"Blood is thicker than water"

In todays days, I think thicker the blood, more the clots. This is increasingly proving to be true for Indian families. A country where family relationships were once worshipped, today is telecasting prime news hours with stories of family feuds.The last few months there have been innumerable highlights on sibling relationships and how the forms of rivalry has gone from courtrooms to cold blooded attempts to murder. Starting with the Ambani feud , moving over to the Mafatlal split and now the Mahajan war. And each case has been worse than the previous one. And all this because we try to live together. Perosnally, I would love to live in a huge big family, like the ones which Ekta Kapoor makes TV soaps on. Where we have four generations living in the same house and all being nice to each other. It's great. But unfortunately lets get real, a situation like that can only be acted out not lived and thats one of the reasons her soaps do so well, because they take people into an imaginary world which we try to make our reality.

The Ambani feud, which started soon after the demise of the Late Dhirubhai Ambani and went to great ugly lengths, with each brother mud slinging the other publically. A family which at one point posed for perfect pictures was now tearing in the middle. Straight down the damn middle. And what for? To me it looks like power and greed from both brothers. Reliance as a company has enough money for them both and for next 5 generations to live in the Ambani grandeur. So what exactly was the problem? Egos? Mind clashes? The funny part is the whole world knows that the Reliance Group is the baby of Dhirubhai Ambani. He built it from scratch and every business has its skeletons. Now opening out those cupboards to put the skeletons in public view raises only one simple question to both brothers...Were you ignorant all these years? With all the business accumen the two brothers possess, the mother luckily intervened in time to amicably sort out the matter before any further dirty linen was publically washed, not that too much was left to speculation by then, but thankfully the war was only verbal!! Never can judge these days....
The Ambani chapter was just about resolved when Aparna(Ajay) and Atulya Mafatlal came up with their split. And this was one strange problem with a sister claiming to be a brother and then a hundred culture police speculating the sex change issue, wihch firstly was nobodies business besides Aparna's given the right to live ones life by ones own damn terms, whatever they may be. This time round though the mother was directly involved in the feud , filing a case of harrassment and inappropriate use of household valuables in the court against her son Atulya and daughter-in-law Sheetal. The dispute moved over to more serious matters gradually targetting the relationship between Aparna and Atulya, which at that stage was aldready strained. Aparna was accused of the sex change to Ajay to claim a right to her fathers property who had willed everything to the male heir, which was Atulya. I wonder what happened to the pyaar between bhai bhai or bhai behen whatever they choose to be. I have to mention the involvement of another character the daughter in law Sheetal, who was subjected to great deals of negative publicity and ultimately known to be the mastermind behind the feud. A family associated with quality suitings and exquisite dress material was washing dirty linen in public!!