You have to pay the price for everything - even for a pee. This morning when Meher and I landed at the hospital for our meditation session both of us "had to go". So Meher led me to this room on the second floor with an attached loo which we normally use during our visits. Till recently there was a patient staying there who used to not mind us using her bathroom but today the room was empty. Maybe the lady was discharged.
Anyway I went in and as I came out of the bathroom I heard the hospital ayah telling off Meher about our using the loo, and that she didn't want every Tom, Dick and Harry using it. Bathrooms are a real problem in India - possibly its worst feature. Clean loos are more difficult to find than gold. Meher started to pick a fight with this rather tall, hefty, officious woman in a white sari. I told her (Meher) to shut up and not to waste her energy. As we got into the lift to go downstairs to the playroom where we were to conduct the meditation, we could still hear the ayah ranting and raving away upstairs. Poor thing, she must have been having a bad day.
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The Movement for Peace and Justice (MPJ) is organising a morcha tomorrow against "rape, dowry and alcohol." Rape and dowry. OK. I can see that nobody would want to support things like that. But alcohol? How does it figure in the same category? Alcohol in reasonable quantities is not a bad thing. It can help you to relax, and it said to be good for the heart.
Alcohol abuse is quite something else. Wanting to ban alcohol per se is like wanting to ban sex - because sex is the cause of rapes. Or banning money because money is the root of the dowry problem. Why dont they just say they want to ban greed, violence and irresponsiblity? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. As if morchas are going to help bring about any change in society.
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Well well... Let me show you the real picture about today's modern daughters-in-law, and destruction of Indian Families:
Misuse of Dowry Laws
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