Just for fun

Technology has given us many ways to connect to people across borders and distances, but in a rather absurd incident it let to disconnect of relations, maybe for life. The Times of India today, features and article where husband in a couple hailing from Qatar, typed 'Talaq' thrice while chatting with her on Skype. He claims to meant it as a joke, but I guess the joke didn't turn out to be very funny. According to the law now the wife has to wait for a period of 90 days called the Iddah to remarry. Post which she cannot remarry the same person, and in case she wishes to marry the same person she must marry someone else, divorce him, wait for a period of 90 days and the only she can remarry the first husband.

Long process isn't it? In the midst of all this has anyone every wondered how derogatory it is for the woman. She is merely treated like a commodity. Has anyone ever asked her what trauma and pain she goes through in this? Referring back to the article, the husband insists that it was purely a joke and was not meant seriously. A film made in 1982 in Bollywood called 'Nikah' truly depicts the feelings of a woman in an Islamic marriage.

Coming from a country like India which has an exhaustive list of women heading multinational companies, we also see women being treated as nothing but a mere puppet in the hands of their husbands. The husbands may never wake up from the slumber, but the wifes, its now or never.