I had taken this picture zooming my camera from my window seat in a train near Agra Cantt. station while travelling back from Kota. What was going through my mind at that point of time was the nonchalance of that unknown woman. She was lighting her bidi, sitting outside her home. But then what made me click the picture was the thing which upsets me; targetting the youth, the hypocritical behaviour of people who have a problem if the young are smoking and say 'its okay' when they smoke. Now this woman in the picture is not young and urban or a woman living independently on her own. So don't just target the young and independent for smoking.
If smoking is an issue , don't say its bad when a young woman or a young man smokes. One cannot say that 'these young women are into smoking because they are living alone, they have money to spend and noone to stop.' This may be the reason, but then what is the reason for the woman smoking in the picture?
Smoking is injurious for everyone's health, whether it is a man or a woman, a teenage or an old person and its better not to target any one segment or one particular gender.
This is my opinion which may be liked or disliked.
3 comments:
hey .. have u worked in sastra .. i guess so .. most of my seniors appear to be on your co author list .. u taught me during my first sem i guess in 2003 .. and then u left .. u might vaguely remember me as the guy who used to write poems ... i am siddharth ... was in the lit team with shiv and all shiv was 2 years senior to me ..
sry fr the long intro ..
I guess thats the way things are in the society in general .. habits, addictions have existed since time immemorial .. and so have the notions behind them that they are injurious .. i dnt think there will be a single soul who smokes and does not know it is injurious .. the society looks for reasons to find fault with others and blemish character ... and am used to that now ..
though the thing i dont really understand is .. what has smoking got to do with one's character anyway ..
excessive tea and coffee can kill u
so can alcohol .. so can sugar .. excessive anything kills you .. so does smoking .. then y do we pick this particular habit out and associate it with character ASSassination
and apologies if ur not the same person ..
hey m not the person you are talking about. coming to my post, society is hypocritical, double standards upset me. the rules should be the same for everyone. thanks for appreciating my post.
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