Life, a fiction or reality?

This is a question in everyone’s mind as one read today’s headlines in mostly all the Indian news-papers. A shifting society, like India’s is bound to generate an interest in appearance and in the philosophical sense.

It is significant that the only character in Hindu mythology, a King, to be given a title of “ekam-patni-vrata”, devoted to a single wife, that to when the King, Ram/Rama, abandons her for protecting family reputation and keeping his kingdom.

In 1936, the British Empire faced a crisis, when its Monarch, Edward the VIII^th, abdicated the throne to live with his lady love.

Now 2010, Minister of State for External Affairs, Shahi Tharoor, submits his resignation, because of his then friend, Sunanada Pushakar, had equity stakes in Rendezvous Sports World (RSW), heading the consortium that owns the Kochi team.

It was later disclosed that Pushkar got sweat equity of the value of Rs 70 crore RSW following which the opposition has been gunning for his removal on the ground that it was misuse of office for pecuniary gain. After Tharoor’s  impolite dismissal from the position, he marries Pushkar.

As written on a screenplay: Super: Present day, 2014; The wife Sunanda Pushkar, tweets from Tharror’s Twitter account of his involvement with a Pakisthani Journalist Mehr Tharar.

So what’s the analysis? The origin of rules for governance and governing a state or a nation existed from time immemorial. Like King Rama/Ram in his time and situation thought worthy of leaving his wife, for the sake of proper running of the Kingdom. In the 20^th century, a monarch decides to leave his position and Power for justifying his love. In 21^st century, a Man in power uses his friendship with a woman to cover his tracks and hoard money through illegal sources. Later he marries the woman after being jilted from his position. Now when the woman, as a wife, bares his bedroom stories on the social media, she is found dead and the Man, gets to the hospital with an aching heart.

A timeline of values and changes in modern India is seen in the stories and events unfolding in day today news. Newspaper or rather News, becomes a mirror image of the country’s diversity, variety and plurality. Arts, commerce, sports, politics and business find their separate space in the news paper. Benedict Anderson’s comment- Its profound fictiveness makes the newspaper a significant socio-cultural product. So isn't life full of real fiction!