My first scandal
Many people including myself did recognise that there is something awfully faulty in the social conditioning with which men and women are raised in this country especially when it comes to attitudes towards the opposite sex. It is only now that people are also seeing that things are not merely faulty, they are outright dangerous. it is a possible factor behind the free flowing news items about rape in this country. When I was 13 years old, I was in Delhi. I studied in Kendriya Vidyalaya, Janakpuri. Once, during a fancy-dress competition, I saw this boy dressed as "bharat mata"(Mother India) on the stage. In his clumsily draped saree and shaaby long-hair wig, he was funny and a sport. He was bound in chains that were tagged as "corruption", "poverty", "illiteracy" and "communal disharmony". Mother India was sad and pleaded to be freed from these chains. I immediately had a crush on him, although I couldn't even see his face...