But I intended to

Today, I planned on doing a little writing on how the universe has to hit me on the head to do something beneficial.  Something I would benefit from.

Am I going to do that?

Not unless my writing was to have been about a very powerful movie.

It is titled Water a movie directed by Deepa Mehta a most wonderfully talented woman.  She has directed the film Fire and then Earth.  Some consider her the voice of a new India.

"The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from the highest caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi."

Hindu law at the time gave widows three choices.  To follow their husband in death, to live a life of purity as an outcast or with the family's permission to marry the younger brother.  The movie takes place at the time of Ghandi and his imprisonment by the British. 

At the time of the India 2001 census there were 21 million widows.

There is a great line in the movie that answers the question "Why does God want widows to suffer, why does this have to happen?" 

The hero, if you want to call him that, tells her that the law is " disguised as religion, but it's all about the money."  One less mouth to feed, one less corner of the house taken up, four less saris to buy.

I couldn't say it any better.  Pick any topic currently in the news.

Disguised, but it's all about the money.