The handmaid's tale- a warning for us?

     

I was bewitched by this series just as a cobra would bewitch us with its deadly presence. A spine chilling series it gives forth innumerable lessons. It is a dramatized science fiction based on a totalitarian regime in a fictional Republic called Gilead whihc was erstwhile states belonging to the USA.

Every episode leaves us shuddering and gasping for the oxygen of freedom. The word of God is twisted and interpreted in utmost fanatical manner. It is like a warning to us- this is what would happen if we leave scriptures to fundamentalists. 

Patriarchy tries to subjugate the woman. It is finally SHE who rises to liberate herself and few others. 

Just as I was mulling over this, I read about the US preparing to remove the right to abort. It is appalling in today's world to snatch away the right to one's body. A nation that is a trailblazer in science and technology yet....