Resumo de Breaking The Shackles - Lakshmi Vishwanathan

Breaking the Shackles

I am one of those interior décor freaks , love decorated
homes and love decorating my own home . But every time I
amble around my home, there is one thing that never ceases
to amaze me ? how did the goldfish in the jar on the
dinning table spend three years of its life there and going
to spend all its life there? Since ages man had tried to
break out of clutches and shackles while the other times he
had been badly in need to of just them and nothing else.
Man started off as an animal , free and inexorable but
when he was obliged or rather felt the need to cook ( read
burn) his food ,then a lot of other things came with it.
But has this need for order made some cultures ,like the
ones in the middle east, rigid ? Or is it in the other
extremity ? Man is badly in need of Law. That is the
thought that strikes an average mind when it sees the
lawlessness around it. Freedom means different things to
different people ; to different cultures; and to different
societies. If history has to be believed Vincent Vangof
was at the mercy of LSD to create all those ethereal
creations. For such souls world melts; trees are uprooted
and people vanish and appear in their canvas of art. Such
souls find it freeing.

To a child next door freedom means to play around much
longer after the sun has long set. Pablo Picasso found
angles very freeing for himself in his famous cubism but
graphologists always believed that angles in any thing hand
written is a sign of stubbornness, of self-opinionated
minds. So, angles- those sharp edges can also give one a
creative outlet that?s so freeing. The artist on stage is
sure to find the thundering applause freeing, the wild
almost raucous mad love for his work. But as long as social
freedom is seen in the right perspective , so far so good.
In fact , it?s essential. But is all the increasing talk of
liberty for mankind sometimes seems hallow. With all the
techies around the world and with myriad airlines zooming
the skies , they have not become as light as a feather. A
bird flipping its wings in the sky will always remain more
free than the souls in the aircraft who have nowhere to go
but breath their last lest something goes wrong in the
flight. With the submarine all heavy and loaded , they
will always remain less agile , elegant and less dexterous
than the fish flapping its wings to the unending waves of
the sea.

But then, freedom is when one has the freedom of choice.
With this kind of healthy freedom man can fly too ,
metaphorically. A student bhargava says , ? freedom is
free thinking. It is freedom to love and be loved. And it
certainly doesn?t mean being a frog in the well?. Talking
of love , true love , says Bhagvad Gita is when one finds
love that does try to possess , hurt or oppress. Says
Priya , an IT professional , ? My grandma always ends up
talking about my wedding . One day I decided to stand up
for myself. I told her nothing is good or bad about it but
marriage is a choice. I don?t have to follow a time table.
I can breath, walk, smile and cry without it. I told her
that after all it?s not oxygen.?, and she adds , ? if you
really want to make own choices in life , you will face
questions . You need to stand by your viewpoint and express
it cordially.? I think of asking about open marriages since
we were talking about freedom and decide to dig the
matrimony thing. A lady, Adriana, 22, flares up, ? I
believe marriage is a commitment. My man dies if he
cheats me.? Mary Karuna, a communication student in
Osmania Univerty sums it for us, ? Freedom is to be the
person you want to be. People are always asking you to be a
good daughter or a good wife, freedom is when you don?t
have to oblige such demands just because you are expected
to. This what freedom means to me as a woman. ? By the
looks of it India sseems emancipated but nay, these women
are just a handful of strong ones from the metropolis of
the land, that?s it. There an other side to our country .In
India, records have it that more than 4,000 women are
killed by their in-laws on grounds of dowry demand and so
many more become victims of violence or abuse. More than a
million Asian girls are forced in prostitution to
accommodate man who fear falling prey to AIDS. These
girls, in effect, are thrown at the monsters. So, is the
talk of freedom for these women a surreal dream , in the
present conditions.

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