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May 22, 2009

FAIR ENOUGH? # 1

All fairy tales have a tail wagging nineteen to the dozen- happy endings. Finding true love and living happily ever after are the crux of every "widely-accepted" fairy tale told till date.
But what catches my attention the most in these feel-good tales is not how the good will always truimph over the evil by hook-or-by-crook in the end but how the good has always been the fairer race in such tales.
All the Cinderellas, the Sleeping Beauties, The Snow Whites (ahem), the Heidis and even the Pied Piper of Haemlin have been unusually fair! Disappointingly,there was never a dark man's fairy tale.
Life just isn't fair! (pun ignorable).