Experiments with untruth: Asatya meva jeyathe!


It’s really strange, indeed! The same word gives happiness to one and creates unknown fear in another one’s mind. That’s nothing but sn sites! (fb, orkut or my space). When your siblings are mentioning their net friends, you can see hundred watts brightness in their faces. That seems to be great but at the same time we can say, “Sleeping with the enemy”! In this fast techie world, there is no use in cursing the advancement of technology, the best way is to learn the game. As told in football, offence is the best form of defense!


I had a chat with my friend, who is having teen children, to know how he is tackling this new “war”. Some new ideas crept in. frankly speaking no body is comfortable in running behind the back or peeping through their shoulders. Children also don’t like this kind of “online policing”. He also joined the same network of his daughter and befriended with her. In this way he kept a check on her network and at the same time without hurting her.

First I didn’t accept his logic. Is it not cheating? Is it not a honest lie? Then he explained in some cases where truth hurts, lies can be used, if it doesn’t harm. In thirukkural(a tamil book written by saint thiruvalluvar about 1000 years ago!).Lie can take the place of truth; if it does not harm any body rather does some good thing. (So girls be careful while writing scrap books,chatting,etc..some known person may be in your network! ). Like that I read one incident in the press, in u.k., one colin mary(face book name#) wrote in her scrap book, like this” I am doing the nonsense job under the idiot”. Under this her boss John Howard wrote like this “thanks Mary for all the work you have done. You are relieved from doing the nonsense job now on wards and got relieved from the idiot also”. No need to say, she was fired!!


So as per him, lie is also part of our life. (As usual) one research conducted on this subject. The researchers took lot of pain and came out with startling statistics. As per the report, men tell around 1092 lies per year. (Approximately 3 lies per day!) And surprisingly women tell around 742 lies per year.(comes around 2 per day!!).

If we study the situations, men lie under the following conditions.

Ø For Attending drinks parties
Ø For not attending the calls from wife
Ø For coming late.

In the case of women,

Ø I don’t know where I have kept that thing
Ø I am having headache. I don’t remember


In one of my friend’s family, after marriage, the boy asked the usual question, like whether you had an affair with somebody, because he had one such before marriage. To become honest, the poor girl revealed that. That’s it. For acting honestly the girl was penalized. So we need not be honest all the times!
In normal life also how many of us dare to tell our boss, that we want leave because of seeing last night foot ball match? We have to use false sickness (or same old lie of grand mother serious?!!). The old saying of satya meva jayathe , ie. Truth always triumphs.. Is just a myth? Or it’s just an adaptative capability of the great human race?

Amongst the sea animals, cleverest one is dolphin. It just escapes from its own species (jaws) and the dangerous enemy (Human beings) by maintaining friendship. Should we become human dolphins to sustain in the world?

Then what’s the fate of “good” and “fair” relationship? If situations start changing our policy, won’t they become our boss? ..If the “true “lies” become the order of the day, where truth will hide? Before these questions tighten my neck, will you relieve me?!