Zara nazron se khehdo ji....

Ah! the language of eyes.. if only all could read and understand each other without the necessity of spelling out emotions.. or even actions.. ! Perhaps its not easy and is rather confusing, but it sure pays when you master the skill!

But leave the ishaare with eyes alone, its difficult for most these days to even understand words..Gen X seems to need 10x the words and 10x 'round the bush turns' to take a simple thing to their head! Can't seem to fathom the simple.. it has to be complex, its like simplicity and logic was never even published in their version of the dictionary. There begins the saga of misunderstandings!

But they aren't to blame! Take the soap operas aired at prime time these days, where even if you try hard,.. grit your teeth and use all your Grey cells you can't understand why the protagonists try and test their pea brained husbands with a 'here-we-go-round-the-mulberry-bush-routine' of half-truth narrative of events. No wonder people these days try to search between lines and construct conspiracy theories when there aren't any! If they would only sit and talk honest with each other, misunderstandings would never arise.. but in that case I guess the serials would not run either.. well at least not for years and years!

Talking of Soap Operas.. I have recently started reading a PremChand Novel (Don't ask me where I found that!) and it sounds really like one of the soap opera's up on air.. not that stupid but has a lot of inside the house politicking, and loads of misunderstanding and complex situations.

The novel is set in Benares, at a time when girls were married off to a older men for the sake of mere money.. The story revolves around a girl Nirmala, who falls into misery after misery (see why I call it a mega series soap?).. firstly she agrees to a marriage with a person almost the age of her father and has three kids (like Paro in Devdas).. with obviously no opposition .. such were the times I guess, then she gets pushed around by her sis-in-law , but bears it silently again no opposition, but the most intriguing of her miseries is when there is a huge misunderstanding of her realtionship to the eldest son.. who is conveniently almost her age.

Then there is husband character, I am not sure what Premchand had in his mind when he wrote the novel, but according to me the husband is one of those people who needs to be vaporized from the face of earth! Realises not that his wife in no good mind can have a 'normal' marriage with him and goes on to be irked by her attention to kids so much that he creates a rift and a misunderstanding between the eldest son and the step mom that nearly cost's one of them their life!

The eldest son is ofcourse oblivious from his father's devious notions, thinks he's at fault for a unknown unexplained reason, and thinks he is the harbinger of sadness and misery to his father and his mother ... even his real mother that died! Only if they talked straight to each other none of this would arise. But people do have a habit of bringing hell on to themselves .. and so did Nirmala and her family. But enough about Nirmala here, I do have another blog where I do go into the story much deeper.. do stop by if you are intrigued or even just plain curious about the story!