Endeavor to scrutinize any instance from the ancient times and you will find that anything that went wrong had in away been associated to a female. Not that ‘females’ are star-crossed. History has frequently proved that without women ‘a job done is better undone’! The root of our genesis is a woman, and so insulting them is like being discourteous to God.

Every successful man has a woman behind him. From time immemorial this avowal has been graced by orators, business magnates, politicians… What nobody thought was that if not for the woman that person could have been more successful! We tend to get so sanguine that we forget that a half filled glass can also be half empty. I have grown up around men who have forsaken their better halves because they found someone better. Some have lived with it throughout their lives. Some have died crying. This attitude of sacrificing their live for someone who has forsaken them has ultimately spoiled many other lives. Their children, the people who looked up to them as examples… We Indians want to evolve but still go by cursing widow remarriages.

Men are from Mars and women from Venus. Whatever people may say, I have experienced that, teenaged boys nowadays become more serious than girls. There are many instances, which better not see the light of the day. I have seen two girls brawl over one guy, for the gifts he gives to one of them. And if this couldn’t get any sillier! Two girls fight over old books in someone else’s house, break a glass case, and still indulge in one of the greatest mudslinging matches I have ever seen, won by none! That was Cracky and ‘the girl with a boyish nickname’.

Had Sunil Gavaskar’s mother stopped bowling to him when he had hit her nose with the cricket ball, maybe he would have cracked a few more centuries before retiring?? We can’t rewind history to know this, but surely there was a chance. There are hot blooded youngsters wanting to fight for their country on the border, only to be stopped by a mother or a sister. Love is just an excuse, but can you justify the countless mothers/sisters who lost their sons/brothers to the terrorist attacks on the 7/11. Yes had your son/brother been on the border, this could have been averted. No, you are not responsible for this. But your hands are soiled with the bloods of the hundreds who died a few days back in the Mumbai Serial Blasts. All of us are instilled with the acumen of becoming engineers and doctors. How many mothers have asked their sons to go fight for the country? Debacle creates an aftermath of ethical ambiguity. The preliminary alarm of revulsion gives way to an insidious sense of guilt. Of course, all of us genuinely grieve for the victims. But at the heart of that empathy there is a small but irrepressible inner voice which says: Thank God it wasn’t my son/brother. This is the remorse of the survivors, a poignant foreboding, as it is illogical. That those who have died have somehow died in our stead, by some enigmatic calculus of transience lost their lives so that we may live. Endurance is tinged with shame. That we the living have, after the fact, allowed others to die on our behalf, death by proxy. Guilt sharpens grief, gives it a serrated edge. If we recognize this remorse we jettison it as the specious spectre that is.

How many examples can history show us about the destructive capabilities of women? It was Draupadi in Mahabharata, Helen of Troy in the Trojan Wars… And the list seems endless. Some even say that Hitler killed millions of Jews because once a Jewish merchant had abused his mother. Yes, I too would have avenged her regard, but not by slivering off half of the Jewish population of the world. Draupadi’s attempted rape could have been averted had her husbands not pawned her in a rigged game of dice! Helen could have been brought back by peaceful processes. At least there should have been an attempt. Think of the millions killed in these long wars. Women are not responsible for mass destructions, they are mere reasons. Reasons powerful enough to revolutionize the world!

Today, I prophesize that the ‘Nuclear World War’ will be triggered off due to a woman. Watch this space for more updates!