What repercussions
did Shashi Tharoor’s ‘Friendship’ have?
In an email to Shashi Tharoor, Meher Tarar says
feelingly-" ...so I guess I was right all my life. Friendship between a
man and a woman will always be labelled incorrectly and even the woman who's
the love of your life will doubt your word against very circumstantial evidence"
To which Shashi replied that he'd been asked by Sunanda Pushkar to not be in touch with Tarar anymore. "I hope you will understand and forgive me if I stop our phone and email exchanges" he said.
To which Shashi replied that he'd been asked by Sunanda Pushkar to not be in touch with Tarar anymore. "I hope you will understand and forgive me if I stop our phone and email exchanges" he said.
The events that followed spelled disaster for Shashi Tharoor, who quite obviously was unable to stop communication with Tarar despite his best intentions. I remember the few times I met them, they had looked so happy and engaged with each other. For a third marriage for both, it was delightful to see such a youngster like romance and attraction. Also shows how deceptive appearances can be, and how easily their relationship became prey to suspicion, acrimony and the forbidden apple of Shashi's 'friendship' with the opposite sex. Today months after Sunanda's 'demise' there is no clarity as to the reason of her death, the aplrax placed on her bedside is not present in her blood say the tests conducted to unearth the reason of her untimely death. So were the strips placed there for a reason?
In 'Hum Tum' Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee have an
interesting exchange about the friendship between a man and a woman? Or then
'When Harry Met Sally' Meg Ryan argues with Billy Crystal about the possibility
of a platonic friendship between the two sexes.
It might indeed be possible but with the Democlese
sword of sex, attraction, lust, chemistry always hanging on the head of the
friendship- ready to take it into another dimension anytime. And so it is that
a man woman friendship is like a diet which can anytime give into the forbidden
chocolate
gateaux, throw in the towel in a moment of laxness and often with
destructive complications later.
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gateaux, throw in the towel in a moment of laxness and often with
destructive complications later.
Especially when there are already dangers of
matrimonial parameters being misunderstood. The fatal point is that this is
like hurtling into Alice's tunnel where the parties cannot or do not really
restrain or don't even wish to control themselves.
With married people there is often regret in getting
involved because they actually love their spouses and don't wish to derail
their well ensconced relationship at all for some moments of pleasure.
Especially men don't wish for discord or to disrupt their homes but women most
often cannot bear another woman I the equation. Salim Khan, Salma and Helen are
a rare case of friendship, tolerance.
I personally believe that if you wish to be married
and are committed then marriage is about loyalty, commitment and happiness of
the partner. But times are a changing. Contemplation does not seen to be a part
of impending consequences.
Self-gratification both with women and men is a
dissolving phenomenon. Divorces are becoming the way taken in the face of any
disquiet.
It used to be that you work at mending things than
discard them for new.
It's a personal belief that you should quit while
you're ahead and not tempt fate. If there is a chance of a friendship going the
affair way don't even go that route. Keep your wife in the loop always and try
to avoid solitary meetings to avoid temptation. The holier than thou self-confidence
of not ever 'being the kind' may not work at all and many a slip twist the cup
and the lip!
-But maybe the man’s grand aunt could be his lady friend, the rest are all open
to hazards and human frailties. Mankind’s downfall from paradise began
after-all with giving into the bite of the apple.
NISHA JAMVWAL is a luxury brand consultant, columnist and Interior
Architect
@nishjamvwal
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