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Today once again busted the myth of relations vs strangers. Look at the old peasant woman to whom Sita posed the question who were her parents, who left her. The lady tells her to them she is the Goddess. Because she is the one who has nurtured them. Because of her rains came. Because the rains came their lives prospered. Whatever they are now it is because of her. Maithili is the truth of Mithila. She is their Janaki. Their loving daughter. The peasant woman doesnt forget how the 12 year of drought felt like. She doesnt forget how the arrival of the baby girl changed the landscape of Mithila. From a land struggling for food, they prospered to have enough food, clothing and shelter. All because of a baby girl. In the baby girl the peasant lady saw their benefactor.
And Sita's chachi the great Chandrabagha how easily she forgot her joy of motherhood came because of that baby girl. Today that girl looks an impediment to her because as she is not a royal born, but born from earth she thinks her marriage is impossible. So if she doesnt get married what about her daughters. The daughters who wouldnt have even existed without the baby girl. But Chandrabagha forgot everything. She gave pain to the very man who gave her the pleasure of being a queen.
Chandrabagha is the classic example of people around us who are never satisfied. Who always want to point fingers, crib and never think how the others feel. She is the representative of that world who forgots the way they came. Currently only their present matters to them. Doesnt matter what they say, who they hurt. And the problem with such people is that , dealing with them is difficult because they are called relatives. If it is an outsider you can rebuke them, but how do you deal with a cribbing , complaining, fault finding family member. In their quest for selfishness more often than not women like Chandrabagha ends up destroying relations.
