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Just a few thoughts on Kesar.
Kesar is of huge symbolic interest in the serial Mann ki Awaaz Pratigya. She represents the most downtrodden of women, a woman without support, a woman without finances, a woman who does not receive emotional care, someone who does not have a voice - a section of society that is beaten, bullied, abused, used and kept around because she is sometimes a convenience. Also Kesar is significant because she does not have a way out. Her family is missing from the scene - there is no one, NO ONE, who can help her.
It is fortunately not a situation that we, the members of this forum, are in. It is impossible for us to fathom the helplessness of her situation.
Kesar observes, she stands by and notes the wrong doings - now and then she gathers the courage to mutter protest - but she is brushed aside. The Thakurs do not even pay her the compliment of keeping her out of their plottings and conspiracies. To them, she poses no threat, no danger, no importance.
Kesar, for the first time, has received some support from Pratigya. She has seen for the frist time a woman who could have been in the same position as herself reacting differently. Courage, like fear, is infectious. If one person stands up for themselves, somewhere the idea uncurls itself in other people: Maybe I can too.
Kesar stood aside when they plotted to kill Pratigya. She has not yet warned Krishna or Pratigya of this danger. She has stood mute at injustices to herself and she has stood silent at injustices being meted out to other people. But Protest is stirring within her - we have seen evidence of that here and there. She is no longer passive - she is uneasy, she is beginning to sense that whether it matters or not, she must speak up. Will she keep quiet today as well? Will she wring her hands and let Shakti go to Arushi with his bad intentions? Or will she at least run to Krishna and Pratigya and warn them of the danger to Arushi?
Because if she doesn't, Kesar too is culpable at some level.
I remember a radical decision that was given out at a panchayat in North India a few years ago. A woman was stripped and beaten in front of a crowd of people. When the Panchayat sat in justice, they punished the offenders, but they also punished the members of the village who had stood around, witnessing but doing nothing.
It is important to see what Kesar will do. Because the day Kesar starts to assert herself is the day the serial will come to its core message - Be Fearless. You might go down anyway - the fight may be too big for you, but it is important not to lie down and succumb to oppression.
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Kesar is of huge symbolic interest in the serial Mann ki Awaaz Pratigya. She represents the most downtrodden of women, a woman without support, a woman without finances, a woman who does not receive emotional care, someone who does not have a voice - a section of society that is beaten, bullied, abused, used and kept around because she is sometimes a convenience. Also Kesar is significant because she does not have a way out. Her family is missing from the scene - there is no one, NO ONE, who can help her.
It is fortunately not a situation that we, the members of this forum, are in. It is impossible for us to fathom the helplessness of her situation.
Kesar observes, she stands by and notes the wrong doings - now and then she gathers the courage to mutter protest - but she is brushed aside. The Thakurs do not even pay her the compliment of keeping her out of their plottings and conspiracies. To them, she poses no threat, no danger, no importance.
Kesar, for the first time, has received some support from Pratigya. She has seen for the frist time a woman who could have been in the same position as herself reacting differently. Courage, like fear, is infectious. If one person stands up for themselves, somewhere the idea uncurls itself in other people: Maybe I can too.
Kesar stood aside when they plotted to kill Pratigya. She has not yet warned Krishna or Pratigya of this danger. She has stood mute at injustices to herself and she has stood silent at injustices being meted out to other people. But Protest is stirring within her - we have seen evidence of that here and there. She is no longer passive - she is uneasy, she is beginning to sense that whether it matters or not, she must speak up. Will she keep quiet today as well? Will she wring her hands and let Shakti go to Arushi with his bad intentions? Or will she at least run to Krishna and Pratigya and warn them of the danger to Arushi?
Because if she doesn't, Kesar too is culpable at some level.
I remember a radical decision that was given out at a panchayat in North India a few years ago. A woman was stripped and beaten in front of a crowd of people. When the Panchayat sat in justice, they punished the offenders, but they also punished the members of the village who had stood around, witnessing but doing nothing.
It is important to see what Kesar will do. Because the day Kesar starts to assert herself is the day the serial will come to its core message - Be Fearless. You might go down anyway - the fight may be too big for you, but it is important not to lie down and succumb to oppression.
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Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
Indian Mythology
Chakravarti Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan
