Indrani Mukherjea's case has rivetted the nation like no other.... and i have to confess even i have been glued to the TV trying to decipher the mystery... a beautiful young girl, a beautiful lady, a powerful husband, multiple husbands, hidden daughter and brother.... whoa! it can baffle the best of us....
over the last few days I have been trying to figure out why is it that I am soooo glued to this story.. is it some sort of pervese pleasure at seeing someone so beautiful and powerful come down a notch or two? is it to fill the evening when you want to unwind after work with something that is light on the brain... no thinking.. just staring .... or is it genuine concern for something as ghastly as this...
I guess it is a bit of both... I am a great believer in learning from your mistakes... but the cheapest lesson you can get is one where you learn from other people's mistakes .... so I am trying to learn lessons from Indrani's conduct... to see what she did wrong in her life that she had to murder someone (or at least allegedly).... and maybe, it is also how she got away with murder for 3 years... baffling also how no one missed Sheena enough to ask these questions... what about friends, relatives anyone? Indrani got away with so much and she didnt pay for it at all...
perhaps I am also curious to know how life is soooooo uncertain at times... your one single foolish act can lead to a disastrous turn of events... and how you can never gloat.... that your life is so sorted... no dude, your life is never that simple or easy..it will get complicated...
I have also seen how the media have been writing up about Indrani and the femme fatale... just cos there is an attrative ambitious woman at the centre of it all... now I can even see mothers telling their children...see see.. this is what happens if we give you too much freedom... and if you mix around with boys at a young age... and ofcourse women all over are now typecast as being ball busters and hence now like Indrani, you could also be a murderer... along with SHeena, women's right also became a casualty here...
the curious thing is that no one is seeing Indrani as an ordinary human being... who decided to move away from her small town and do something with her life ... we may not agree with what she has done... but certainly she has done what she knew best... moved to Mumbai... started an HR agency... met a powerful man married him.. yes, that does smack of gold digger... but are you seriously telling me if Indrani had done all this by herself ... assuming no husband,then she would have been lauded for it? would she not have been hounded by asking, who she slept with to get this far?
so there it is ... Women are never allowed to enjoy their success.... if you sit at home and be just a home maker - that is great.. but you will never be recognised in society as doing anything meaningful... on the other hand, if women are doing thinsg on their own without a man, she is criticised for being a ball buster - hey buddy you better stay away from her cos she might crush you on the way to the next step! and men scamper .... and if she does achieve this by marrying someone who gets her to the next step, then she is a gold digger...
so many judgments... but have you stopped to see whether you have given her a strong chance? whether she had done whatever she coudl in the circumstances ? whether she did all this with the only tools she had with her? and
this is not to take away from teh crime .. if she did it then she shoudl be punished for it.... but lets stop the judging till after we find out ....
#down with judgy people
