We are a Nation of Hypocrites.. I am extremely sorry to have come to this unfortunate conclusion.. but that is exactly who we are...
Let me take a few examples...
We worship the divine mother and our country is rife with female infanticide, unthinkable atrocities against women, and a total lack of empathy for their plight... the way women are treated in society is in sharp contrast to whatever we profess to believe...
We worship Animals and many of us are vegetarians - but treat them in an extremely cruel manner... look around you - the systemic culling of dogs in Kerala, the abuse of animals all over India, the killing of Nilgais in Bihar... there are numerous examples all over... We will lynch a person if he is suspected to have beef in his own home, but think nothing of abandoning our non-productive cattle and watch them forage garbage bins for food..
We are some of the most strident opponents of racism.. but open your newspapers, look all around you, see the news - there are numerous examples of caste-ism, open and revolting examples of regionalism, open distrust and antagonism between religions, and all kinds of discrimination dividing us all - and most of the time we don't even realize how racist we actually are...
We worship Mountains. Rivers and Nature - and are destroying our natural assets every day... overbuilding the mountains, building dams indiscriminately, mining hills and forested regions and destroying the flora and fauna.. and worst of all polluting our mighty rivers that we say are Goddesses... the list goes on and on...
Lastly, we find fault with every one else in the World - but I think this is one of the few places in the 'civilized' world where a jilted lover repeatedly stabs a woman in broad daylight and all that we do is
turn our faces and keep going... or a bleeding vegetable vendor dies of blood loss lying on the streets while no one bothers to stop or help!
Shame on us Indians! We have no rights to think ourselves superior to anyone else on Earth!
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