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There’s no law against flaunting ignorance and more’s the pity. Look how some time back a retired Judge, no less, said peacocks don’t mate but rather the ‘chaste’ peahen gets pregnant by drinking the peacock’s tears. If this is the first you are reading about this, I am really sorry for making you fall off your chair laughing. There has been more in like vein, an education minister claiming cows inhale and exhale oxygen, and someone or other saying cow-dung protects from radiation.
All rip-roaring funny alright, but what is definitely NOT is a recent claim by an MLA that child marriage will put an end to elopement and more of such balderdash. What a long and hard battle dedicated people had to fight to put child-marriage behind us and how tirelessly others are still fighting to convince parents (the irony that they need convincing!) to educate girl children and not marry them off till AT LEAST eighteen. And then along comes a nincompoop trying to undo it all. I may be setting my hopes too high, but I sincerely hope he gets laughed out of the picture by EVERYONE.
PS: I am purposely not linking to any of the news. If you’d like to read about them Google is your best bet.
©Shail Mohan 2018
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It is always a pleasure to read your posts! This one is so good!
Thank you 🙂
Theories that are so very profound
Of late in the news are abound
The postulator needs to be crowned
Till a better theory is found.
I am wondering where these guys with such excellent ideas were hiding all this time. Had they come out earlier, they would have taken our country at least half a century ahead.
Haha, yes 😛
Your first sentence deserves to become a meme! How true. I can’t believe the examples you’ve given, but that last one is incredibly damaging. I think I saw a link to an article about it a few days, and I couldn’t bear to read it. How lucky I am – thinking of those who get no choice but to live it.
There is more where this has come from and many of us are left reeling at the wisdom being dished out. It is sad where we seem to be going.
It’s a competition. My stupidity level is better than yours. Yay.
Right. That’s exactly it.
It’s a battle to preserve as much traditions as one can, no matter how outdated it is I guess. Tough to break, but I hope many girls get voided of being in undesired marriage and have the option to choose if they want to marry than be forced into it.
Right. They should have those choices.
Nincompoop is the right word! Loved this post👌😁
Thank you! 🙂