Right. Is it??

All is fair in love and war, said someone.

The so called “MODERN” world seem to only remember the latter part of the phrase. A world that has given a new meaning to modernization.  While the dictionary still reads the meaning of the word as “relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past”, some of us think it is to be fractious to our cultures.

Having a zero figure or being able to fit your corpulent body into those skinny jeans with a lot of torment, is not called modern. This only means, that we still are in the stone age. We don’t know what is good for us, we are just happy and carried away in the joy of accomplishing the silliest things in life. At least the nomads knew what was best for them, what was important, and what they wanted the future to be. Probably that’s exactly why the mankind has come so far. But, with the type of “Modernization” we are up to nowadays, we are not going any further.

All this while, we had completely been intransigent about homosexuality, tagging it to be abnormal. Abnormal because that’s not the way we are used to be. That’s not OUR perception of right.

 What happened to the tolerance that we boast about having? Even primeval people were more tolerant, and open to new perspectives. That is exactly why we do not rub stones to ignite fire anymore.

With less than 2% of the population of our country being public servants, we don’t have enough police or enough courts to attend to those thousands of piled up cases, but we definitely have enough police force for beating up unmarried couples. The judiciary forgives a juvenile for brutally raping and killing a girl and makes sure to hide his face from the outside world, but the same judiciary is okay with beating up couples in public for just being found together in hotel rooms on the grounds of “public indecency”.

Well, I am not sure how far the nation follows the constitution, but its judiciary surely needs to get a dictionary.

All this, in the name of preserving cultures? Does this culture give us permission to kill a person for eating beef?

With over 270 million starving people in the country, we are more worried about what a person eats. 

Oh, wait! We were protecting our religion, right? We worship the cow. We were protecting our god. We were punishing the people who disrespected him.

Well, I don’t know how far the mankind is going to go, but we surely have come a very long way. We have come so far, that now we think we can protect God.

We have come so far, that we think the one who created us, needs our help to be protected.

So far, that we don’t trust his justice anymore. Rather we take up governing in our hands and serve justice on his behalf.

So, at the end of the day, we have succeeded in making India MODERN, NORMAL, CULTURED, RELIGIOUS and RIGHT. Or should that be “Bharat”. After all changing names make huge differences.