door
of self isolation. I then called each one of them and informed them
individually. I must say they were rather nice about it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Meanwhile, at a personal level it was a very disconcerting
situation for me . I was positive , not sick and burdened with the enormous guilt
of having the infection, arguing with my husband about social responsibility
while all the time wondering what needed to be done next. I texted a couple of
my close friends who said that I needed to speak to a doctor. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amidst responding to best wishes for the various Indian new
year ( Ugadi, Baisakhi etc ) that were coming in through whatsapp and social
media I tried to google for doctors since <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we do not have that proverbial “family doctor”.
My husband consults a cardiologist while my daughter used to be taken to a paediatrician
until she was eighteen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have never
been sick enough to ever need a doctor so I really did not know what to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was then that a professional acquaintance volunteered the
name of a doctor who consulted at a clinic nearby. This was also the place where
my husband and I had taken our first vaccine shots. So I called them and fixed
a tele appointment with her. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Meanwhile, someone in the family called me and told me about
how my job was the reason that all of this was happening -“You go to villages
and slums and bring all this nonsense into the family” ! I was terribly hurt. I
wondered if this would have been the case if it had been my husband who had
been the first to get the infection in the family? Or what if I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had been really sick? I felt miserable and wanted
to get really sick so people would at least show me some empathy. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But meanwhile some practicalities had to be taken care of.
Cooking for instance. My husband can barely cook and given the circumstances,
the option was to either help him to cook or order food. Finally I decided on
the former, hoping he would take instructions <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It required a lot of patience to do this remotely – tell him
what could go wrong if he did not follow something. What not to do and what to
do. I was amazed how a fifty something man could still not differentiate
between different dals, wasted time slitting chillies even though they were to
be ground in the mixer and could not chop ladies finger. Watching him from afar,
I realized what made women experts at multi tasking was the training from our
younger days to cook dal on one burner while the vegetables were cooking on the
other and the rice on the third. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I had learnt to cook when I was ten or eleven years old
because my mother used to self isolate when she was menstruating. I would wake
up at 5.00 and along with my father cook break fast, pack our <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>school lunch and keep food for my mother and
leave for school at 8.10 AM like every other day. This was the training that had
seen me through my twenty five years of married life, with nineteen years of
those being spent in a rambling old house with untrained and erratic domestic
help. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We have now established a routine through these days of my
isolation. I sit in my room and work or read and sometimes text my friends. Few
of them know my status. Some of those who do know call me regularly and ask for
updates. Others who also know send me that mandatory message with a :Good
morning” every day along with “How r u feeling” to which I reply “ fine”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess they feel they have done their good deed
for the day . <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But meanwhile my mind floods with emotions and memories from
my childhood days of my mother’s isolation rules during menstruation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is that feeling of helplessness of
waiting for someone to tell you to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>come
and eat, of eating what can be provided to you by that person. The feeling of
dependency was terrible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">People who tell me how lucky I am that my symptoms are mild
probably do not realize how frustrating that can be. You are ill, but do not
feel or look ill. And then there is always that fear that the other person at
home should not get the infection. But It was my doctor who actually reminded
me that despite all of this, I am sick. My symptoms could escalate at any point
and I had to take care of myself. I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>suffer from an auto immune disorder which is
something that had completely slipped my mind until she asked me some questions
during our discussion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The clock is ticking. Today is day 3 after receipt of the
test result. I watch from my window and small balcony, mornings that turn into
afternoons that turn to evenings and then nights. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I am not working I am answering the
Chennai Corporation’s calls , providing answers to the same questions – what were
the places I had visited during the past one month. They wanted to come and “sanitize”
our building spraying Lysol which I refused to allow. I also told them that I
would not allow them to stick that horrible sticker outside our door. It has
been an ongoing battle . <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the meanwhile, I am also dealing with my cat who is
suffering from some kind of separation anxiety because I am not moving around
the house or working in the kitchen as I normally do. He looks sad and unhappy.
But I think he is probably picking up the mood at home. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fourteen days of self
isolation when you are not sick enough to require rest, is something that plays
on people’s mental health. And if it is a woman it is doubly hard because you
have to just sit inside a room and watch your home management go haywire. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You are also battling demons inside your head. You wonder if
you should give up your work and just stay at home? But I have the financial
resources to ponder about such things. For many women like my domestic help , it
is not a choice. They bear the responsibility of their families .
She had taken the vaccine last week after a lot of nagging from me. She has now forced
me to allow her to clean up the rest of the house while I stay locked up in my
room. We communicate over phone <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>while
she is here. I realize it is her way of showing solidarity <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>because I have helped her through her crisis. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And thus life goes on - through disinfectant sprays, hand
wipes, masked conversations and monitoring oxygen saturation levels. Praying
that this cloud passes off without causing further damage. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Bahaar se koi andar na aa sake..Andar se koi bahaar na ja sake"- Words of a popular song from the 1970s. But who would have imagined then that something like this would actually happen half a century later? We might not have imagined something like this happening even fifty days ago!<br />
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The idea of an entire family being locked in together for 21 days with limited opportunities for external interaction, is in itself something unique. It has begun testing relationships like never before. The positive thinkers are talking about families "bonding" !! I think at this point, it is the "unraveling" that one needs to be concerned about.<br />
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Interactions within a family are defined by the time we spend together. As long as that time is limited we make best use of it. Weekends and vacations are all finite. So we enjoy them and bond. But imagine, every day when you wake up, do your basic household chores and start working from home with your spouse or child sitting next to you, also working or may be doing something else, it is neither conducive for work nor is it for a family scene!<br />
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As a person who works from home, I miss the quietness and solitude of the home as my work place. I miss my routine for the day where I used to juggle household work and professional responsibilities and achieve that perfect balance. I find it annoying when I hear my husband speak loudly on the phone while I try to concentrate on something. I guess for him , who works from the office, he misses the office ambiance with its specified lunch and tea breaks where he can go back to work without having to wash a dozen vessels along with his plate. And it completely throws me off balance when I find my daughter fast asleep at 8.00 AM after attending online classes at her university in the US until 2.00 AM. Breakfast is a meal that she cannot have with us anyway and lunch would have to be her first meal -which would be earlier than when we usually eat. Yes, I know, one would have to adjust to this. But imagine trying to juggle that with your work.! Your family wants to eat lunch at 12.30 or your daughter eats dinner at 6.00 PM so she can be in her virtual classroom by 7.00 PM , when you are on a call with someone or you still haven't got around to finishing your work for the day ? So the options are that whoever is hungry eats whenever they can- defeating that idea of " family bonding" !<br />
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Someone had put up a very preachy kind of post in one of the social media groups I am in, about how this is the time to learn a new skill or new craft or exercise !! I was just thinking how it reeks of entitlement ! We are not Deepika Padukone trying out recipes and posting videos on instagram and neither are we Katrina Kaif trying to "teach" how to wash vessels. Trying out new recipes is a luxury in these difficult times when getting the basic veggies is a big challenge. And then ofcourse is the time question. I have barely enough time to get all my chores done, finish my office work and at the end of the day I am ready to hit the sack! This is the not the time I can do knitting and embroidery or learn yoga asanas. My daily work out involves a brisk walk along the beach early in the morning. The beach is now off limits and I am not going to sprain some muscle trying to learn yoga at this point!<br />
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But despite all this I think my situation is not that bad. I was thinking about women who were locked in the house with abusive husbands. Many women, enjoy a breath of freedom when the abuser leaves for work or when they themselves, leave home for work. But when the man is at home and going through uncertainties about his future, you know who he is going to take it out on!! I was in a virtual meeting with a group of organizations who are doing work on preventing violence against women. It was heart wrenching to hear about what many women are being subjected to. Not only are they being physically abused, they are also being sexually abused as the husband in many cases constantly demands sex. So the jokes about a "baby boom" post lock down are not actually "jokes" - they are cruel realities for many women who might be forced into unwanted pregnancies in a situation where contraceptives might not be easily accessible.<br />
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So coming back to the issue of how this is going to affect relationships? Are families going to go on the same way as before? Work is no longer what it used to be.An office is more than a place where people go to work. It is a place where one forms friendships and social networks. That simple pleasure of having a coffee with a colleague while discussing something from the grapevine is not available anymore. Your spouse is not going to understand a situation from your work the way your friend at the office can.<br />
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We construct images of our professional selves which we present to our families We like to show ourselves as the heroes / heroines who are loved and admired by all. And now that image starts crumbling Your spouse sees you in a different light when they witness that real professional side of yours. After they hear you speak on a call they might just think "My God, if someone speaks to me like that at my work spot I am not going to take it". And if you are a young person locked in at home with your parents then you can expect a lecture from your father or mother who is likely to say "You have really disappointed us with your rudeness today" ! That would just be the trigger for the youngster to lash out at the parent telling them "Yes, look where the niceness has taken you professionally" ! And don't be surprised if your spouse throws your office behavior at you when you have your next argument about something!!!<br />
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I realize now that there our lives are made of different parcels where we package different parts of ourselves. Unfortunately at this time, the entire load is open and lumped together in a heap. Your family is going to see all sides to you , probably every other day for an unlimited period of time. There is no escaping or hiding something for certain periods of the day. And that is something that is the most challenging part of being locked in with your family. Much would depend on how we cope together as a family in dealing with that unpleasant side that each one of us have.<br />
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-1413894183772087482020-03-31T16:06:00.000+05:302020-03-31T17:02:53.758+05:30Quarantine and Social Distancing - Corona times for us<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Six days after her arrival, a couple of men from the Chennai Corporation came at about 11.00 AM in the morning asking about her. We confirmed her presence in the house and they noted down the date of her arrival in India ( strange actually, one would have expected the immigration authorities to have provided them with that information). We also informed them that she was under home quarantine and we were being careful about ourselves too. And then on the same day at about 7.30 PM two masked men from the Corporation were at our door again. This time they asked for her! The mother in me got a bit nervous, so I called my husband instead. Since they insisted on seeing her we summoned her out of her room. They then put a stamp on her arm, using indelible ink that said "In Quarantine" and to our horror stuck a poster outside our door that said in red " Do not enter- House under quarantine"!<br />
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While I understand the importance of quarantine and self isolation at times like this, the notice shook me up , totally!!! I was reminded of Hitler's Germany where Jews had the star of David sewn on their sleeve and their homes had the notice "Juden" written outside! We were a "marked" family!!! I couldn't sleep that night! I felt this irrational need to walk into my daughter's room at midnight just to check if she was there! And strangely this fear for her physical safety overtook my general concern about any of us developing symptoms!<br />
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"These are not the biblical times, they are not going to take me and throw me out into the Sinai desert like the used to do with lepers" she said with irritation as I had obviously interrupted her online class.<br />
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My husband laughed when she told him about it in the morning.<br />
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But twenty four years of knowing him, told me that behind that laugh was a similar uneasiness that I was probably expressing more openly!<br />
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So what was bothering us?<br />
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The notice? Yes!! Certainly! At this point I would not have been surprised if they had even put up a poster on our street with her photograph! The way the health authorities were dealing with our privacy was shocking!!!<br />
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But then, as my daughter said " We are paying for the indiscretions of other travelers from abroad who jumped quarantine"<br />
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So the question is - Why were people jumping quarantine? Irresponsibility? Yes, maybe!! But why were they lying to authorities at the airport about their symptoms?<br />
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The reason is simple- It is the stigma!! In India, with our natural tendencies towards social exclusion and untouchability, no one wants to be identified as someone who should be kept away ! Social distancing- it is the new word for something we have been naturally practicing very successfully over the centuries!!!<br />
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Purity, pollution and distancing ourselves from people who we consider "polluted" is an inherent part of our culture. My grand mother used to wash the vessels that her maid had already washed. Both my mother and my mother in law used to keep separate plates, glasses and cups for the maids in their respective kitchens! And as a teenager , I myself have experienced this "social distancing" in my mother's home when I was having my period- I could not touch anyone, many parts of the house were off limits for me , I had to sleep on a separate bed and eat out of separate vessels which would undergo ritual "purification" on day 4 of my cycle!!<br />
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In Tam bram households such as mine, such distancing also happens in the reverse- my grand mother when she had bathed and was praying, could not be touched by anyone - even if they had bathed. Her purity was special !! She wore clothes that were dried on a separate line, high above ours! We were all considered uniformly polluting to her exalted pure presence until she had finished praying and made her offerings to the Gods!!!<br />
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So, imagine in this context, how does one expect an average Indian to deal with the home quarantine issue where you are painted and pointed out? I am so thankful that my neighbors in this apartment are extremely nice and kind people. The lady on the first floor ( my namesake ) constantly messages me asking if we were okay. Whenever someone from her family goes out, she wants to know if we need something. The secretary of our building, a soft spoken gentleman has been most understanding when I told him that I would be using the treadmill in the gym downstairs in the evenings when no one is around and that I would wipe it after use ( he is the only one who uses it and he does it early in the morning) . The young man and his grand mother who live in the flat opposite ours, have conversations with us across the landing and the lady from the family upstairs messaged me from Singapore wanting to know about our well being. I have been most pleasantly surprised with them because my previous experience in the neighborhood where I have spent a large part of my life in this city was very different!!<br />
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But then everyone has not had similar experiences!! There have been doctors and other health care professionals whose landlords and building society members have asked to vacate or stay away!! Air hostesses and pilots have been asked to move out by their upper middle class neighbors!<br />
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In India, any disease that is stated as being contagious, immediately acquires a social stigma!! Migrant workers who are walking long distances to reach villages are being treated like cattle by authorities who are spraying chlorine on them! There was a case of one worker who managed to reach his village only to find that the people in his village did not allow him in!!<br />
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As kids when our school bus passed the TB block of the hospital in the small railway township in West Bengal where we used to live, we would pull out our handkerchiefs and hold them over our noses!! I don't know how we learnt to do that because were all really small kids then!! We would watch the patients in their blue and white striped hospital gowns walking in the compound like they were some germs that were getting ready to attack us!! The movies, where TB patients coughed blood only added to it!!<br />
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And then there were those biblical movies "Ben Hur" etc where those affected by leprosy would be pulled away from their families and thrown out!! And those western novels about the plague where apparently carts would go around on the streets when the driver would ring a bell and shout "Bring out your dead!" . But then western society has got past this. There is no stigma when the media reports about Prince Charles, Boris Johansen, Tom Hanks or Sophie Trudeau being infected.<br />
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But when an eighteen year old boy in Calcutta is found infected it is publicized at the "first" case of the virus in the city then you hear terrible things about him. In social media groups that I have been part of , some members have even given out his address!! Yes, he and his family were irresponsible about his quarantine. But that does not warrant people breaching his privacy and talking nonsense about him, saying he was "dancing" with an infected girl - like he had sex with a syphilis infected sex worker!!<br />
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Instead of doing all this negative marking and singling out families in quarantine, the better thing to do would be to test us - we can pay for the tests. That way we would be sure about our state of infection. But our public health authorities have a wonky sense of economics when it comes to this. So until that gets corrected, people would still look at families in quarantine as threats! A song from a Tagore dance drama "Chandalika" that we had enacted as kids comes to my mind, that aptly describes the Indian feelings about quarantine " Oke chuyo na chuyo na chi, Oje, Chandalini chi " (Don't touch her she is a chandaal - untouchable)<br />
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And meanwhile, I am now waiting for the 28th day of our quarantine ( yes, we are supposed to be quarantined for 28 days!!!) - when I am having fantasies about how I would tear that poster down and burn in in front of my door !!!<br />
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Do you think I am over reacting? Put yourself in my place, and then say that!<br />
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-51498957720789998692018-08-23T22:00:00.000+05:302018-08-23T22:51:26.979+05:30India south of the Vindhyas - Some facts for the rest of India <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Kerala floods seem to have
opened another flood gate- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a simmering conflict
between the North and South of India. The trigger I suppose came when the
centre took its own sweet time to respond to the disaster while countries
outside – especially the UAE announced relief assistance for the state.
Meanwhile some hate messages started doing their rounds on social media asking
Hindus to contribute to only Hindus because apparently the Muslims and Christians
were raising their own funds, other messages saying that Kerala being a
consumer of beef should suffer! <o:p></o:p></div>
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This was also the time that an
article was published in the<a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/united-states-south-india-can-southern-collective-get-us-better-deal-delhi-46501"> newsminute</a> which used data to show that while the
five southern states of India contributed to the country much higher in terms
of revenue they received very little from the centre. The article argued very
strongly about how the decisions are taken by the number of seats in the parliament
which is far higher for many of the northern states thanks to their larger
population and therefore ability to send in more representatives. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This was followed by other
articles that showcased the communal harmony in Kerala during the disaster, all
of which did not go down well with many of my north Indian friends who felt
that one should not say that communal harmony was only something to do with the
south. This post is being written to clarify a few points <o:p></o:p></div>
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Let me first begin by saying that
people in the north know very little about the south except to club us all as “Madrasis”.
There are five states in southern India and about 7-8 languages. Most may not
even know that Tulu is a language in Karnataka and that Bollywood stars Shilpa
Shetty and Aishwarya Rai belong to a community for whom this is the native
tongue!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coming back to the religious diversity
of southern India. Kerala was the state where Christianity was first introduced
by one of the apostles of Christ – St. Thomas around 52AD, - long before even the
west became Christian, there were Christians in Kerala!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very few in India know this. Few also know
that the first mosque in India – Cheraman Juma Mosque was constructed by Arab
traders in the Kundagallur Taluk in Thrissur district in Kerala in 629 AD – way
before the Muslim invaders came into the north. <o:p></o:p></div>
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style="text-align: left;" /></a>So, Christianity and Islam
existed in the south before the British, Portuguese or the Mohammad Ghazi,
Mohammad Ghori and the rest of them began propagating them. Also, it must be
mentioned here that introduction of these two religions came peacefully, Islam
especially by way of trade and not as a result of war. Therefore, the way
people have accepted these religions have also been different – without the
bitterness and hatred that comes because of war, imposition of Jaziya tax and
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Further, on account of the fact
that both these religions have existed for such a long time they have
integrated better into the social fabric of these states. A Muslim from Kerala
or Tamilnadu would identify himself / herself more as a Malayali / Tamilian first
and a muslim only later. The same goes for Christians. Cuisine is more or less
similar. All religions consume non vegetarian food – beef in Kerala is not
limited to non-Hindus. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Additionally, because of the
location of these states down in the Indian peninsula, the southern states were
well insulated from invaders from Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan. They
were also not affected by the displacement caused by partition and the anger
and resentment that people carry with them because of that. No one in the South
has to live with neighbouring countries formed out of our unified land and so it
is easier to accept Muslims as our friends and not as representatives of a
foreign /enemy country. This is something that I as a South Indian empathize
with my north Indian fellow citizens<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coming to the question of class
-many of the southern states did not have the feudal zamindari system of land
ownership where the peasants did not own land, as a result of which there has
been fewer class related problems. The south followed the Roytwari system where
the British collected land revenue directly from the peasants unlike the zamindari
system where a local feudal lord collected the revenue on behalf of the
peasants who were the owners of the land. <o:p></o:p></div>
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settled in Southern India contributed a lot to the health and education sectors
which cannot be denied. Everyone benefitted from this- no one was excluded
because of their religion.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And finally, we have had social
reform movements in at least two of the five states which has tried to address
caste and class issues. Periyar and his Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu and
Narayan Guru and his social reform movement in Kerala addressed a number of
caste dominance problems. Additionally, the communist movement in Kerala
addressed class issues that went closely with caste resulting in large scale
policy changes like land reforms, reservations and social development programs.
Tamilnadu was the first state to win an election on the promise of addressing
malnutrition! The Integrated child development services – ICDS which is the largest
program in the world that addresses the issue of malnutrition among children
and women has its beginnings in the Tamilnadu Integrated Nutrition Project. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Given the fact that there were
less socio religious problems, that political parties could take advantage of,
they were forced to deliver programs for development. I am extremely proud to
say that no child in Tamilnadu is unnaturally short, has streaked hair or
protruding bellies!!! These classic symptoms of poor nutrition do not exist in Tamilnadu
and a large part of the south!<o:p></o:p></div>
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between demand and supply. Unless people demand for their entitlements there is
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people who have are educated and therefore the demand for better services has
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The relatively peaceful situation
in the south (except may be for Kerala which like West Bengal has not attracted
investment on account of the detrimental effects of too much of trade unionism)
has also attracted corporate investments leading to development of urban
centres like Bangalore and Hyderabad. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have not been able to see the development of any such centres anywhere else in
India except may be for Pune in Maharashtra. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The people of the south having
been relative undisturbed by the turmoil of wars, partition are more stable
with less aggression in their blood. With lesser need to invest in their brawn,
the focus has been on the brain, leading to better education resulting in an ability
to solve problems in a more logical manner. Education also means that less
people fall for brain washing by vested interests. <o:p></o:p></div>
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India as country is federal in nature
but unitary in spirit say our political science text books. With
representational politics deciding the national policies it is not surprising
that with a small number in the parliament the south is not able to make the
required noise to get their demands heard. The present wave of right wing
thinking seeks to vest identities around religion which does not work for us in
the south! Our identities are beyond religion. It calls for a very nuanced
understanding that has to take in a lot of grey shades which is demanding too
much from a party that cannot see beyond saffron!<o:p></o:p></div>
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But the South is no Utopia. We have
our social problems but let me assure you, religious intolerance is not one of
them! We have moved beyond that and this is something that others in our
country need to understand and be open to learning from us. My answer to all those
who are angry with us for asserting our south Indian identity is to come and
visit us- live among us and learn our language and understand our culture! I
live in Bangalore, the IT capital in India but the language I hear around me is
not Kannada- I only hear Hindi. How is it that when we South Indians migrate
out of the south we learn the local language while when we have in migration
into our cities we do not have our fellow country men and women even making an
attempt to learn our languages? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are
happy to be home to all Indians but we would like those who come to live among
us to learn about us and adapt to our culture – otherwise it will be in no way
different from the what my north Indian friends are never tiered of narrating –
how they were victims of invasion by the Mongols and the Persians who imposed
their religion and culture on them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, friends, let me assure you
that being South Indian is also about being Indian. We are as proud of our sub culture
as we are of our nation. We invite the rest of you to understand us and our
history better before you take offence to us asserting our identity. India is
not just the Himalayas. It is also the Western Ghats. Ganga may be a holy river
but so is our Kaveri, Godavari and Krishna. The Gupta and Mauryas may have been
great Hindu kings but so has been Raja Raja Chola and Krishanadevaraya. Tipu
Sultan – the tiger of Mysore is one of the first few to take on the British. The
Salt Sayagraha also took place in Vedaranyam at the same time when it happened in
Dandi. Sarojini Naidu – the nightingale of India was from Hyderabad. Durgabai
Deshmukh was one of the women who was closely associated with the freedom
struggle. She has set up the Andhra Mahila Sabha –an organization that
continues to provide health and social services to all needy. Some of our serious
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>films that have been made without masala
, have also run to full houses! They did not have to be seen only in
international film festivals. We could see them at the local theatre. Our music
is not just Carnatic music. We have folk songs, folk dances and folk
instruments that few know about. Our classical musicians are fighting
fundamentalism by ensure that Carnatic music is made inclusive so that all
religions can use it for worship. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our grouse is just that our fellow citizens
north of the Vindhyas are not interested in understanding us. The moment we
call out to be understood we are
referred to as people who are trying to
be “divisive” or wanting to break away. We may not vote for right wing parties
like many of you do but that does not mean our sufferings a to be scoffed at
and when we come up with our own solutions that transcend petty divisions then
the least we expect from you is insecurity and envy!</div>
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-6027661752090019572018-08-10T23:00:00.004+05:302018-08-10T23:00:54.400+05:30Food, feelings and friendships<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently, a friend came home for lunch. I am not a great cook. At my best, my cooking can only be what true foodies would describe as 'average".! But he was very appreciative about what I had dished out and kept raving about it right through the meal. I was a bit surprised because I know he is not the sort to praise someone just like that. Thinking back, I realize that what had probably touched him was not the taste of the food but the fact that I had taken the trouble to cook an elaborate meal for him. And that made me feel very emotional... because I realized that he valued my hospitality! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With all the cookery shows showing us what great cooking is all about, we seem to have forgotten the value of simple home cooked food and the feelings behind that meal on our plate - that of the person who cooked it and the person who is eating.it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Food plays a big role in bonding people! No wonder we talk about the need for families to eat together. And not just families, we also talk about friends eating together, colleagues at office sharing a lunch table and food from their lunch boxes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sharing food is probably the best way to get know someone. In every place I have worked I have enjoyed eating with my colleagues, tasting their food and sharing what I have cooked with them. A colleague in the office one day sat next to me at the lunch table and pushing his lunch box towards me said "I know, you will like this". "This" was upma made of rice - what we Tam Brahms call "Arisi Upma"!It is not made or served outside in restaraunts . So I was very touched that this man, with whom I do not have very close day today interactions decided to share a near extinct dish with me! It was a great meal as we discussed how, many of us from our generation no longer know how to make it! I think I got to know him better after that lunch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But just as food bonds people, food also excludes people. The entire caste system in India is all about excluding people around food and water. You do not eat food cooked by certain people or drink water from their homes!! I think it is one of the most horrible way of keeping rejecting someone! My work often takes me to villages where caste is a harsh reality. I see poor people who want to offer me their hospitality but are hesitant about giving me something to eat or drink. I usually ask them for a glass of water to drink and when I do that I often see them getting confused. They wonder whether they should offer it to me because they belong to what are called the "untouchable" castes. But when I drink the water they bring to me, I know I have established a rapport ! Food or water in this case, helps build a relationship like none other! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It disturbs me a lot when I read these days about people being discriminated around the food they eat. "One man's food is another man's poison" goes the saying... So who are we to decide what is food and what is poison? What we eat is our choice and we have no right to impose our choice on another. No food is inferior or superior to another - and I do not mean this in the nutritional sense !!! I cannot imagine why we form value judgements about food. We have every right to refuse certain foods but I cannot understand why we have to prevent a person who is used to earing that food from eating it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was travelling in rural Bihar I came across an extremely poor community called the "Musahars" . Loosely translated it means "someone who eats rats". I was pained to hear that they were so poor that they had to eat rats. But I also wonder if by feeling that way am I not making a value judgement in terms of what is acceptable food? This is a dilemma that I have often struggled with. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On a more personal level, I am at a loss when a close friend who always has lots of left over food in her fridge packs some for me to take home with me everytime I visit her. I do not know if I should feel annoyed at being treated like a dustbin or touched that she has packed something for me so that I do not have to cook the next day. And then I think, don't I do the same for my domestic help? If I can pack left over food from my fridge for someone why should I feel offended when someone does that with me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As someone who has been working on Nutrition for a year now, I realize food is beyond balanced diets. It is about relationships, culture and tradition - some of the later being not very pleasant. </span></div>
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-88701635827609735242017-09-03T10:42:00.000+05:302017-09-03T10:54:02.073+05:30HITTING THE “MID POINT”- A woman’s version<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">When I was in my teens, anyone
over thirty was “old”. When I got to my twenties forty seemed ancient…! And now that I am four decades and
more, I wonder if I am being considered to be over the hill ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Despite all those quotes about
aging being more a mental than a biological process, I am convinced now that it
is actually a social process. And more so if you are woman. In India, we women
accept this transition into old age easily - sometimes much earlier than
necessarily because age gives us a degree of freedom that youth doesn’t. I have
heard women in villages tell me about how now that they are older the
restrictions on their movement is much lesser and they can participate more in
community affairs. They become more
articulate and express years of pent up feelings and opinions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">While giving age all the credit
that it deserves in terms of empowering women, at a more personal level I wonder
if age and maturity isn’t something that is thrust upon us women? When we are in our teens we are expected to
be more mature than boys of our age. Our physical changes are more striking and
over the years seem to be coming on earlier and earlier. Prisoners of a body
that is undergoing these changes we have to leave our childhoods behind even
before we are mentally ready for it. And just as we are getting used to this
body and coming to terms to with the fact that we have left behind the freedom
of childhood and adolescence, our bodies are ravaged by motherhood. Nothing
that we have heard or read can help us deal with the changes that come about.
You realize suddenly that this body is no longer yours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The years roll by and you become
this gender neutral person– “Mom”. You exchange frivolity for sensibility. You
tuck your dreams behind your ears and put your children’s well being on your
list of priorities. Getting home from
work early to help your child to study for her exams seems more important than
going out with friends. And soon, the word “friends” becomes a myth in itself
because all the girls we grew up with are also heading home to get that home
work done. For some of us, the people we call friends are also defined by our
social circumstances. In laws, neighbors and mothers of our children’s friends are people whose company we are forced to
accept. Rarely do we get to have as
friends people whose company we might actually enjoy. Sometimes we meet colleagues at work who make great friends.
But given our circumstances of responsibility we cannot extend this friendship
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And then when the kids grow older
and start living their own lives, you begin to think that this is the time for
you to start living your life and catch up on all that you have missed. You look
forward to renewing old friendships , making new ones and most importantly for
a life beyond work and family. But unfortunately, society around you does not
think so. You suddenly realize that the demographics of the work place has
changed. There are more young people than there were in the work space when you
started out. To them you are a “middle
aged” woman. They definitely do not want to have anything
to do with you outside of work. Coffee break conversations sound stilted every
time you venture out into themes that are not
related to work. You look for
topics that might be of mutual interest. Given that fewer and fewer young
people these days read and that your interest in cricket matches stopped after
you left school you have to resign yourself to exploiting the weather and
traffic to its maximum. You also realize that you are probably one of the few women of your age who is at
your level of seniority. So there is the option of forcing a bond with them or
living with your loneliness. You begin to worry that you might have to now
start considering satsangs or prayer groups. You look enviously at your middle aged male peers. Bald heads and protruding bellies
notwithstanding they continue to be one of the “boys”, hitting the bars and
flirting with the PYTs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">And finally nature strikes out on
you. Your body undergoes changes once again. Your hormones play havoc with you
physically and emotionally. And by the time you hit your half century you are
half the person you wanted to be or could have been. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-19538517794589846392017-01-20T18:23:00.002+05:302017-01-20T18:23:42.975+05:30A CROCK OF BULL SHIT!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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During the last few days I have
made some startling discoveries about myself – that I am not a true Tamil and
neither am I a Dravidian! I have no pride in my sub national / racial identify!<o:p></o:p></div>
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style="text-align: left;" /></a>Well I do not support a sport
called “Jallikattu”! To the uninformed , non social media users, Jallikattu is
an ancient sport in Tamil Nadu that is
held during the month of January where men try to “tame” a bull and collect the
prize money attached to its horns ( in cases where a prize money is involved). <o:p></o:p></div>
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As a person who is a book worm
and a couch potato, I have always been non passionate about sports in general.
So what is so special about supporting Jallikattu? Apparently it is something
that is deeply rooted and linked to Tamil culture and identity and as my
friends on social media inform me as a true Tamil I am expected to oppose the
Supreme court ban on this sport !!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Okay may be I do not get it!!
What is Tamil culture all about? I refuse to believe that it is just about taming bulls. My ‘limited’ knowledge about this
culture ( informed by a non state board secondary school history curriculum and
non Tamil publications like the Amar Chitra Katha comics) says it is about great writers, rulers and thinkers.
It is about a system of governance that fostered peace and justice. So why have we begun to suddenly equate this with
animal husbandry ?<o:p></o:p></div>
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To me it seems like something
totally different! Bull taming and bull fighting in this context is seen as an assertion
of a sub national identity in a national context which is north centric . Let us
look at the semiotics of this entire thing. Bull taming –Brave men overcoming a
violent male animal! A celebration of masculine strength and virility! One can
recall Tamil movies where the heroes are seen enacting exactly these scenes of
valor! I feel like asking “Excuse me, where are the women here ?” . Well, I suppose they are in the audience
clapping their hands in excitement, encouraging these men to take on the bull (
at least that is what one sees in the movies)!<o:p></o:p></div>
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But what puzzles me is why
educated and smart Tamil women professing to be feminists are also taken in by
this symbolism? Is the quest for a Tamil identity so strong for them that they
are willing to overlook the gender stereotyping here? <o:p></o:p></div>
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The urban, techie character of
this protest is also surprising. I wonder how many of these men who are
protesting about this in Chennai have ever visited a village, leave aside
approached a bull! Yet we see them posting articles on social media about how
this will endanger natural breeds of bulls in the region. I was also amused by
the conspiracy theory that this was some sly way by which foreign breeds of
cattle were sought to be introduced into Tamil country!!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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There was also a saffron tinge to
this where someone posted a slogan on social media saying that if cruelty to
animals is to be banned then bakrid should be banned in India! <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiFvEIHtgunRqLhsKHTGYBeQ_fGlW5ASOXb0ivhCgAi3ESeVsf" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for swathi death photos" border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTiFvEIHtgunRqLhsKHTGYBeQ_fGlW5ASOXb0ivhCgAi3ESeVsf" style="text-align: left;" /></a>I would like to ask these “proud
Tamil” people (who have denounced me by now ) where was their exhibition of valor when a
young girl was brutally slaughtered on Nungambakkam station by a stalker on her
way to work? Where is their sense of chivalry
when Tamil pulp magazines posted slyly taken pictures of unsuspecting women wearing
leggings? <o:p></o:p></div>
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I have worked in the
villages of Tamil Nadu and I have worked on animal husbandry projects too. With
increasing mechanization the number of breeding bulls are coming down. Most of
the cows / buffaloes are fertilized through artificial insemination. All of
this is part of the larger change that has come about in our dairy sector thanks
to Operation flood! It would be good if people understand the development
context of the state especially where animal husbandry practices are concerned.
Reading chauvinistic posts on face book is not information enough to understand
the context. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A flush of chauvinistic pride trigged by some social media
instigated posts is about as short lived as the profile picture of the Indus
Valley seal with the bull that some of my good Tamil friends have put up on
their face book profile ! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am also sure that once that “off site” assignment is
sanctioned by a foreign company my techie friends from the Marina would quietly
get their passports out and push off to the US or some other country to earn
their dollars and Euros. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So let us get this Tamil identity business out of the
picture shall we? This cultural, national chauvinism is what makes us prey to
all kinds of negativity and prejudices. If we care so much about bulls let us
quit our plush jobs in the offices in the OMR and move to Madurai or Sivagangai
to start a cattle farm!!! It will not be long before the real farmers in the
region start an agitation to get the urban colonizers out of their area so they
can live and practice their livelihoods in peace! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-4771786881320275422015-12-27T15:27:00.002+05:302015-12-27T15:51:55.582+05:30A TALE OF TWO CITIES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is now over three months since I relocated
to Delhi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I will not say I did not
have </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">misgivings when I moved. But few of them had anything to do with the city.
I was worried about other things- how would my husband and I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>manage life without each other <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>until he is able to join me in Delhi. As far
as the daughter was concerned, she was a bird who had flown the nest. She had
to find her own horizon for flight.</span><a href="http://static.indianexpress.com/m-images/M_Id_360531_Delhi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="irc_mi" src="http://static.indianexpress.com/m-images/M_Id_360531_Delhi.jpg" height="212" style="margin-top: 98px;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Three months later, back in Chennai now for
a holiday,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am finding it difficult to
deal with friends who appear surprised every time I tell them that I have “ no
problems” with Delhi…!!! I must say I am even beginning to like it now. I think
Delhi has probably been vilified unjustly…!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">People here ask me doubtfully“ You like it
better than Chennai?” I do not know what makes people in Chennai think that
Delhi should be inferior…. Let me put it this way, each city has<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some things about it that makes one like or
detest it. It is basically a lived experience. Unless you live somewhere you
can never really say..!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So, now that I have lived in both these
cities let me share my experiences. ….</span></div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">I moved to Chennai in the early nineties. I
was starting out on my career, wasn’t earning much and getting accommodation as
a single woman was next to impossible!! My move to Delhi has been at a very
senior level in an organization and I had all the support from them in helping
me with accommodation. Besides, these days with technology, it is easier to
access information about accommodation options. I was still a bit apprehensive
about finding a place to live in within a week. Friends in Delhi told me that I
was worrying unnecessarily.. and I realize they were right. I found a decent
place quicker than I expected! The landlord had no interest in knowing whether
I was married or single or in a live in relationship!!! He also did not care
whether I ate meat or fish or vegetables so long as I was able to pay the rent.
I cannot say the same about Chennai …!!!</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.tridenthotels.com/img/Kapaleshwar-Temple_chennai_big.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="irc_mi" src="http://www.tridenthotels.com/img/Kapaleshwar-Temple_chennai_big.jpg" height="199" style="margin-top: 49px;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In terms of rental value, I do not think
there was much by way of difference except that landlords in Delhi want only
two months rent as security deposit while those in Chennai fleece you with ten
months!!! Besides, I was able to get a furnished place in an up market area
which I am not sure I could have managed in Chennai. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With regard to day today life … I miss the
early morning spirit of Chennai. Life in Delhi begins much later ,despite the
fact that the schools start earlier in the day than in Chennai. I also miss the
Chennai breakfast routine..!! Even South Indian restaurants do not open before
9.00 AM …!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course I miss the
filter coffee at Saravana Bhavan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that is
just an auto ride away from our place in Chennai..! The very thought of having
to walk to the metro station and board a train to CP for that cup takes the
craving away..! But considering that I am not a coffee person like my father or
husband, I can live with that..!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Delhi as I discovered, has its own morning
routine...! I absolutely adore that park behind my house. I go there for my morning
walk and I have developed now a nodding acquaintance with some of the elderly
people who walk there. Our routine is almost similar- complete our walk, go up
to the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mother dairy booth to get our
milk, buy vegetables from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Safal” or the
other road side vendors and get home. I am told this is pretty standard for all
the neighborhoods of Delhi. Almost all of them have come up in a planned
manner- you will find in almost all of them a park, a milk booth, vegetable
shops, a provision store and a chemist store. I am not sure I can say the same
for all neighborhoods of Chennai. Even if the shops exist the parks don’t!! I
am one of the few lucky ones to live in an area that is near the Boat Club and
the Nageswara Rao park. Those in Besant Nagar and Anna Nagar are also blessed
because of the Theosophical society and the Tower park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">However what really upsets me about Delhi
is the fact that there are no departmental stores…!! It was my most shocking
discovery about the Capital! There is no store like Nilgiris or Spencers or any
of those million grocery stores that we have in Chennai where one can pick up a
basket or cart and buy what one needs. Even a very up market neighborhood like
the one I live in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>only has stores where people <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have to walk up to the counter and ask“ ek
kilo chini” , “do kilo atta” etc..! So, I am now back to my childhood days
where I get my groceries in these newspaper wrapped parcels with strings! Most
eco friendly… I know.. (Until I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have to
line my dustbin)! I get a handwritten bill that I total mentally, silently
blessing my father for my sharp math skills. Shopkeepers tell me that they can do
a door delivery if I buy provisions over Rs 2000 ..!! But I am not sure I need
to invest that kind of amount on groceries considering that I live alone for
most of the month and travel a lot ..!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The city of Delhi has in a way taken me
back to my childhood<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. Though most of my
teenage days were in Kolkata, the Hindi language was very much part of my
upbringing. I realized that was something I missed in Chennai!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually that was my first culture shock in
Chennai in the nineties. I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>found out I
could not speak the standard Tamil of Tamil nadu. What I spoke was the Tam
Brahm version of the language which I had been warned by my father to be
careful about using with the general public as it would point to my caste and
bring out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prejudices. Thankfully
language in Delhi has posed no such issues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">With regard to the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>these two cities <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they are poles apart from the other. I dislike
the Delhi motorist’s road rage and complete disregard for any pedestrian or
anyone who is embarking or disembarking from another vehicle! People in Chennai
are more accommodating of people who walk or use lighter vehicles. Traffic
policemen in Chennai are very helpful while in Delhi they are almost
nonentities. As I do not use public transport much I do not know how that
experience in Delhi might be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The auto
experience has been as unpleasant as in Chennai. Though the prices quoted by
the auto rickshaw drivers in Delhi might not be as atrocious as those in
Chennai, that rudeness with which they treat passengers is the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There is a certain need to “show off” that
one sees in the Delhiite while your average Chennaiite is someone who “underplays”
everything. The craze for labels and brands in Delhi is so much that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people would rather be wearing a fake one than
none!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They size you up and judge you by
how you look and what you wear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It used
to put me off in the beginning but now that I have accepted them for what they are
, I see a human side to Delhi that the intellectually snobbish South Indian in me
has begun to grudgingly appreciate. I see the kindness that Delhiites exhibit
towards animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are three stray
dogs who sleep on the stair case in my building. They are fed alternately by the
various residents. In winter I see all stray dogs in various localities bundled
up in some sort of cloth to protect them against the cold. My neighbor has laid
out two small mattresses on the landing for these canines so they do not have
to sleep on the cold steps in winter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am yet to see similar kindness exhibited by a Chennaite towards stray animals.
The few who do are taken to be eccentric or “cracks”! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have met good people and bad just as in Chennai. I came prepared to deal with
rapists but what I see where men are concerned are the same issues as in
Chennai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I may be too old for your
average road side sexual offender, one has to always take precautions for
safety just as in Chennai. I am told that post the “Nirbhaya” case the police in
Delhi are more alert about safety of women. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Delhi is a city that I am still discovering…!!
I try not to compare it with any of the other metros that I have lived in.
Given its cultural diversity, every metro in India has its own unique flavor ..
so it is difficult to compare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
problem comes more out of people staying rooted</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">to
their own cities and preferring to believe in stereotypes about others</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">. </span></div>
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-73869694873989460472015-11-04T23:25:00.001+05:302015-11-05T09:32:05.251+05:30A Question of Identity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">There
seems to be a sudden surge of write ups going viral on social media about being
a Hindu. Questions are raised on secularism
and why the onus seems to be only on Hindus to prove that they are secular.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I
find this entire question of religious identity a very problematic one. Let me explain
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">If
you were to ask me who I am, my religion would be the last thing that I would
use to define myself. Okay, so I may be an atheist / agnostic.. But what about
my mother? She is what one would call a very religious person- constantly
pampering her “Devi/ Devatas” so that their wrath does not turn on her children
and their families. But if you were to ask her to define who she is, she would
say she is a Tamil Brahmin! So, now we
have a caste and regional angle being used to define identity. And what
is interesting is that just being Tamil or a Brahmin are not necessary or
sufficient conditions for her to say who she is. She does not really identify
herself with any Tamilian or anyone who might be a Brahmin from any other part
of the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Now
let me talk about myself. Every time I have stepped outside of the four ( okay
five now ) southern states, I have been identified as a “South Indian”. The fact
that I am from Tamilnadu does not really matter to the people north of the
Vindhyas. To them we are all “Madrasis” and if they are little more sensitive
then they refer to me as “from South”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">To
our maid in Chennai, our Bihari cook is the “Seth Paiyan” – the Seth boy (Seth
is a local word for a merchant/moneylender and refer to the people from
Rajasthan who had settled in the city ages ago and involved themselves in these
businesses). Never mind that the poor fellow in all probability comes from a
family neck deep in debt forcing him to migrate to a city where he cannot even
speak the language.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">My father defines himself as a "Retired railway employee"- to him the thirty odd years of his life spent between the two rails is the best possible way to tell the world about who he is. His late older brother always called himself a "Retired headmaster". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">So
where does religion come into this? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">When
I married a Christian, I found that the identity question there was equally
complicated. Though inlaws define themselves as “Syrian Christians from Kerala” my mother in law like my father and uncle always referred to herself as a "Doctor" and never as a Malayalee or a Christian! The house that she lived in all her life in Chennai, though located in the heart of a Tamil Brahmin locality is even today referred to as "Doctor Amma's house"! Nobody has ever identified it as a "Christian" or a "Malayalee" home. Notice the complete absence of religion here?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">When it came to dealing with my identity, I was always introduced by my mother in law as her “Brahmin daughter in law”! To her I suppose, given the neighborhood she lived in, that was the defining factor! I remember her once telling me that she was glad her son had not married an “Indian
Christian” ****!!!! Surprised? I was startled because until then I had always
assumed that she was as Indian as I was ! But I realized what she meant was a “non Syrian Christian”. The word Syrian by the way,
only defines their antecedents as St. Thomas was supposed to have landed on the shores of Kerala from Syria. They are otherwise about as Malayalee as the rest of
Kerala! It would not matter if it were a Nair or a Moplah that they might meet.
They would still break into Malayalam and want to know where their “house” is!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">During
my stay in Andhra Pradesh/ Telangana I found that it was the district one came from that was the defining factor of
identity as also the caste. In Tamil Nadu again, the district is a general defining
factor of your identity unless you are a Brahmin where you transcend region!!!! But
a majority of people (with the exception of Brahmins) in Tamil Nadu take pride in
their Tamil identity and their Dravidian ethnicity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Interestingly,
in Bengal, being Bengali is enough by way of identity. There are no religious or
caste riders to this. Anyone who is not Bengali is simply a “Non Bengali”. No one cares if you are Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Brahmin or Kayasth as long as you are "Bengali"!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">So,
given the fact that there are so many facets that define one’s identity in our
country why should religion become the primary defining factor? One does not have to be a rocket scientist to
know that it is politically motivated by groups who probably find the diversity
too much to handle. Therefore, what they are trying to do is to bring religion
into the forefront. Since Hinduism as a religion by itself is so complex ,
abstract and subject to regional/caste based interpretations, that it is
difficult to bring it together as one identity. Therefore we try and define the
“other”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We
dig up history, bring up invasions and point our fingers at Muslims. Yes..!!
They may be a minority in our population but are sufficiently large in number
to be targeted as the "villains". We break a historical monument stating that it
was built by an invader and seek to “right the wrong”. We want to build a
temple there for a deity who does not have an entity outside of northern India.
We are envious of a community in Gujarat that is seen to be doing well in trade
and so we engineer riots to “put them in their place”. And now it looks like we
want to control what they eat! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">In
this politics of hate, an artificial sense of identity is being sought to be
created for Hindus! And it is sad that people are falling for this propaganda. Unlike
the US , UK and other western nations where Muslims came in as immigrants in
recent times and might therefore be treated as second class citizens, the
Indian Muslim is as much a part of this country as anyone else. Muslims have
been part of our history and Islam has influenced our art, literature, culture
and cuisine. The reverse has also been true. You just need to go to Southern
India to see this. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">So
why this hue and cry and the sudden spurt of intolerance? Why does the word
secular draw sniggers? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Why
can’t we let religion be where it belongs – within the place of worship or the
four walls of our home? As a person who comes from a mixed religious family I
can say that religious diversity has only enriched our lives. We have had more
occasions to celebrate and more people praying for our welfare than anyone else
that I know of! I do not see why it cannot happen in a country? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">It
is for us to decide who we want to be and what we want to believe in. We can
spew hatred or accept everyone for what they are. Things are not going to
change for the average “Hindu” if we become a “Hindu Rashtra”. The poor will
still remain poor, the rich will still exploit, and corruption will continue.
Those in power will probably think of some other issue to rake up and we will
start thinking that will solve all our problems. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-77098917973419824342015-10-19T17:05:00.000+05:302015-10-19T17:05:38.963+05:30YET ANOTHER FACE IN THE CROWD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> “Madam aap Keratin treatment karva lo. Aapke
baal bahut phiji hain” ( Madam, please have a Keratin treatment done. Your hair
is too Frizzy”) said the hair dresser at a Delhi Salon. I let it go when I
heard it for the first time. Poor chap, dealing as he was with the soft Punjabi
hair on a regular basis, my tresses must have presented him with a challenge! But
when I heard the same from another hair dresser at yet another salon in Delhi,
I had had enough!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I
mean, what was wrong with my hair? No hair dresser had ever commented on it in
my native Chennai! The Bengali ladies in Kolkata during my growing years had raved
about my thick mane.. Why…. even the Goddess Durga idols in the city had hair
like mine! So why should I shell out Rs 5000 or more and try to make it
straight? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://fe867b.medialib.glogster.com/media/b6/b6082255a44f40b522964de8cfc5a94fb44ae758ac308432562d62cb8adfcb54/durga.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://fe867b.medialib.glogster.com/media/b6/b6082255a44f40b522964de8cfc5a94fb44ae758ac308432562d62cb8adfcb54/durga.jpg" width="225" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Okay,
so it might be more manageable but I suspect it is not just the manageability
that is the issue here. So, was it a marketing stunt? Trying to push a product
on someone? I guess it is something slightly beyond that.. something more
subtle. A strategy by the beauty industry where one brand of looks is being presented
as aspirational as opposed to another- straight hair and fair skin being the
preferred brand of looks! I suppose coming as a I did from Chennai where a
majority had my kind of looks it was not so obvious but in Delhi where people
with my racial features were in a minority it was automatically assumed that I
was a “freak” and therefore might be looking out for an option to “conform” ! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“Beauty
is in the eyes of the beholder” so goes the saying. But what we forget is that the
beholder is not neutral. S/he is vulnerable to suggestion by which certain
brands of looks can be presented as THE epitome of beauty! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQddXt53LS3uyqLzqeKgME1emRjkq_gyaxl7pVQgUhVtT6SrhzvDQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQddXt53LS3uyqLzqeKgME1emRjkq_gyaxl7pVQgUhVtT6SrhzvDQ" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">India
is an amalgamation of different racial types ranging from dark skins and curly
hair in the south to the fair skin/ soft hair of the north to the petite ever
youthful looks of the north east. So what makes light skin and straight hair
the good looks standard? I might have said Bollywood through its songs about “Gori
Gori choris” ( fair girls) with “Sunehere baal” ( golden hair) and “Gulabi gaal”(pink cheeks) except that
most of the leading ladies in Bollywood have traditionally been women from the
south – the land of dark women with frizzy hair!!! From Waheeda Rehman ( yes she is a South
Indian!!!!) to Hema Malini and Rekha to Sri Devi, Shilpa Shetty, Aishwarya Rai and now Deepika Padukone we have had Southern
beauties ruling the Hindi film industry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But
it is sad to see how even people like Sri Devi have conformed to this standard,
straightening out her once frizzy/ curly hair! I remember the first time I saw
Kajol on screen, I loved her for her frizzy hair, dark skin , uni brow and of course her plump frame..!!
Today I find she has also conformed to the so called “beauty standard” .. Sadly,
both Sri Devi and Kajol I think, have lost their unique charm!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">And
what is even more shocking is that the southern film industry, noted for its
dark voluptuous beauties has today girls
from the north as its leading ladies! Most of them cannot speak the language
that the film is supposed to be in.. yet the audiences are crazy about these
fair skinned girls!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/658i8VWzTFM/maxresdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/658i8VWzTFM/maxresdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">When
did we get colonized by this idea of beauty?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">While
admitting that all of us in India have always nurtured a desire for fair skin,
I do not know when the hair obsession hit us! When did we start coveting
straight, brown hair? I remember feeling distinctly uncomfortable watching a
fair and light eyed Paro with straight hair in Sanjay Leela Bansali’s “Devdas”
! I wonder how long will it take before the craftsmen from Kumartuli start
fashioning out idols of Goddess Durga with straight, soft hair and light eyes! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">After
all isn’t that the standard?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Each
sub culture within our country has its own definition of beauty based on the
racial type. Instead of trying to preserve it we are trying to aspire towards a
standard format of so called good looks and
becoming like poorly grafted
clones of our Punjabi sisters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">What
we fail to realize is that beauty is all about being unique in some way. The moment
we start trying to conform we become just one more face in the crowd…!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Working from home, until recently used to
be something that was restricted to self employed individuals. But over the
last decade or so, many organizations<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>are also adopting the policy of allowing their employees to work from
home. From the organization’s perspective it is helpful in saving on office
infrastructure cost while the employee benefits from saving time on travel to
work and back thereby giving them more time to achieve a positive work life
balance. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">As a person who had been working from home
for the past three years, I would like to share with you in this post, some of
my experiences. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">One of my first observations when I started
working from home was that there were more women opting for this than men.
Though my department within the organization had work that was not typically
office based, very few of my male colleagues wanted to work regularly from
home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I don’t like it, it is very disturbing! The
pressure cooker goes off, the maid flings vessels around the place ….” Said a
male co worker when I asked him why he preferred to drive the 15 km to a field
office and work rather than stay at home and complete it. Another colleague
said that the neighbors kept asking his wife if he had been laid off work and
that was troubling him!!</span></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3FejEOWpR6Hl__BdZLErsNijQ8y0ct8-KuVecm2_JB2cJAvkm" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for image of an Indian woman working from home" border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3FejEOWpR6Hl__BdZLErsNijQ8y0ct8-KuVecm2_JB2cJAvkm" data-sz="f" name="ychwIG1OYra3EM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3FejEOWpR6Hl__BdZLErsNijQ8y0ct8-KuVecm2_JB2cJAvkm" style="height: 168px; margin-top: 0px; width: 252px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But why is it that these things do not
matter to us women? Are we women super humans who can concentrate on work
amidst whistling cookers, whirring washing machines and chattering maids?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Well, the reason is that when a woman works
from home people just assume that she is doing this along with her “domestic
duties” and she has to somehow manage both. And neighbors really do not bother
if she is at home all the time! It is considered “natural and normal”! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I think the above assumptions are
completely contradictory to the concept of “Work from home”! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">One of the first rules about working from
home is that one must maintain the discipline of an office even if it is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your dining table that you are working out
of. So, the cooking and other home tasks need to be completed as before and you
should be at your work station by the time business starts. However, it is
easier said than done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It was relatively easier for me because my
husband and daughter used to leave for office and school at least an hour
before commencement of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my office time.
There were no changes in schedule on that score. Most of the home related work
was completed before 9.00 AM as a result of which, I could be at my seat on the
dining table. But when I had house guests, I found that it was difficult to
keep to these timings. They would often come for breakfast at their pace and want
to chat while I was at my desk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To them,
it was simply the fact that I was home and so it was okay. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My most challenging experience was with a
school friend who stayed over for a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She would ask me every half an hour through the day “Is your work over”?
I just could not manage to explain to her that even if I was not on a call or
typing something on the system at that point in time my work would close only
by 5.30PM! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Then there was the issue of our maid. Her
understanding of the situation was that since I was at home all the time she
could show up whenever she wanted! This led to a lot of confusion because there
were often meetings that were planned during the day that I had to attend and when
that happened my maid would complain “Where were you when I came?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And then there were the telephone calls.
Every time I was on a conference call I had to remember to press “Mute” because
otherwise one could hear my father talking at the top of his voice or my maid
shouting at the watchman next door! There have often been instances when sales
people repeatedly rang the door bell while I was on a call. Most of them could
see me seated inside and could not understand why I was not opening the door.
Those of you who have been on conference calls know that it can often go on for
a couple of hours and in such cases it is very difficult to explain to the
sales people outside through sign language that you want them gone! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Strangely these experiences are not common to
all those who work out of home. When<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
man does this he can actually work without disturbance. If it is a stay at home
wife she completes the work before the commencement of business so that he can
be at his desk on time. She keeps the maids and the sales people at bay and
visiting relatives leave a man alone. Even if his wife has an office based job she
usually ensures that his meals are ready and served out so that he does not
have to even leave his desk to make a cup of tea! A consultant I used to work
with had a wife who was a professor in a college. Before she left for work. she
used to see that his lunch was packed, his tea was in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a flask and the driver on duty not just to
drive him around but to send away unwanted visitors! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is worse when it comes to self employed
persons. I have seen my auditor , a young woman who works out of a room in her
house, deal with a her child and also manage her work. Her son constantly wants
her attention and disturbs client meetings by throwing a tantrum. She uses her
office staff to manage the child while she is working, which is a highly
unprofessional thing to do! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I have never seen self employed men being
disturbed in such a manner. They usually have a child care person to deal with
a young child if the wife is working away from home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">To conclude what I would like to say is
that while work from home is an excellent opportunity to achieve work life
balance there are some things that we must keep in mind while doing it. </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Treat
it seriously and maintain a discipline similar to what we would if were in the
office. This means having a person to look after a young child or training your
child not to disturb you while you work, taking lunch breaks at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the usual time when the office has a break.
It also means that if you have to attend to something personal during business
hours, one needs to keep the concerned people informed about your
unavailability during that time.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is because of
the inability of some people to deal with these issues in a disciplined manner that makes
employers think twice before allowing people to work from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>home.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">People
at home should realize that working from home is also work and not disturb
people during office hours. There are times when the work hours might go beyond
5.30 PM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>even when we are working from
home. So spouses and kids who come back from office and school must respect
that. There have been times when I have worked until 7.00PM from my living
room. My husband and daughter have been very supportive during that period.
There have been no tantrums that tea or dinner was not ready on time despite my
being at home. One should treat it exactly how they would if the person had
been held up at office. My husband on those occasions has had dinner organized
so that by the time I shut down my lap top I did not have to enter my kitchen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Mental activity is about as taxing as
physical activity. Working from home does not mean that the person is having a
holiday. Stressing them out by dumping extra domestic work on them, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>completely defeats the benefit that they get
out of this option. And yes, I would strongly encourage men to opt for this
option and share the household work too as they might expect their work from
home wives to do. With regard to self employed professionals,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>whether men or women it is imperative they maintain<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the required discipline by ensuring that home
responsibilities do not spill into professional ones even if the office is
within the house. It might come with an additional cost but that has to be
factored into their professional service fee!. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So the next time you hear about someone
working from home, please do not say “How lucky!” and drop in for a chat. Their
time is about as precious as yours. It is just that their work space is
different. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-14842845127842074262015-07-29T12:04:00.000+05:302015-07-29T13:05:31.497+05:30What we do not teach our children<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">It has been nearly a month since our
daughter joined college. She lives in another town now, in a college hostel within
her campus and we, her parents are slowly coming to terms with her absence from
our day to day lives. We (or maybe I) mostly spend our (my) time wondering how
she is coping at her end . We do realize that at seventeen she is not a child
but a semi adult ! I sometimes feel, that in itself might be something that I
should worry about…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://womenonthefence.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/helicopter-mom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="irc_mi" src="http://womenonthefence.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/helicopter-mom.jpg" height="320" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">One of the things that we parents in India
tend to do, is to treat our children like kids all the time. While we do train
them in managing their academics and their daily routine, what we probably do
not do is to help them take decisions. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Decisions…. you ask? What great decisions
does a teenager have to make? And anyway, what does a teenager know about life
to make decisions? Aren’t we<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>here as
“experienced” adults to “help” them take decisions or make choices about their
lives. But what we do not realize is that there<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>is a difference between guiding / talking to a teen about decisions and
making those decisions for them. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We tell our children what subjects to
choose for study, what extra curricular activities to take part in , which
college to join and later what career to opt for! The more conservative parents
do this in an authoritarian manner while the “democratic” ones subtly influence
the child to do their bidding. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">While the major decisions that any teenager
might make, is usually presumed to be around their academics, what we fail to
realize is that decision making also includes a number of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>other spheres- a major one being their ability
to manage relationships outside of their immediate family. These relationships
might be friendships or may be something beyond that. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Teenage friendships tend to be a bit
complicated. One cannot always monitor them by asking our children to “bring
your friend home”. There are some parents who take this “monitoring” to a
completely new level where they decide for their child who they should interact
with- who is suitable and who isn’t. However, these are not decisions that we
can impose on our child. The child has to understand who is a good friend and
who isn’t by experiencing both loyalties and betrayals. It is heart wrenching
to see them deal with a betrayal but that is not the time to tell them “ I told
you so” It is a lesson that they will never forget . Give them a couple of such
experiences and we will have an adult who would be a fairly good judge of people.
They would also learn how to deal with such people in their lives. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But friends and their betrayals are
probably easier to deal with, when compared to a “romantic” relationship- the
worst nightmare of an Indian parent!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What
would happen to their academics? What if the relationship becomes physical?
What if they elope and get married? Yes, these are fears that all of us have as
parents where romantic relationships are concerned. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We usually try to preempt it by denying
them opportunities for interaction with the opposite sex! There are some
Colleges of Engineering around Chennai that are experts on these “preventive
aspects”. Despite the fact that as parents some of us talk about wanting to be
our child’s friend, this is one area that we are distinctly uncomfortable,
talking to our child. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Let me make this clear, this is not about sex
education alone. Managing a relationship with the opposite sex is something
else altogether. .! And God forbid if our child is undergoing some confusion
regarding their sexual orientation … I doubt how many of us would be able
to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>handle that.. !</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">While hormones might be a key player in
attraction, there are also other factors to be considered. Our children are on
their way to becoming men/ women and they are trying to experience their
masculinity / femininity by getting into a relationship. Having a boyfriend/
girl friend also helps them develop a positive self image especially if they
are in a peer group where being attractive to the opposite sex is an important
criteria for membership. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">However, what I think a teenager or a young
adult might find difficult to handle is the extent to which they are going to
let another person of the opposite sex determine their self image. A girl who
is “popular” with boys generally develops confidence that is way above another
who might not be. So, how does this girl who lacks in confidence deal with it? And
the “popular” girl – how is she going to deal with competition in the
popularity charts? I suppose the same might be true of boys too. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">These are issues that our children face <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but do not know how to articulate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite being parents who are “open” with our
children, they might not know whether or how to talk to us about it. The reason
being, we have never discussed these issues with them. We have told our
daughters to be “careful” of boys and our sons to stay focused on their studies
and not get “distracted” by girls. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">So teens try to understand about love and
relationship with the opposite sex through books and cinema. And this is where
all the problems that we read about stem from…!! </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">If we watch any Indian movie, what passes
for “wooing” of a girl is actually harassment. It is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>usually understood as “girls say no because
they are too coy to say yes”!! Is it therefore any wonder that there are so
many cases of boys stalking girls, sending them messages or trying to
physically assault them? To most of them, it might be an exercise in “courtship”!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And then there are girls who are also taken
in by all the attention that comes their way thanks to the stalking ( both
physical and cyber). It makes them feel like a star. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But it is not right to blame the movies
alone for perpetuating such behavior. I think we as parents have also failed in
telling our children what a relationship is all about. Instead of denying them
opportunities to interact with the opposite sex, we can talk to them about
romance and love, telling them what a healthy relationship is all about, how
respect should form an integral part of such relationships and how to accept
disappointment if feelings are not reciprocated by the person they are interested
in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our teenagers also need to know how
to handle a “break up”. If we can get them to talk about what they are going
through should such a thing happen to them, it would prevent a lot of suicides
and acid throwing incidents. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">While talking is one aspect of the exercise
in parenting a teen, there is also the observation part of it that we should
keep in mind. Children learn a lot about relationships by watching how the
people ( especially parents) around them deal with it. A son who watches his
father speak to his mother without respect will find it difficult to learn to
respect women. A girl who sees her mother treated with respect by her father
will usually not get into a relationship with a controlling or manipulative
boy. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Our children are facing way more
complicated situations around their lives than we did when we were younger. In
a society that is slowly moving out of the traditional arranged marriage
situation, children have to learn to identify a person who would help them
build a strong and happy relationship. While there is always the distracting
influence of looks and charm, our children should be able to identify what
makes a person outside of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
a challenge that they have to deal with, because it comes only through trial
and error.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">As parents I think one of the things we
need to learn ( and it is difficult)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is
to get our teenagers to talk us about things without getting judgmental or
shocked. And then there are “helicopter moms” like me who need to stop hovering
around their child, watching them deal with a situation and holding themselves
back from wanting to butt in and solve it for them. The physical distance with
my child has been helpful in that sense. I am learning to render assistance only
when requested. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is not always the child who is growing
up with each birthday. It is also we parents who are growing and (hopefully)
learning. As a parent I am only seventeen years old though as an adult I am
much older. Each stage in our child’s life brings in new parenting requirements.
The crux of good parenting I suppose is to try and understand it well and
provide the support required. </span></div>
</div>
Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-76886494015482852632015-07-19T15:09:00.001+05:302015-07-19T22:07:52.786+05:30Living off Our Fears<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Yesterday I received a message from <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my sister on Whats app. It began like this -“Sai
asked me to tell you….”. For a moment, I wondered if she was passing on a
message from her nephew by the same name. But after reading further, my doubts
were cleared! The message was supposedly from Shirdi Sai Baba ( !!!!) who
wanted me to know that all my troubles would be solved. But there was a caveat-
I had to forward the message to nine others within four minutes of reading it
!!! Otherwise….. well, it was quite possible that he might dump everyone else’s
troubles on my plate! </span></div>
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<a href="https://lh6.ggpht.com/mp86vbELnqLi2FzvhiKdPX31_oiTRLNyeK8x4IIrbF5eD1D5RdnVwjQP0hwMNR_JdA=w300" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="irc_mi" height="200" src="https://lh6.ggpht.com/mp86vbELnqLi2FzvhiKdPX31_oiTRLNyeK8x4IIrbF5eD1D5RdnVwjQP0hwMNR_JdA=w300" style="margin-top: 48px;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Though a part of me wondered how the late
Sufi saint from Maharashtra had got on to Whats app to spread his word, another
part of me was uneasy about not sending it around to nine people! I think I
must have spent more than four minutes debating on this. That in itself was
scary.. so I decided to forward it to at least a few. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told myself it was a positive word that I
was spreading. I wondered if I should alter the message and remove the part about
troubles hitting people if they did not follow instructions. Another two
minutes …. I prayed to the divine one to hold on for another couple of minutes
while I looked up some contacts in my address book that I have little or limited dealings
with- my tailor, vendors and suppliers and a few annoying “friends” ! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I actually felt quite gleeful after the
exercise! But the feeling was short lived because I found another message in my
inbox from a former classmate! The idiot had forwarded it back to me!!! Oh holy
one… what was this punishment!! I shut the phone down in exasperation! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I thought that was the end of it until this
morning when I found a message from another friend in my inbox. This one was supposedly
from Dr. Seuss the children’s writer. I had to forward it to thirteen persons
in order to ensure the welfare of my child!! This time I had no doubts, I did
what I should have done yesterday- hit the “delete” button!!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Though the incidents mentioned here relate to Whats app,let me tell you, this is not something new. It was there even thirty
years ago when I was in the Xth standard. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">We had received a letter supposedly from
Lord Venkteshwara’s special devotee from Tirupati ! It was anonymous but it
listed how he and many others had got all their special desires fulfilled after
they had sent out similar letters to twenty others. And of course those who
doubted had faced a reversal of their good ( or otherwise normal) fortunes! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rPNlkz-92PI/Tcjm5YVsCZI/AAAAAAAABC8/VrCpOdtRwzs/s1600/cartoon+picture+of+girl+writing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="irc_mi" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rPNlkz-92PI/Tcjm5YVsCZI/AAAAAAAABC8/VrCpOdtRwzs/s200/cartoon+picture+of+girl+writing.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="188" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">My father was extremely annoyed when I
showed it to him. He asked me to throw it out. Even my superstitious mother was
with him on this. But considering my board examinations were around the corner I
was in a fix. I was convinced that if I did not do as instructed I would fare
very badly in them. So, I opened up my piggy bank and with the meager savings
there, bought the twenty inland letters and painstakingly copied out the letters
in the afternoon when my mother was sleeping. We were then faced with the issue
of who we were to send it to. We did not want to send it to friends, relatives
or neighbors who might identify my handwriting or talk about it to my parents
or other neighbors. After some deliberations with a nine year old ( my sister) I
decided to use the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>principle of “randomization”
. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We opened the telephone directory and
randomly picked out one name and number from each of those columns and sent out
the letters to our unsuspecting “victims”! I waited in vain to be the national topper
in my Xth exams. But unfortunately all that I could manage was the result of my
own efforts! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I have been thinking about why someone
should start a chain of such mails. And it is not just mails or instant
messengers that carry this nonsense. I have also seen status messages on Face
book where people have posted the picture of some God or a saint with the
message “ Share in 60 seconds to witness a miracle”!!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I think a lot of this comes out of the fact
that people are “God-fearing”!! People do not believe in him but “fear” him or
his wrath! And being the petty mortals that we are, we think this supreme being
is like us. Taking out his anger on people who do not do his bidding! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">We fail to understand that God is not there
to mete out rewards or punishments. They are the result of our own efforts. If
we do good to others there is no way something bad would happen to us. It is
simply the law of nature. A ferocious dog that is fed daily soon starts wagging
its tail at us and later becomes our loyal friend who defends us against
intruders. But instead had we thrown a stone at the same dog it would have
remained ferocious and attacked us one day. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And believe me there are no instant
solutions to problems. They will continue to harass us through life and we have
to do all we can to deal with them. Yes, our good deeds win us goodwill and
supporters who might help us when we need them. But again, not everyone will.
Some might “stab us on the back” but the consequence of that action is theirs..
they will carry that “karma” with them. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It is not God, but his creation – that is
humans like us, who perpetuate fear and uncertainty about our future. And yes,
both God and the Devil are our creation. They live within us. It is up to us to
decide who will rule. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-43800800726691322332015-06-21T08:01:00.000+05:302015-06-21T08:11:04.541+05:30A Trend Setter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
word “wardrobe stylist” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>brings to mind
images of the famous and the glamorous!! But there are also people who have
self styled “wardrobe consultants” with the sole aim of giving the person an
image makeover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father, at various
points in his life has had to suffer such consultants- first in the form of his
daughters and now his granddaughter. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">His
first image makeover was attempted by a five year old kid –ME! Between me and
my friend we used to experiment with his once thick shock of hair tying it with
ribbons and rubber bands. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a trainee
hairdresser’s delight, sitting quietly on a chair while we stood behind him on
stools tying up his hair. I think he allowed us at least one hour of this
experiment before pulling it all off. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.hairweb.org/images/cartoon-cut.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.hairweb.org/images/cartoon-cut.gif" height="350" id="irc_mi" style="margin-top: 23px;" width="244" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As
I grew older I tried desperately to get him to wear bell bottom trousers which
were the rage of the 70s. But he continued to wear what he always did –trousers
that were timeless in their style. They were generally black, grey, dark brown
or navy blue. The shirts were invariably white, off white or light blue<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with muted stripes or checks. Depending on
the weather they were either half or full sleeved. His sweaters were grey or
navy blue. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has never been known to
buy shirts that are “readymade”. They were all stitched by a certain “Saha
Tailors” in Kolkata. He has these shirts with him even today and anytime that
he needs to have a new one stitched he gives out the “Saha Tailors” one as the
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Namoona</i>”( Specimen) ! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">A
generally accommodating man in all respects, he is most obstinate when it comes
to his dressing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember my mother
once suggesting to him to try a “Safari Suit” to which he retorted that he did
not want to look like a “Marwari Business man”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But he did make some concession later on when he started tucking in his
full sleeved shirts!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Despite
his fixed sense of style, we, his image consultants never really gave up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I once managed to convince him to let me dye
his graying hair. But I guess I botched up the assignment rather badly ( I
think I also dyed a bit of his scalp along with his thinning hair) because he
never let anyone touch his hair again. Nature took its own course as the root
of this controversy ( the hair) came off its roots over the years. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGegHwWqQHXxHt_wHt6wVWRkco5Oxi0Ddrd8v6wbS79sd8aS0L" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for rk laxman common man" border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGegHwWqQHXxHt_wHt6wVWRkco5Oxi0Ddrd8v6wbS79sd8aS0L" data-sz="f" name="JHUmMi-q_b_RUM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGegHwWqQHXxHt_wHt6wVWRkco5Oxi0Ddrd8v6wbS79sd8aS0L" style="height: 159px; margin-top: 0px; width: 318px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Post
retirement Appa had his own image makeover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He now sports a look that is a cross between R.K.Lakshman’s Common man
and an aging Gandhian! He has switched completely to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">khadi kurtas</i>. During the day when he is outdoors on some errand he
sports a cap. He has actually developed a bit of a cap fetish (akin to our CM’s
shoe fetish). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he has also started
sporting what he calls “Goggles” !!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">jhola</i> that he has taken to
carrying and the picture of an eccentric genius is complete! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For
me, this is the end of my career as his stylist. I know, I can do nothing to
this image!! It is beyond me!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But his
younger daughter and his granddaughter continue to try. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My
sister had some unexpected success when she managed to get him to wear a pair
of Reeboks with this pant- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kurta</i>
outfit – a startling combination of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>products from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">swadeshi </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and market economy!
The daughter tried to take this “Brand Equity” a step further. She decided he
needed branded underwear. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">After
being bullied into accepting the fact that he actually did need some new
underwear he agreed to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>try something “different”
in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this department. Accompanied by his granddaughter
he went to a jockey showroom to buy them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was aghast when the salesman told him that
he needed to buy an entire set of three “jetties” (underwear) and not just one
from that set!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRB0UDKaiVorx7CMxSUfR9nQsYORmUCodv5onwh4t0j1TcF9W0R" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for cartoons of old men wearing sunglasses" border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRB0UDKaiVorx7CMxSUfR9nQsYORmUCodv5onwh4t0j1TcF9W0R" data-sz="f" name="M3xlGEkb3kTAOM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRB0UDKaiVorx7CMxSUfR9nQsYORmUCodv5onwh4t0j1TcF9W0R" style="height: 184px; margin-top: 0px; width: 177px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“I
don’t need three at one go” he had grumbled. But he had underestimated the
power of the bully who had gone shopping with him. So he came back with a set
of three undies together. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">However
the man has his own way of dealing with this “extravagance”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During our last visit to his place my
daughter pointed out that “Tata” was wearing only one of the underwear from
that box. He intended to take out the next one only when this was worn out!
Meanwhile it was his old and faded VIPs that reigned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The way he held forth on the quality of their elastic,
one would wish that the manufacturers of VIP underwear could have heard. It was
certainly the sort of stuff that they would want any brand ambassador to speak
!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Despite
the so called eccentricity in the way he dresses, I must say I admire the way
he has evolved his own sense of style. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>friend who ran into him <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the road a few months ago called me back
and told me how “smart” my father looked as he walked briskly down the road. Though
I was very tickled at the use of the word<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“smart” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to describe the way he looked,
I guess it is his confidence and complete lack of concern about “being with the
trend” that stands out!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My
daughter often tells me in her moments of exasperation that I am getting to be
as eccentric as my father. May be.. but I do not think that is bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has handed down to us a sense of
individuality that I cherish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has
taught us to be who we want to be and not what the world expects us to be..! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For
a man of his generation, that is a big lesson to pass down to daughters which
makes him in every way a very "Uncommon man" - a “Trend setter”actually !</span></div>
</div>
Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-85010896508333078732015-06-15T17:44:00.000+05:302015-06-15T18:10:40.197+05:30SECURING THAT “SEAT”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For
the past one month we have had the feeling of waiting at a railway/bus station
for this train/ bus called “college education” to stop by into which our daughter
could be accommodated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Just
as one experiences the impact of our huge population while trying to get into a
train similarly does one also feel the numbers while trying to apply to a
college for admission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But
unlike the train or bus situation where ability to get in depends on whether
you can buy the ticket or push yourselves into an unreserved coach, in this
case it is a bit more complicated. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For
starters there is the question of academic merit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With school education in India being governed
by various state , central and other boards it becomes very subjective. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The engineering, medical and law schools
conduct their own set of common entrance tests based on which decision regarding
admissions are made. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">However
when it comes to “non professional” courses like a general Bachelor’s degree in
Arts ,Commerce or Science the question of establishing “academic merit” becomes
highly subjective. Given the quality of education across the various states and
the curriculum across various educational boards, it is difficult to compare
based on the scores a students might have got in their XIIth standard exam.
However it is this system of comparing apples and oranges that one has to deal
with if one wants to get into a college in India. Though some of the private
universities have established their own entrance test systems <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for even these “non technical” or “non
professional” courses, in general the apple and orange system is the one that
prevails!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And god forbid if you are a
mango or an apple in orange land !! You will not even be acknowledged as a
fruit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But
college education today is not an aspiration. It is a basic requirement. So we
decided to apply in colleges within and outside the city of Chennai (where we
live) in order to improve our strike rate in terms of securing admission . Each
city college I must say brings its own unique set of challenges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Chennai
colleges on the face of it appear to be “High tech” - except that the technology
sucks at the back end! As a person who has spent two decades working on social research
I must say that I shudder when I see the type of questions and the length of
the application form. One of the things that we learn in designing
questionnaires is that one has to be keep it simple and short. But obviously
the persons who have designed the Chennai college forms have not heard about
that! There are questions about blood group, parent’s income ( which
incidentally is an open ended question and not a multiple choice close ended
one), caste, religion etc. You wonder how they are going to sort through these
long questions and arrive at a “short list”!!! But you tell yourself that it is
not your concern and apply anyway ( clicking options that you only hope are
what you think they are). As you get ready to pay for the application <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the online application portal– you are flummoxed
when you find that some of the payment gateways do not seem to open for many
types of credit cards. Our experience in application tells us that IOB payment
gateways pose the maximum problem on that score. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Anyway,
once you have somehow managed to make the payment, some colleges expect you to
take a print out of the application form and post it to them!!! “Why is it then
called online application?” asks the prospective student! There is one college
in Chennai that expects you to take a Demand Draft from a bank, enter the
details, submit online and post the acknowledgement slip along with the DD to
them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I
only wish I had been as resourceful as some of the dads with open laptops I saw
when we went to submit the forms. I presume they filled the forms online,
submitted them, copied the submitted form on a flash drive, got it printed,
signed and submitted – all at one go! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow!!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One learns all the time !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Coming
to Bombay University colleges- the first thing that my daughter and I realized
is that we both needed to have a middle name. While she does fulfill this
criterion, there is a hitch- her middle name is not her father’s first name! I
on the other hand do not have a middle name and my surname is different from
that of my husband’s!! But despite these challenges around nomenclature, we managed to have it submitted online. A very good
friend helped us get an application form from an affiliated college of our choice using the acknowledgement slip of the submitted online application. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Moving
on now to the Sultanate of “Cutoffs” – The Delhi University! The form was simpler
and easy to submit. But we still do not know how we will go about applying to
the individual colleges affiliated to it. So we went ahead and applied to two
minority institutions<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>affiliated to the
Delhi University that had their own system of application and screening. The
forms were very easy to fill and for the first time I felt that one of those two college was
actually trying to get relevant information and attempting to get to know the applicant better. I can now understand why it is
considered to be one of the best colleges in this country! But when it came to
payment we faced a similar hitch as in a Chennai college. The payment form was eerily
similar to the other minority run institution in Chennai that we were
struggling with online payment. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was by now sure
the systems design had been outsourced to the same vendor. We made two attempts
and it did not go through. However at the third attempt we managed to pay and
obtain an acknowledgement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Thankfully
we did not have to experience Calcutta University. A friend tells me that
obtaining an application form there is actually like boarding that crowded bus ( or a railway unreserved compartment) !
Having spent the first seventeen years of my life in the City of Joy I can
completely believe that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I
am relieved now that we are past that application stage. She has made it to a
good institution where she has been accepted after being tested using
methodologies that were thorough and relevant to the course. The
apple-orange-mango issues of the XIIth standard marks did not figure. The
testing standards were objective and uniform. The communication from the
institution was consistent and the technology options efficient. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am happy that besides the course work, efficiency is also a value system that this institution
will inculcate in her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">There
are times when I regret<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that we do not
have another child. But this one time I am with my husband when he says “ Are you
out of your mind? Imagine putting them through school and college”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think school was too much of a problem
but I certainly do not think I can go about applying for college admission
again!</span></div>
</div>
Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-78635042207619751482015-04-01T13:55:00.001+05:302015-04-01T16:57:57.065+05:30NOT OUR CHOICE ( An open letter)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Dear
Makers of the Vogue “Empower” video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Your
recent video with air brushed<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>photographs of beautiful women in black and white with <i>Deepika Padukone</i>
speaking about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“choice” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>seems to have taken the social media by storm. I congratulate you on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the achievement of
your objective-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>publicity <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for your brand while ensuring spotlight on a
confused actress – <i>Deepika</i> who has been desperately trying to position herself
as a champion of different causes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Your
video mentions about “ninety nine women from all walks of life”- I am sorry , I
might be poorly informed but <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what walks
of life are they actually from? I could not recognize any scientist,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sportsperson ( unless you want to position
<i>Deepika</i> as one), politician, writer, doctor, musician, artist. I only saw beautiful
women with flying hair smiling and pouting into the camera !<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
video speaks about the choice to be size zero or size fifty. I wonder if you people
are aware that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for many women and girls <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in our country size zero is not a choice – it is
the reality that comes out of being extremely malnourished. They are usually
the last to eat in their families and therefore get the least. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
voice over speaks about a woman’s spirit “ roaming naked” . Seriously? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your script writers know anything about
language symbols? Being naked is symbolic of being vulnerable. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So how about using a word that is really
empowering ? Or may be “Naked” is a more shocking word designed to get
immediate attention! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Trapped in cotton and silk? Yes of course if you are a model or a fashion icon.
If you are a farm laborer it really does not matter. As long as you have clothes
over your body…!! If you are a middle class mother like me anything that is easy
to maintain would do. Our bodies are not trapped in clothing. They are trapped
in tiredness, fatigue and worry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“To
love” or “To lust” are both luxuries for us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of us do not have the freedom to marry
for love or indulge our lust. We are fighting more basic battles. And for those of us who marry ( for love<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or because of our families)the institution of
marriage <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is a sacred one. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To wear a <i>bindi</i> or a <i>mangalsutra</i> is not the
issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fidelity in any relationship is a
basic value that we carry with us and expect of our partners too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We may not believe in marriage but every
relationship is bound by trust and fidelity. Having multiple partners is not
something that we want. Many of us are forced by poverty to do sex work
but<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it is not our choice!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We expose ourselves to STD and HIV/ AIDS when we do that and again that is not our choice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">We
believe in being responsible. Coming home whenever we like is not a frivolity that
we let ourselves indulge in. We have children , partners and families to
whom we are accountable . We play multiple roles. We have to rush back home
after a back breaking<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>day of working in
the field to make rice gruel for our children or board that crowded bus to
be home in time to help the children with their home work or take our parents/ in laws for the doctor’s appointment. Some of us are lucky enough to have
spouses who share our burden but we definitely believe in doing our bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Empowerment
is not about being irresponsible or doing as you like using a “naked spirit” as
an excuse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those of us who do have
the freedom to make a choice, it is governed by how it is going to impact those
around us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rights come with responsibilities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Exercising them otherwise is just being
selfish. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not the universe and
neither does it revolve around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am only
a part of it. I coexist with the others <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>often
doing more than my bit and being unrecognized for it . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot change this world alone, I need men
by side to make it happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My
sincere request to you is to please stay away from making these kinds of
shallow videos. They do more harm to us than good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please look for some other way to promote
your brand. After all you cater<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to less
than 1 % of our female population. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Finally,
I would suggest that if you want to really understand “My choice” you should come and
meet me. You can find me anywhere- in farms, on construction sites, inside <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>buses , trains, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>offices, market places, schools, hospitals,
shops….. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am almost one half of my
country’s population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You cannot miss
me! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
Indian Woman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Every
city across the world has places that can be described as “ghettos”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though the word “ghetto” brings to mind
cramped houses with lot of people with the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Star of David stitched on to their clothing,
rushing home before a certain time of the day, today it is not quite like
that. While they do exist in various cities most of it probably exists only in our minds. </span></div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMa3fPlsmcu7bHOmvbcicjeGvRWV61xxYEUw3Y6CYTYZSQA4Lx" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for Matunga south indian locations" border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMa3fPlsmcu7bHOmvbcicjeGvRWV61xxYEUw3Y6CYTYZSQA4Lx" data-sz="f" name="XbkwPX95XytM1M:" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMa3fPlsmcu7bHOmvbcicjeGvRWV61xxYEUw3Y6CYTYZSQA4Lx" style="height: 183px; margin-top: 0px; width: 272px;" /></a>As
a Tam Brahm what comes to my mind are places like the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lake market area of Calcutta,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matunga/ Sion of Mumbai , Safilguda of
Secunderabad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One can get snake gourd and curry leaves<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the vegetable shops of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lake Market , eat a three course Tam Brahm
meal at <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“South India Concerns” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Matunga and find a caterer in Safilguda who
can supply you with “Parupu Thengai” for weddings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Gravitating
to residing in a particular place where there are people from the place of your
origin is a typical behavior that one associates with immigrant communities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides the feeling<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of “safety in numbers” it helps the new
immigrant feel less alienated as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they
are able to hear their language, get food that they are used to and look up to
more senior immigrants ( both in age and duration of stay) for guidance on how
to go about life in a new place. </span></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJC-wJBI4Hq509Ty4kDD3r5PvOifiY4zt7SPmz-zeFhi6Q4N_bPQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for Lake Market south indian locations" border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJC-wJBI4Hq509Ty4kDD3r5PvOifiY4zt7SPmz-zeFhi6Q4N_bPQ" data-sz="f" name="vUtK9XPFClaPLM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJC-wJBI4Hq509Ty4kDD3r5PvOifiY4zt7SPmz-zeFhi6Q4N_bPQ" style="height: 184px; margin-top: -5px; width: 275px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">This
was particularly t rue during the days when communication was poor and one
probably only heard of life in these far off places from one’s relatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was uncomfortable with the people who<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were the original residents of the place- not
being able to understand their cultures, language or cuisines. Immigrants
sometimes suffered ridicule or worse in the hands of the natives leading to
further ingraining of negative feelings in their minds. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes the native communities also had
negative feelings about the immigrant groups leading to a lot of prejudice on
both sides. </span></div>
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<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Little_India.JPG/250px-Little_India.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Little_India.JPG/250px-Little_India.JPG" height="188" id="irc_mi" style="margin-top: 103px;" width="250" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">There
is a concept called “Ethnocentrism” that is used in sociology. It is a feeling
of superiority of one’s own culture vis-à-vis other cultures. This feeling<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can be seen very strongly among many<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>first generation immigrants like my mother
who was transported from Srirangam to Bilaspur and then Calcutta. However
people who make an effort at integration with the larger population in the city
lose this feeling over time. It is usually not seen in subsequent generations. The
second generation might hold on to its culture but does not brandish it around
as though it is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>better than the culture
around them. Second generation immigrants generally mingle with the local
population, speak their language and eat their cuisine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Generations after the second <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>usually get integrated with the culture of the
place they live in and might <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>marry into or
adopt some of the mainstream customs and language.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They generally do not like to “stick out” in
a crowd. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">In
today’s world, many of these sociological stereotypes about immigrants may not
hold true because the world is connected in a way that does not make any
community , language, cuisine or culture a mystery to anyone. Before one moves
to any place one can always read up as much as they can about that place. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With people moving and living across different
cities , interactions between cultures are always taking place One would hope
that with this kind of interaction, stereotypes and prejudices can be broken
down more easily. </span></div>
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therefore came as a big surprise for me that international connectivity and
education notwithstanding there are many people in India among the educated
classes who still exhibit the immigrant behavior of gravitating to their own
language/ community group. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was most
surprised to see this behavior among Bengali friends many of whom have been
living now in the South. I find that given a choice between interacting with an
old friend from Calcutta who is a “Non Bengali” and a “Bengali” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( friend or stranger) they would prefer the
Bengali person. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pretty shocked<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>when this happened to me. Let me tell you more…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have a virtual group of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>batch mates from our school in Calcutta. I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>noticed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that over <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a period of time <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some members had left the group . And the most
curious thing about those who had left the group was that they were all<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bengalis !. From among the few Bengalis who
are still part of the group <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I came to
know that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they have created another
group to which only fellow Bengalis from our batch had been invited!! To say I
was shocked would be an understatement! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRLW4GpHuSo98MHpt8p9ocDHWJEBdYec9Iua5TvoUFXrJUfZj_Z" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for Traditional pongal greeting cards" border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRLW4GpHuSo98MHpt8p9ocDHWJEBdYec9Iua5TvoUFXrJUfZj_Z" data-sz="f" height="320" name="IwKdl3_8MC3wRM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRLW4GpHuSo98MHpt8p9ocDHWJEBdYec9Iua5TvoUFXrJUfZj_Z" style="height: 191px; margin-top: 0px; width: 126px;" width="211" /></a>Though
my initial reaction was one of betrayal considering that we were trying to
relate to each other <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as alumni, I have
been trying to think about an explanation behind this action. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only reason that comes to mind is the
“immigrant mentality”. While we “Non Bengalis” were all second generation
migrants<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calcutta and in various other places that we
reside now, for many of my Bengali friends living in Bangalore or Mumbai today
is probably a first generation immigrant experience. Their parents were rooted in
Calcutta, they ( the children) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>studied
in the city of their origin but probably moved to these <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>new cities only post their marriage. Despite
the supposed global community that we live in , to them this was certainly an <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>new experience. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>see
in them the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>same behavior patterns that
my family exhibited during my childhood and teenage years – going back “home”
to Madras or Srirangam, scouring the streets of Ballygunj for those gaudy
colored “Pongal Vazhtu” , being made to wear pavadai chettai and forced into
learning Carnatic music <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or attending
kutcheris. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mother always believed that our culture was
more superior. She used to make fun of Rabindra Sangeet and Rabindra Nrithya as
“wailing music” or “flower plucking dance” ( since the dancer apparently did
nothing but stand in one spot and move her hands about in the air ). But
despite all of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that , my father being in the
Indian railways, we got opportunities to interact with different people and also
relate to the larger culture around , learning Rabindra Sangeet and also the
flower plucking dances . </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Despite
her prejudices my mother can speak Hindi , Bengali and Telugu . My parents
chose to settle in Hyderabad instead of Chennai after <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my father’s retirement. I think there was a
strong will on the part of my father to integrate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This came from the national character of the
organization <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he worked for. The Indian railways
made him feel that the entire country was his. We also imbibed that feeling. So,
even though I live in Chennai, I still read Bengali novels and go to the Durga
Puja Pandal at Besant Nagar. My circle of friends include people I can relate
to in terms of interest and values and not language, religion or caste. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I
must make this clear now <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that it is not
a judgment I am passing on the Bengali community. Some of my closest friends
are Bengalis. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also have a Bengali
classmate from the same school who has been living in Chennai
longer than me. She had her college education in this city, is married to a South
Indian and is probably more rooted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Chennai
than I am. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all our discussions about
the narrow mindedness of Chennai she has always stood up for this city pointing
out how she was accepted here. She speaks Tamil reasonably well and her parents
like mine have decided to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>settle down in Chennai,
a city that is not their place of birth. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">However
I must confess that there are only few like her among the Bengalis I see
outside Calcutta these days. I guess Calcutta is suffering today from an acute
lack of opportunities that has forced people to look outside the city for a
career. The IT boom has made the South a natural option resulting in many of
them moving here. This is something similar to what my parents generation faced
when the Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu forced Tam Brahms to move out of the
state. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">While
the Tam Brahms might be better integrated as an immigrant community within
India, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not sure <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we are liked when we go abroad. We do
not interact socially with the Americans ( or <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>even other Indians for that matter) , force kids
to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>go to shloka classes and eating out
probably means going to the Saravana Bhavan in the nearest town. Nothing wrong about
practicing your culture but being exclusionary about it where you relate only
to people of your community is not right. But again, this may not hold true of
the second generation there or of those who went as students
and stayed on. But yes, most of the IT professionals who <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moved out of West Mambalam and Mylapore in the
late 1990s to do “off site” work carried their <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prejudices along with their “agraharams” with them. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">While
respecting the insecurity and uncertainly of a person or a family that has left
familiar surroundings to move into a new geography or culture, as a person who
is a second generation in a family that moved out of its place of origin I can
only say that keeping one’s mind open to anything new is what education is all
about. The world is a diverse place. One needs to experience it and learn
from it. Staying only with your own kind will deprive you of that opportunity. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Be
proud of your culture and language but share your pride with others by inviting
them to also talk about theirs. There is nothing called a “superior culture”. You
will be surprised at the number of friends you will make if you just break that
“barrier of narrow domestic walls”. Tagore had a vision for this country that
talked about this. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">And
Tagore my<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bengali friends… is also my
poet as much as he is yours!! </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</div>
Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-12442594638419512612015-03-04T17:07:00.000+05:302015-03-04T17:07:43.718+05:30What cannot be cured must be endured<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I
know it has been a long gap since the last post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No excuses…!!! Just that the mind has been
cluttered with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>too many things – chief one
being the daughter’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>XIIth standard
exams. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think I was this worried
when I wrote the same exam years ago in the mid eighties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess it is my helplessness about
influencing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an outcome beyond a point. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Husband calls me a “Control freak”!!! He says
I would like to influence everything and everyone around me..!! May be…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I do realize my limitations</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I
realize that there are many things in life that I cannot influence or control!
If I do not like something I just have to grin and bear it. Yes, “bear it”
being the operative phrase!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">So
what is it that I have to bear quietly? For starters, I would say it is the
eating habits of my country men!! Yes, men!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was not until recently that I realized how much the men in our
country eat!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I encounter a lot of these
gluttons during my train travels. I don’t think they have suddenly increased
their appetites but just that I have started noticing it more. And given their
sizes it is kind of difficult to miss…</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">It
was amazing to see a man the size of a teenaged elephant <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trying to hoist himself on to the upper berth
in a train compartment last week! I had entered the coach to see him plonked on
my seat, polishing off about 1 kilogram of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">biryani</i>
lubricated with some curry that he was pouring out of a plastic packet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I waited for him to finish the task holding
my breath as he opened another packet - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">raita</i>
with raw onions in it. The smell was overpowering inside a closed AC coach.. !
I had to clench both my hands on the strap of my handbag to prevent them from
going<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>up to my nose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Colonel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hathi
</i>finished his job, drank about half a bottle of water and let out a huge
trumpet of a burp that made me involuntarily shudder. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">He
made two attempts at climbing on to the upper berth before succeeding. I
decided to intervene after the first one out of a sense of self preservation as
I did not want the berth to come crashing down on me while I was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fast asleep in the middle of the night. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had I been a decade or so younger I might have
exhibited this fear or worse voiced it. However the experience of dealing with
such situations over the years has made a diplomat of me. I made it look as
though I was trying to help him when I offered to exchange berths with him. He
was touched…!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was only when he said
“ No Aunty it is okay” that I realized that the poor thing was probably in his
late twenties or early thirties. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As
I watched him at his “Jumbo circus” act I wondered if he was married. If he was
then who was the woman who <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had to put up
with this disgusting creature? The buttons of his shirt were fighting a losing
battle with his paunch. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor woman, she
probably bought buttons in industrial quantities…</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ4ph-C18CjhNmjkc8yZ7tDVSTVN_XIp6w38VAT8ngeSlFs83DyYg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for Indian man eating biryani" border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ4ph-C18CjhNmjkc8yZ7tDVSTVN_XIp6w38VAT8ngeSlFs83DyYg" data-sz="f" name="qnmTHWWd9UGouM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ4ph-C18CjhNmjkc8yZ7tDVSTVN_XIp6w38VAT8ngeSlFs83DyYg" style="height: 171px; margin-top: 0px; width: 257px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I
tried to take my mind off the upper berth as the train started. There were more
people around me having their<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dinner and
the smell was really awful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could not
imagine why people who were boarding an overnight train leaving Chennai at
9.15PM and reaching Coimbatore at 5.00 AM would want to eat so much for dinner?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it seemed as though everyone was on a
single menu- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Biryani</i>!!! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">My
nose has always been my problem. I might sleep through the cacophony of snores
in the coach but smells always jolt me awake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>By the time the train was at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jolarpettai
</i>I was experiencing the results of the digestive enzymes of the Biryani
eaters travelling in the coach. When the train reached <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Katpadi</i> I felt <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>like I was in
some Nazi gas chamber. I was trying to recall physics lessons from school –did Hydrogen
Sulphide move up or down? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was kind of curious<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>about the noises<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the middle aged gentleman on the side upper
berth made- it sounded like a combination of a snort and a fart. Between him
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">haathi</i> it was a “j<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ugalbandi</i>”. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a mental note to ask my father if I
could file a complaint with the Indian railways about this? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wondered what would happen if some
electrical spark were to find its way into coach no A2 of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nilagiri Express</i> ? Remote chances of a
spark you say? But what about the synthetic blankets? I remember reading in
physics about static electricity being generated when someone rubbed a
synthetic material against a glass rod?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cant gases trapped in synthetic blankets produce similar effects?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQfv7F25oQADiX7nCEBkzebvfje7o0SAlLjAcYTBJysYFCKMTwDvQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Image result for man farting" border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQfv7F25oQADiX7nCEBkzebvfje7o0SAlLjAcYTBJysYFCKMTwDvQ" data-sz="f" name="wswQqdyXTZxCbM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQfv7F25oQADiX7nCEBkzebvfje7o0SAlLjAcYTBJysYFCKMTwDvQ" style="height: 177px; margin-top: -2px; width: 284px;" /></a>By
now I was completely awake!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to
go out of the gas chamber. The area outside was equally smelly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just a different gas this time – Ammonia.
With nearly 50 odd bladders being emptied and not even a drop of water being
used to flush it out the place smelt like a chemistry lab. One of the toilet
doors opened. A lady was coming out with her nose covered with her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">duppatta</i>!! Seeing me standing there she
warned “ It is awfully smelly inside the toilet.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told her “ It is smellier inside the coach”.
She grimaced. I felt a sense of female camaraderie with her as we opened the main
door to the coach and let some fresh air in. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As
we went back into the gas chamber I wondered how is it that men can get away
with this kind of disgusting behavior? If we woman were to eat such huge
quantities or turn our posterior into a trumpet or gas chamber then we would be
ridiculed. Or may be it is a cultural thing. We care two figs about what
another person thinks or feels- especially if they are strangers. When we have
paid for a ticket we assume we are the only person traveling. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not want to adapt to a situation even
temporarily. Eating huge amounts, burping and farting are among the many things
that are part of this glorious Indian culture. I think I should learn to adapt
to it. After all, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what cannot be cured
must be endured!</span></div>
</div>
Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-62042975790120422652015-01-31T20:26:00.000+05:302015-01-31T22:36:43.113+05:30TRAVELLING ON THE JOB<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">As
a person working in the social development sector, traveling forms an integral
part of my job. It is the fuel that runs my job description and achievement of
performance targets. So traveling for me <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is not a choice. It is compulsory! Unfortunately
I am not a typical “professional” traveling to “Corporate destinations”. The
places I travel to are usually god forsaken places and small towns that most
people have never heard about. And the experiences…. ? Well they have been
unique in themselves! </span></div>
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<a href="http://noparticularplacetogodotnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/blog0511-1010-1423-4936_black_and_white_cartoon_of_a_girl_carrying_a_heavy_suitcase_clipart_image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://noparticularplacetogodotnet.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/blog0511-1010-1423-4936_black_and_white_cartoon_of_a_girl_carrying_a_heavy_suitcase_clipart_image.jpg" height="320" id="irc_mi" style="margin-top: 23px;" width="307" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
first time I ever traveled on work was to a remote village inside the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Srisailam </i>forest in Andhra Pradesh. I
was in my mid twenties and terribly excited about it. The organization had
arranged my accommodation inside a government “Inspection bungalow”. The place
looked picturesque with a lovely view and a clean room. I was rearing to go…! I
left for the village almost immediately after I “checked in”. I was feeling
very important as I accompanied the local field staff in their jeep to the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>project area. The day passed by with no major
incident. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it was only when I got back to the “inspection
bungalow” that I realized what lay in store for me! The entire building was
clothed in darkness- there was a power cut! It was going to be a “Hard day’s
night” and there was no way that I was going to be sleeping like a log! The
care taker brought out an oil <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lantern
and placed it on a table in my room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was about 8 PM and I was hungry. But Mr. Caretaker had been waiting for me to
get back so that I could tell him what I wanted for dinner. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There weren’t many options and I had to
finally settle for whatever it was that suited his culinary inclination. I felt
around the bathroom for the bucket ,filled it with ice cold water, bathing in
the dark and praying all the while that there were no reptiles about !! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The power did not come back until dawn. I kept myself busy through the night swatting mosquitoes and trying to blot out from my
mind all the ghost stories I had read ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
next memorable experience was a few years later at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nagapattinam </i>in a hotel run by the Government of Tamil Nadu. This
hotel was inside a small congested town and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>one would have never expected it to be “memorable” in any way except for
the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>strong smell of drying fish from a
fish drying yard nearby. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
situation began to unfold in front of me in true Tamil movie style when I got
back from the project villages at about 7 PM. There were some flashy cars
parked outside and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one could hear loud
laughter coming out of the rooms. “MLA xxx Saar and his friends are here”
whispered the Manager into my ears. He was behaving like I was a spy who he had
to quickly hide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He beckoned me to
follow him up the stairs into my room. When I reached the room, he whispered “
Madam please stay inside your room. Don’t come downstairs for food. I will
serve it here”!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>did not have to ask why. The strong smell of alcohol
around the corridors was warning enough for me to stay indoors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But
nothing prepared me for the eerie experience in the middle of the night! The
room had suddenly lighted up like a UFO had landed outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before I could jump out and go to the window <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it became dark once again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was just thinking I might have imagined it
when it lit up again for a moment before going dark. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t for the life of me imagine what the
matter was until I noticed the way the light was moving around ! It was the
light atop the lighthouse and I had the unique privilege of being in a
room<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that came within the arc of the
beam! The rest of the night was spent watching this light. In one of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the light up moments I found that my room had
a door that I hadn’t noticed earlier. It was not the door to the bathroom. So
obviously it was the connecting door to the next room. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My imagination ran riot wondering who was on
the other side of the connecting door. The latch was not on my side of the door
you see. So I dragged a huge side table and pushed it against the door with the
comforting thought that if anyone tried to enter my room from the other side I
would at least hear him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">This
is a precaution I follow in all the hotels I stay that have no latch / safety
chain on the door. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As
the years went by and development hit the smaller towns, the hotels seemed to
get better. But every once in a while I would have an experience to remember. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
hotel CST Grand was located on a highway that led from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kodai</i> Road towards the hills. It looked beautiful when I checked
it. It was brand new and like the “Titanic” still smelling of wet paint. The
staff were courteous and the food delicious. But it was when I got ready to
turn in for the night that I had the feeling that may be I was the only
resident of this hotel. I was not confident enough to leave my room and go
downstairs to the reception to verify if my guess was true .My room faced the
highway and every once in a while I would hear vehicles whizz past. For some
strange reason the scenes from Alfred Hitchcock’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Psycho” began to play in my mind. I kept the
light on all the time wondering if the curtains were thick enough to keep away
prying eyes from the highway. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">There
have been other experiences that have been less sinister. The best room in the
best “hotel” in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Machilipatnam </i>had a
circular bed with a velvet coverlet that refused to come off !!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a most unsettling experience to suddenly
wake up in the night and wonder which “side” of the bed I was on. The room and
the bed became so famous in our office that people vied with each other to stay
there. Unfortunately it was much before the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>days of “Facebook” and “Selfies”! So<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there was no motivation to take photographs
posing like a Telugu movie heroine in a dream sequence!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But
despite all these, travel and accommodation in all these places have been very
pleasant experiences. As a woman traveling alone I have always found the hotel
staff to be very protective and caring! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
have been times when I have been unwell and these “boys” have gone out in the
middle of the night to get me paracetamol. I have always been served hot food
and they have never forgotten that I am vegetarian. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Many
of the hotels in the small towns today have smartened up and we have buffet
style “Complimentary breakfast” thrown in. Very often the food in the buffet is
cold as the food warmers do not work properly. But that does not affect me as I
always get my food hot and straight out of the kitchen. There are more girls
now serving food in the restaurants. I generally spend time talking to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>them to find out what their career plans in
the hospitality industry are. It has broken a lot of stereotypes that I have in
my mind and I am pleasantly surprised. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I
am also happy at the way that many of the hotels in the district towns are
becoming women friendly these days. They have pick up and drop to the railway
station. Almost all the “room boys” knock before they enter your room. No longer
do I find dirty plates and empty liquor bottles outside closed doors when I
leave my room in the mornings. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Organizational
policies are also <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>becoming sensitive to
these issues. Hotels are checked for safety before women employees are accommodated
there. And thanks to these conditions I find more number of women like me
staying alone in hotels in these towns. No longer do I feel odd about myself
when I am checking in to a hotel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do
not know if it is because I have grown older or have become more immune to the
stares.. But yes, I now understand why <i>“Avvaiyar</i>” voluntarily adopted the cloak
of old age. </span></div>
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-20709597072075256032014-11-27T21:55:00.001+05:302014-11-27T21:55:45.033+05:30Slipping through my fingers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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was a time when she barely reached up to my knees. Her school bag and every
other accessory had to be pink. Her heroines were three girls called “Blossom, Bubbles
and Buttercup”. Like these “Power puff” girls she believed she <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>could beat up all the “bad guys” …!!! She had
a vocabulary beyond her years surprising her teachers with words that were too “old”
for her. Yet, whenever we went to school for a PTA we were never quite sure what we
would get to hear from her teachers. </span></div>
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a single child living in an independent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>house with adults, school was her only source of social life. She loved
going to school. But getting her ready for school was a different challenge
altogether. She had to be made to drink her milk and eat her idlis before her
school bus arrived. Every adult in the house from her grandmother to her mother
and the various domestic help “akkas” were doing something to get her ready. As
her grand mom fed her idlis, her mother would be tying her hair into two little
horns while the akka would be trying to get her feet into her shoes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those days the bus used to stop at the end of
our road. So it was her dad who used to drive her there on his way to work
waiting for her to board the bus while she embarrassed him by talking loudly
and calling out to passers by. She used to be lifted on to the bus by very nice
young man who the kids used to call “Kamal Anna”. He handled each kid very
gently. This little girl always wanted the window seat . She sat like an adult
with her elbow jutting out as Kamal Anna tried to gently pull it in. She was
obviously a source of great entertainment for the older kids who used to engage
in a conversation asking her questions for which she strung together unbelievable
answers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">When
the school bus stopped in the afternoon outside our gate, all the energy would
have drained out of her. She would be fast asleep on the seat. One of us had to
climb into the bus and carry her out as the “Ayah” handed her shoes and bag to
us. Her pockets would be filled with strange things – pieces of toffee wrapper,
stones, twigs, rubber bands, erasers….!!! One had to be careful to empty it out
before turning in the shorts for wash. The springy hair would be out of the
rubber bands and wet with sweat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">A
few years later and she was jumping out of the school bus while her grand
mother stood by anxiously shouting at her to watch out for the steps. I feel
sad about missing those days because by the time I got home from work it would
be nearing 7.00 PM. But she would be full of stories about her day. talking non
stop as I drank my tea. I was never sure how much of what she said actually
happened and how much of it was made up. </span></div>
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fetish over pink had worn off. She was no longer interested in the power puff
girls. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enid Blytons ,Roald Dahls <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Judy Blume began to replace the Power Puff
girls. I was glad that she was not into Barbie dolls. At this point we were
wondering who were her close friends at school? I am not sure I know the answer
even today. She was probably part of different cliques but never a permanent
fixture in any one of them. However she was one of those few girls who got
invited to all the boys’ birthday parties. So was she a tom boy? I am not sure.
She got into a lot of scrapes with the boys punching them and breaking the
glasses of the more studious ones. I was always a little nervous while talking
to the parents of the boys. But strangely I have never received any complaints
about her from them. Actually as a parent I think I got along better with the
parents of the boys than with those of the girls. </span></div>
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Her
hair was growing faster than her. Both her grand mothers used to marvel at the
length and thickness - each one tracing it to their respective genetic lines. The
challenge around getting her ready for school changed. Her hair had to be braided
on time. What with me travelling a lot in my job, this was an additional skills
set that we began to look out for while recruiting domestic help. Washing and
drying her hair was a major weekend activity for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">And
slowly all of this also changed. She cut her hair. She started spending more
time in front of the mirror often sacrificing breakfast in her quest to get
that eye liner exactly right on her lids!! Moody silences replaced the non stop
chatter. Now she was more with the girls in her class constantly talking to
them over phone or texting them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthday
parties these days meant movies and snacks afterwards. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Waiting
for the school bus no longer means excitement at the sound of every groaning
vehicle that changed gears. She says she can spot her bus from the special
sound it makes!! She sits in the verandah reading some inane news articles on
robberies and chain snatching before suddenly picking up her bag and saying “Bye
!! The bus is here”. And sure enough the bus would be there at the gate!! As
parents we have to now stay indoors and not show ourselves while she boards the
bus ( “Please… I am not longer in primary school”). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">There
is no ayah or “Kamal Anna” now in the bus. Kamal is a sports instructor in the
school and looks very different from the thin and lanky young man that he used
to be. I guess I look very different too as the mother of a 12<sup>th</sup>
standard student. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not know how it
all happened but I suddenly find ourselves facing her last day at school. As a
parent I am going to miss the simple routine of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>school life. </span></div>
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she jumped off the school bus today swaying to the music blasting into her ears
through the ear phones, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried to lock
into my memory <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the picture of this
sixteen year old in her school uniform. But instead what I saw was the knee high
kid hopping and skipping up the drive way with her unruly curls framing her
face. And again this knee high kid seemed to suddenly grow as tall as me
pushing her nose against mine and asking me in a theatrical whisper “What are
you thinking?” before bursting out into laughter.</span></div>
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spend the evening looking through old albums and reliving each moment of her
school life. I am happy and worried all at once. My little girl is growing up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see her slipping through my fingers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-14688640301798838272014-11-16T12:20:00.001+05:302014-11-16T12:25:06.631+05:30“Germanization” to “Sanskritsation”- the problem with language teaching in India. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="clear: left; float: left; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">The HRD minister has set off a controversy with her
announcement about teaching of the German language in Kendriya Vidyalay schools
being against the national education policy!! German which was offered as a
third language in these schools would now have to be replaced with Sanskrit. According
to news reports about 70000 students in the classes VI to VIII would be
affected by this change. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Now before I proceed any further I would like to state
clearly that I am no fan of the HRD minister. A person who is least suited to
handle education has unfortunately been given this portfolio. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.indianetzone.com/photos_gallery/48/Origin%20of%20Indian%20Alphabets.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.indianetzone.com/photos_gallery/48/Origin%20of%20Indian%20Alphabets.jpg" height="230" id="irc_mi" style="margin-top: 83px;" width="350" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, though I do not support her action which is obviously driven
politically ( the previous government had introduced this into the curriculum) ,
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am unable to understand what this hullabaloo is all about. One hears about “future of students being at stake”!
This is utter rubbish because the examination that they would be taking now
would be internal exams within the school and considering this is a third
language it would have little or no impact on their larger academic future.
Third languages as we know cease to be part of the curriculum post the VIII th
standard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While the German ambassador has the right to feel upset about
this, what I cannot understand is why are we all so het up about this? How many
students who have opted for German as a third language are going to pursue this
as a subject in higher education? The kind of science obsessed curriculum that
is offered in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kendriya Vidyalays</i>,
leaves no room for students to pursue any language in the higher classes- be it
Sanskrit or Hindi!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the problems that I see with our school education
system is the way languages are treated within the curriculum. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In English medium schools in our country where
the medium of instruction is obviously English, all students have to opt for a
second language until their Xth standard. Hindi being the national language is
one of the subjects that is a standard fixture across all states. The other
option that is offered is usually the concerned state language. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students are expected to take a third language
from their Vth<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the VIIIth standard
which is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a language that is different
from what they have opted for as a second language. So, if my second language
is Hindi and I am studying in a school in the state of Tamil Nadu the third language
would usually be Tamil. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it is a
beautiful opportunity for students in a multi lingual country like ours to
learn different languages. This is especially true if your parents are in transferable jobs that take you across the different parts of this lovely
nation. In such cases while Hindi can be a constant as a second language you
can , in your middle school get the opportunity to learn other languages. This
is precisely how I ended up learning Bengali and Hindi! I am extremely fluent
in both these languages – I can read and write both these languages as well as
English which was the medium of instruction in all the schools I studied in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, I find that there are Anglophile parents who have a
certain discomfort about their children’s education being “corrupted” by having
to study Indian languages. This is particularly so in the southern states.
These schools therefore try to pander to the parental feelings <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by introducing French as the second language. Most
of these schools belong to the local matriculation/ state board and have been
since time immemorial holding on to this practice. What surprises me is that the
education departments of these states which are so chauvinistic about their
languages <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are alright with it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But I guess it is one thing to offer a language as an option
in a school with such pseudo value systems around language and another thing to
teach it properly. In most of the schools where French is offered as a second
language option, the teaching is so abysmal that the less we speak it or about
it the better it is !!! For most of the parents it is nothing more than a
social status to have their children mouth a few sentences with “Vouz” “Toi” or
“Je”. My daughter had interesting stories to narrate from her time at the
Alliance Francaise where her class mates were from schools that offered French
as a second language. Most of these students knew next to nothing about the language
and had fled to this French cultural centre to make up for the lack of good
teaching in their schools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Language teaching is an art that few teachers have. This is
because language is more than words strung together. It is a reflection of the
culture of a place. I think the best language teacher that I have seen is the
gentleman who taught my daughter Tamil as a third language between classes
V<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>VII. A genial man wearing a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">veshti</i>
he was perfectly comfortable in the English medium school. He taught the
children along with the language, its history , about the kings and queens who
ruled this land and the great poets and writers who contributed to its literature.
I remember my daughter was so taken up with his description of the old port
town of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poompuhar</i> that she used to
pester me to take her there. But unfortunately when we did go there she was
quite disappointed to see the way it is in the present. I guess she was looking
for the Armenians, the Moors the Turks and all the other traders whose ships
used to dock there in ancient times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Replacing German with Sanskrit in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kendriya Vidyalaya</i> is not going to solve the problem because the
way Sanskrit is taught in our country is shocking! Most students take a
Sanskrit examination in English or in some local language. Few teachers understand
this classical language well enough to teach it properly. Besides, it has a
religious tinge to it which makes its acceptance difficult amongst all
communities. But even the most religious of people like my mother who recite Sanskrit
shlokas on a daily basis do not actually understand the meaning. I once asked
her the meaning of the word that were part of Kalidasa’s “<i>Shyamala Dandakam</i>”
that she used to sing regularly. She was at a loss..!! She tried to interpret
it as disrespect to religion ! I had to finally work out the meaning myself
using my knowledge of Hindi. I don’t think I managed it completely but yes,
overall I think I got the meaning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Before I sign off, I would like to clarify that I am not
against learning other languages beside those that exist in India. There are
many options available outside of mainstream schooling systems that offer
excellent teaching. My daughter learnt French as a hobby. She went to the
Alliance Francaise de Madras and did four levels of French language. It was
something she completely enjoyed. She loved the teaching methodology there
which introduced them to the culture of France and the Francophone countries. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The ability to communicate in different languages is supposed
to improve your IQ levels. Yet, I find that the younger generation,
particularly kids who come from upper middle class families know very little of
any language other than English. Given the way it is going, I wonder if all
Indian languages would one day die a natural death? And who can we blame except
ourselves? After all the education system is largely demand driven. If we
reject our languages then there is little chance that the education system can
keep them alive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-23008293478863544912014-11-08T15:01:00.001+05:302014-11-08T15:01:27.284+05:30Destination Matrimony<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My domestic help<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has
been very worried ever since the day her daughter’s marriage got fixed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>reasons being financial .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
groom’s family has<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>demanded a motorbike,
one lakh rupees cash and 15 “savaran” gold ( Whatever that might be!!!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to this she also has to provide
for a bed, an almirah and kitchen utensils. While we had offered to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sponsor the bed, she now finds herself
falling short of the Rs 1 lakh by about RS 70000. She was in a state today telling
me that unless she arranges for that in some way<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the marriage may not take place as planned .</span></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZBj_xs_q2MaHc5Z2BskmB29FvBv05IXikiOWhYBL1n0BGx0z_8w" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZBj_xs_q2MaHc5Z2BskmB29FvBv05IXikiOWhYBL1n0BGx0z_8w" data-sz="f" name="yD0gcgP4CcXjcM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSZBj_xs_q2MaHc5Z2BskmB29FvBv05IXikiOWhYBL1n0BGx0z_8w" style="height: 183px; margin-top: 0px; width: 276px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I repeated what I had asked her earlier. Why was she getting
her daughter married to someone who was making so many demands ? </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“What do you mean, Amma<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can’t keep the girl at home all her life can I. And anyway she is
already twenty nine years old?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But wasn’t her daughter working as a sales girl in an up market
boutique in our neighborhood and earning around Rs 10000 a month? According to
her mother, she has bought the jewelry with her savings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However this is not something the mother is
proud of because the daughter has been taunting her mother about her inability
to pay for it!! That her mother<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has
worked hard as a domestic help to educate her and her siblings, paying for
everything singlehandedly is of no concern to her. Her father is an alcoholic
who<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hands in his wages only
sporadically, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The girl’s bad behavior has been something that her mother
has been dealing for a while now. She has had these screaming tantrums every
now and then for a couple of years where she has accused her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mother of not being able to find a match for
her. And now that the marriage has been fixed she expects that her mother would
take care of all other expenditure. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So where is that image popularized by all our Tamil movies/
serials of a poor girl who loves her hardworking mother/father and refuses to
marry any fellow who asks for dowry? She obviously does not exist outside of the
screen play!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During the days when this girl’s behavior was at its worst I
offered to speak to her. But her mother was horrified “Please don’t. She will
then take it out on me for sharing this information with you” ! I have heard of
abusive husbands doing this. But daughters….?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I tried to put myself in the shoes of a twenty nine year old girl.
I think when I was in my twenties my biggest problem in life was the fact that
my parents would come up with candidates for marriage on a daily basis. I was
in no hurry to give up the freedom that education and a job offered me. My
parents were worried and I remember my mother telling me in frustration “ All
your friends will get married and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you
will be left on the shelf”. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I think that sentence sort of sums the fears of unwed girls
and their parents. The fact that our society instills in a girl the thought
right from her childhood that she has to one day get married is the root cause
of all trouble. While educated families may do it more subtly the not so educated
ones are more direct about it. A girl’s identity is defined by whether she is
married or not. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So right from the time
she is very young, parents are preparing themselves to fulfill that duty. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But I wonder why an educated <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>girl ( or for that matter her parents) who is earning
reasonably well should feel insecure about her not being married? Is it a fear
of society? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I can accept societal
fear as a reason that might affect parents, I am not sure that is the only reason
why a girl might seek marriage. After all <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>isn’t youth <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all about freedom ? So why would a reasonably
well educated girl be waiting to give that up at any cost? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I think the reason in slightly more complex. In a society
like ours where<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>free interaction between
boys and girls is frowned upon and the movements of girls are very closely
monitored there builds a sexual frustration in their minds after a certain age.
This is particularly so in girls belonging to the poorer strata of society. Marriage
for them is the only way to get out of it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And regarding the dowry bit, I think the movie/television
serials have also had their hand in shaping mindsets. A girl is supposed to be
“married off” with clothes, jewelry etc being bestowed upon her. If she has to
pay for something through her own earnings ( like my help’s daughter has) the
parents have supposedly failed in their duty. It is interesting that this
ability for a girl to be able to pay her own jewelry ( or bear some expense of
her wedding) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is not being portrayed
anywhere as an achievement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Meanwhile my domestic help is turning absolutely panicky.
Dowry amounts unfortunately do not work on an “installment plan”. She is
thinking of mortgaging her house- a house for which she ran pillar to post
trying to get the documentation of ownership before investing her savings in
doing it up. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Once I have that girl out of my house and my life I will
figure the rest of the things out” she told me today. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I shuddered !!! I guess this is what happens when your life
has been a constant plague of problems. As a mother my heart goes out to her.
There is a limit to which you can offer yourself as an emotional punching bag!.
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
Meera Sundararajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584671517551652378noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7269219202790509435.post-36985482141324882832014-10-07T15:59:00.000+05:302014-10-07T16:06:34.777+05:30Bon Appétit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My daughter was about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>six years old when this happened. She was at a
birthday party of one of her classmates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had left her there and come home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just when I had reached home I got a call from the mother of the child
whose birthday it was. Apparently my daughter was crying bitterly and she
wanted to know if I could come over. I was a bit puzzled<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that this should happen because she was a
very social child. But when I went there I found that she was indeed upset and
wanted to be taken home. </span></div>
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style="height: 160px; margin-top: 0px; width: 240px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the way home when I asked her why she was crying she told
me that it was because some of the girls in her class had called her a “pig”
after she had gone to take a second helping of some of the food served there. I
was shocked that little girls could be so cruel! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I narrated this incident to my mother in law after I
reached home, she did not seem to think there was anything wrong with the girls
calling her a “pig”. “You should have fed her properly before sending her
there! She would then have not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eaten
like that! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“was her comment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This reminded me of the novel “Gone with the Wind” where the
heroine Scarlett and her sisters would be fed a full meal before being sent out
to parties. The idea being, that it would <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>curb their appetites and they would all appear
to be “dainty and feminine” picking at their food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have never seen anyone commenting about a boy/ man’s
appetite in this manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact many
mothers often boast about how much their son eats – “ You know he ate an entire
<i>dekchi</i> full of <i>biryan</i>i”? “ My son needs at least 6 dosas for breakfast. He
likes ghee to be spread on them and then sugar sprinkled on top”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, what is about a girl or a woman that makes society restrict
the quantity that we eat? Are our bodies made of something different? Something
like air or water for instance?</span></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1706gMra-l9BizLQ8Xs93iMNHPYmGBD_yccEgcI-3Mb5bmkJ7" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1706gMra-l9BizLQ8Xs93iMNHPYmGBD_yccEgcI-3Mb5bmkJ7" data-sz="f" name="qQcF1gHrRwvrMM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1706gMra-l9BizLQ8Xs93iMNHPYmGBD_yccEgcI-3Mb5bmkJ7" style="height: 177px; margin-top: 0px; width: 284px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Every generation of girls has had to go through it .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember when I was a kid I had to stay
with a neighbor for a few days as my parents had to suddenly leave town on
an emergency. This lady told my mother <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in my presence, when she got back “Meera ate
four chappatis every night at dinner. You should get her to eat less”. My
mother being a practical lady told me that this neighbor or ours was a miserly
person and that was her way of complaining about feeding an extra person. But I
remember the sting that the woman’s remark carried!! It made me think of myself
differently for a very long time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, I must say my parents have never curbed our eating.
Coming as she did from a family where girls were made to eat last and therefore
the least, my mother believed that whether it was a boy or a girl, unless one
ate well one would never have the energy to go about one’s activities in life. My
mother rarely talks about the discrimination she faced as a girl when she was
growing up. But this is one topic that gets her talking . She keeps telling us
that as girls they would often not be served vegetables and had to make do with
roasted “<i>Aplams</i>” ( <i>papad/ pappadams</i>) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>because
the men and boys <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the family who were
always served first would have finished off all the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>vegetables leaving nothing for the women/
girls. The women would congratulate themselves every time this happened saying
that the preparation must have been very tasty! However, my mother always tells
me that the reason for her ill health today is because of the poor nutrition
she had as a child and a girl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite the fact that there have been a lot of social change
since my mother’s time and in almost all middle class families everyone eats
together, the fact that women and girls are expected hide their appetite
baffles me! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If eating too much is bad, it should apply equally to men and
women/ boys and girls. But I guess it is not about health. It is about keeping
to a socially constructed gender stereotype. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A girl is expected to be feminine and
femininity is all about appearing thin, frail and dainty. So how can you
sustain that image if you are taking 3-4 helpings of something at the table
?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“She eats like a man” is something I
have heard some women say about other women in disgust. Okay, so ladies if it
is disgusting to have an appetite like that of a man’s then why do you nurture
it in him?</span></div>
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<a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRXKebIEyS_RjY_wEvwl1cI1vTl7JOeXB_Q8vERGZ6_I0ujJ8gZ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRXKebIEyS_RjY_wEvwl1cI1vTl7JOeXB_Q8vERGZ6_I0ujJ8gZ" data-sz="f" name="XT24M9SqzfD9VM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRXKebIEyS_RjY_wEvwl1cI1vTl7JOeXB_Q8vERGZ6_I0ujJ8gZ" style="height: 178px; margin-top: 0px; width: 229px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And I must say, the irresponsibility with which men eat
annoys me. While in the earlier generations one could excuse them because they
never entered the kitchen and therefore did not know if there was anything left
of a tasty dish for others ( read girls and women) I cannot understand how they
continue doing this even today. There are men and boys <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know who finish off that last bit of a curry
without even asking others at the table if they might like<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some. The responsibility of ensuring that
everyone has had their adequate share appears to be that of the woman. How many
fathers check a son if he is taking that last bit of a <i>chappati</i> or that piece
of chicken from a dish? Actually how many mothers say anything when their son
or husband does this? But I have seen mothers chide their daughter when she
attempts this ( “Ask your brother/ father if they want it”). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This kind of irresponsible eating builds selfishness and a
sense of entitlement for everything . By tolerating it or not discouraging it
in our children or selectively discouraging it only in our daughters we are
building a generation of men who care least about anyone and women who think
foregoing something is what makes her a woman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a saying in Tamil generally used by mothers / aunts/
grand mothers while cleaning out a vessel of the last morsel of food and depositing it on a child’s plate’
“Adi vazhichi aana pole” ( Cleaning out the vessel completely so that you grow
like an elephant). Other than my mother who had no choice but to deposit that
last bit equally on mine and my sister’s plates, I have rarely seen others in
my family deposit that last bit on the plate of a girl child. That I suppose
says it all !!! </span></div>
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