Just now came across an
article about Albert Einstein a nobel
prise winner and a famous physicist. We
all learn about his relative theory. But few know about his personality on the
family side. He married a quite equivalent learned lady in those olden days. She
was also a physicist and equally contributed in all this papers.
Inspite of being a learned
women in those days and a scientist by herself.. einstein’s wife was never
given any freedom at her home.. She lived with the great scientist with a
condition that – she was not to ask him any favour, not to expect him to spend
time with her, not to ask for a walk or tea together and so many.. She was to
live at his house to serve him expecting nothing back. She lived like this for
14 years.. and then separated without
bearing the loneliness.
Life of a wife of a personality
who is a perfectionist / socialist
/ scientist
is always a tough one I suppose.
We all of us adore the poems
of Bharathidasan even today on womenhood. He once wrote a poem in tamil..’when
a women cooks idli, let the man prepare the chutney’.. See the irony.. His wife
has stated in a talk with a press person once.. ‘My husband always wants the
food he likes to eat – to be served in this plates. Otherwise he will be angry”.
So I allways cook and do what he wanted only.
We may state that this is the
story of people long back. But just think for a moment.. The mind set of men is
still the same even in this IT bloomed world. However socialism and freedom
they talk about giving to their wifes.. still many women live the same life –
women a decade ago lived.. Only the scenes have changed.
- Priya
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