Here’s How India’s Glorious ‘Culture’ Is Holding Back Its Promising Future

Admin 08-Feb-2016 16:57:32 Inothernews

Here’s How India’s Glorious ‘Culture’ Is Holding Back Its Promising Future


Former British PM Winston Churchill Churchill said these words on June 18, 1940 just after Adolf Hitler's armies had conquered Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium and France in quick succession and in the fight for Europe, Britain stood alone against the Nazis. But perhaps, strangely enough, the words now echo strongest in the India of today – a country caught in a bloody war for supremacy between it's storied past and a promising future. Any forward-looking idea now seems to now face opposition from the ancient glorious culture that made up our past; and any attempt to break away from the past calls for harsh words and if that doesn't work, then violence. From language to clothes, the flash points are many and for all the economic dynamism that India prides itself on – there are enough incidents that shock the living daylights out of any sane individual.



Here are ten issues that highlight why India MUST move on and learn to embrace the present just as it does its past.

BJP vs RSS

Modi and the RSS share a long-term vision of making India the world’s leading power but they don’t always see eye-to-eye on how to get there. Modi has at times asked lawmakers from his party and RSS members to stop promoting controversial issues such as religious conversions. He wants to keep the focus on economic reforms. But our textbooks are being Hindu-ised and the Modi government has appointed RSS sympathizers to prominent positions in recent months. This includes the chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India, the chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research and a board member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India. The government has also taken up other issues dear to the RSS, like the search for the lost Saraswati River. Modi has been criticized for giving hardliners a free rein, but their zeal has also caused him headaches.

Here

Homosexuality/LGBT

Either everyone is equal or no one is. Does it really matter to you whether a man is gay or whether he has different sexual choices? Many wouldn't care about it but those opposing the decriminalisation of same-sex relationships among consenting adults include a number of "conservative Indians" led by various religious heads who call this sexual choice "unnatural". And often talk about how homosexuality is against the "great Indian culture".

Section 377 bans “carnal intercourse against the order of nature.” The Delhi High Court found in 2009 that the law was a violation of fundamental rights. The Supreme Court reinstated the ban four years later, saying the responsibility for changing the law rested with lawmakers, and not judges.

Homosexuality/LGBT

Related Post