What is culture????practices that have stood the time and become an integral part and parcel of our everyday lives; something that has been handed down from generation to generation; values; ideals; thoughts worthy of emulation and last but not the least; setting precedents for others to follow.........
Our motherland India has always been known as a melting pot as well as birthplace of a multitude of cultures and practices that have been both embraced as well as imbibed by millions of people all over the world; but sad to say; off late we seem to have forgotten our hoary traditions and culture and become nothing more than a nation of unsavoury characters who are hell bent upon giving our nation a bad name........
While the rest of the civilised pride takes immense pride in keeping their surroundings pristine; spic and span; we take undue pride in spreading filth wherever we go; our neighbours courtyard or garden is our favourite dumping ground; our roads are our dustbins and garbage bins; we are eminently capable of spitting; defecating and urinating in every conceivable and inconceivable nook and cranny and the less said about the deplorable state of our national monuments the better..........
Indian women always enjoyed pride of place in all rituals; religious practices; and simple everyday tasks and deeds; our ancient religious texts have termed the Indian woman "Ardhangini" and bestowed unto her the right of being her male counterparts alter ego and equal if not superior counterpart; alas; the exalted status of the Indian woman has plummeted and nosedived instead of showing an upward curve over the ages and women have now come to be regarded as an inferior species to be exploited; brutalised; savaged; traumatised; tortured and trivialised; they are being sexually savaged with growing impunity and acid is being hurled on them as if the same was the answer to every perceived slight and insult conjured up by a diseased and decaying mind; and what is even more appalling and dastardly is the fact that a significant majority of our menfolk take undue pride and pleasure in justifying this vile deeds and justify the same as mere manifestations of a "culture that supposedly bestows a superior status on males who are an insult and affront to their sex".........
Now let's look at what we have done to the women who lost the support and companionship of their male counterparts and partners at various stages in their lives due to accidents; mishaps; natural causes and medical apathy and indifference; it is indeed sad and pitiable that we the inheritors and practitioners of a so called "enlightened; civilised; urbane; sophisticated and evolving culture" have reduced our widows to mere objects of our criminal apathy; indifference and indescribable absence of both sympathy and empathy for them; one look at the inhuman and deplorable state in which they exist in our so called centres of culture and tradition namely Mathura; Vrindavan and the like will make you hang your head in shame for the rest of your life and hate the very thought of having been born as an Indian........
Friends; fellows; countrymen; women and all right thinking and minded folks; the age for procrastination and slumber is well past us; we and only we can take matters into/unto our very hands and set right all the wrongs we have done to our fellow human beings; monuments; surroundings; environment and climate over the ages; so do shed off years of apathy and indifference and join me and like minded others in evolving and giving birth to an India; nation and culture that all of us can be immensely proud off................
Our motherland India has always been known as a melting pot as well as birthplace of a multitude of cultures and practices that have been both embraced as well as imbibed by millions of people all over the world; but sad to say; off late we seem to have forgotten our hoary traditions and culture and become nothing more than a nation of unsavoury characters who are hell bent upon giving our nation a bad name........
While the rest of the civilised pride takes immense pride in keeping their surroundings pristine; spic and span; we take undue pride in spreading filth wherever we go; our neighbours courtyard or garden is our favourite dumping ground; our roads are our dustbins and garbage bins; we are eminently capable of spitting; defecating and urinating in every conceivable and inconceivable nook and cranny and the less said about the deplorable state of our national monuments the better..........
Indian women always enjoyed pride of place in all rituals; religious practices; and simple everyday tasks and deeds; our ancient religious texts have termed the Indian woman "Ardhangini" and bestowed unto her the right of being her male counterparts alter ego and equal if not superior counterpart; alas; the exalted status of the Indian woman has plummeted and nosedived instead of showing an upward curve over the ages and women have now come to be regarded as an inferior species to be exploited; brutalised; savaged; traumatised; tortured and trivialised; they are being sexually savaged with growing impunity and acid is being hurled on them as if the same was the answer to every perceived slight and insult conjured up by a diseased and decaying mind; and what is even more appalling and dastardly is the fact that a significant majority of our menfolk take undue pride and pleasure in justifying this vile deeds and justify the same as mere manifestations of a "culture that supposedly bestows a superior status on males who are an insult and affront to their sex".........
Now let's look at what we have done to the women who lost the support and companionship of their male counterparts and partners at various stages in their lives due to accidents; mishaps; natural causes and medical apathy and indifference; it is indeed sad and pitiable that we the inheritors and practitioners of a so called "enlightened; civilised; urbane; sophisticated and evolving culture" have reduced our widows to mere objects of our criminal apathy; indifference and indescribable absence of both sympathy and empathy for them; one look at the inhuman and deplorable state in which they exist in our so called centres of culture and tradition namely Mathura; Vrindavan and the like will make you hang your head in shame for the rest of your life and hate the very thought of having been born as an Indian........
Friends; fellows; countrymen; women and all right thinking and minded folks; the age for procrastination and slumber is well past us; we and only we can take matters into/unto our very hands and set right all the wrongs we have done to our fellow human beings; monuments; surroundings; environment and climate over the ages; so do shed off years of apathy and indifference and join me and like minded others in evolving and giving birth to an India; nation and culture that all of us can be immensely proud off................
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