Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts

Friday, June 20, 2008

I do not feel proud for being a Hindu, Bengali or an Indian.

Recently I read that Bal Thackeray wants the Hindu youths to come up with suicide squads to control Islamic extremist activities. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a pichhware main laat for one such laat…and where does it end? Nowhere! But our Bapuji’s Gandhigiri system is not going to work either…because it has not since Bharat was divided into two. So what is to be done? But Bal Thackerayji, aisi batein nehi kahtein hai, bas chupchaap karte hain jo karna nota hai. Thik hai? We are a so called secular country, where secularism, democracy actually has one single meaning for you, me, and hum…Vote Bank! So, what is the use of this chillamilli?

I don’t know why we learn to be proud of who we are. I used to be very proud that I am Indian, that I am Hindu, that I am Bengali. But then everyone has the same history of pride. And every religion has gone through reforms. And have you known of any religion which was created by God? Men created religion and to err is human. If my religion is created by God and is good then why it was reformed? Why? If I am good, then who says others are bad?

I find our Indian culture, mainly Hindus are hypocrites. Think of Brahminism, Brahmins think they are God-sent and others are dirty, small and to be scorned. What kind of a culture which says only certain Brahmin race is superior and others are inferior? Even today orthodox families do not go for inter-caste marriages. In the interiors your family will be let alone of you do that.
And let’s talk about the status of women in our society. LOL. Mandir mein Kaali ma ka rup deke puja karte hai aur ghar main kalima samajhke khub dhote hai!! Think about killing girl child. Even today women are burnt because of dowry. And following the Saans-Bahu tv serials is something to be ashamed of, but then these soaps sell because the stories are taken from ghar ghar ki kahani…just that a bit chatakdar masala is added.

But trust me, facts are stranger than fiction, and facts say that ghar ghar ki kahani can be dirtier than what it appears in the soaps. Women do not have equality…equality? Asking too much…women do not have even the status of being human. Think that women in our country are separated from their parents after marriage, asked to love their husband’s family even if they get nothing but hatred and pain. That’s their duty. How come loving someone can be a duty? Does the husband love his wife’s parents? Husbands, I ask you…I don’t need an answer though. She lives like an alien in the family where she is responsible for everyone’s well-being. But nobody is responsible for looking after her. Yes, the marital pledge during the ceremony gives her responsibility to the husband. But who cares? If I say, the husband should also live away from his family as the wife does, then? Nehi, yeh humara culture nehi hai! As if culture ko banaye rakhne ka theka sirf aurat ka hai.
The bread-winner is a man, so he can do whatever he wants to do. A woman can also be a bread-winner, but her power has limits. She has to bring forth babies to the family, nurture them till they are full-grown. But mother’s name is not necessary, when it is time for the baby to face the outer world. And female infanticide is still a growing concern! So its obvious that women are primarily unwanted. Even most households even today expects a their first baby to be a male. If that happens then there is no need for a second try to get a male child.

The act of creating a new life within and bring on to the earth is not something that makes a feminine divine. Its like having sex one night and forgetting what happened, arre bhai isme kya hai? Bachche to aise hi paida ho jate hai….so, oh the superior, oh men, why can’t you do that? After all the baby is going to carry your name. Why should women bother?

Hello, I am talking about majority of households. Not the elite or open-minded families. Not all are lucky as you and me baby!

And status of women in Muslim society is beyond my area of explanation. I hate to talk about that. You will get thousands of books written on this issue. But they think only Muslims should live and all should die. So? Apne girewan mein koi nehi jhakta!!

Kaun rahega aur kaun jayega? The Law of Nature will win. Nature is not one-eyed; it does not allow privileges to a particular caste, gender or race. Nature treats all equally. Even if we consider that the super-nature is God, then He also does the same thing. Equality and Justice is what is going to be there.

Please give me cause if you say that its wrong not to feel proud for being a Hindu, Bengali or an Indian. But yes, I feel proud that I am human. As I think, understand and realize.