OUR CORRESPONDENT
New Delhi, Aug. 14: Truth, inspired by reality TV, has claimed its first victim.
Surinder, 30, killed himself unable to accept that his wife Ratna (both names changed) had a serious affair before marriage, a confession she made after being forced to take the hot seat in imitation of the show Sacch ka Saamna.
On August 11, the couple watched their favourite show at their Greater Noida home at 11pm. On that day, event manager Meena Shah, who was in the hot seat, admitted that she was in an extra-marital relationship.
After the show, Surinder, who worked as a supervisor in a company, suggested they play the game. Ratna was reluctant but he persuaded her.
First, he sailed through the questions she threw at him. When he began to quiz her, she hesitated and asked him to drop the game. But Surinder insisted and made her swear on her unborn child that she would tell the truth.
He also told her that he loved her and however heartbreaking the truth, it wouldn’t upset him or make him love her less, said an official working on the case.
When he asked Ratna if she had had an affair before marriage, she confessed to having been in a serious relationship before they tied the knot last February.
Surinder would, however, have nothing but the full truth. Did she have pre-marital sex? Ratna said “yes”.
He was upset but shortly they went to bed.
Ratna’s uncle Santram said: “When Ratna woke up in the middle of the night, she found him hanging from the ceiling fan. A friend helped her take him to hospital where he was declared brought dead.”
A fortnight before the incident, Delhi High Court had thrown out petitions seeking a ban on Sacch ka Saamna, saying: “We don’t think our social values are so fragile that one TV programme will damage them.”
It may not have been aware that truth in real life can be crueller than television truth.
I hope Rajiv Khandelwal, Star TV and the judge who allowed the broadcast of the programme must be smacking their leaves in sadistic satisfaction at the suicide of the young man.
This is what they wanted, didn't they?
When you delve deep into the thoughts and affairs of people just to tintillate your baser senses there is bound to be tragedy.
We ape the west in all the wrong facets.
We do not ape them in their honesty or in having a clean government.
We prefer to ape them in anything to do with SEX.
They do not care for marriages and have a pre-nuptial agreement where they decide how the spoils of marriage are to be shared, even before marriage.
They have live and live out relatinship where even before marriage boys and girls sleep together in their parental houses.
For them,admitting having sex before, during and after marriage is no big deal. It is part of their life.
When you start unravelling those hidden thoughts and deeds in front of the idiot box just to earn some lakhs and the channel increase its TRP rating, it is the height of decadence.
Who doee not have these thoughts?
However our thoughts, our past and future is mercifully hidden from outsiders.
When we give word to those thoughts, we are asking for trouble.
We saw a few days back how Vinod kambli spoke evil of Sachin Tendulkar and then went about denying what he said to limit the flames so engendered.
This programme "Sach ka Saamna" and "Rakhi ka Swayamhar" which makes a mockery of marriage shuld be banned.
We all know that the Swayambar was just a show to fool the people.
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