Kate Bracks , a modest mum of three from Orange , Australia catapulted to stardom after winning Master Chef Australia-Season 3 .
But she was in news in India even before Master Chef Australia - Season 3 started airing on Star World India. Reason - she refused to address Dalai Lama , who was on their show as His Holiness. She refuted to the controversy saying , "My belief is that God is the only one that is perfectly holy."
True and logical . It is as simple as that . But , how can we , Indians , who belong to a country where a percentage of the population are holy men and a larger percentage are followers of such holy men , take such a comment lying down and doing nothing? Kate did invite wrath over her stance on holy men.
This reminded me of an incident . At my under grad college, in our third semester , we were given the list of staffs who would handle papers for us . We quickly went through it and found only one lady staff on the list who was incidentally our class in-charge. How ever we later found out that the electronics paper was also being handled by a lady staff .The intriguing thing about her (besides her teaching that went way over our heads) was her name ; she had a name which parents would generally name their sons with . Her peculiar name remained a mystery for over a year , till another of her college mate joined our college . It was this teacher who spilled the beans about the popularly peculiar name . When this teacher in question was a baby her parents took her to a holy man and asked him to name the child. The holy man mistook the baby girl to be a baby boy and named it accordingly . The parents realized the mistake but decided not to change the kid's name. After all a reverent holy man had named their kid !!!
Phew !!! I just couldn't stop wondering how the parents could stand their kid being jeered at and ridiculed for her name throughout her school days , her college life and also at her workplace just because of a mistake by a man who was little better than a stranger ..
All I could do after this was hope that at least my electronics teacher would realized that holy men may be reverent but not omniscient , they don't know everything , you can't trust them with anything , not even naming your kids !!!
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