Kallola

What is it with domineering foes like suspicion, inhibition and other marital woes? Why can a day not just pass without the thought of another's lows? Why is it that the world matters more than what one can do to hold it all close? How is it that love becomes less than what an unknown universe unfolds?! Think! Oh! Silly heart. It is all in your grasp - your love, your life, your moments that clasp every tenderness, all that joy to hold and behold... It's your Kingdom, fool. Sit back and bask! 

Sunday Herald. Deccan Herald. April 24, 2011, Cover Story.   http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156070/till-death-do-us-part.html “What was your reason to get me married?”, I probed my mother as I started work on this article. While she took her moment to frame an acceptable answer, my all-knowing all-of-nine, bounded to my lap and held my face tightly in his palms. With his characteristic, infectious smile he declared, “To have ME! Simple, silly!” Kisses flew around the room. My son had, in one spontaneous moment, uttered the ultimate truth behind all creation. For a country like India, this is the perfect endorsement for family – one that has always worked. S o when this idyllic situation witnesses trends that are totally opposed to its ethos, the jolt is hard because while the ideology that is India prospers as a nation, something is going horribly wrong at the very core of its society. There was a time in all societies, all over the world, when things were quite s...