The Chatterboxes

Something or other happens and people who maintain a stoic silence otherwise start talking that too incongruously . Well, it is true that people are entitled to their opinions but they generally keep quiet at happenings and once something happens that draws most people's attention, the stiff-upper lips start their verbal diarrhea.

The problem with verbal diarrhea is that during such times, the mind shuts down automatically and the tongue begins its run and stops only when it has grown tired.

Yes, you guessed it right. The recent utterances of their Eminences on the Delhi rape case is what this piece is about.

The RSS chief who generally maintains his dignity opened up. His piece on the difference between Bharat and India was a bit confusing. He could have left it at that. It would not have caused any damage. People would have forgotten what he had said. But he didn't stop. He pontificated on a 'social contract ' that was supposedly known as marriage and advised women to be at home while allowing their husbands to work. Well, that would have been alright for those husbands that work. How about Tamil Nadu where the men folk from the working class spend most of their time in TASMAC - the govts' wine shops for the masses ? Who would provide for the family if the wife didn't work? Well, you could say that the govt provides free rice, tv and the lot. But the govt doesn't provide education worth the salt. So the children would have to go to "English" medium schools to learn Tamil. How would that be possible if the wife didn't work as a house maid or a mid-day-meal worker?

How about the unfortunate women without their husbands? ( in some cases they are fortunate that they didn't have the need to live with drunkard husbands ). How would they live without working? Yes they have free colored TV sets to pass their time but TV sets need power supply to work.

How about the other group that has live in relationships? Can the women stay out of work while depending on their live-in partners . What happens if they don't get married eventually ?

These are some of the questions that the RSS chief didn't touch upon. Probably somebody advise him to talk on those issues in their next meeting.

Then came Asaram Bapu of Delhi. He pontificated that the braveheart should have called her rapists 'brothers'. Probably that brotherly invocation would have resulted in a rakhi ceremony.

The utterances of some BJP ministers from Chhatisgarh are indicative of the dire need to open up lunatic asylums in their hordes. The asylum entrepreneurs have ready clientele in the BJP ministers. For Congress, you need a reserve forest kind of set up.

I think these eminents have taken a vow to be in the limelight for their 15 minutes of eminence and thus have mouthed such un-heard of material that has only resulted in making us believe that Tamil Comedy Actor Vadivelu needs to come back on screen ASAP and resume his comedy lest we get lesser qualified comedians.
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An apology - ( posted on 13-Jan-2013 )

My apologies. I was a bit over-enthusiastic. The RSS chief has not said those that are attributed to him it seems. As usual our English media has hoodwinked me. But this is yet another instance of anti-right philosophy and prejudice of the English media against the right.  Got to know the truth from the following site.

http://www.newslaundry.com/2013/01/snide-and-prejudiced/

Tamil Films, NASA, et al

The insatiable ability of the tamil people to bear with such nonsense is to be admired at sincerely. Yes, I am talking about the TV programmes in Tamil that too of the SUN kind. For the n-th possible time the network broadacasts the arrival of a new tamil film that has everything in it that can qualify the movie for a porn-certificate if only it does not have the gravity defying stunt sequences and gory blood-soaked scenes. How does one stand this kind of non-stop-nonsense ? One the one hand you have the very slim and un-shaven hero putting to question all known laws of physics by his stunt scenes while on the other hand we have the heroine who appears time and again in so less costumes that one begins to take pity at her inability to cover the bare essential surface areas of her body. Added to that are the dance sequences ( you need to believe that those are dances ) that are nothing but aerobic exercises in fast-forward fashion of the most skimpily clad girls on the screen. There is also this very essential duty of the heroine to reassure the viewers that her body anatomy is in order and that her cholesterol levels are slightly bordering on the higher side. This she does by appearing in the most skimpily designed costumes ( if you can call them costumes ) that don't have any semblance of any culture ( leave alone tamil culture ). Probably the heroine reminds the viewers that the tamil populace have a very distant origin -- trying to prove Darwin's Theory that man evolved from apes. Probably that is why she apes the apes. The point to be noted is that the mother of the heroine ( a widow 99% of the time ) would be so poor that she wouldn't have the means to buy a replacement saree. She would appear in the same saree all through the film. Additionally there is this handicapped-yet-brilliant brother of the heroine. ( No marks for guessing that the handicap would have been caused by the villain either by way of an 'accident' or by way of making the heroine's mother drink some liquid that could cause deformity of the foetus). Then you have the ubiquitous comedian. The person or persons who would need to have his private parts hurt everytime he appears on the scene - that is how you need to define a comedian. Going by the number of times the comedian Vadivelu has been thrashed below the belt, one can safely assume that he would not need to wear any safety guard attire if he would choose to play cricket anytime in the future. Then come the ubiquitous villain - most likely a local politician who is surrounded by a bunch of goons sporting attire of every concievable nature. And the only intention of the politician would be to get rid of this gravity-defying hero.

NASA would do well to initiate technology transfer from Tamil filmdom unto themselves in the lines of how to make a human being stay afloat in air for a prolonged period of time and at the same time perform acrobatics. The other area of tech transfer could pertain to the ability of the hero to dodge any number of bullets fired from a machine gun. This could be useful in helping astronauts escape from the occassional meteorite while in space.