ಹೆಂಡತಿಯರೆಲ್ಲ ಹೀಗೇನಾ?

"ಕಾರ್ಯೇಷು ದಾಸಿ; ಕರನೇಶು ಮಂತ್ರಿ;
ರೂಪೇಚ ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ; ಕ್ಷಮಯಾ ಧರಿತ್ರಿ;
ಭೋಜ್ಯೇಶು ಮಾತಾ; ಶಯನೇಶು ರಂಭಾ"

Am not sure how many among our generation have ever heard the above Sanskrit shloka. Well if you haven't heard it, never mind, its never late to make an effort in knowing the meaning of this shloka which describes WOMAN in her entirety.
As always my effort to remember the shloka at this juncture arose from the people I meet daily, who in all the aspects have become a never ending resource for exploring the hidden stories of human nature. Yes, they are my Patients, each of them being a novel of different emotions!
The story goes like this....
The other day, a young guy aged around 24 walked in to our OPD ( its urology and andrology OPD). He was clad in his middle classed attire, looking rather worried as if his problem is solution-less. Seating himself rather hurriedly on the examination chair, he placed some of his investigation reports on my table. So without any formal introduction I was already being forced by this young man to just concentrate on his problems rather than wasting time in talking to him. I controlled my emotions to scold him, coz now-a-days it has become so irritating that people want doctor to just prescribe them medicines as they themselves would have made some shabby diagnosis of their problem, and they will be prejudiced to such an extent that you say anything contrary to what they believe their problem is, thats it; you just lost a patient. He/she will already be walking out of the chamber in hunt of another doctor!
So going by his reports, the guy had fertility problems with him, result of which he was not able to beget any children. His preliminary reports suggested that he rather try to go for the newer artificial insemination techniques, which seemed to be out of his budget when I explained him the options. He was bent upon trying to sneak some way to overcome this problem of his which made my work of consoling him much harder.
Now, whats the twist in this, you may ask isn't it? Well, here it is. During the conversation the guy revealed that he is HIV positive ( in laymen words AIDS). Shocking! Not that we never see such guys, as day in and out we see people who are infected and it is yet another viral disease for us which has been wrongly publicised in a rather scary way. Shocked for the fact that the guy knowing that he is infected and also knowing that this disease will be transmitted by sexual act, is still willing to have a child of his own!!!
Let me make one point clear here. Every person desiring to have a baby is normal and so is this guy. Am not against his desire. But, my concern was, this guy not only is gonna die an early death, but also will intentionally transmit the disease to his wife and also his unborn child who both will meet an early death. In simple words, he is planning for two homicides just to fulfill his desire. Is this action acceptable?? Never, as far as me in concerned.
So this background of his made my work of counselling him much more gruelsome as he is never accepting my point at all. As a last resort I asked him if his wife had come with him to which he summoned her inside the room. She was a young lady in her 20s, recently married, and she was educated till pre-university college. Knowing this I thought my job might get easier once I convince this girl about the future consequences by the guy's intentions. So, not wanting to hurt her emotions I just said that if he has sexual contact with her, even she too will get the disease and if they have a child, then chances of the kid having the disease are also high. The girl 's reaction was an affirmative nod suggesting she knew it!!
So not wasting my time, I said directly that she might die early death just because of him. Guys, you wont believe me. The PU learned girl said- I know! I don't mind dying. I just want my husband's desire to be fulfilled. Gosh!! I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Is this a Karan Johar movie??!!
Speechlees for the next 5 minutes. Come'on now if you guys' were in my situation what would have you done? So, grabbing myself back to the scene, I said that he is never gonna have children because his medical condition meant he had just 0.005% chances of conceiving( which was fortunate though). Just advised him to adopt any child if he had such a strong will to raise a child and the guy finally borrowed my words when he felt that was the last option in front of him.
I was done with the guy, but what still keeps me haunting is the girl's words. I don't know who wrote the above shloka, but she was totally like that- accepting him as her husband in his sickness and also death!
My conscience keeps asking me- ಯಾಕೆ ಹೆಂಡತಿಯರೆಲ್ಲ ಹೀಗೆ!?.......

ಭಾರತೀಯರು ಹಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಗು ಜಿರಳೆಗಳನ್ನ ಏಕೆ ತಿನ್ನುತ್ತಾರೆ?

ಭಾರತೀಯರು ಹಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಗು ಜಿರಳೆಗಳನ್ನ ಏಕೆ ತಿನ್ನುತ್ತಾರೆ?

ಮೇಲಿನ ಈ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ನೋಡಿ ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯ ಆಯ್ತಾ? ಅರೆ, ಭಾರತೀಯರು ಯಾವಗಿಂದನಪ್ಪ ಇದನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ತಿನ್ನೋಕೆ ಶುರು ಮಾಡಿದ್ರು ಅಂತ? ಇದನ್ನ ನನ್ನ ಹೆಂಡತಿ ನಂಗೆ ಕೇಳ್ದಾಗ ನಾನು ತಮಾಷೆಗೆ ಅಂತ ನಕ್ಕೆ. ಆದ್ರೆ ಇದು ನಾವುಗಳು ನಮ್ಮ ಮಕ್ಕಳನ್ನ ಓದಿಸೋ ಕಾಲ ಬಂದಾಗ ಅವರ ಟೆಕ್ಸ್ಟ್ ಬುಕ್ಕಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ರೀತಿ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಕಾಣುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆಗಳು 99%ಗಿಂತ ಜಾಸ್ತಿ ಇದೆ ಅಂತ ಹೇಳಿದಾಗ ಕುತೂಹಲ ಆಯ್ತು. ಹೇಗೆ ಅನ್ನೋ ಕುತೂಹಲ ನಿಮಗೂ ಇದೆಯಲ್ವಾ? ಅವಳು ಹೇಳಿದ ಸರಳ ಲಾಜಿಕ್ ಹೇಳ್ತೀನಿ ಕೇಳಿ.

ಗಾಂಧಿ ತಾತನ ಕಾಲದಿಂದಾನು ಭಾರತ ಹಳ್ಳಿಗಳಿರುವ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ ಅಂತಾನೆ ನಾವೆಲ್ಲಾ ಕಲಿತಿರೋದು ಹಾಗು ಅದು ಸತ್ಯ ಕೂಡ. ಯಾಕಂದ್ರೆ ತಲತಲಾಂತರದಿಂದಾನು ನಮ್ಮ ಪೂರ್ವಜರು ಹಳ್ಳಿಯಲ್ಲೇ ಇದ್ದುಕೊಂಡು ವ್ಯವಸಾಯವನ್ನೇ ಜೀವನ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡವರು. ಹಾಗಾಗಿ ಉತ್ತಿ ಬಿತ್ತು ಬೆಳೆ ತೆಗೆಯೋರು ಮತ್ತು ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ಅದೇ ಅವರ ದೈನಂದಿನ ಊಟ ಕೂಡ ಆಗಿರುತ್ತಿತ್ತು. ಸಹಜವಾಗಿ 90 ಕ್ಕೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಜನ ಸಸ್ಯಹಾರಿಗಳಾಗಿದ್ದರು.
ಬೌಗೋಳಿಕವಾಗಿ ಜಗತ್ತಿನ ಏಳನೇ ದೊಡ್ಡ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರವಾಗಿದ್ದು, ವ್ಯವಸಾಯವೇ ಅತಿ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಆದಾಯವಾಗಿದ್ದು ಹಾಗು ಅಷ್ಟೊಂದು ಜನ ಸಸ್ಯಹಾರಿಗಳಿದ್ದು ತೀರ ಹಲ್ಲಿ ತಿನ್ನೋ ಮಟ್ಟಕ್ಕೆ ನಾವು ಇಳಿತೀವ? ವಿಪರ್ಯಸವಾದ್ರು ಇದು ಸತ್ಯ ಕಣ್ರೀ. ಜಾಸ್ತಿ ತಲೆ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸೋದೆನು ಬೇಡ, ಯಾಕೆಂದ್ರೆ ಉತ್ತರ ನಮ್ಮ ಕಣ್ಣು ಮುಂದೆ ಬಿದ್ದು ಹೊರಳಾಡ್ತಾ ಇದೆ. ನೀವೇ ಯೋಚನೆ ಮಾಡಿ, ಸಸ್ಯಹಾರಿಗಳಾಗೆ ಉಳಿಬೇಕೂಂದ್ರೆ ಸಸ್ಯಗಳನ್ನ ಬೆಳಿಬೇಕು, ಹೌದ? ಸಸ್ಯಗಳನ್ನ ಬೆಳೆಬೇಕು ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಭೂಮಿ ಬೇಕು, ಹೌದ?
ಮತ್ತೆ, ಇಂಚು ಭೂಮಿನೂ ಬಿಡದಂಗೆ ಕಬಳಿಸ್ತ ಇರೋ ನಾಯಕರನ್ನ ನೋಡಿಕಂಡು ಸುಮ್ನಿದಿವಿ. ಅದು ಹಾಳಾಗಿ ಹೋಗ್ಲಿ, ನಾವಾದರು ನೆಟ್ಟಗಿದ್ದೀವ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ನಾವುಗಳೇ ಅಂಥವರು. ಯಾಕೆ ಹೇಳಿ, ಗಂಡ-ಹೆಂಡ್ತಿ ಇಬ್ಬರು ದುಡಿದು ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಸೈಟು ಮಾಡೋ ತನಕ ನೆಮ್ಮದಿ ನಿದ್ದೆ ಎರಡು ಇಲ್ಲ ನಮ್ಮಗಳಿಗೆ. ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗ್ತಾ ಇರೋ ಮಳಿಗೆಗಳು, ರಸ್ತೆ ಹೆಸರು NICE ಆದ್ರೂನು ಟೋಲ್ ಫೀನಲ್ಲಿ ಇಲ್ಲದ ನೈಸು, ಫ್ಲೈ ಓವರ್ ಮೇಲೆ ಫ್ಲೈ ಓವರ್ ಇದ್ದ್ರುನು ಜಾಗ ಸಾಲದೇ ಇರೋ ವಾಹನಗಳು, ಭೂಮಿ ಇದ್ದರೂನು ಮಾಲಿನ್ಯದಿಂದ ಬೆಳೆಯೋಕೆ ಕಷ್ಟ ಪಡ್ತಿರೋ ರೈತರು. ಇಷ್ಟೆಲ್ಲದರ ಮಧ್ಯ ಮತ್ತೆ ಬೆಳೆಯನ್ನ ಎಲ್ಲಿ ತಾನೇ ಬೆಳಿಯೋದು? ಈಗ್ಲೇನೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಮಕ್ಳು ಅಡಿಗೆ ಮನೆನ ಕೆಲಸದವರಿಗೆ ಬಾಡಿಗೆಗೆ ಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ, ಹಿಂಗೆ ಆದ್ರೆ, ನಾವು ಮಾಡಿದ ಕರ್ಮಗಳ ಪ್ರತಿಪಲವಾಗಿ ತಿನ್ನೋಕು ಪರದಾಡಿ ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಚೈನಾದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಗಿರೋ ಹಾಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದ್ದನೆಲ್ಲ ತಿನ್ನೋ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿ ಬಂದೆ ಬರುತ್ತೆ. ಆವಾಗ ನಮ್ಮ ಮಕ್ಕಳುಗಳು ಹಲ್ಲಿ ತಿನ್ನೋಹಂಗಾಗೊದ್ರಲ್ಲಿ ತಪ್ಪೇನಿಲ್ಲ ಅಲ್ವಾ. ಅಲ್ಲಿಗೆ ಭಾರತೀಯರು ಹಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಗು ಜಿರಳೆ ತಿನ್ನೋದರ ಹಿಂದಿನ ರಹಸ್ಯ ಬಯಲಾಗುತ್ತೆ.
ಇಷ್ಟೆಲ್ಲಾ ನಡಿತಿದ್ದರುನು ನಮ್ಮ ಮಾಜಿ ಪ್ರಧಾನಿಗಳು ಬೊಂಬಢ ಬಡ್ಕೊತಾರೆ ನಮ್ಮನ್ನ ಅಧಿಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ತಂದರೆ ಅಕ್ಕಿನ ಕೆಜಿಗೆ 2 ರೂಪಾಯಿಗೆ ಕೊಡ್ತೀವಿ. ರೀ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ, ನಮ್ಮ ರಾಜ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಇರೋ ಸುಲಭ ಶೌಚಲಯನ ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಿದರೆ 3 ರೂಪಾಯಿ ಕೊಡ್ಬೇಕು, ಅಂತಾದ್ರಲ್ಲಿ ನೀವು 2 ರೂಪಾಯಿಗೆ ಅಕ್ಕಿ ಕೊಡ್ತೀರ? ಮಾಡೋ ಕೆಲಸಗಳನ್ನ ನೆಟ್ಟಗೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ರೆ ನೀವುಗಳು ಕೇಳಲಿಲ್ಲ ಅಂದ್ರೂನು ಅಧಿಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ತಂದು ಕೂರಿಸೋ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಮನಸ್ಸು ನಮಗೆಲ್ಲ ಇದೆ. ಸೊ, ಮೊದಲು ಮಾಡಿ, ಆಮೇಲೆ ಮಾತಾಡಿ.

ಸರಿನೇನ್ರಿ ನನ್ನ ಮಾತು? ಹೋಗ್ಲಿ ಬಿಡಿ. ಸರಿನೋ ತಪ್ಪೋ, ಆದ್ರೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಸ್ಕೂಲನಲ್ಲಿ ಫರ್ಸ್ಟ್ ಬರ್ಬೇಕೂಂದ್ರೆ ಈಗಿಂದಾನೆ ಮೇಲಿನ ಉತ್ತರನ ಪ್ರಬಂಧ ರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ರೆಡಿ ಮಾಡಿತ್ತುಕೊಳ್ಳೋಣ . ಒಂದಾದರು ಒಳ್ಳೆ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದೀವಿ ಅಂತ ಮಕ್ಳು ಖುಷಿ ಆಗ್ತವೆ.
ಅದ್ಸರಿ ಯಾರಾದ್ರೂ ಹಲ್ಲಿ ತಿಂದು ಅಭ್ಯಾಸ ಇದ್ರೆ ಟೇಸ್ಟು ಹೆಂಗಿರತ್ತೆ ಅಂತ ಹೇಳ್ರಿ. Mentally ಪ್ರಿಪೇರ್ ಆಗೋಣ ಅಂತ.

SUPER- My review!

Satisfaction, happiness, thought provoking, memories.... I think the only media through which we can probably gain these emotions inside us is CINEMA. I never thought I would write something like this in my blog, but it was inevitable. Some feelings have to be put out to just relieve yourself. So am just doing the same. All the previously mentioned emotions clubbed together in a single movie is too much to ask for. Is it? Yes, but I surely got my money worth and all those feelings by watching a movie today i.e., "SUPER".

As we all know its a movie directed by Upendra after a ten year long hiatus and it just made me think that we certainly missed him and his creative thoughts in this past ten years. Yes, Uppi has certainly made a movie we all Kannadigas ought to be proud of. Its a movie which our Indian cinema needs to take a look at. Coz if you miss this, you are probably missing out one of the chapters of film-making.
The movie makes you sit through the whole 150 minutes without even blinking an eye . Am not exaggerating, right from the title card itself the audience will be involved. You can't even miss the title card. I have been thinking ways to tell the storyline, but apart from a single sentence that-it is a movie in which the hero dreams and achieves the futuristic India, I am not able to tell the story at all. Because its the screenplay which makes you come out of the movie enjoying every inch of it but unable to say the story. That has been the trademark style of Uppi and he has proved it again.
The scenes are so meticulously etched out that you will realize you can't imagine the next scene or predict the end ever. The scene in which Uppi confronts his father in front of a crowd, riduculing Indians in such a way that, we can just laugh on ourself and yet realize the impact of his thought behind that scene. Uppi's imagination about futuristic India appears so simple yet we feel why we didn't think like that. He defines the meaning of true Indian. Nayantara as the lead actress is clinical in her job and so are other characters.
Two more things which make the movie different and should laud him for his clear idea in achieving them is- the character of a FAMOUS JOURNALIST of highly circulating weekly of kannada . And the second one is the picturisation of the song -"naanu sooper ranga".Its probably an epitomy of a song how to be picturised.
All in all its a movie which is worth your money, worth your time and worth Uppis' efforts. Don't miss it. Final words to Upendra,( I know he may not read it, but) please do not take a break from directing movies and you are the best creative director to be present in the industry. Keep us entertaining.