The line that is blurred

Himanshu likes to have an opinion, this is what I think. I like to differ, probably Himanshu has already formed this opinion about me. There is nothing unusual, strange or special about the association of two of us. In fact, we knew each other long back, longer than we know each other now, as friends. So its just two guys having have to say something.

We talk and talk nothing really important. Barely two three lines of "Indian greetings" we turn to impersonal issues. This rewarms the ties between two friends fast becoming strangers. One forms an opinion and the other criticizes left and right, while both setting feet on the same basic principle.

Our recently discussed and midway abandoned issue was "objectification of women". Neither of us really are feminists. At least I cannot claim to be one. But as a tenet of social justice we advocate all equal rights and space to women, which is what the dictionary means of feminism. I suppose we would support if special rights were given to women considering their feminine tenderness. Himanshu was highly critical of marriage which traded women like objects for a husband or for a good life. To which I opined women are still object in most liberal cultures. In liberal societies they do so in free will, in Indian society they are imposed upon. I was trying to press the fact there is only some degree of varation and some variation in perception.

Probably there is only one question that we are wresting on and on. The question of whether there is a dividing line.