Thursday, 9 August 2007

Got an eye on you...

...and its an evil one!

I do not understand this evil eye business. Ever since D was born I have resisted countless suggestions and admonitions about putting some black somewhere on her person. The arguments run on the lines of - "she is so chubby, you should put something to ward off drishti", "there are so many women around who don't and can't have children, kuchh kaala daal yaar iss par."..... All these coming from well educated women.

I refuse to do so. I do not believe that anyone is evil and refuse to begin my daughter's life with this burden of mistrust in others. First of all why would anyone want ill for an innocent child? And even if they did, how can they cause harm just by looking at her? And even if they can how can a small black dot repel such a strong effort to harm her?

I personally dislike this evil eye business and I think it is just a symptom of the mistrusting and quarreling race that we are.

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