EVILS OF CINEMA by Shyamsundar Chitrakar

 

After 1947 Bharat [India] became independent.

We thought we would live in peace and not have any pain or suffering.

 

But what happened? People didn't have food

and clothes and they had to go and touch the feet of the babu who is the food committee

member. They would go in groups, touch his feet, and say "We want a little bit of rice
and food. We have lots of grandchildren at home."

 

"My daughter-in-law has no clothes and

has to stay in the kitchen that is why we have to touch your feet."

 

And all the young women wear shoes and glasses

and go to see films. Some women go with their grandsons. They laugh and do not dress

properly. They do not cover their heads with their saris.

 

Some go by rickshaw, some go by bullock cart.

 

Its even hard to keep old

women, from 40 to 60 years, at home.

 

Even the woman who has five sons tells her

husband, "I won't stay with you, you can't buy me perfume and all these things."

She says, "I will go to my father's place and marry another man."

 

Some women fight with their in-laws. This

fight occurred because the daughter-in-law would not work the dhenki. The father-in-law

criticized his daughter-in-law. Then the son beat the father and made him touch the

daughter-in-law's feet and ask her forgiveness. The old man was ashamed and hung

himself. After Independence fathers and sons fight in every house and men are

hanging themselves.

 

In court there are many cases about

women and even the judge is a woman. This is the end of the tale of independence.

 

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