I am greatly appalled by your audacity to moral police our country. We all know that India is a land of great diversity. Each community living in each state has their own set of culture. The components that make up a culture so often overlap with the components that make up other culture. However, sometimes those components may not overlap. Your Hindutva culture is different from Mizo culture in so many respects. And I am sure you won’t say that Mizo’s culture is less Indian, unless you want to destroy that unity of India. Your culture may prohibit women exercising freedom, but Khasi’s culture will give equal freedom to women , if not more. And if you respect India, you will respect Khasi’s culture. (By the way, Khasis are from Meghalaya). It seems to me that when you force your culture upon us all, you are harming the unity of India.
There are other social issues that you can take up. There is the issue of terrorism, poverty, illiteracy, human trafficking, child labour etc which deserve more attention than the issue you are raising. These are issues that affect the entire nation, and no good citizen will fail to agree that they need to be rectified, though I may say that very few are working to get these things rectified. You have time and energy and manpower. If you all start taking these issues seriously I believe India will truly shine. Not only during election campaign!
There are other social issues that you can take up. There is the issue of terrorism, poverty, illiteracy, human trafficking, child labour etc which deserve more attention than the issue you are raising. These are issues that affect the entire nation, and no good citizen will fail to agree that they need to be rectified, though I may say that very few are working to get these things rectified. You have time and energy and manpower. If you all start taking these issues seriously I believe India will truly shine. Not only during election campaign!
Finally, I request you to show more respect to others’ sisters. The ones you humiliate are not your sisters. Just as I don’t want my sister to be mistreated, I am sure you don’t want your sister to be mistreated by stranger. Each girl has parents to discipline. At a different level the police force is there too.
Yours faithfully,
An Indian citizen
That was well presented. I hope these people have ears to listen even if they don't have a heart (to love their nation, cos terrorising the public this way is definitely not because they love the country but they only love power). Every responsible Indian Citizen should condemn such acts of gaining cheap publicity.
ReplyDeleteYes logically presented. I hope they understand culture and then so called Indian Culture...By the way what is Indian Culture??
ReplyDeleteI don't think there is anything that is common to all Indian, but different from the rest of the world, that can be termed as Indian culture. If we mean it by what the majority practices, then there are elements that can be termed like that. But I think that is not quite the best way to understand culture.
ReplyDeleteIn a nation like ours if we concentrate on the diversity it will only further divide us to a point of no return. But we must learn to celebrate our diversity which would require each bonafide citizen of India to give equal respect to his other Indian brothers/sisters regardless of caste, creed or religion. And also we need to focus on the things that bind us together as Indian. We may not be able to clearly define what Indian culture should be like but the key here is to have a balance view. I appreciate you for raising this issue.
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