Should television divorce marriages?

In all these serials divorce is shown as so easy an event that children will think that when divorce is so easy there is no value of the wife.

Divorce is encouraged by these serials. It is not shown as if the story reached that stage when divorce is inevitable but from the very first episode the viewer knows the end of the story is only divorce. This is a novel method of story writing not the true picture of our society.
HARISH KALRA, Ahmedabad

While the relationships among brothers, sisters, parents, sons and daughters cannot be chosen as nature decides the issue, the relationship between a man and a woman as husband and wife is not pre-ordained. Right from the day the institution of marriage came into existence, the incompatibility factor has been a major bone of contention among many married couples.

Trying the knot, taking oath and the ceremony of marriage might have evolved. So the issue of divorce and remarriage would have taken root simultaneously with the system of marriage. When we adopt a child, we do not make a lot of fuss but when we adopt8217; a husband or a wife, we have to tell the world.

In the western world mutual love plays an important role in the survival of a marriage which we lack in our country. Here there are lakhs of couples who do not even love each other but continue as husband and wife till the end.

Depiction of divorce and remarriages in serials and films must be encouraged as we must acknowledge the fact that they are the other side of the coin. Why continue a incompatible alliances when it just gets unbearable? Why not enter into another relationship when there is a physical and material need?
S. R. Mohite, Rajkot

I would like to state with greatest displeasure that the serials which are being shown on television with divorce, remarriage etc as themes are not at all a healthy sign of the development of our culture. Moreover these themes mainly have extra-marital affairs as the main reason and are very cheaply presenting women in society.

They mostly show the other woman as a heroine and the suffering wife as a good-for-nothing. If these kinds of themes are shown so openly and cheaply then we are really heading for a very bad future.

It is really a shame and one must hang one8217;s head in shame to promote such vulgar ideas. It definitely has a very bad effect on the children. Some of them have wrong ideas about marriage and some of them think that it is easy to get away from marriage. That is why, these days children do not respect the elders.

The producers are not being brave to openly discuss such matters but they have a very poor taste of our culture and tradition. Instead of encouraging the purity and sanctity of marriage, they are showing it in very cheap light.

It is a pity that people have forgotten the great social reformers like Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Raja Ram Mohan Ray etc who fought for the upliftment of women. They also encouraged widow re-marriage which was sensible and understanding.
Radha Sridhar, AhmedabadI am of the view that it is not wrong to show serials such as Thoda hai8230;. or Amanat or any other one with remarriage or divorce as the theme. I think that in the world of today it is very necessary for a person to have liberal ideas. If two persons are not abe to adjust with each other or understand each other then it is better to end that relationship. Even in the serial Amanat, Santosh tries her best to adjust with her husband, but her husband doesn8217;t want to continue their relationship. So it is not wrong if Santosh decides to remarry.

In T.H.T.K.T.H., Kavita and her in-laws think that Vishal is dead and later on she falls in love with Vikram and then she decides to marry him. After all she also needs a partner to share her feelings with, to understand her, to love her and to care for her. Although she gets love and care from her in-laws but they can8217;t take the place of her husband. And Vikram comes into Kavita8217;s life at the right time and he is the right person to be Kavita8217;s husband and Sapna8217;s father. So there is nothing wrong if Kavita decided to marry Vikram.

These are all realities of life and producers are doing a great job by making the teenagers aware of the reality. They come to know that life is not that easy, but it has many twists and turns and in a way they get prepared to face the coming problems in their life.
Shilpi Guenani, Rajkot