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Here we have a hatke show.
So instead of Indira being killed for money by her inlaws, we have Rishi being tortured by goons hired by some Sharma and they have killed him (well we hope they haven't, but they have done their part).
Imagine if Indira had been subjected to such rough treatment as a bahu.
- How much anguish would we have experienced?
- Would we have tolerated Rishi being blind to his family's abusive, extreme parasitic behavior?
- How many chappals we would have thrown at Rishi for being so blind to his family's abuse of him as well as his wife? How many gaalis we would have given him?
- Would we have rejoiced in his pain or tolerated/excused it?
No!
No one would have tolerated such blind slavish devotion to abuse. What is the utmost that anyone can do to the other? - Take their life. That is the ultimate sin
We have Sharmas who have done precisely that. They have succeeded in torturing him, killing him, and eliminating any threat he posed to their idle existence filled with their selfish wants that Indira is supposed to work her bones off to fulfill. Even the kidnappers remarked at how disgusting the family is ..something about chewing her bones off
Only today in Rati's AT there was excellent discussion on male abuse of his partner and how no woman would have tolerated it.
So question is what is in our psyche that makes us tolerate or rejoice in Indira's pain and blindness to the darkness in her family, the threat they have posed to her own being? We all have been guilty of this. Proof is that while there have been numerous threads today on Rishi dying, but no one has expressed anger at Sharmas killing him.
Now if Indira had been killed by the Diwans, we would have had numerous threads abusing them, wishing them to hell and whatnot.
So why?
Is it because if she had been an abused, battered wife being killed by her in-laws and her husband was a spineless, blind slave to them, we would have been able to relate to it more because this is tragically what many, many women face daily in their lives. Almost all of us in our lifetime will know a case or more of such a woman, a woman whom we knew personally.
Is it also because inspite women's lib and all that, we expect man to be a man, i.e. aggressive, ego driven or at least a healthy respect for his ego to not take BS from any one.
Rishi lost all his ego through guilt he suffers because of Vidith's accident, as well as intense desperate need for Indira's love...and maybe desire to protect her.
Hence though we are upset at his death, the connection between his state and Sharmas has not reached a visceral level where it would spawn anger
Any comments on why we haven't seen an explosion of anger would be much appreciated.
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