Thursday, January 29, 2009

Hooliganism or Vandalism

Mangalore incident was another alienated event getting full coverage from media with marking the event just as hooliganism. Many asked the question, what we mean by Hinduism, has anyone also asked what we mean by modernization? A modern working class woman wants to enjoy her life. For her doing odd jobs at home is not healthy for a women. So she keeps a maid for such jobs. Isn’t that maid is also a woman, doesn’t she have any rights. We all have started enjoying our success and in the process have disparaged the importance of the Hindu society as a whole, which asks us to share, which asks for certain sacrifices both from males and females.

Democracy of speech, action, blabs… blab…

The incident was wrong, humiliation and use of power in any sense is unjustified. I agree with all the sufferings of so called modern women on this global society. Their action was wrong, but have we done anything to soothe their anger. There is a big misconception in our society that the literate white collar independent society is always right, and all their actions are clean. We have a big misconception of taking ourselves as the solicitor of this world and ignoring the every thoughts of the illiterate society. If an illiterate raise his eyebrow on the action of a literate, his action is bisected by this hard words. Women still compare themselves with the atrocities that were long abolished. Sita was not a normal human woman, neither was Rama. There has to be liberties, but there are also certain behaviors which may not be that comfortable to one but should be acceptable for the betterment of our society. This question on Hinduism is not just about women, but the overall youth Hindu society of India who are least aware of richness of our Vedic literature. Those who have read Bhagvat should know that it doesn’t mention that women should be captivated in the purdah system, but it asks for their protection. How good we may be, there are some evils in this society, from which our goddesses should be protected. It’s only the Hindu religion where a woman is being considered as the source of everything, whether its power, money, or knowledge. The Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh have only being symbolized as the care takers. I agree that we follow many practices that is due to our aloofness and which should be abolished, but we need to make it understand to the other section (who believes in them) why should we do so. For that we need to show them equal importance.

We spoke openly of our liberties, but have we thought about our elders who find it difficult to visit their nearby parks, all because of youths like me, us for whom showing affection in public which has become so common. There is nothing wrong, but its about the respect that they deserves. Regarding, pubs etc, all are good till we are there to enjoy after our hard work. But don’t we misuse it. All those other things that happens there, can we justify that. We literate society citizen never took offence to create awareness on them and now some uncomfortable people are taking some action, we want to hide the issue in the conception of violence. We all feel bad when we say that a woman in Delhi is not safe, how safe we all are in our corporate. The movie was not just out of an illusion. We leave everything to be proved first, and somebody else should take the initiative to prove it and if someone tries to put his voice, we make his voice dead. If everyone stops listening to us, we will be in an equally miserable state of frustration and someone else will be judging our actions.

I appreciate Taliban for making such strong laws though they over carried it. Do we have the courage to declare a similar tough law against a rapist? It takes 13 year for us to hand one rapist and in that time he humiliated another 6. Not every one can be made happy with the laws. Instead of finding out loopholes to overcome it, we should learn to value them. Being independent is good, but to think only about our own comfort is selfishness. I will support the woman if they work on creating awareness against the misconception about them. They deserve their due respect, but should not try to get everything by complaining and crying. The editor at IBM mentioned about the atrocities on women she saw at Rajasthan. Why didn’t she try to do something then? She asked it on Sena sevaks to take care of those issues. Isn’t it like giving excuses for not taking the responsibility about something she feels? Sens sevaks took actions (I know wrong actions) against something they find unjustified. If you feel something similar about any other area, take the lead, may be few from sena sevak(if they realize it too) may come and join you in your efforts. It’s like someone asking to sweep the floor and you are asking to wash your clothes first. Why cant we understand that cleaning of floor is important and then help in making the other person understand about the importance of clean clothes. all it requires is taking of responsibility and sharing of visions.

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