Modern-day Mahabharat!
Those who’ve read their Mahabharatha or watched the B.R. Chopra mega serial will always remember that climactic moment when Yudhishthira loses the wife in a game of dice and a weeping Draupadi is dragged to the gaming hall in the royal palace at Hastinapur where the disrobing of the Pandavas’ wife is divinely pre-empted by Krishna. There was an entirely different twist to the tale last Tuesday on Diwali night in the Kundapura Kedarpur village in the Dhampur tehsil of UP’s Bijnore district when a drunken 28-year-old Ram Singh gambled away first his money, then his ring and finally his watch before staking his wife for a sum of Rs 5,000 and losing her too. When the winner went to Ram Singh’s house to claim the wife, what followed was completely contrary to what Vyasa had scripted.
Instead of letting herself be dragged away, Ram Singh’s wife picked up a burning log of wood and used it to beat up the winner who fled in tears to the nearest police station. The matter didn’t end even when the cops intervened and the loser borrowed Rs 5,000 and paid off the winner in cash instead of kind. When Ram Singh returned home, he was severely beaten up by his wife. The thrashing stopped only when Ram Singh begged for forgiveness and wailed that he would never, ever gamble again in his life!
Draupadi has come a long way since the Mahabharatha! Today’s Draupadi obviously believes that God helps those who help themselves! So much so that today’s Duryodhana has to cower behind the law-enforcing Bhishma to escape retribution. And today’s Yudhishthira has to fall at Draupadi’s feet to be accepted by her. And if Ram Singh reforms, we could even see that traditional proverb being re-adapted to state that “behind every successful man is a woman with a broomstick or a burning log in hand!” And Kundapura Kedarpur village may have already left Kaliyuga behind and moved into a golden age of its own!
~ saludos to the power of the woman.
babaji2003 said,
December 12, 2006 @ 10:57 pm
hahahaha… way to go!!!!
orissa said,
December 12, 2006 @ 11:19 pm
great women
Hari said,
December 12, 2006 @ 11:40 pm
Good One !!
R A said,
December 13, 2006 @ 12:01 am
Wow!!! That’s shows real woman power…. And the cowardly drunkard husband should be thrown into Jail …. He doesn’t deserve to roam around, get drunk again and do the same thing after a month or two…. which I am sure he will ….. coz these guys never learn a lesson…. severe beating or not….
Sahil said,
December 13, 2006 @ 12:48 am
thats too good work .actually mens think that wifes r their property . d way they want they can use her . but they should come to know that she has her own life nd d way she wants can enjoy her life she is not a prisnor so a saludos to the power of the woman
San said,
December 13, 2006 @ 2:35 am
:))))))))))))))))) great going lady!!!!!!!!
jassadmin said,
December 13, 2006 @ 3:01 am
salute!
like wateva said,
December 13, 2006 @ 3:06 am
ma heads still spinning
notsostupidinjun said,
December 13, 2006 @ 6:45 am
way to go lady!!!!!!
This was excellent, and I’m sure NONE of it has been exaggerated!
However, one question to everyone - what about if the man ain’t at fault? And the lady beats him up? What should he do?
Anonymous said,
December 13, 2006 @ 7:57 am
really interesting piece of news!!! absolutely hilarious… a classic example of “kalyug ka mahabharat”
spybonde said,
December 13, 2006 @ 8:46 am
Nice! Women should learn to stand up to these things. Like you said editor, Salutes!!!!
cooldude said,
December 13, 2006 @ 9:08 am
Bravo! Absoultely awesome man. dats wat our country needs but (sulk) wish da bloody man who lost da bet & wife was a politician, atleast our country wud have been cleaner by a count. Ha Ha Ha
kittu said,
December 13, 2006 @ 11:50 am
hats off to da lady!!!!!!!!!
souvik said,
December 13, 2006 @ 1:06 pm
yessss,
it’s the way the busterd gamblers should be handeled. all mordern n educated ladyz should rise their arms against these so-called heads of the socity who can’t even respect the womans of their own family!
No Big Boss said,
December 13, 2006 @ 1:17 pm
Mere Bharat ki aurat MAHAAN ..
PhotoDude said,
December 13, 2006 @ 2:07 pm
Duryodhan didn’t do the vastra haran .. it was Dushyasan
Pagloo said,
December 13, 2006 @ 8:15 pm
More hilarious than Mahabharat scene from Jane Bhi Do Yaaron.
suresh said,
December 14, 2006 @ 12:12 am
real test for men in kaliyuga.Bravo women but u see the otherside of what is happenning in the world.like going with male prostitute.killing of husband fr lovers sake & having extra marital affair etc.any this woman should.This story should appear in womans magazine,and may be shown to shoba de.She is appriciating a girl who came half nude to party,saying she is a bould woman.
kunal said,
December 14, 2006 @ 10:54 am
Dear Debonair ,
Till now i only thought that , you pen down scandals. But i am extremely happy that you have put down story of a strong women
Great work
Kunal
SID said,
December 14, 2006 @ 5:02 pm
Respect women ‘casue a we are complete nothing and incomplete about a women..its ture and i belive in it as i understand a value of a woman..
baba said,
December 16, 2006 @ 4:05 pm
it happens only in india……..way to go lady….hats of to u….superb job
Rao said,
December 17, 2006 @ 9:33 am
Dear editor,
this piece is really good. hats off to the bold lady!
Anonymous said,
December 21, 2006 @ 11:54 pm
…. And there begins the domination of women..
AD said,
December 27, 2006 @ 10:28 am
us garib ka kya …i mean he won yaar
LuvWomen said,
December 27, 2006 @ 2:40 pm
Excellent work.. Mrs Unnamed!
This is just the kinda drubbing these bastards need. Women are their equal.. live wid it.