As the story goes...A girl was once helping out her mother in the kitchen preparing 'dosas' for breakfast...suddenly the girl pointed out.."Ma, why is it that you make dosas this size...I mean technically the radius of the pan is larger, so the size of dosas can be increased"..to this the mother replied.."My mother taught me to do it like this...unconsciously I make them of the same radius"..the girl then went on to ask her grandmother and apparently even her grandmother was taught the same by her mother. Finally the little girl approached her great grandmother who pointed to the pan lying on the shelf and said.."That's the largest size of dosas for my pan"..
Evidently both the grandmother and the mother are so comfortable in their adapted way of life that they are unwilling to make even the slightest transformations even though they know it is more appropriate and ethical.. The point to where I am getting is about the age old Social Evils which have literally held our country in shackles..the society is haunted by the immoralities of something that was set centuries ago by our ancestors.. Our country claims to be producing one of the smartest people in the world..boasts of a high rate of economic development..dreams of being a world superpower.. and still in a small little corner it harbours this wicked spell of doom... So to start with..Inter-religion marriages..Actually Inter-caste marriages are itself considered so dreadful that Inter-religion marriages are unimaginable..A young widow is forbidden to re-marry and barred from majority of the social and communal activities.. Child marriages and Dowry are still very much alive in our country..Daughters are being sold like cattles..!!! And yea..BREAKING NEWS!!!..Gender inequality wins the race..In every sphere of life..women are being treated as second class citizens.. An exemplary example lies in our very own campus..Internet and LAN were provided to the boys in their hostels when they reached 2nd year..but apparently providing such facilities to the girls of the same college were not really high on the priority list ..because??..well..ah!!..coz they are girls..!! Though after 2 years of continuous coercing..in final year we the girls of NIT,Surat finally saw how the "LAN" actually works..and how it feels like to access the internet from our hostels.. Also why is it that only boys get to have the privileges of a night canteen while girls are made to sleep enduring their hungera pangs..?? Even in a family..involuntarily a girl it expected to wipe off a stain or to make tea for guests or to set the table for dinner..
One more form of social evil predominant in our country is the superstitious notion. This shows the glaring ignorance that exists in our country. And it is vacuous as to how not just the illiterate lot but even people who boasts about their innumerable degrees think that if a person sneezes before starting some work something inauspicious is bound to occur..the years spent in imparting knowledge to a new born feels like a total waste when a reflex action by a human body to get rid of irritants by expelling a more than normal quantity of air through the nose is treated as a bad omen..
Numerous such beliefs exist..a black cat crossing your path..the breaking of a mirror in the house..is considered to be a premonition..the even funnier ones I've actually heard from people..if you catch a butterfly, you'll not get married..the darker the colour of mehendi on the girl's hands determines the strength of the bond she will share with her husband..!!..Absolute trash..isn't it..??
Well..apparently the size of the pan has increased and so must we broaden our horizon..otherwise the walls of sound ethical principles and codes which build up our society will undoubtedly come crumbling down..
Evidently both the grandmother and the mother are so comfortable in their adapted way of life that they are unwilling to make even the slightest transformations even though they know it is more appropriate and ethical.. The point to where I am getting is about the age old Social Evils which have literally held our country in shackles..the society is haunted by the immoralities of something that was set centuries ago by our ancestors.. Our country claims to be producing one of the smartest people in the world..boasts of a high rate of economic development..dreams of being a world superpower.. and still in a small little corner it harbours this wicked spell of doom... So to start with..Inter-religion marriages..Actually Inter-caste marriages are itself considered so dreadful that Inter-religion marriages are unimaginable..A young widow is forbidden to re-marry and barred from majority of the social and communal activities.. Child marriages and Dowry are still very much alive in our country..Daughters are being sold like cattles..!!! And yea..BREAKING NEWS!!!..Gender inequality wins the race..In every sphere of life..women are being treated as second class citizens.. An exemplary example lies in our very own campus..Internet and LAN were provided to the boys in their hostels when they reached 2nd year..but apparently providing such facilities to the girls of the same college were not really high on the priority list ..because??..well..ah!!..coz they are girls..!! Though after 2 years of continuous coercing..in final year we the girls of NIT,Surat finally saw how the "LAN" actually works..and how it feels like to access the internet from our hostels.. Also why is it that only boys get to have the privileges of a night canteen while girls are made to sleep enduring their hungera pangs..?? Even in a family..involuntarily a girl it expected to wipe off a stain or to make tea for guests or to set the table for dinner..
One more form of social evil predominant in our country is the superstitious notion. This shows the glaring ignorance that exists in our country. And it is vacuous as to how not just the illiterate lot but even people who boasts about their innumerable degrees think that if a person sneezes before starting some work something inauspicious is bound to occur..the years spent in imparting knowledge to a new born feels like a total waste when a reflex action by a human body to get rid of irritants by expelling a more than normal quantity of air through the nose is treated as a bad omen..
Numerous such beliefs exist..a black cat crossing your path..the breaking of a mirror in the house..is considered to be a premonition..the even funnier ones I've actually heard from people..if you catch a butterfly, you'll not get married..the darker the colour of mehendi on the girl's hands determines the strength of the bond she will share with her husband..!!..Absolute trash..isn't it..??
Well..apparently the size of the pan has increased and so must we broaden our horizon..otherwise the walls of sound ethical principles and codes which build up our society will undoubtedly come crumbling down..
