I recently came across the English translation of a poem called "The City" written by a Greek poet CP Cavafy and wondered about it in the context of the recent happenings and talk of yet another nayi udaan/leap in the show.
You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong and my heart lies buried like something dead.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place? Wherever I turn, wherever I look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here, where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.”
You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore. This city will always pursue you.
You’ll walk the same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.
You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.
Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner, you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.
On first reading, this seems like a very dark and depressing work. But alternatively, the poet intends to say that one cannot hope to escape their problems by running away and completely changing life. The crux is that problems must be faced and resolved head on because the same problems may even arise in a new setting if you don't take corrective steps. Ultimately you can't run and need to tackle problems.
Anuj running away and going far is simply not a solution to his problems. Because eventually reunion is bound to happen as per ITV logic. He ran away for CA and is now miserable without Anupamaa. For that matter, Anupamaa establishing her own dance academy is great but it's a matter of time before Shameless shahs drag her into their problems again. She should set them straight for good rather than have a new venture everytime and let it be disrupted by them. (She seems to be doing that with Barkha so it's not as if she's not capable of it or changing herself to take a stand)
Thoughts?
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