A train journey through the clouds

Dear TL
Right from the dawn of Time, 'mad disconnect' has been the pattern of all that is happening. All arranged marriages are a clear instance of mad disconnect and a successful one at that. We marry, beget children, rear our families and create more and more disconnects! All things where we can see a clear connection are a big bore! Writing, according to me, should be like Sudoku. Just keep them guessing! That I can't adopt another style of writing at this stage of my life is another question altogether!

If I gave you an impression that I was some kind of anti-Eve, please correct that impression. I may disapprove of some of the ways of Eve but I am a strong pro-Eve! I give it to you that she has enough to crib about having been carved out of a man's rib. But she must feel elated that in that rib God had packed all that man yearned for and all that got transferred to Eve finally! That probably explains why some men even go to the extent of laying down their lives for the women they love. It is with that Power that women got invested through the rib, they have become the prime movers of male psyche. With the loss of that rib, man has become just matter and the Women have all the Shakthi!

Tell me if you happen to travel by the Balbhavan toy train next time and I'll be there too to sing Docomo with you!
Sri

 

My dear Kamal
You may be aware that the Hindu Gods have thousands of names. Take Vishnu for example. He has a thousand name with which the devout Hindus worship Him. Vishnu Sahasranama is a sacred text of the Hindus. What is interesting is that each of this name has a big explanation behind it running to pages. I have listened to a very learned Brahmin by name Mukkur Narasimhachariar lecturing about each of these names! Each day he would talk about just one name. Believe me there is so much to learn from each name. Similarly a woman can be compared not only to a railway engine but millions of other things too and all with a reason too! She is such an inexhaustible subject!

Women by nature are a bit of an introvert and they are comfortable remaining in the background. Naturally they may not like being the subject matter of their hubbies' blogs! I can't blame Harsha! I have one such in my house too!

I told my daughter that the ILites want to know what did her mother think of me and she told me it was unprintable!
Sri

 

Dear PS
I wonder if you have seen the famous Hindi movie 'Abhiman' starring the Big B and his wife Jaya. The film had some lilting songs tuned by the inimitable S.D.Burman. When Jaya becomes a famous singer in that movie, her husband finds it tough to stomach her success and throws such tantrums at her that she becomes a nervous wreck and gives up singing altogether!

This is what happens when a woman overtakes her husband in her chosen profession. He'll see to it that she is kept under a check. So how can there be a man behind a successful woman? Further if a woman gets bogged down with her man, it is unlikely that she can become an Indra Nooyi!
Sri

 

Dear Viji
What a wonderful couple you are! It is difficult to say in your case who is behind who. Both of you play your allotted roles with such great understanding and empathy that it is no wonder that both are winners. He is engaged in the pursuit of a noble conviction and you are doing a great service by not deriding him for what he is doing.

You do need our salutation, Viji
Sri

 

Dear Chithra
Today I disagree not to agree with you! Yet, I would like to expand on the 'unwritten law of life'. I do not deny that if a man is a failure, it is his own making if the reference is to his failure to get married. If a woman does not get married, there can be a hundred reasons like poverty, problem in horoscope, and so on. So it can never be her own making but in the case of a man it is his own making. Was not Bhishma's remaining single his own making?

In the case of a successful man, I really do not know why his success is attributed only to his wife. Any number of bachelors like Newton, Pythogoras, Gibbon, Michaelangelo, Pascal, Fenelon and our own Swami Vivekananda have been eminently successful! In a million cases, success has come through mothers, sisters, teachers and others. I do agree that the wife's proximity to her hubby gives her greater time and freedom to make him reach where she wants him to reach through constant nagging. A classic example is Appu's wife who keeps nagging him about Adutthathu Ambujam!

Incidentally, I feel a bit disconcerted by all your praising. Hope it is not let-handed!
Sri

 

Dear Shanthi
Yes Coonoor is a lot better. It is more vibrant, less commercialised and thanks to all the Army Officers in DSSC and MRC, more colourful too. I spent two years there. As you travel up the Dargeeling Railway, you'll find Kurseong similarly placed. If Ooty can be compared to Darjeeling, Coonor is Kurseong.

You are in a way right about the train journey to Coonoor. It can even be called trekking by train. It is as slow and an experience by itself like trekking. The stench of the burning coal would haunt us even days after we finish the journey.

I think that it was God's master stroke to have created Eve out of Adam's rib. If He had made her out of his hands or legs, it would have crippled him. This way He has ensured that man would not feel crippled and he would be aware that Eve is an integral part of him and only with her, he could be complete. Keeping man company was not the idea behind creation of Eve. Go to any club this evening and you'll find only a hand few would have their wives with them. And those few would be the most subdued crowd there. Look around and you will find all the noise coming from the boisterous men enjoying a stag party! Just shows that most men do not think of their wives as company! Someone asked a man 'Hey! Who was the lady you were walking with at the Beach yesterday?' and the man replied 'It was no lady my friend. It was my wife!' Do you catch my point?

Shaik Salar's case is indeed a touching one which amply explains Pushpavalli Srinivasan's question.
Sri