The woes of restrained wooing

The cinemas thrive  on it and the film songs  inspire the scenes that show heroes following peeved heroines with songs (Please read it as a possible case of stalking and sexual harassment, courtesy the new anti-rape bill, should the heroine mind it if it is emulated in real life), and the Indian crowds love it. The days were when some people literally loved to croon those teasing numbers in their heart to woo or win over someone they loved or liked, but caution is better observed to gauge the response of the wooed to escape being landed in judicial custody without bail.

No doubt, the art of wooing as shown in our cinemas will suffer henceforth, and theoretically love songs should take the havoc as a result. This surely is bad news for a generation of bonafide lovelorn who already is handicapped in their knowledge and appreciation of the classic art of wooing through expressions which are literary, articulate and very suave.

The predicament in understanding the very many characteristics of love for the tenderfoot crowd amongst the tech-savvy generations of today are more when compared to ours in what was comparably the medieval times digitally speaking; by us I mean we the alive and kicking, the  slowly graying generation who are precursors to the present,  also growing old Generation X. Despite being born and brought up in the times when they would rather amazingly exhibit a giant size Japanese calculator, and not a computer in college science exhibitions, one was fortunate enough to carry on despite the unforgiving blitz of information technology that was to soon take the society by storm a decade and half later of our passing out from the schools. Such advancement  has almost done many of the oldest types in. Its popular use in the avatars such as iPads, Kindles, social networking, e-mail, SMS, laptops, and other gadgets brands even the most learned and qualified amongst us as computer illiterate and slapdash, a disqualification of the sort that matters to the young in slighting those who have failed to keep pace with the tech-savvy them.

People used to wait even for a casual attraction or momentary infatuation to take its own course in  coming to them in earlier times, which could take a whole year, which meant a full three hundred sixty five days available for baited anticipation. One needed not being told nor brainwashed by dubious motivators who used then as they do now surrogate advertisements to define the meaning and significance of love in a 30-second ad for a  pricey product. The louder the television rants, the vociferous and committed people get into looking for the ostensible  and pretentious means of finding love. Going by the mindset of the youth and the supporting business enterprises in finding easier, quickly comprehensible definitions of love for the sake of instant communication, things have gone crazy as if there is no tomorrow.

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