Thursday, August 24, 2017

Women's prerogative !

Portrait of a women - Pablo  Picasso


Women are all believed to be Gemini. They change their mercurial mind rather suddenly. I have borne the scars of the sharp edge this scythe  myself. Maybe  the entire fault lies with us. Maybe we do not have the ability to read between the lines. Maybe we misinterpret what we hear and see. Maybe...   

"If you never change your mind, Why have one?"   Edward de bono has impeccable logic. However my question is, if you changed your mind what on earth did you change it to?


The best thing about being a woman, is the prerogative to have a little fun. Shania Twain says so and with that she has shut me up nice and proper. I can not fault this one.

Now before you chalk me up as a misogynist sob , let me quickly add that this phenomenon is not restricted to women alone. Someone said that  gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative. How true ! No other animal ever eats more than what they need except the human kind.

Interestingly enough "The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself." So said Pauline kael , the famous film critic.

Charles William Ashworth aka Charlie Peacock is a singer, songwriter and author. He may have uttered a great truth when he said," I am a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want!" This might have been said in jest but most  of us do believe the words to be true of all politicians.

As I said some of the blame lies with us. We let them off the hook rather easily. Politicians I mean. Take the case of Nitish Kumar. A couple of months ago when he ditched his then political formation to hitch his wagon to an unarguably corrupt and rotten to core political disposition; It was marketed as a brave , selfless move to contain reactionary, divisive, fundamentalist forces. Remember he was in power together with them till a couple of days before dumping them on the wayside. We swallowed this hogwash eagerly!

Several months down the line he realized that his new alignment , he is sharing power with now, is corrupt. Actually he realized they  were corrupt all this while but he was under no compulsion to take any cognizance till then! So what does he do?  Ditch this alignment too; that's what.  He dropped them like hot potato and got back  together with those same previously condemned ; famous reactionary, divisive , fundamentalists. Talk about prerogative !!

Was he lying previously, or is he lying now? He is as wrong now as he was in the past ; if you ask me. But we let him use his prerogative without  questioning and without him having to go back to people and seek a new mandate. We are the worst culprits here!

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak ; Neil Gaiman the author says. So I will take this opportunity to use my prerogative and endorse this truism that is  good for personal, professional and political life :-
 
Do not take people for granted. No matter how much they love you, people get tired eventually.