SCARLETT STILL IN THE NEWS II There was a time when scarlet was just another word for the colour red,
But these days it has become the symbol of things better left unsaid. It evokes thoughts of drugs, rape and murder by drowning. In truth for the levels that man will stoop to, there's no accounting – In the final analysis, one forgets that a teenager is prematurely dead. Likewise keeling reminds one of someone lurching like a drunk, The fear of his wife at home probably putting him in a blue funk; But in Goa today they associate it with a family reduced to eight Forgetting altogether their sad and tragic psychological state To what low levels of indifference and skewed values have we now sunk? - Shanti Dhoot
