Day 18 of 30

'Dulha bikta hai bolo kharidoge
yee jo sansar hai, chor bazaar hai
dhoka bikta hai, bolo kharidoge'
{TranslationGroom is for sale, anyone wants to buy?
This world, is a market of thieves
Cheating can be bought, Do you want to buy ?}

A song i used hear long long time ago, we had a kishore kumar hits cassette and this was one of the songs on it(These were the days, when families had good old tape recorder and we religiously bought the cassettes and played them everyday, long before Ipod dawned on the world).I like and dislike this song. Love the way it says about state of things and hate the fact that its true.The magical voice of kishore da and the music by Bappi da and lyrics by Farooq Kaiser, bring tears everytime i hear this song.

Though this song primarily focuses on the dowry issue, if you notice, it is true of a lot of things that are currently happening around us, everything is available for sale, and somehow we all are living in a mirage thinking everything can be bought, that everything is up for sale.

I keep hearing about how parents are partial to money giving son....are we living in a time, where parents affection is up for sale.
I keep hearing how a wife, keeps belitting her husband, because he cant buy her luxuries, like other men are doing for their wives. Is the affection between man and his wife up for sale.
Its no secret that poor aging parents are abandoned...Is the respect for elders up for sale
A husband, hits and humiliates his wife for dowry and other weird reasons , is responsibility up for sale
Sinners,to absolve their sins,fill the hundies in temples,churches, madarsas all over the world, is the divinity up for sale

They say its 'Kali kaalam', we seem to be heading towards a time, where maybe Sun and Moon will refuse to shine on earth, where mother earth will refuse to bear our burden.

Another couplet from the same song...
'aye zamane bata , ye hai kiski khata
vaada bikta hai bolo khareedoge'
{TranslationTell me ,Oh world, who is to be found at fault
A promise is up for sale, Do you want to buy ?}