What is 'Freedom' ? What's 'Independence'?
Aug 9, Singapore is turning 51 (50th year getting completed,celebrations are on the anvil).
Aug 15, India is turning 69 (68 years getting completed,celebrations would follow of course nationwide).
Aug 14, neighbor Pakistan also turns 69.............
Aug 15, Bahrain, South Korea, P.R. Congo and and perhaps few other countries also equally celebrate their Independence.
People always confuse Independence, Freedom, and Liberation or Liberty and mix these conceptually.
Liberation is a fight and one engages into a war-like situation to get liberated and then attain independence.
Independence is a result of getting out of a shell,oppression or occupation by foreign sources and so on.
Freedom by and large is confused with independence, in colloquial terms. Freedom of Expression, Freedom of thoughts, Freedom of expressing one's thoughts, Freedom of Expression by a Creator / Author / Writer / Artist / Script-writer and so on, Freedom from being tagged to a taboo or stigma andso on. This can go like this for ever.
My topic or theme here is somewhat different.
Prior to 1980s, the Indian society by and large lived in a joint-family system everywhere across the Nation. Most houses or tenements werel arge stores with spacious extended villa sort of, but, that are collectively appeared as a colony or society where in one house of 2 or 3-tyre horizontal architecture or infrastructure (not vertical like apartments), many families lived together, one of them being the property or site owner. Others would be tenants.
Mostly in a typical 2-tyre such location, 4-5 rooms might be available, 2 rooms would be retained by the owner/landlord, and the rest of the rooms would have been leased out or rented out for a sum, where the occupant might himself be a joint-family per se.
Thus, in each such store or independent house of multiple families, there used to be jointly and severally many joint-families living together in a compound.
Mostly, except newly married couple, most people would live and sleep in a common Hall or Drawing Room sort of, that's wide open for common utility across all the tenants. Be it adults, children and infants, boys and girls inclusive. Only teenage girls would perhaps find a secluded place to rest at night.
Most bachelors or forced bachelors would find their resting place in extended Thinnais outside their house and/or a terrace area, if the infrastructure is built as such with a one-story construction.
Very rarely, such one story construction, newly married couples would find their privacy intact, for the sake of.
Given the societal structure and the way we have been living in those locations, every family, adults and children virtually had no privacy to talk through their internal issues or problems unless they go out to a different place to sort it out. By and large, people used to discuss non-critical familial issues in the open Hall or Drawing Room or Living Area where other inmates might get a clue of what's going on and many a times, people share views whether or not the real set of people who are having or facing a problem or crisis might find it ODD to discuss their subject in an open forum as such. Privacy was ruled out, yet,mostly with the way we were brought up, during infancy, our mothers and grandmothers would have given us ample Korosanai (a herbal medicine that ensures the child gets adequate tone and sound rhythm when he/she grows up; due to the quotient of this Korosanai, people by and large speak loudly, typically in South India. South India being a hot area by geography, due to our very nature and food pattern, we tend to speak loudly. Some people talk like as if their tone or vocal cord is made of Brass Material (as they say in Tamil ‘Vengalak Kuralon’ (வெண்கலக் குரலோன்)
We never needed a loudspeaker to propagate what we are conveying. We just talk the message is sent across. If we are literally fighting a fierce battleof war of words, then, entire street would come to know what's going on.
(to be continued)
Disclaimer: A Tamil equivalent in same topic is being shared as well simultaneously. However, due to expressing my thoughts, I just share my views as I think in a coherent fashion where it need NOT be the same direct / one-to-one translated version, if one goes by numeric sequence I have assigned. End of the day, I would ensure what I intended to convey, being the crux of the post(s), would be shared invariably. Going by 'numbered' sequences, please do not look for any relationship in terms of language or translated script
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