Black or White?

Black and white. Or is it black or white? They share a strange relationship. These two quantities have greater attraction for each other than any other known pair, viz., male and female, north pole and south pole of a magnet, fish and water and so on! The black gets ultimately mixed with the white. Dandruff in black hair is not black but white, eyeballs in white eyes are black and not white, a black chalk is never produced to write on a blackboard or a black rain is never heard of falling from the dark clouds.

But, at the same time, a blackie is always discriminated within a clan of whites, a black suit or a black saree is preferred at the ceremonies than their white counterparts. Hindus and Muslims relate white to mourning while for Christians, it's the black. A student reads "failed" remark in a black on a white and is devastated while a farmer becomes suicidal when he sees white clouds in the sky even after two years of drought.

However, i think that, humans generally tend to exhibit a great bias towards black. Any wrongdoing, any bad thought or action is related to black while white escapes unscratched. Gangsters and Mafias are always shown putting on black robes in movies as if clothes of any other colour aren't available in market. Lawyers are said to be liars wearing a black coat but, one fails to see that within that black coat there is always a white shirt. Politicians are said to live with a sole purpose of earning black money but, one fails to see that they do it wearing white clothes. Not many painters tend to paint a human figure with a black. I often wonder about a black ribbon getting used to blindfold a person in kidnap scenes in the movies whereas, the director can make do with a ribbon of any other colour. On some unwritten terms, black is termed bad. Black is dark. Dark is feared. Fear lives within us.

Though white is the ultimate source of light, represents peace and harmony and is related to cleanliness and sanity; black has its own shine. No other colour represents richness and royalness as good as black does. A white mercedes benz fails to arrest the onlooker's eyes but a black one is a sure eye-catcher. A black jeans is something every individual thinks a must to have in his/her wardrobe, for it can get matched-up with any coloured shirt. The wheel, no matter to which vehicle it's attached to and which symbolizes speed and change is always black in colour. Black has its own unmatched importance. Black is a rock which represents might. Black is a soil which represents fertility. Black is something corporate, black is something disciplinary.

The world is full of colours. All those institute to draw a picture of the world we live in, to make it more beautiful for us. But, we should not forget that every picture lies within a border. And, that border, is often BLACK.