"Horror!Horror!Horror!" is one of the most famous quotes. It is from Joseph Conrad's great novel, 'The Heart of Darkness'. Such are the oft-repeated cruelties that are these days getting constantly reported that the Conrad quote seems to suit the current realities. Darknesses, unfortunately, seem to cloud very many hearts, and, female, at that.
Well, as it was April 1 yesterday, there was a riot of memes, et al, on groups, statuses, and what have you! One such pic showed a young man carrying a blue plastic drum. The accompanying comment was "Needed: a wife who uses the drum to fill water, and not to cement me in it."
Indeed, the very thought of that notorious case from Meerut is horrible. Here is a married woman with a child. She coolly murders her Merchant Navy husband who indulged her so much that he flew back from London for her birthday.
Her own parents argued vehemently that he was a good son-in-law, and a good husband. For her sake, he had totally severed all the ties with his family whom she harassed hugely till she could get total control over him.
And, after all this, she murdered him most horribly with the help of her lover against whom she was repeatedly warned not only by the besotted husband but also by her own parents! Much worse, as per her lover's injunctions, she stabbed the drugged husband with the chopper she bought supposedly for her kitchen, for vetting her non-veg appetites. She coolly chopped his body, allowed the lover to take away the blood dripping head for sorcery.
Much worse still, they together cut the man's body and cemented the parts in a blue plastic drum. After all this, she had the gall to go on a "Holi" holiday with her lover. She remembered the foolish man only when money went scarce during the fun trip. After returning, she was ready to get rid of the drum which turned out to be kinder to the husband than she was! Otherwise, she would have continued her happy life with her lover without regret or without being found out!
Even otherwise, she comes across as an extremely shallow, ill-educated woman who entices a man with her looks(!?! Really! She has a very vixen like cruel face!), uses him, completely controls his money matters, carries on, that is, has affairs behind his back, and finally murders him!
If she wanted her paramour so much, she could have gone for a separation, filed for a divorce, right? Live-in's are hardly frowned upon these days even in three-tier cities. Moreover, there would have been the alimony! Why finish a life, and his entire family?
Indeed women, too, seem to follow the terrible male ways these days. A young son is the only hindrance and encumbrance in an affair? The mother murders him! The son knows much too much about her affairs of all sorts? The mother declares him mad or epileptic! Gets him electric shocks and psycho-surgery-ed!
Anybody from the extended family so much as dares to disagree with her over a very minor issue? Create a huge public ruckus! Want to appear 'modern'? Get one's own children addicted to booze and to baiting!
All such shenanigans are much, much worse than the earlier attempts during the 1990's such as ill-treating, threatening, and maligning in-laws under false pretexts of dowry demands! In the face of such heinous cruelties pales the ill-treatment of one's own sons by mothers because, in their maternal homes, their parents got only grand-daughters!
Indeed, such patriarchally prejudiced behaviour by anybody, male or female, is bad. Such cruelty has to be gender-neutral. Currently, however, women, too, seem to compete with men in such treacherous horrendous acts. What could be the psychological, pathological, and sociological causes behind such brutalities by women? The mind boggles!
Pratima@ Such brazen barren (he)arts hide sad tales of women who are genuinely harassed which is the true 'horror!horror!horror'!
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