Everyone knows of moral policing that 'anti'-social organisations are doing in India. Ram Sena is doing exactly what their contemporary are doing in Maharashtra for so long. This time self proclaimed protectors of Indian culture have attacked women going pubs in Mangalore. First of all my question is who allows them to govern Indian culture and secondly which part of Indian 'culture' and 'tradition' lets its followers attack women. For all the years I have always known that Indian culture asks us to respect women. A true Indian would never attack a women. Everyone knows why Great Bhishma Pitamah died as he refused to raise his hands to attack shikhandi-a woman. So how come Sri Ram Sena warriors getting cues to attack women.
First of all, any culture and tradition is not a set guideline. Its a self evolving, never ending process. Every culture gets rich by growing. By learning goods from other cultures and rejecting bad from its own existing cultures. We know, our Indian culture is rich because it has gained so much from Mughals, British and from diversities in our own. In due course of time we have done our best to leave behind evils like child marriage, sati and other atrocities to women. Women in India enjoy their independence more than before and still there is more to happen as compared to western world. Today, we see higher percentage of girls in schools, colleges and offices. There is so much done for men-women equality in India. With all this developments shouldn't women be allowed to enjoy the same lifestyle as man?
Our politicians, CM of Rajasthan, Mr. Kailash Vijayvargiya-minister from MP supports this agenda of anti-pub culture. But why the anti-pub culture protestors attack women specially? Continuing their in-human activities they protested against Valentine day. V-day protest is anyways not new to us. Our great Hindutva Sena is doing this for so long in Mumbai and Maharashtra. What I mean to say is this organisations are not protecting cultures but they are favoring our long lost evils in the culture. They are male chauvinist against the freedom of women.
There is so much to do for our culture. Still we are not completely evolved from the evils of past. Why dont such organisations put their energies in more useful and fruitful activities rather than being destructive? It will help to enrich our culture!
4 comments:
Although I have my reservations about the content, I find the structure of writing pretty good, nice and concise.
did you recently read some Romila Thapar book? As much as I agree with the liberation of women and equal status in society, I find an irony that you mention Mughals. India in the times of Hindu rule i.e. the mahajanpads, the Guptas, The Mauryas, The Marathas, the Cholas, The Cheras had great stature granted to women and they used to hold political and academic positions of power as mentioned in vedas. It was the medieval India much after attacks by Muslims and Slave dynasty which disintergrated that stature and The Mughals were major perpetrators of that. Slave dynasty and their rulers brought the infamour "parda" which the mughals continued and Hindu Rulers had to either accept or concede to it. The Mughals imposed Jazia on Religious minority. So If at all the mughals influenced the liberation of women it would be in negative sense. It was also interesting to see reference of "evils of the past" and listing mostly hindu rituals, as if Pardha, Jazia, Polygamy, were not evils (mostly Mughal influence).
Child Marriage was much prevalent in Britain than in India, Henry V married his 9 yr old daughter Elizabeth to Then French king's 11 yr old son, their influence was never more liberating towards women, women were much more liberal before them. These kind of reference are very common in Left headed historians like Romila Thapar who almost deny that Indian Hindu History existed.
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