Perpetually Perplexed

I have been watching Satyameva Jayate all these days. But today's episode was different. All these days Amir opened our eyes to what are wrong with our society. But today he showed us what is right with our society. Or more than that he showed us, what we as individuals can do about the wrongs. Instead of throwing up our hands saying what can one person do. Be it the couple in Surat who opened a school for earth quake victims in Gujarat and then opened their arms and their school to the orphans of  communal violence next year. Or it is the man who performs final rites to unclaimed dead bodies no matter who they are, after losing his only son and his dead body was dumped in a well. Or it is son of a lady who was so poor that she had to give her son to orphanage, who built a hospital for poor to fulfil her wish. And the best one was the man who single handedly broke the mountains and built a road to his village. A young man summarized the strength behind all these people. हम स...

I happened to read an article in yesterday's Prajavani an article about Satyameva Jayate - ಅಮೀರ್  ಖಾನ್   ಬುರುಡೆ ಪುರಾಣ . Felt bad. For the chauvinistic feeling of us. We must be proud of our language. But that should not stop us from appreciating a good show in other languages. May be there are other programs in regional languages similar to Satyameva Jayate. Does it lower the good qualities of Satyameva Jayate. The best part is the author praises the program, and suddenly starts finds faults with it. His last question is can anything be achieved by showing such programs? Will it really solve the problems depicted in the program? May be not completely. But is it not better than showing some sob story, which does nobody any good. And if 10000 people watch this, and 0.1% are influenced by this, that will also a good achievement. And who knows, may be few people may decide not kill their baby girls in its foetus, few boys may decide not to take dowry...

I rarely blog about TV shows. Not that I am too great to watch any of them. I watch quite a lot of TV. But I know too well that most of the shows are just a tool to kill the time. But today I feel the need to share my feelings about this show. Satyameva Jayate aired in Star World at 11 am on Sunday is a show by Amir Khan about social issues. And today's topic was female foeticide. This curse has no regional, communal or economical barriers. It is spread all over the country, in all states, in urban and rural areas. Mr. Khan interviewed three ladies. One of them was forced to have an abortion 8 times because she was carrying a girl foetus. Another one took courage and retained her girl child, but was bitten by her husband all over the face like an animal.  And the third lady was a doctor herself, married to an orthopaedician. She gave birth to twin daughters against the wish of her husband and in laws. Her mother in law who herself was a retired principal kicked the cradle carryi...