Originally posted by: sashashyam
It only goes to show, Sandhya my dear, as demonstrated by the conversation between Nadira and her remarkably logical and rational mother, that Zillbahar has more commonsense and intelligence than the Shahenshah-e-Hind.
She stresses the point you have made here - and I had made before - about Salim not having been at fault at all in shooting Qadir - for if a soldier had shot the boy, he would have defended himself vigorously and been let off. Whereas, the Shahenshah states in the Diwan-e-Aam Jaan boohjkar kiya ho ya anjaane mein, Sheiku Baba, aap gunehgaar hain, betraying not only a lack of understanding of the basic facts of the case, but also of the distinction between gunaah and galti.
Equally important, Zillbahar picks up the other point I have made repeatedly - that Qadir was a thief, as he was stealing mangoes from the shahi bagh. What she did not state, for obvious reasons, was that if Qadir was a chor, her daughter was the assistant chorni!
So why did our Zill-e-Elahi not round off his Solomonic exercise in Mughaliya insaaf by socking Nadira too with some punishment, and keeping Qadir's in abeyance till he recovers?
But who cares about such trifles? Now that his chaheti begum has given him a medal as big as a soup plate for his wisdom in imposing this sentence on his son and ensuring his moral upliftment, he must be in seventh heaven, especially since she also carefully leaned over twice so as to get her head on his shoulder!
As for me, I grit my teeth tonight when Jodha was boosting Jalal's morale with gushing encomiums to his doorandeshi. What I am waiting for is for the couple to be confronted with the blowback from all this, with Salim's by now bahut bada dil having expanded sufficiently to not only weep for the sufferings of the poor,but also to accommodate the cactuskali in total defiance of his abbujaan and perhaps also his ammijaan. I shall then have the last laugh, and it will be long and loud!
Shyamala/Aunty
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