కొంతమంది దంపతుల సంసార యాత్ర సాఫీగా సాగిపోతుంది. చిన్నచిన్న కలతలు వచ్చినా ఇద్దరిలో సర్దుకుపోయే గుణం ఉండటమే దీనికి కారణం. ఇంకొంతమంది భార్యాభర్తలు మాత్రం అయ్యిందానికి కానిదానికి గొడవపడుతుంటారు.
అహంభావం మూలంగా ఏ విషయంలోనూ ఏకీభవించలేరు. అలాంటి ఓ జంట గురించి నళిని, సుధ మాట్లాడుకుంటున్నారు. ఇంగ్లిష్‌లో ‘కన్ను’ నేపథ్యంలో వచ్చే నుడికారంతో వీరి సంభాషణ ఆసక్తికరంగా సాగుతుంది.
Nalini: What did the mother say? Sudha: The old lady said, Someone has put an evil eye on you, beti. Nalini: Seema doesn’t look happy nowadays. Have you also noticed it? Sudha: Anybody can see it with half an eye.
Nalini: What do you mean? Sudha: It’s not difficult to know that she’s not happy. Nalini: Is anything the matter? Sudha: We often see them bickering – she and her husband. Nalini: Over what? Sudha: Over something or the other.
Literally over anything and everything. Nalini: Don’t they try to understand each other? Sudha: No. They don’t see eye to eye about anything.
Nalini: Like what? Sudha: About their pleasure trip, their children’s education, and almost every other issue or matter. Nalini: It’s quite natural with every wife and husband, isn’t it? Sudha: No. There’s more than meets the eye in Seema’s case.
Nalini: I don’t get you. Sudha: With them, it’s not simply differences in preference or priority or point of view. They have the ego problem.
Nalini: Means? Sudha: They’re not flexible in their opinions. They’re rigid in having their say. Nalini: Do you know of any such instance in their life? Sudha: They were planning to buy a house.
Last Sunday they had been to see one. Nalini: A flat in an apartment? Sudha: No, a villa. Nalini: Nice.
Sudha: Seema said it was very beautiful and they should buy it. Her husband said it was an eyesore to him. Nalini: Means? Sudha: It didn’t appeal to his eye.
To him, it did not seem beautiful at all. Nalini: Seema must have been disappointed. Sudha: Disappointed? She couldn’t bear the rebuttal.
Nalini: What did she do? Sudha: She cried. She cried the whole night. She cried her eyes out! Nalini: Then? Sudha: She shared her heartbreak with her mother.
She told her mother nothing was going right for her. Nalini: What did the mother say? Sudha: The old lady said, ‘Someone has put an evil eye on you, beti.’ Nalini: Why did the husband not like the villa? Sudha: Not that he disliked it.
He was scared of the prohibitive cost. He was prepared for just a second-hand 2BHK. Nalini: Did he tell his wife so? Sudha: He made up his mind to discuss with her eyeball to eyeball.
Nalini: Pardon? Sudha: He decided to talk to her frankly and clearly. Nalini: Sudha, you’re an eye specialist! Sudha: Thank you for your witty compliment. Phani: It’s reddish.
Let’s buy it. Basha: Reddish? Which one? Phani: Next to the potato. Basha: It’s ivory.
Phani: Do they sell ivory at a vegetable market? Basha: No, they don’t. It’s a rare commodity. Phani: Don’t confuse.
Next to the potato is reddish. Basha: Pal, it’s not reddish. It’s radish.
– సూర్యారావు ఎం.వి వివేకానంద ఇన్‌స్టిట్యూట్‌ ఆఫ్‌ లాంగ్వేజెస్‌, రామకృష్ణ మఠం..
