Self-Respect

The glossy supplement of Sunday Times Of India carries a front-pager on marriages and infidelity. Teeming with invaluable nuggets of info. Such as: Hrithik Roshan has allegedly taken to the bottle over his affair with co-star Barbara Mori. (No alleged-ness about the affair, please note.) Or even Shyam Benegal and his wife, considered to be the golden couple of Bollywood, had a "rough patch" once. Wow. You made my Sunday.

But two quotes are profound and stand out. (There are fifteen quotes in the story. I counted.)
One from Karan Johar ( The Karan Johar, mind you): "Around the time of making Kabhi Alvida Na Kahna, I lost my faith in marriage because of the affairs I saw around me."

Another from Sanjay Gupta, who, the TOI story tells us, "has been linked to actors Sameera Reddy and Dia Mirzha and assistant director Jasmit Dodhi, and who remarried his wife last month":
"The institution of marriage is sacred and spiritual. It's about finding your soulmate and then building and living your life together based on the foundation of love, trust, faith and hope."

Right. Not all bed-mates make the soul-mate.

And in the opening paragraphs, the writer of the story says: Saif Ali Khan's ex-wife Amrita Singh still bangs the phone down if you call to ask about Rosa. Why would any self-respecting woman tolerate an affair?

Why indeed? And why any self-respecting woman won't bang the phone down when journalists call up about the other woman in the marriage?