the bold and the beautiful ...NOT the serial long time back in tv

Recently i was asked how i write my blogs . Its natural to think that i search for topics spend lots of time researching it and then write . But frankly these days topics just come to me with lot of happenings going around . Of course my daily reading on various topics help too .

As latest as today after my breakfast heard a thing. A girl from our conservative soceity doing the unthinkable . Getting married to a person from another religion . The pottu or bindi she put in her profile pic though outwardly was a sign of defiance to her religion was more importantly a sign asserting her freedom to choose her spouse . Of cousre many religions have strict codes which say there will be punishment in the nether world if you marry thus , these days youngsters are more interested in following their heart . And as i have wrote in an earlier blog an interreligious marriage is the ultimate cure for all religious intolerance . Because when your son or son in law is from another religion however hostile you are , one part of you will hold back .

The same breakfast conversation led to me witnessing a debate between generations . Two women of two generations were telling their viewpoints about another womans life decisions . It was interesting to hear it . A particular educated woman walked out of her marriage due to the extramarital affair of her husband . The argument was that she should have stayed in the relationship inspite of the breach of trust . According to the elder lady saving the marriage was more important than the loss of self esteem of tolerating a husband who betrayed trust . The younger one was arguing that its a no brainer that she was very right in walking out and that too she should have remarried to a better person inspite of having kids from the former alliance .

With all the "complaints " about the younger generation i do find their honesty with themselves and with others and their less hypocritical outlook to life exciting . As i always believe its women of a generation itself who created their own troubles to some extent . Trying too hard to save a marriage and in the process losing out on their companionship , tolerating abusive husbands who sometimes even have a wife equivalent outside the home are all the older generation of indian womans legacy . Though a man , i find it ethical when the youngsters rebel against this one sided ethics . Of course the multifold increase in divorces as well as interreligious marriages are worrying to the soceity at large . But just like the pain of labour arent they the pain we as a soceity have to bear for a better soceity where companionship and interreligious tolerance is the basis of relationships ..