The Joint Family System we the Indians had developed taking centuries just got obliterated by the nuclear families which copied the western ways without thinking what they were throwing into the waste baskets & what they were taking in as their own! Indians never thought for a couple of minutes before they shifted allegiance to a completely foreign idea. They never thought of the culture they had been developing over the millennia! What ‘the others’ taught them, they followed blindly & never thought of the INDIANNESS OF THEIR EXISTENCE!
They shattered into smithereens the millennia-built cultural structure of India or Bharath as it should be called, without any guilt consciousness, AS THEY THOUGHT WHATEVER THERE WAS IN BHARATH ALIEN! They considered whatever that is Bharatiya or Indian Slavish & Uncultured & ran after something or the other which were not even a couple of hundred years old! They never knew that whatever they ran after were never tested & proven in time; they never cared even! They praised the western anything & kept a well-studied passiveness & animosity towards anything Bharatiya or Indian! Whatever western was emulated & Bharatiya looked down on! And, hence, Civilised became uncivilised & not yet proven things became CIVILISATION to these people who all of a sudden switched sides! Automatically, all the OTHER or WESTERN THINGS took charge of the situation & after some time were forced upon those who were still clinging onto the remains of WHAT WE HAD BEEN! When even a mere 500-1400 year old things were praised as something supernatural & sublime the 6000-7000 year old Bharath Culture was readily, silently & unceremoniously kicked away from the main frame of the INDIAN MINDS!
We started to build the alien Flat Culture as our own, flattening our great Bharat Culture; we built nuclear families which cut the roots of our culture never ever to germinate again; we started to talk & even think in the alien languages which were thrust upon us when we were NOT FREE; we wore western coats, suits etc in the sweltering sun; we gulped Russian vodka, brandy & whiskey and went for the Churchillian Cheroots; we read Shakespeare & Goethe and feigned ignorance of Valmiki & Vyasa; we romanticised the 12th & 13th century castles of Europe & never knew Ajanta, Ellora, Khojaraho, Mahabalipuram or the magnificent forts of Rajasthan; we knew Machiavelli well but kept our ignorance burning on Kautilya or Chanakya; we started to learn & propagate the love towards German, Latin & Urdu but failed to even think of Sanskrit; we held symposiums on Oxford & Cambridge & never uttered Nalanda; we forgot Kasi, Prayag, Sarnath & remembered London, Paris & Oslo; we stopped thinking BHARATIYA & started thinking western!
Our Education System became the BUILDING FACTORY for all those things -companies & all - which are western & is for the west and based on western style! Our Medicine System Ayurveda was thrown away for the sake of Western Medicine while the westerners learned to extract benefit from it! We ran after Consumerism, following the west without ever seeing what it has done to the western people! We try to match our likings to those of the west; IF WE DONT FEEL LIKE WEST WE FEEL UTTERLY CHEAP & INSIGNIFICANT; "WHATEVER THEY MADE US THINK WE THOUGHT FEVERISHLY" & FOLLOWED THEM DOGGEDLY, WAGGING OUR TAILS INCESSANTLY!
Aping West in everything, including life style (including old age homes, kindergarten, convent education etc), culture, food, etiquette, education, medicine, money-spending system (Retirement scheme, insurance, banks & investment companies, stock market etc) consumerism and even THINKING for which no other external aid is required other than what is ours, became or made to be a fashion statement! We decorated our culture as a whore & promenaded it as A WESTERN CIVILIZED GLAM DOLL; we lifted our saris & lungees in the crowded WESTERNIZED INDIAN MARKETS TO DECLARE "OUR WESTERN 'UNDERGARMENT-EXISTENCE"; we moved in 2 pieces to prove OUR CULTURE; we felt whatever the WESTERNERS DID WAS FREEDOM & APED THEM BLINDLY; we pointed our fingers to the Ajanta, Ellora & Khojaraho & RAN NAKED IN THE NAME OF WESTERN FREEDOM!
In British Raj we gave them raw material & they altered them & sold us with a huge price hike; today we labour & alter whatever we have & give them cheap! Whatever we do we do it KEEPING IN MIND THE WAY THE WEST DOES IT; WE TODAY LIVE FOR THE WEST; WE ARE DEAD AS INDIANS or BHARATIYA! In older times we ONLY HAD TO GO AS FAR AS THE MIGHTY HIMALAYAS TO FIND OUR GODS; NOW WE HAVE OUR GODS POSTED PERMANENTLY IN THE WEST!
It has almost become as “Life Is West & East Is Death”, as WE ASSUME TO SEE All The Great Things On the other side of the fence, which is between us & the west! The WEST-CRAZE has become so engrossing & consuming that even if ONE PERISHES IN LIFE, ONE WANTS TO PERISH IN THE WESTERN STYLE! We follow a system which is NOT OURS or THEIRS....It is somewhere between these two cultures-the yet to be proven & the well proven culture of ours- which is like falling between 2 stools & never ever waking up!
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EQUA LITY & THE 33% REVOLUTION!
All these days we have been continuously bombarded with the word EQUALITY! Sometimes, we even doubted whether we have unknowingly moved back to the times of the French Revolution! Everyone has become a subject expert & whatever one says has become the ultimate truth! Women, of all ages, levels, professions & of all standards have at the top of their voices screamed EQUALITY! Media trumpeted EQUALITY TO WOMEN...! Political godfathers & parties pained to prove themselves as the SAVIOURS OF THE WOMEN FOLK of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE! They were trumpeted as the SAVIOUR, these POOR, HAPLESS CREATURES HAVE BEEN WAITING ALL THESE MILLENIA! But, someone kept wailing at the Wailing Wall for HIM to come!
The POWERS THAT BE strived night & day to push the Reservation Bill & get it passed somehow, by hook or by crook! They burned midnight oil- at these times of oil price hikes!-to reach the ULTIMATE & ALL PURGING POINT OF FEMALE EQUALITY & EMANCIPATION! 33% reservation for women in the Indian Parliament became the Be All & End All of their existence! They screamed all over the media about the NEVER BEFORE BENEFITS POOR WOMEN FOLK WILL ENJOY JUST AFTER THIS 33% & THE EQUALITY THEY WILL ENJOY THE VERY NEXT MOMENT THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT PASSED THE 33% RESERVATION BILL! The experts wrote SERIAL ESSAYS in the news papers & magazines... the TV channels spent more than enough time to DISCUSS (Remember they never SHOTPUT or JAVELIN...THANK GOD!) the VARIOUS ANGLES OF EQUALITY & SOCIAL CHANGES THIS 33% EQUALITY BRINGS!
People find it easy to forget that there has never been such a thing as EQUALITY in Human History... And, more than anything else the word itself had been a misnomer of a thing which never ever existed on the surface of this earth! As, some intelligent mind has found out “It is some sort of a game (the Equality Game! – in which Blindfolded People Try To Catch A Non-Existent Black Cat, Inside a Dark Room!”) where people try to find THIS GREAT THING CALLED EQUALITY! The elected lions & lionesses of the Indian Parliament find themselves head over heel on this VERY SIGNIFICANT SOLE-ULTIMATE-MATTER IN THEIR EXISTENCE! They daily involve in their Word- Spitting-Competitions and then declare someone among them as the WORD-SPITTING-CHAMPION-OF THE DAY & rest for the day to come out again the very next day with full vigour & vitality to participate in the game again that SOMEDAY WILL BE THEIRS and their photographs will be printed out with the Greatest of all Tags for a Parliamentarian – THE WORD-SPITTING-CHAMPION-OF THE DAY!
What the present day Indian Public is witnessing -& at the same time they don’t understand too- is the near total destruction or sabotage of the entire system by the Present Day Elected Lions & Lionesses – supposing that we have a system at all!- as it is existing today, TO HAVE SOME JAI HOs while they slumber in their mansions & luxury vehicles; nothing more than that! Sabotaging the present system means taking back the system to where it all started thousands of years ago... that means BACK TO SQUARE ‘O!’ When this 33% of reservation is implemented, what will be the quality of the women who fill all the other positions, other than the gradually attained female parliamentary positions of the present? What sort of knowledge will they have to execute the responsibility they will be trusted with? Will they be able to do justice to the duty which will be entrusted upon them? Nobody thinks what will happen to a house which never had a foundation, leave alone strong foundation!? When the result of their action start to come out who will be those who will suffer & bear, as these people will be highly inefficient & incapable of driving an 8-Horse Chariot, as they never had the opportunity to even travel on a horse back! Of course, they will surely be controlled by the men folk who have the reins tightly in their hands & they will make these 33% do whatever they like to do. What we as Indians have to understand is that WE, THE PRESENT GENERATION & A COUPLE OF GENERATIONS TO COME ARE GOING TO SUFFER & SUFFER LIKE ANYTHING for an effort which might bear fruits someday in far distant future! IS IT SENSIBLE THAT WE SACRIFICE OURSELVES- THE PRESENT GENERATION & A COUPLE OF GENERATIONS TO COME- JUST TO KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE SACRIFICE OURSELVES, knowing fully well that WE HAVE JUST ONLY ONE CHANCE TO LIVE ON THIS BEAUTIFUL EARTH?!
It is high time we start thinking whether it is worth We, the present of India, sacrifice ourselves on the altar of insensibility, moral sub-standardness, brainlessness, political tunnel vision & a million other stupid things to SOMETIME GET 33% EQUALITY FOR WOMEN!? What we are allowing to happen, keeping ourselves mum, is something which will further the degradation of the existing political & governmental systems & make all the Indians suffer 24/7, without segregating men & women! Then the suffering won’t be 33%, it will be a wholesome 100% for all! And, we forget senselessly that buckets can’t be equal to brooms, apples can’t be equal to oranges, cars can’t be equal to helicopters & Jupiter can’t be equal to the Sun! We try to forget that what we are trying to do here is trashing buckets to shape them as televisions & melting a newspaper to make a water holding beautiful cup! And of course, we are trying to make Iddalies as Masala Dosais and Chappaties as Curries! The thinkers of the 33% Equality don’t like the idea or fact that, from Time Immemorial, sands were never waters or trees the birds in the skies! If these 33% Equality People wish to be named in the History as Visionaries and Be Thought of as Developers of Modern 33% Equality, it is always better for them to take time to understand that India is a country where one of the earliest of civilizations originated & has been growing without any pause or break and it is where most of the things Cultured Human Beings Stand for in the Present including Mathematics, Science , Astronomy, Ayurveda, Mind Studies, Yoga etc. started breathing real life thousands of years ago. Let them think whether our culture teaches us to pull a faster one to catapult our ego to establish ourselves as False Prophets of False & Non Existent Gender Equality or not?! In India, where no revolution has taken place till date & even evolutions have taken the longest of time periods, it seems highly suspicious that someone takes the fastest steps to give life to this 33% Revolution!
Some day we will read, if things are altered as these 33% Revolutionaries wish to do, an altered Mahabharata where Lady Krishna will tell Lady Arjuna to fight Lady Duryodhan & Other Ladies for Dharam/Dharma; or else we will see Lady Kunti single-handedly fighting the entire Kaurav Ladies and defeating them in the Mahabharata War! If the 33% Revolutionaries succeed, we will also see a Lady Vyasa writing a Lady Ramayana & a Lady Aryabatta finding out some mind boggling mathematical & astronomical novelties! We will even find A Lady Vikramaditya becoming the founder of A 33% Lady Maurya Empire! It will be a TOTAL or 33% LADIFICATION of Everything to do justice to the womenfolk who vanished from this Earth thousands of years ago! All these at the least 33% Equality, though someone will call it a FALSE EUNUCH EQUALITY, will be a 33% COMPENSATION for all the difficulties, problems & segregation womenfolk has supposedly suffered all over the world, all over the millennia! It is going to be written in the golden letters that THIS 33% EQUALITY IS THE FIND OF THE INSATIABLE & ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT OF THE LADY INDIAN CULTURE WHERE THE LADIES ARE ALWAYS 33% EQUAL!
The POWERS THAT BE strived night & day to push the Reservation Bill & get it passed somehow, by hook or by crook! They burned midnight oil- at these times of oil price hikes!-to reach the ULTIMATE & ALL PURGING POINT OF FEMALE EQUALITY & EMANCIPATION! 33% reservation for women in the Indian Parliament became the Be All & End All of their existence! They screamed all over the media about the NEVER BEFORE BENEFITS POOR WOMEN FOLK WILL ENJOY JUST AFTER THIS 33% & THE EQUALITY THEY WILL ENJOY THE VERY NEXT MOMENT THE INDIAN PARLIAMENT PASSED THE 33% RESERVATION BILL! The experts wrote SERIAL ESSAYS in the news papers & magazines... the TV channels spent more than enough time to DISCUSS (Remember they never SHOTPUT or JAVELIN...THANK GOD!) the VARIOUS ANGLES OF EQUALITY & SOCIAL CHANGES THIS 33% EQUALITY BRINGS!
People find it easy to forget that there has never been such a thing as EQUALITY in Human History... And, more than anything else the word itself had been a misnomer of a thing which never ever existed on the surface of this earth! As, some intelligent mind has found out “It is some sort of a game (the Equality Game! – in which Blindfolded People Try To Catch A Non-Existent Black Cat, Inside a Dark Room!”) where people try to find THIS GREAT THING CALLED EQUALITY! The elected lions & lionesses of the Indian Parliament find themselves head over heel on this VERY SIGNIFICANT SOLE-ULTIMATE-MATTER IN THEIR EXISTENCE! They daily involve in their Word- Spitting-Competitions and then declare someone among them as the WORD-SPITTING-CHAMPION-OF THE DAY & rest for the day to come out again the very next day with full vigour & vitality to participate in the game again that SOMEDAY WILL BE THEIRS and their photographs will be printed out with the Greatest of all Tags for a Parliamentarian – THE WORD-SPITTING-CHAMPION-OF THE DAY!
What the present day Indian Public is witnessing -& at the same time they don’t understand too- is the near total destruction or sabotage of the entire system by the Present Day Elected Lions & Lionesses – supposing that we have a system at all!- as it is existing today, TO HAVE SOME JAI HOs while they slumber in their mansions & luxury vehicles; nothing more than that! Sabotaging the present system means taking back the system to where it all started thousands of years ago... that means BACK TO SQUARE ‘O!’ When this 33% of reservation is implemented, what will be the quality of the women who fill all the other positions, other than the gradually attained female parliamentary positions of the present? What sort of knowledge will they have to execute the responsibility they will be trusted with? Will they be able to do justice to the duty which will be entrusted upon them? Nobody thinks what will happen to a house which never had a foundation, leave alone strong foundation!? When the result of their action start to come out who will be those who will suffer & bear, as these people will be highly inefficient & incapable of driving an 8-Horse Chariot, as they never had the opportunity to even travel on a horse back! Of course, they will surely be controlled by the men folk who have the reins tightly in their hands & they will make these 33% do whatever they like to do. What we as Indians have to understand is that WE, THE PRESENT GENERATION & A COUPLE OF GENERATIONS TO COME ARE GOING TO SUFFER & SUFFER LIKE ANYTHING for an effort which might bear fruits someday in far distant future! IS IT SENSIBLE THAT WE SACRIFICE OURSELVES- THE PRESENT GENERATION & A COUPLE OF GENERATIONS TO COME- JUST TO KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE SACRIFICE OURSELVES, knowing fully well that WE HAVE JUST ONLY ONE CHANCE TO LIVE ON THIS BEAUTIFUL EARTH?!
It is high time we start thinking whether it is worth We, the present of India, sacrifice ourselves on the altar of insensibility, moral sub-standardness, brainlessness, political tunnel vision & a million other stupid things to SOMETIME GET 33% EQUALITY FOR WOMEN!? What we are allowing to happen, keeping ourselves mum, is something which will further the degradation of the existing political & governmental systems & make all the Indians suffer 24/7, without segregating men & women! Then the suffering won’t be 33%, it will be a wholesome 100% for all! And, we forget senselessly that buckets can’t be equal to brooms, apples can’t be equal to oranges, cars can’t be equal to helicopters & Jupiter can’t be equal to the Sun! We try to forget that what we are trying to do here is trashing buckets to shape them as televisions & melting a newspaper to make a water holding beautiful cup! And of course, we are trying to make Iddalies as Masala Dosais and Chappaties as Curries! The thinkers of the 33% Equality don’t like the idea or fact that, from Time Immemorial, sands were never waters or trees the birds in the skies! If these 33% Equality People wish to be named in the History as Visionaries and Be Thought of as Developers of Modern 33% Equality, it is always better for them to take time to understand that India is a country where one of the earliest of civilizations originated & has been growing without any pause or break and it is where most of the things Cultured Human Beings Stand for in the Present including Mathematics, Science , Astronomy, Ayurveda, Mind Studies, Yoga etc. started breathing real life thousands of years ago. Let them think whether our culture teaches us to pull a faster one to catapult our ego to establish ourselves as False Prophets of False & Non Existent Gender Equality or not?! In India, where no revolution has taken place till date & even evolutions have taken the longest of time periods, it seems highly suspicious that someone takes the fastest steps to give life to this 33% Revolution!
Some day we will read, if things are altered as these 33% Revolutionaries wish to do, an altered Mahabharata where Lady Krishna will tell Lady Arjuna to fight Lady Duryodhan & Other Ladies for Dharam/Dharma; or else we will see Lady Kunti single-handedly fighting the entire Kaurav Ladies and defeating them in the Mahabharata War! If the 33% Revolutionaries succeed, we will also see a Lady Vyasa writing a Lady Ramayana & a Lady Aryabatta finding out some mind boggling mathematical & astronomical novelties! We will even find A Lady Vikramaditya becoming the founder of A 33% Lady Maurya Empire! It will be a TOTAL or 33% LADIFICATION of Everything to do justice to the womenfolk who vanished from this Earth thousands of years ago! All these at the least 33% Equality, though someone will call it a FALSE EUNUCH EQUALITY, will be a 33% COMPENSATION for all the difficulties, problems & segregation womenfolk has supposedly suffered all over the world, all over the millennia! It is going to be written in the golden letters that THIS 33% EQUALITY IS THE FIND OF THE INSATIABLE & ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT OF THE LADY INDIAN CULTURE WHERE THE LADIES ARE ALWAYS 33% EQUAL!
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