Originally posted by: imshveta
I had already read this one the first day you posted it.
My apologies for not commenting earlier.[B][/B][I][/I]
I agree with "Maan" that sometimes the whole idea of an old-age home can be lost " in censorship of goodness and vastly satisfying a specific section of the society."
But I also totally agreed with "Geet (I like her so cannot refrain from taking her name) when she rebuffed Maan's idea of using violence to control the society. But then both of these were different ideas which somehow got merged in between.
The way I see it - the two of them are same issues but on a different scale affecting different sections of the same society. While for a specific section old-age home is a part of life, the convenience is only what makes the whole deal sweeter.
The two of them, even in the series, are from different end of the spectrum. On an atomic level, I cannot say that they are part of same society. She does not understand his and he condemns her. He uses violence as an example because he is foreign to that concept. But he is not foreign to the concept of violence used for other modes in his own society. It is not the concept of violence he is against - its the target audience and the premise for which it is used. See the difference?
Thugs chasing her is violence for which he does not care for. But a brother killing his sister is something he does not understand. Though violence is present in all sections of society the reason however varies.
And when Geet says that our two different societies can merge or clash, i think she is right to the degree that i feel that happening all around me.
Here its only two different societies and not culture. I have seen people mixing the two quite generously and I hope you did not mistook my words.
But my favourite part came in the end. Her negotiating for icecream to let him concede a stalemate when clearly he had lost it towards the end ( atleast i thought so even if Maan dint)
Men will be men. Always losing to the intelligence a women portrays but happy calling it a stalemate to appease their egos.
It is hard to say if either of them was right or wrong. Because the premise of the entire argument itself is based on beliefs which are debatable and perception dependent. Geet presents an idealistic view of an abstract principle while Maan has more cynical beliefs.
And thus it ended on a very "Maan-Geet"-ish note (Have I created a new word)
I read the whole part twice to actually understand it meaning but i read the end twice for its sheer sweetness
I added this part purely to bring back the characterizaton to Maan Geet level. Because in the end, she is just a teenager and she does have a streak of childishness. I only wanted to highlight it.
Thanks a lot Shveta for your comment. I knew that you will see something and make me go on yet another preachy rant. 😆
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