Lately I have been an avid watcher of the serial Mahadev which comes on Life OK. One hears this is quite popular these days.
Watching it, a thought keeps coming to mind repeatedly. Was this the society which we come from? Where the girls had their independence of choice? Where the appointed ruler of humans, Daksha had 8 daughters. A powerful man, who could be opposed by his own people, on matters of principle. Lastly was beheaded because he becomes the reason for the death of his own daughter.
A similar unfolding is happening on the events of Parvati, whose single minded pursuit to marry Mahadev is unquestioningly allowed / supported by her father, keeping aside his own promises and his wifes reservations.
When one heard of organizations that came up with Hinduism as a cause, initially one thought here are the people who would take Hinduism out of the clutches of the Victorian mind set and hundreds of years of subjugation. Bring it back to its glorious past of a thinking debating free willed society, which Mahadev the serial shows.
Alas, instead these groups are bent upon converting the society into an intolerant, hate mongering one, where morality definition is getting worst than the extremist doctrines currently in vogue.
The liberals are at the other end of the pendulum, espousing the western ways and unabashed imitators of that culture. This is as bad as the aforesaid groups.
One truly wonders when Hinduism as a culture will as propagated in the serial will really return back to our shores.
