Indian Society Perspective

India as said so has been the land of Gods and Goddesses, there are about 330 million deities which reside in this peninsular land. People respect and worship them with all their might. The Indian culture or popularly known as the Hindu culture has certain devoted festivals to these deities not only festivals even week days are associated with them. I dunno what to say whether its prevalent disbeliefs among people or the modicum of knowledge due to lack of literacy amongst the large factions of the populous which has made people to believe in the Almighty but not in his preachings. In a country like India where a human sea resides and vies for the opportunities which are a bare minimum as seen through the  eyes of a common man, its very difficult for him to pull through and with the rocketing population its just getting exacerbated. Nowadays, the society yearns for things to be done ethically but the evils have now been so prominent that even if a single person tries to work with honesty he is broken down by several others and his survival is made difficult, thus, the reality has a domino effect going on which has made the country an abode of barbarians whether in action or in thinking.
A country which was once known for its high cultural values, secularity and integrity is now known for its vulnerable people who are ready to do any crime for a handful of green backs, the frustration level of  the multitude has risen new heights and this all has culminated because of the unscrupulous conditions since the times of freedom which has slowly and steadily started tarnishing the well to do plight of the people and have surfaced the actual conditions of misery. The dream which Nehru and Mahatma would have dreamt about India and the India for whose freedom they fought for thinking that the lineage ahead will accrue to its pride and dignity with their actions have certainly been trashed. Their didactic speeches which solely had the aim to make people realise that "Selflessness is the biggest Virtue" have been proven vague, if those great leaders and fighters would have been here to see the dire straits of their cherished homeland then they must have been shaken to their souls. People were there, people are here but the scenarios have changed drastically. There are many questions which arise in every Indians heart and mind now and then that what have we become now, why have we changed so much, well darting back to the early years as we came out of our cocoon every individual had his/her dream and had his/her right to breathe and bask in the air of freedom after a long hiatus of around a century. The things were going well initially but due to callowness of the incumbent government and their policies which enamoured the people at those times failed to live up to the dream of the common indian man eventually. The policies which were passed without circumspection of the prevalent conditions at those times and neglecting their future effects ultimately made the country hollow from inside. Those pretentious plans harmed the country much more exponentially than even the Britishers did whom we blame for everything. On the contrary, i would say Britishers did leave some of the very good things in India like their governance system, their education system, their mannerisms, their language and many more things, they have left indelible marks in every walk of the Indian society which are clearly visible. Even i would like to mention that Britishers didn't come walking on their own, it was the condition of the natives which attracted them to creep in swiftly by applying the policy of "Divide and Rule", if the people would have been united then, the book of Indian history would have been having different pages now and not even the Britishers the other umpteen rulers who invaded us were also the results of our own follies.
If we travel back a bit more in time to the ages of the Aryans which are considered to be amongst the firsts who have had lived in well settled societies and who are also considered to be our "Godfathers", it is them who are the actual cause of the conditions today. It were there principles and beliefs which certainly passed on to generations and have crippled the society. The future generations also merely followed the beliefs without even brooding once that the propositions that we are embracing whole heartedly might have ill effects as well like for instance Casteism which was practised earlier to get the work done more effectively in the society, people were divided according to their skills, their were no derogatory intentions then but the things changed eventually. With the passage of time things changed and people too, they got more learned, more refined in their skills, got themselves acclimatised but the only thing which didn't change was their mentality, their thought process was still oozing with age old superstitions and beliefs. The post independence era which marked the rise of world's largest democracy indirectly made people powerful. In this era when people started looking outside to other countries and their natives, there occurred an upsurge of emotion demanding for rights to people and rise of every echelons in society. As discussed above certain propositions were presented, policies were formulated which somehow satiated the need of the hour but proved incompetent to level up with the future needs which were yet to unfold. The policies though had a progressive approach but deep down in the crux they were stigmatised by blinkered outlooks of the leaders who just cared about securing their positions and neglecting the public. Through these politicians corruption and other acts of malfeasance perpetuated which we eventually got in inheritance and these evils are tormenting us even now. With growing population the marginalised section of people also got involved in the wrongdoings and thus the dream of creating a shining developing India metamorphosed into an antithesis reality of a decadent and despondent India whose own people looted their motherland.
Well, i digressed way to much, the bottom-line being that the mental perception of today's man has been a result of centuries of misconceptions and disbeliefs. The crimes which are occurring nowadays especially the rape cases which are in vogue these days are all our own brainchild fantasies. Well, at least a merit in disguise of the growing media is that now people are getting informed about these heinous crimes and these are also doing the work of stimulating the human conscience of their audiences to act against these atrocities which otherwise used to happen but no one paid heed to them, for instance, the rape case which happened on December 16, 2013 in Delhi in which a boy and a girl were brutally beaten and the girl was raped by six men and was injured very badly internally as well as externally. The culprits were arrested and are even sentenced to death now but the judgement which has been passed in this particular case which is defined as the "Rarest Of Rare"; will act as panacea for all other similar cases or just because of the surmounting pressure of the people on the administrative machinery this case has been given a special treatment and for rest others things haven't changed, will remain a debatable topic. The only solution for such criminal offence is that the mental perspective of both of the sexes need to be changed. Men need to be taught the lesson of veneration towards women and this need to be taught starting from the basest level at the school to little children as they being the future citizens of our country otherwise there is no other way to curb this sick Indian male inherited mentality. According to a study it takes about three generations to bring a change in society successfully, so we better need to pull up our socks from now onwards as changes can't take place overnight.
Well, me also being an Indian male i'm saying this because after listening about such deplorable events it makes me feel ashamed that i'm part of such a society where though females are worshipped with all pomp and show but on the flip side female infanticides, dowry and rape cases do thrive. Well, putting my cents in i completely agree that up to a certain degree both the sexes are responsible for such ill practices which have been proliferating from a long time now but i would also say that the perception of a female in a male mind has been and is still somewhere below himself. The irony being that every male always dreams about a girl in his life to love and care but whenever the same girl transgresses this flimsy line of lust and desire and enters into a zone of competition where the fairer sex competes equally for their rights and share of resources their enters the male ego, this ego which used to objectify female as a thing of covetousness starts to "man handle" her. Female have always been tormented at each phase of their lives sometimes because of their own parents who think she is a burden on their family, sometimes because of their husbands under whose covertness she is secure from the outside world but who is their to save her from her husband himself and sometimes because of their own children who leave them in solitude forgetting all the sacrifices which they made for them. The journey of a female is highly complex throughout and that too in this patriarchal society its traumatising as well.
Well, i really salute the entire female fraternity for living their lives so beautifully, the relationship which was supposed to be a symbiotic one, has only found them at the giving end whether as a mother, daughter or wife.
The crimes happening against womanhood can only be reduced by changing the attitude of their male counterparts otherwise the scars of monstrosity will always be visible on the face of humankind.
PS :-  This book reveals some of the intricacies involved and the loop holes in the economic policies which were formulated for the general betterment but resulted otherwise.

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