Uncalled Battle

It has been a long time since i have posted on my blog.Hearing all the complaints from my dear friends for not keeping my blog updated its high time i feel guilty about and get going with it.It was not as if i was lost in translation or had nothing to share or discuss but can assure you the relunctance and indolence took a toll on me.Will definitely give a shot in overcoming it after all blogging is all about narcissism.
Now its very important that u revisit my blog so i had to share sumthing intriguing and definitely that topic should be driving me within too,because for very creative writing you need to have ur inspiration.I came across this article by a famous happy bachelor which really tickled my bone and i had to have my say on it.But before i go ahead i will give you a sneak into the article -my source of inspiration.
TRAVAILS OF A METRO MALE
Liberated or hoodwinked into running all errands? The world seems to be making a fool out of the metro male!
A lot has been written about the metrosexual and i guess a lot more will be written once people understand that this is not some unique species we are talking about.However, what has been conveniently ignored is the harrowing life of men operating under high pressure in a city like Delhi or Mumbai!
This debate about gender equality has banished most metro men to their kitchens ;they are running errands, they are the ones queing up outside Mother Dairy booths,they are the ones trying to get the little brat to school ,attending parent teacher meets and playing with children in the park!But does anyone recognise their pain ? No sir!Instead a myth is created ,eulogising their sacrifice by calling them modern or liberated!All in the hope that they will run a few more errands,I am sure!
Tell Me,what is so liberated about standing in line waiting to fill your vessels with some milk?Or to listen to some wretched school teacher drone about all the aweful traits your IVF-induced child is plagued with?What is so liberated about fasting on Karva chauth jus to express solidarity with your wife?Solidarity went out with Lech Welesa in Poland and we don't need it to recur either in Malabar Hill or Maharani Bagh.
An unsuspecting war has been unleashed on the hapless Indian male.They are now questioning everything about us:their psychometric tests make a narco test look like kindergarten stuff, and yet there is no one to stand up for us.We are a minority and we don't even have a Mamta Banerjee to go on a hunger strike for us.We live within such pressurised homes as if we were born into a family of Hawkins.
This column will be the voice of the male.An impassioned voice that will appeal to all who matter and also to those who don't.It will reflect on the issues that we men are inflicted with and affected by.It will about Man Poised when India is.It will be about the Indian man who has come a long way in nation-building.It will extol our virtues of patience and the tolerance of boundless sufferance.Through this column we men will show the world a side of ours that is never seen because we are never allowed to take our clothes off and those who do are punished by being kept out of the cricket team for periods of time.This will be a column that will tell the world how arduous it is to stay manly in todays world, in every which way.If you look around ,the prettiest women don't want hunks anymore!They seek softer sensitive people:so you've either got to be gay or you've got to give in.There is no third option!
They say the age of chivalry is dead and yet there is no comment on why men must be packed like sardines whereas women get to travel in Ladies Only compartments?Why men cannot be allowed to listen to Gloria Stein's lecture just because she is a feminist and we are not all that bright?This perverse exclusion must stop in India.Even politically the indian male has been weakened .Te south saw a rampaging Jaylalitha and Vajpayee was so often downon his knees that both his knees had to be replaced.And the east today sees a very hungry yet extremely rotund Mamata go on a fast but catch a man fasting and not even his own family will be there to commiserate.This is how the Indian male is being treated today.Rabindranath tagore if he were alive would have goaded the indian male a voice,a platform,from where we can be seen ,even if never heard.At least in the 60th year of India's independence,the indian male can look forward to some freedom!
Well Well....the only reaction i get after reading it was 'Finally!'.So over the centuries we have been discussing the plight of Indian women , the atrocities inflicted by the Indian male on them n Finally if the same plight ,the same pains(which is hardly a matter of fact)is being experienced by our poor Indian males i am only filled with great exhilaration.If the time is ripe for role reversal the Indian male should definitely gear up !