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Bonds of love! Apropos of Ms Neena Bhandari’s "Every woman needs a wife!" and the satirical "A life without strings" (March30). There can be no doubt that with a tremendous growth in materialistic concerns of human life, one would like some of his/her burden to be shared by others, even by professional agencies. Availability of such help has led to a change in individual attitude as agencies have mushroomed to handle almost every job with a professional touch, so much so that you get steaming hot four-course lunch and dinner supplied at your doorstep. You don’t need to bother about running the house or looking after children or even caring for any ailing member of the family. Everything is automatically taken care of by agencies like WWS (ironically, Wife Without Strings). All this adds to ease and comfort in life but does this also lead to satisfaction? Should one turn into a money-minting machine and leave everything else—personal as well as social—to the so-called professional agencies? Why have children at all if we have no time to pay attention to their upbringing, their education, health and social habits? By that analogy, marriage and family may become redundant, as is exactly happening in many developed countries and some ‘modern and liberated’ families in metropolitan cities. The cultural heritage and the value of mutual love and care can be appreciated with a healthy approach towards the man-woman relationship. It is neither a happy family nor a social role model where a woman dislikes doing household chores only because she earns as much or even more that her husband or where a man treats certain domestic work earmarked only for woman and below Moral and social degeneration takes place by an approach and state of mind and not by doing or not doing a particular domestic work. Ved Guliani Hisar |
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Every sane Indian would be cursing himself only for tolerating monsters like Mayawati, amongst us. The article, "How Maya memsahib loves maya" (March 16), was thought-provoking. Actually the conduct and character of the so-called self-styled leaders of the Dalits and the so-called down-trodden, who shamelessly claim to be the leaders of the so-called weaker sections of the society, is not only most condemnable but is, in fact, a blot on the political system of the nation. And the main culprits for empowering such political-leeches like Mayawati, Kanshi Ram, Mulayam, Paswan, Laloo, V.P. Singh and many others, were our myopic Nehruvian-secularist Constitution-makers, who badly messed up the job entrusted to them, because they chose to draft the Indian Constitution by using their hearts rather than their brains and gave us a Constitution, which is totally out of tune with the ground realities and ethos of our nation. incorporating the most discriminatory provision of the caste-based reservations, without prescribing any minimum educational qualification for being an eligible voter or a candidate for various levels of the electoral process, is quite simply the mockery of the democracy. The whole electoral process in the nation is just a futile money wasting exercise, when the value of the vote of a D. Lit scholar is equal to the value of the vote of a stark illiterate Dalit. And till this blunder committed by the Constitution-makers is not rectified, the nation would keep on suffering at the hands of the political leeches. A. K. Sharma, Chandigarh |
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