India is a developing country, where the people value secularism, culture, traditions and their contribution to the country’s
diversity. Education to all is the prime aim of the country where it should be
necessary to make the population literate and make them aware about the world
around them for a better living.
Better Living, what does it emphasize on?
Job, Money,
Property, Health, Good Life Partner, Settled Children, Easy Retirement;
Today’s youth, who are in their twenties, have educated
parents or at least parents who understand that the list of words above is
incomplete without ‘Happiness’ and ‘Contentment’. Parents who know that this is
not the time they had grown up in, not the era, where they walked with heads
down and mouths shut against their own voices.
Hell yeah! We are warm blooded youth and we speak for
ourselves. Today we raise our own voices to the pitches that ought to be heard
loud and far. We do whatever we like on the name of experience and gain wisdom
by exploring the depths ourselves.
There is one thing which makes us fall to our feet though,
the same secularism that unites us.
Two people are said to fall in love within first sight or
meet. But hey! In India, you got to ask the question before you let the cupid
strike you,
“Hi, Are you Hindu?
Because I am one, if yes I can go forward and get a rose for you, because I
like
you.”
Or maybe
“Hey, I am sorry, I didn’t know you were a Punjabi, else I wouldn’t
have proposed you. I want to break up”
Before the cupid hits your butt, you better question the identity
of its arrow because that is how our secular country works!
We are Indians! We make sure, our blood remains pure, even
though a Rajput and a Bengali, we know can have the same O+ blood group. ! We prioritize our custom
and religion, which if a Punjabi marries a Tamilian, gets degraded. We ensure
that our races don’t get devalued if our Muslim son marry a Hindu girl hence
such marriages are BANNED!
We are Indians! Social and Secular! Proud to call ourselves
united yet divided by the caste system that still ruptures the hearts of the
generations that fight to overcome the strains and shackles with their love.
We are Indians! We sell our daughter, with exchange of gold, cars,
flats, houses, furniture, expensive clothes and all that in the name of gifts.
We call our daughters as Lakshmi and pray them for 9 days, when it comes to
marriage, we go to the extent, to devoid them of even education that they are
righteous to. We bring home our daughter-in-laws and within a year of marriage,
we frequently start questioning about the ‘ghar ka chirag’ (heir to the family).
We are Indians! We don’t let our children fall in love and
marry the ones they know but constraint them to get in bed with a stranger! We let
our boys roam the street and chain the girls to the boundaries of home. We
blame the females as if they are black cats carrying bad omen and get them
married first to get rid of them, because they are a hugely delayed responsibilities
of time, that need to be shrugged off.
We are Indians! We are educated, experienced and stuck in
time.
We carry knowledge but lack wisdom.
We
don’t realize that a man, woman and 2 kids don’t always mean a happy home.
WE! The Parents of Today’s youth still struggle to change
our notions and free our minds from the chains that we were bound in, when we
were young. We feel that our kids need
to obey the same rules that we did because that was RIGHT! But fail to
understand, that that was right THEN not NOW!
WE! The Parents of Today’s Youth can’t change our minds
because we think it is against our dignity and it will make us weak to listen
to our younger ones, who can’t be right as they are younger to us.
WE! The Parents of Today’s Youth can break the sticks if not
bend them, by trying all emotional tactics that can bring down our kids to lead
a similar life that we did, by sacrifice. We never had an option, not because
we didn’t have a choice, because we didn’t make any.
We can’t be changed, because we are
elders and elders are always right!
India is a democracy where people are eligible to chose their leader at the age of eighteen but can't chose their life partner at any age without the consent of their parents
