I have gone ahead and added *IN_INDIA* in each of the lines.
1. Children are not listening to their elders *IN_INDIA*.
2. Children are not wearing traditional clothes*IN_INDIA*.
Everyone is in jeans *IN_INDIA* and in other alien dresses.
3. Our traditional clothes are dying *IN_INDIA*.
4. What is worse, parents are not objecting to their
children following Western culture *IN_INDIA*.
Fathers are drinking with their sons.
5. Wives are not respecting their husbands *IN_INDIA*.
6. Boys and girls are freely mixing before marriage *IN_INDIA*.
I-pill is the most widely sought after drug by girls *IN_INDIA*
Oh BTW Girls cannot have regular sex (without the boys being
involved) *IN_INDIA*.
7. Women are not practising old traditions *IN_INDIA*
8. Children talk back to adults *IN_INDIA*
9. Women in cut-piece clothes have become commercial
objects. Even pictures of our gods and goddesses*IN_INDIA* are
being used to sell liquor.
10. Last and the most important: *IN_INDIA*
Women are drinking and going to nightclubs.
Now replace *IN_INDIA* with *in_Japan* or *in_kenya* or *in america* and
re-read the above. (find/replace will work beautifully)
What these nuts are alarmed/concerned about is ***CHANGE*** but they term it
***Indian Culture***.
I cant think of India of pre 1950 as the India of post 1992.
So, what was culture then is not culture today.
IMHO, what we see aroung us, the way of life of the people today, the
languages, our blind faiths, our slumdogs, our tycoons, our educated voters,
our uneducated voters, our middle class, our mulsims, our christians, our
untouchables, our brahmins our tribals are all indian culture. This does not
exclude anyone. The communists, the rightwing hindu parties, the pink chaddis,
the khakhi chaddis, our political class, our judiciary, our police, our army,
everyone is part of this huge couldron.
Lukhman.
The only thing that is constant is change.
