Delhi has the most intolerant and snobbish elders! Residing in the capital of India and exposed to them overs and shakers of the power play that influence the nation the senior citizens consider themselves a class apart and never lose opportunity to come hard on the young folks and others।
A lady in her 60s, wearing the dress of the teens, also did not lose the opportunity to tell another woman with all the air of a hard nosed senior citizen of Delhi that she had to switch off her cell phone in a movie theatre। This happened while the people were leaving the theatre after watching the movie The Namesake, which had large turnout of elders। To the disappointment of the domineering lady, the woman being targeted just ignored her and refused to look at her।
The best way to deal with mentally diseased people is just to ignore them when they just wait for you to react to their arrogant tirade so that they could come down on you howling with all ferocity। A response of "I dont care why the world is wrong for you" attitude leaves the domineering ones fuming with self and gives you the liberty to walk of with all dignity intact.
A mistake by the ticket man of the theatre also gave an insight into the difference between the two worlds: one that of young with fun and happiness as mark of their presence and the another of the elders with seriousness and eerie silence as mark of their presence। This so happened as earlier I was directed to the auditorium screening Namaste Landon though I had to see The Namesake। One just can not stop a smile of pride coming when sees the youth in group giggling and enjoying their time। But the elders in the theatre could not stop yelling for silence and making angry gesture to the giggling youth।
At some stage in life it's beneficial if one could just drop all the airs of identities to learn the meaning of life from the youngsters। The elders badly need that though they are always ready to give lectures to others.
Being a Journalist, I have come across lots of elders with an end number of complaints giving the notion that the world has just gone wrong and they could correct them if others could just listen to them।
Sometimes back I had hard time keeping my bewilderment in check when one of the lady in the apartment asked me to park my two-wheelers on the roadside as it being parked within the building premise gave her an impression of jhuggi-cluster though she had no regrets for parking her cars on the pedestrian zone, which is illegal as it's an encroachment।
Fuming she left as I talked of the legality of the parking rules with her husband pulling her away with embarrassment।
