Subject: - TV Serial “LADO” gives wrong and dirty picture of Rajasthan population.
Killing of new born baby girls and the brutal manner in which the village doctor was beaten-up by the Lady’s men and when the victim was rendered totally helpless and unable to creep even, the Lady’s men were shown laughing and enjoying the pathetic scenario. This is a totally wrong and misleading picture of Rajasthan population being projected in TV Soap “LADO”. Furthermore the Lady’s any daughter-in-law delivering a baby girl has to work all through her life as a maid including doctor’s daughter and the kind of cruelty being shown in this soap that horrifies and shakes the nerves of the viewers. This is the gross deterioration of morality and the human values. This is MOST UNFORTUNATE.
This serial may generate hatred towards Rajasthan population in the minds of the other people and they may be scared of building any relations or friendships with Rajasthan guys that is unhealthy, painful, and sad.
I am T D Joshi, from Vadodara (Erstwhile Baroda). I am 67 years. I am born and brought up in Rajasthan and educated there. I had the company of Rajasthanis, Marwaris and Mewaris from my birth up to the age of 25 years. I know this population is little orthodox and staunch believer of the olden value systems. The population can broadly be categorized as educated and uneducated from rural areas. The section of rural population can further be classified in two categories i.e. farmers and laborers. The latter ones are more orthodox and they use to perform child marriages. However in the educate strata there were no child marriages at all. More so, in the uneducated rural labor class the child marriages were popular and they used to dislike baby girls, however said strata was not cruel to girls as it is projected in the TV soap “LADO”.
In the above write-up, I have tried to merely vent and explain my hurt and wounded emotion. Readers may please comment.
