On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 23:01, Deepa Mohan<[email protected]> wrote: > > Never with the honorific....by the way, Shakuni was the brother of the > blindfolded lady....she was called Gandhari..from the land of > Gandhar...Khandahar in Afghanistan, I think! It was his ambition on behalf > of his nephew which started off the chain of events....now I am not > referring to the TV serial but the actual epic! :)
....epics !! Talking of which, yesterday i channel surfed into a chat show on Times Now where a few couples were discussing their live-in relationships. Nothing unusual. The twist in the discussion was introduced when a man in a polyandrous relationship with his best friends wife for 30 years, was being interrupted and questioned on moral grounds while describing his life choice(s). One woman opined concern over him being unable to ever marry this woman legally, another was worried about the effect on the future generation, some were aghast that he lived with her children and husband under the same roof in a Kerala village, a director described how strong of character the protagonists in the movie salam namaste were, etc.... While Draupadi came to mind during the discussion, here, it was certainly strange to hear women participants on the show, already in a live-in relationship (hence strong individuals un-fettered by society's definition of morality) question his relationship on moral grounds. The irony confounds me!! -- .
