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The Taboos of India

A vast stretch of land, multilingual in colour and diversified in harvest, which cherishes a great dream shown by great persons throughout the ages whetheher it be Chanakya, Swami Vivekananda,Akbar The Great, Ashoka The Great and to say most recently Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, the dream of a Unified Vision and a Unified Nation, but the taboo is we only dream and dream and again re-dream and re-live the eternal dream but never bother to understand or achieve that dream and again and again we glorify the great Indian habit of procrastination. We adore the message of brotherhood and indiscrimination and portray ourselves as great visionaries but we do not accept this message on social front, this is a taboo.We say a lot of things which should be done to uplift the deprived and to empower the unempowered, but the taboo is most of us do not bother. We want that someone else should do the things which all of us know should be done but we do not want to be known as the CHANGE MAKERS but we have conditioned ourselves to become CHANGE PRAISERS, this is a taboo because, if we respect Mahatma Gandhi then how can we deceive his sayings,think yourself!

 

Folks, neither am I trying to bend this flow of expressions towards the sea of some Utopian Vision nor am I trying to portray myself as someone great who knows it all and who is trying to preach all of you,  as some of you may feel.I am only trying to remove the curtains of ignorance through my education and observations.All the readers have full rights to disagree, but yes, only on pure logical grounds. All right enough of my shielding,let us continue!

 

The country where there are countless Gods and Godessess, numerous religions adulterated through selfish motives, of orthodox stakeholders of every religion, this adulteration divides and divides mercilessly, but still we talk of oneness and try to reflect fragile emotions, this is a taboo. We love  and desire to be known as “Modern Citizens” and as far as my education is concerned modernity has one of it’s features as ‘Broadening Up of Thoughts’ but most of us are the same narrow minded and rigid Modern Orthodox People. The duality which we tend to follow in some form or the other which we do or even which we think, isn’t it a taboo? Everyone of us know what is correct and what is wrong but due to our own satisfactory needs we get carried away with the wrong things, we read lessons of great lives in our educational institutions, but our nourishment and certficates of literacy do not equip us with courage of selfless distribution, surely these things are taboo as per my notion , obviously, you can disagree! When intolerance tussels go on regarding one issue, and then the arguments in favour are countered regarding another issue, both the time we are deceiving ourselves,when quite hillariously we portray our feeble sense of judgement on the world’s canvas by fighting over the definition of patriotism and when the media of a “Unified Nation” gets Divided over silly things for the sake of cheap publicity, that time my wisdom doesn’t allow me to be a gaping onlooker, and , thus I find these things as taboo. We say that our nation is a land of great saints and messengers of the supreme power, then why for proving a mere point, we degrade ourselves so much and wear the attire of hatred , anger, ego and all negative values? Does it show character in our personalities, I am quite sure , the answer is a big NO, this is also a taboo.

 

When very religion which the people of this country follow quite blindly, says that killing an entity or anything which has life is a sin then how can we justify the killing of a particular animal and abandon the other, that too on religious grounds, this is just absurd,we call our nation by so many names and regard her as a mother figure then how can we spit so easily anywhere in this country? I must confess, without being too harsh that this is absolutely ridiculous!At every step , we think something, we follow something else and we do something else , are we confused ?

 

 I am undoubtedly sure that we are not because, this land has produced pearls which have glown and shined to produce the light of enlightenment throughout the whole world, but it is a fate that we ourselves have forgotten our own destiny due to chaos of unwanted thoughts and losing faith in ourselves and believing in someone or something more which has a virtual existenece , about which none of us are quite sure.We showed the world the way to hope , faith , love and purity then how have we have forgotten those great values, I strongly feel, the answer lies within us only and if we are not able to find it out, we will again showcase the Taboos of India (because we know it and we don’t at the same time). Wake Up Folks, it really aches!!