Let Them Live!!!

Hi!Well the recent incidents in the city of Mangalore, I am sure everyone is aware of, have really moved me and should move anyone who saw video footage of whatever happened that day, and so I am witing down some of my views. You may tend to disagree with some of my points and any criticism and suggestions are welcome. Kindly bear with the length of the article, coouldnt stop the flow. I hope in the end you would be moves a little too.
India, the land of cultures, the land of unprecedented values, the land of mystic grandeur and the land with the ability to absorb any culture that comes its way, the land of the most intellectual people born on earth, the land of the most devout servers of humanity..well the list of adjectives any Indian can think of, for his holy motherland is endless, but one thing which really now does intrigue an individual is that does our country or rather its grand people, its leaders whom we have chosen to represent ourselves and to frame our homeland's future, really stand for and justify the superlatives just used.
Talking of the Indian culture and values, there has been a very pertinent question, which has hit the base of our social solidarity eevry now and then is the status of women in the society. The status of women, in the present era, unlike the ancient times, does not only include the economic and social capability and freedom of this section of the society but also the liberties they enjoy, the way they are accepted in the society and the way they are judged( though that is a very cliched phenomena) as beings who can and should consolidate our moral value based system.
The women in ancient times were highly respected individuals and the framers of our religion, those who wrote the Vedas, always saw them in the highest echelons and with utmost respect. Rigveda mentions, that a man's religious duties, his practise of "yajnas" and other activities were not considered complete, unless and until his wife was a part of the duties and in fact he wasnt allowed to perform the duties without the presence of his partner. The wife was truly the heart, soul and the sole pillar of a man's religious solidarity and social well being. Such was the might of a woman and they enjoyed a God-like acceptance in all spheres of the society(though there werent many spheres as yet).
Then came the Later Vedic age and the situation began to change. The respect was not lost but yet there was an inclination which now was towards a patriarchal society. The concept of "Ardhanhgini" came into existence though now performing of religious activities became an individual phenomena. The woman though still held the right to property and any indecency against the fairer sex was considered a social taboo.Slowly things changed and though all the great scholars of time, Aryabhatta, Varahamihira, Bhaskaracharya advocated high respect and care form women, and great women thinkers like Lopa, Mudra, Tara emerged, but certain sections of the society now, those which kept coming up with greater divisions in the society, had taken a downslide in terms of the ways the women were treated.
The Golden era for the women was now ending and with lesser people now able to read the Vedas and with the scholars following the flow of the society and calling it right to make this once most respected section of society as mere "objects of pleausre" and "servitude", the situation accelerated in the downward direction.It was a meteoritic fall for the society and while falling through the friction of the opposing sacred texts and the natural order, the once mythical and sacred Indian society shunned its protective sheath, which got burned away just before we hit the surface. What now remained of once glorious past was just reference in the texts, who most wont ever lay a hand on in later generations and a very patriarchal, maniacal society with all respect, rights and pleasures for just one half of the society.
All the great historians and scholars have always said that "it is the state of the women in a civilization that signifies how advanced it is" and well India has now lost the right of even being called a civilization. it is often said that India was once a Golden Bird and that the British took away all our wealth and grandeur, but as any sane person would suggest, physical wealth can never be enjoyed in a morally poor environment and what once used to be a country embedded with Diamond-like jewels of an equal, moral society had already turned it all into coal, through the acts of self destruction and with the atrocities committted against one half of the society by the other half.The British though took our wealth away, but they also gave us back that little moral element which was once lost, with anti-sati laws and other legislations, trying to uplift the situation of women in our country.
As already mentioned, we and our land is made up of such elements which absorb any culture and in fact create a potent environment for any culture to thrive upon, we could adopt the western system in terms of women upliftment and our society began the uphill task of reaching those days of basking in the lustre and glory of shining diamonds.The situation vastly improved and though discriminations remained lurking here and there but with the dawn of 21st century, it seemed that we have made a huge progress.
The state of Rajasthan put up a great example with all 3 major political posts of The Chief Minister, the governor and the Soeaker of the Legislative Assembly being women, something unprecedented inIndian history and clearly showing the rise in might and respect for the emotionally stronger section of the society. We appointed a lady President and one female politician won 3 consecutive state elections in the capital to become Chief Minister, again unheard of earlier. The women today are heading many organisations, they have become CEOs, Astronauts, have barged into the domain of other industries once considered a male dominion like extreme sports and mining industries and undoubtedly are doing extremely well and excelling.
Well if evertything is just so rosy then why am I writing this blog??Because its not all that rosy, some intelligentia of our society are still unable to come to terms with the status of equality and freedom, the women are trying to enjoy. Why call them intelligent? these retarded morons are unable to realise that the weight of social morality and national culture does not rest only on a woman's behaviour but when we talk of equality, its shared. Male sections is as mush responseible for whatever should be taken care of in the society as is the female section. And in fact when tehre is nothing wrong which is happening, why are we creating such an issue.
Alcohol has been an integral part of any era, be it "Somaras" for the Gods or Vodka for today's generation, what wrong is there in it as long as people remain sober and enjoy a few momnets of being with friends and dear ones and have a sip!! And if we rather our "intelligentia", the "political elite" think that alcohol is such bad a thing (which it certainly isnt if consumed sanely and hence it has never been banned completely), then why blame only women for mutilating our culture, when more males are taking to the habit. Why do our rules and regulations change under certain circumstances and still we keep referring to articles 12-25 of our Constitution which provide our rights, and more importantly Article 14, the right to equality, when there is no ****ing equal treatment of opposite sexes on even such a minor issue.
The members of one religious cult, calling itself the saviours of our culture, barge into a pub and inhumanly beat and molest women and the might of our media and police is such that these hooligans can then come out in open and claim the responsibility of carrying out such heinous acts of utter devil like instincts on those who cant defend themselves, what with 45 people coming and attcking 8-10 women and then they find an alliby in saying that it is aginst our culture for women to be in pubs and enjoying themselves. What shit are these people talking about, is it against our culture to live freely? Is it against our culture to enjoy remaining within the specifications of being sober in behaviour? Are these ***holes out of their mind to be saying that its only one half of the society that should look to preserve the culture and the other half carries out the act of utmost insincerity and irresponsibly illtreating and molesting women.Does a woman face so much for just being out with a friend to enjoy? Isnt she a human being, doesnt she enjoy the right to do what she wants and do what she aspires to??To add to the ignominy, the head of the state cabinet comes up with a statement that the pub's private security should prevent such acts. Doesnt he realise that maintaining law and order is a state responsibility and which private security can prevent 45 youths barging into ones territory and masquerading with the property. To think of it, a full force of a major metropolitan's police could not prevent 10 armed youths( though I know this should not be compared, but still...) from causing havoc openly in the city and still he comes up with such a statement. Is he suggesting that maintenance of law and order be privatised? I am sure many private players are licking their fingers on the prospect of getting such a contract!!!But is that a solution? No, as another high post minister states, the solution is not this, but closing down pubs and going back to the Stone Age by stopping all modes of modernising is a sure way.
He states that "when there are pubs, people drink, they get high and then can do anything and if a drunk male finds a girl, who is by herself ,he can do anything in his state of being high,cos heis not in his senses its the girl's mitake that she went in his vicinity." What bullshit!!! This is how our leaders, the once we chose to reperesent us think.Even more scary are the comments of Ms. Shiela Dikshit, ( I couldnt stop myself from using this name, what she said is truly gruesome esp. her being a woman herself), she tends to agree with the forementioned minister and well what more can one expect from a person who feigned away from taking any responsibility when one female journalist, Soumya Vaidyanathan, was killed in her city at 2 in the night and Ms. Dikshit very insanely suggested that women should not be out late in the night!!!!! What has happened to our politicians??? Have they heard that there is a thing called as police and that it is responsible to maintain law and order in the city??? Or are they too busy shoving up all the security up their own ***es, just in case a terrorist strikes??The situation has become really pathetic and when now there is such a hoopla around this topic, it should be interesting to see finally what our "representatives" do.
There is no way a woman deserves any from of disrespect. She is the source of our existence, she has been bestowed by God to be able to make human life continue on this earth, only she has the ability of bringing a new life into existence and certainly deserves gratitude and respect of the highest order from all sections of society and for those who still cant agree and say that a woman cant give birth without the involvement of a male (true, but for those who use this argument to show and support male dominance), at least treat this "should be" sacred section of our society on equal terms as you do your male counterparts.