woman marrying banana trees- all is right with the country.

so now amitabh bachchan has been proposed as one of the next options to be the president of india. just when i was getting completely irritated with the way the entire charade over his sons engagement or wedding to aishwayra rai. i cannot believe that any sane literate individual would make his future daughter in law get married to a banana tree, a banyan tree and a stone idol to rid herself of the curse of the manglik. as if we did not have enough of these nonsensical superstitions anyway that now we have the ‘first family’ of indian cinema actively practicing such regressive reactionary rituals.

what is even more annoying is that this probably means that more of these rather archaic practices that have been known to completely destroy individual lives will be reinforced having gained validity through their adoption by influential people.

i wonder how someone like abhishek bachchan is able to reconcile his urbane hipness with this stifling conservatism; or is the liberal pose merely that- a pose; and is he really only a silly papa’s boy, too spineless to step out of his fathers shadow. and now this grossness as president!? no thank you, mr bachchan, we don’t need any more women domesticated.