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Confetti
S. Nihal Singh
A lottery
Did she, didn’t she?
She is a bitch.
Poor man,
did he fall for her?
Did she do it?
Did she get the better
of the mother-in-law?
She is a tough one.
Four evenings a week
India’s womenfolk
with access to the box
are lost to the world.
The soap opera
takes over.
It is a familiar world
of love and betrayal.
There is the mother-in-law,
the vamp,
the gullible husband,
the betrayed wife.
Is it a mirror image
of middle class Indian
urban life
wrapped around marriages?
Must women’s world
revolve round marriage
and the travails of
living with the mother-in-law?
Is life then reduced
to the lottery of
securing a husband,
good or bad?
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