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The Risk - A Sequel To Warning Bells

Discussion in 'Saturdays with Varalotti' started by varalotti, Nov 24, 2006.

  1. srinivasan_vanaja

    srinivasan_vanaja Gold IL'ite

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    The risk taken was timely!

    Dear Sir,

    I think your heroine is gifted with a power of knowing the near future. She had taken a great and a timely risk at her age to save both her dignity and her daughter-in-law.

    Her son, few others and we too thought that it was a risk from our side. But it was her determination and courage that made her successful.

    A sentence by Vara's husband - The greatest risk in life is not taking any risk at all - makes me think a lot. Thank you very much for a thoughtful story.

    Vanaja

     
  2. varalotti

    varalotti IL Hall of Fame

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    Thanks Vanaja!

    Madam,
    People always confuse risk with danger.

    We can say that it is risky to use the needle used by an AIDS patient.

    We can also say it is risky to lie down, because according to statistics about 7 out of ten people die in that position.

    The first risk is about the real danger. The second one is a matter of faulty perception.

    When a woman is snubbed continuously she slowly loses her identity. Once in a way she has to assert herself. One's identity is more precious than even one's life.
    I am very happy and grateful to see you on the side of Varalotti and Vara.
    Thanks for liking those words,
    regards,
    Sir
     
  3. varalotti

    varalotti IL Hall of Fame

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    You Overwhelmed Me, As Always!

    Most Gracious ILites,

    You overwhelmed me with your wonderful responses to this thread. To some of you Vara is a magnificent lady to be hero(ine)-worshipped. And quite a few of you thought her somebody who went bonkers with the early onset of senility or a disastarous manifestation of PMS.

    Life has now become a little too risky now; so let's leave risk for a while and study about comparison, the unhealthy habit of comparing ourselves with others.

    That's what this Wednesday is all about.

    Anxiously waiting with crossed figures for you in the Wednesdays thread.

    regards,
    Varalotti
     
  4. vissihiran

    vissihiran New IL'ite

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    Mother-in-law and daughter in law sentiment

    Some friends call me idealist. But still I want to say this. Many ladies will read your story and instead of changing their natural or automatic attitude of hostility towards their mother in law or daughter in law and adopting a cultivated liking for their counterparts, who play important role in their life, they continue their natural tendencies. I sincierly feel and hope writers of women literature stop giving hidden messages which can foster or continue natural hostility between mother in law and daughter in law. The story would have been wonderful if daughter in law gave full support and mother in law loved her more for her moral support
     
  5. varalotti

    varalotti IL Hall of Fame

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    Welcome to IL, Vissiharan

    Dear Vissiharan,

    You have a point there. But let me tell you that we writers are here to portray the conflicts going on in the real world. We try to give them an insight into the workings of the human mind and we stop with that.

    There are no hidden messages here madam. There is one very clear message regarding risk taking.

    You are an idealist, Madam. I do agree. And if the daughte wholeheartedly supported her mother in law in this adventure it would have been great. But unfortunately there would be no story to tell.

    We writers do not have the luxury of preaching right and wrong to you, as religious leaders do. We just give the details of the working of a human mind. It is for the mils and dils to find the message.

    If had written a story with dil supporting the mil, no mil or dil would have read it. At least reading this story they may know their in-laws better.

    Thanks for the participation.
    Varalotti
     
  6. nuggehallipankaja

    nuggehallipankaja New IL'ite

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    Risk

    Dear Sridhar,
    Amboka had told me about this story, and I was eager to read it; It is an entirely different theme, different from the ordinary. And the way you have introduced your 'I' 's caprice, and polished it as grit-determination, handing laurels as 'Fighter' to to the adorable character! Again,the same questiop"Howon earh did get such a beautiful idea?'

    Nuggehalli Pankaja
     
  7. meenaprakash

    meenaprakash Silver IL'ite

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    toooo goood

    Hello Sridhar,

    I just enjoyed each & every word of this story. especially descriptions like,
    "She has never been passionately involved with anything – a book, a movie or a poem, let alone her husband. She has the personality of a dial tone. "

    "His supporting me at this critical time is a far more wonderful gift than all the gifts he had given me in the past. Though I have known him to oppose any thing vociferously at first and then support it wholeheartedly later, I had never expected this supportive outburst. He had saved my self-esteem." --

    the paras on initial hiccups of riding & of course final fall of Rekha.


    This story also reminded me of one of the quote on risk -
    "There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."

    This story made a wonderful reading.
     
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  8. varalotti

    varalotti IL Hall of Fame

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    It's an Honour, Pankaja!

    Dear Pankaja,

    It's an honour to be appreciated by you. And now to your "writers secrets" question. How on earth do I get such plots? The answer is in the question itself.

    All the plots are there on the earth. In fact I get so many plots and inspirations that this life time may not be sufficient to pen them all down.

    When I saw a 50 plus woman riding a moped I got the core of the plot. Dils opposition and husbands support can be gathered from any family and so this story was born.

    Now I know the trick, Pankaja. To get you in to the site I need to write a quality story. As of now it happens once in a full moon, I am sorry, blue moon. Let me strive hard to make it happen more frequently.

    regards,
    sridhar
     
  9. varalotti

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    I enjoyed writing them too!

    Hello Meena,
    Thanks for your words of appreciation. I enjoyed writing them too.
    Now while on the subject of risk and while fully accepting your quote, I need to add something to it.
    Everyone should have some passion - it may be in cooking, embroidery, writing, gardening or anything under the sun. I don't mean just hobbies. I mean passions. The depth of your personality is defined by the intensity of the passion you have.
    A person who does not have any passion would be like a dial tone (of those days) emitting a monotonous sound which bores everyone around to death.
    regards,
    sridhar
     
  10. vmur

    vmur Silver IL'ite

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    Hello Sridhar,

    I have been reading all your stories, but have never really commented on them until now.

    This story strikes me as being rather banal and unremarkable except for the juxtapostion of the supposed roles revealed at the beginning of the story. Also, the very fact that we are impressed with middle aged women taking up new endeavours reveals the modest expectations we place on them in the first place.

    I think that you have outstanding stories in your repertoire but this may not be one of them.

    Regards
    Vidya
     

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