I want everyone to read my article cuz I'm speaking the truth. Stupid, an absolutely stupid expectation and belief.
Unfortunately there are more of these that shape our society. We expect to be modern citizens of the modern world. Without knowing the true essence of the word.
To be able to explain my point a quick refrance of our history (without the intensions of lecturing). India in the past was a place the English marveled over. They found out that people here are too sound in their existences to be budged by our might.
They tried glamour. To be precise they made sure we lost our cultural historical and social background.
The results of which are still visible in us. There is no harm in wearing western clothes but ask yourselves why dint gandhi benazir Nelson and their likes who made great achievements never wore them??
After all your dressing does not decide how passionately patriotic you are.
Well the answ r is simple. These people were so proud of their origin they were so busy in achieving and improving what was theirs' dint leave then a thought of wearing someone else's clothes.
Funny isn't it how we always go for western when we want to look posh? Worse how we look unprofessional if we are not covered in suit?
If this is the mind of our educated lot imagine where we stand? Dress is not and issue. The point is there are so many other things like our use of hi instead of our own greetings. How easily we forget that as a Hindu saying namaste or as a Muslim saying assalam u ali km says so much more then a hi!
So I here speak the truth about myself that I'm a slave. A mental slave to something that has no existence for me. And in the process somewhere I lost my existence. Considering I hadn't I may not be as big as mahatma gandhi or benazir bhutto but my existence would have been much more substantial. Not that of just another blind person who doesn't feel the confines of slavery engulfing him.
They say realization if half the cure. So here I do some soul searching and declare that I own who I am what Iam not what others want me to be.
And this change of thought and the evolutionary process leading to it is what is modernisation for me.
