the holy(?) woman

Everybody seems to be pulled into the subject regarding a woman after the recent Sabarimala....and Jayamala incident. (Apparently, Jayamala......is a person who won the Swarna Kamal award....for the best movie.....Thayee Saheba....the movie revolves around the freedom struggle....the maintainence of mistresses.....and how this lady......helps her adopted son to overcome this problem.)

Headlines were rampant with Jayamala' s photo screaming to catch the reader's attention.
Various television channels conducted programmes with a panel to make sense of the ongoing debate. Admitting that i do not follow hindi much...i tried to watch the discussion on now-considered-hot channel CNN-IBN.

Among the panelists was this grandson of the head-priest at the Sabarimala.
What was amusing was that he was....dressed in a pair of jeans. Not that it is a crime....to be clad so...but in front of a temple........being what he is..... was highly impudent.

Having forgotten the guy's name....i'll call him 'X' hence forth.

'X' is young......has not seen life....considering that intellectuals make their appaerance into such shows. Saying that he is not against women....but the temple's regulations are so.....and it should be followed, irrespective of.....whether it makes sense or not.

Taking a detour from this aspect...i'd like to talk about other things. The environment......surrounding me at home is very different...than the one present at others' homes. At home..... Dad, Mum and me talk about everything on Earth barring nothing. and amongst these comes up the subject of sex. Somehow....i've always talked about this so called 'dirty' stuff at home. On the other hand......i would have felt, not at home....if sex and related matters were not discussed at home. Male chauvanism.....women' crisis.....the desparate sex-ratio......the treatment metted out to a woman....menarche......menopause.... include the participation of the three of us. Home is where...all rules are broken.....i hardly pray......festivals.....are just for fun...... the indifferent look towards religion and traditions.

Back to the programmes on television.....this particular guy dresses in modern attire.....regardless of the fact that he is in front of the controversial temple....where devotees are in dhotis'. X speaks of the mind of men polluted with thoughts of a female if she makes an appearance. But isn't the control of the senses the job of the mind. A devotee is definately not one...if he cannot do so. He should not be allowed entry, simply because......his other fantasies term his behaviour. Disregarding this seemingly logical point....the females are prohibited entry......because it is they who cause turmoil in a man's world. The above reasoning is baseless......how could anybody say that. This instantly disqualifies X...from speaking more. Even thinking of....inviting X to this show is ridiculous.

Effectively......no.....talking about such 'controversial' headline-hitting material is worthless.....where a woman begs to differ....in the still world of male-domination.