THE COKE AND THE CASUALTY
The lives of the bold and the beautiful – very fast, very eventful, very chequered and sometimes, very short. Well, if one looks at the saga of the Mahajans that has been unfolding for the last one month or so, this might just be how it works out. First, the father succumbs to his brother’s bullets. Then, the son snorts on coke with champagne and finds it too close for comfort (that’s what it is, even nothing has been ‘proved’ till now). Is this an evil omen on the family or just the course that the lives of the high and mighty are supposed to take? Or, it might be anything else. But, to ask again and again, how much of sense does this really make? Enough for a day’s headlines and breaking news feeds, at least. Enough to set off a clutch of psychiatrists hawking their trade -offer new cures and analyses to find out. Find out what? Well, to find out just what is it that causes our ‘depressed’ celebrities to snort on pricey powder or take their own lives at times ? And yes, this is much more important than any Tom, Dick or Harry who might think his life is invaluable.
Not to say that Rahul Mahajan does not deserve to live. But, then so do the thousands and lakhs of those whose homes come in the way of large dams or those who inhabit the countless footpaths in our cities. And, lest one forgets, they are subject to substance abuse as well, of a much baser kind. They cannot afford cocaine for fifteen grand. Then what do they resort to? It can be anything from a tube of Dendrite to a can of shoe polish. And most of them are much younger then Rahul Mahajan. So, their tender minds are really put through a lot even before they are able to realize what death looks like or feels like. Still, at the end of the day, their case is not even half as important as the case of the coke and the casualty. So, almost nobody tells their story – be it the pretty newscaster or the high-profile psychoanalyst. And again, mental depression does not spare anybody – those who have everything in life or those who do not. Strange are the ways of the nature! Strange are its ways of trying to make everyone a little bit wise!
The lives of the bold and the beautiful – very fast, very eventful, very chequered and sometimes, very short. Well, if one looks at the saga of the Mahajans that has been unfolding for the last one month or so, this might just be how it works out. First, the father succumbs to his brother’s bullets. Then, the son snorts on coke with champagne and finds it too close for comfort (that’s what it is, even nothing has been ‘proved’ till now). Is this an evil omen on the family or just the course that the lives of the high and mighty are supposed to take? Or, it might be anything else. But, to ask again and again, how much of sense does this really make? Enough for a day’s headlines and breaking news feeds, at least. Enough to set off a clutch of psychiatrists hawking their trade -offer new cures and analyses to find out. Find out what? Well, to find out just what is it that causes our ‘depressed’ celebrities to snort on pricey powder or take their own lives at times ? And yes, this is much more important than any Tom, Dick or Harry who might think his life is invaluable.
Not to say that Rahul Mahajan does not deserve to live. But, then so do the thousands and lakhs of those whose homes come in the way of large dams or those who inhabit the countless footpaths in our cities. And, lest one forgets, they are subject to substance abuse as well, of a much baser kind. They cannot afford cocaine for fifteen grand. Then what do they resort to? It can be anything from a tube of Dendrite to a can of shoe polish. And most of them are much younger then Rahul Mahajan. So, their tender minds are really put through a lot even before they are able to realize what death looks like or feels like. Still, at the end of the day, their case is not even half as important as the case of the coke and the casualty. So, almost nobody tells their story – be it the pretty newscaster or the high-profile psychoanalyst. And again, mental depression does not spare anybody – those who have everything in life or those who do not. Strange are the ways of the nature! Strange are its ways of trying to make everyone a little bit wise!
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