THE TRUTH OF FATHERHOOD

The happenings of the last week in the life of Narayan Dutt Tiwari, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, former Union Minister and former Governor of Andhra Pradesh; must have been very tumultuous. He was forced to face the truth which he dragged all his life. Ultimately the highest of the judicial system, the Supreme Court of India, needed to intervene to get him around to undergo the DNA test - the test of paternity of Rohit Shekhar. Being a much published and touted case, I do not want to get into the details of the same. Suffice to say that Rohit Sekhar and his mother Ujjwala Sharma has been trying, thru the judicial system, over the last 5 years, to get it proven that Narayan Dutt Tiwari is indeed Rohit’s father. Having proven conclusively thru the DNA test conducted by CDFPD, the reputed Central  institute at Hyderabad, Rohit Shekhar now could walk tall and wipe out the black mark of being a ‘fatherless kid’ from his life forever. Three cheers to him!

That brings me to my favorite subject – the Truth. Rohit wanted the truth to come out. Tiwari still says there is no truth in it. The court concurred with the results of the lab; the CDFPD and declared this as truth. Rohit Shekhar feels that the truth is out and  justice is delivered. Good.

How do you define truth? Is truth and justice the same? Obviously not. Justice could be based on exposing the truth. Many a times, it is not the truth that wins. Truth is circumvented, held back and something else is brought in as the truth and with that something being established as the truth, justice is delivered. This happens at majority of times in all the Indian courts. So truth is truth and justice is not truth.  They are related, though.

By the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, truth is the inner core of a thing. Scientifically speaking, truth is the DNA, that which you are, exclusively, totally different from the rest. So the DNA test is the truth test!!! Very nice to know that Science is helping to establish the truth. Jai ho Science!

Coming back to fatherhood, isn’t fatherhood all about the truth? Because it is your fatherhood that defines your own DNA. So you as the truth lay in the fatherhood of you. So your truth is truly your fatherhood.

So, Rohit Shekhar was trying to find the truth of truth! What could be more agonizing than this?…..

It all looks so funny and confusing, is it not?.........