Westernisation & India

A common and genuine fear amongst Indians is the quick westernisation that is leading towards the gradual decline of our culture, tradition and valuable values. Infarct western goods, dresses, food, festivals, language and moreover the western thoughts are strongly influencing the Indian culture.

Modernisation should not be confused with Westernisation.

In the past few years, there is a drastic change in our historic Indian culture, due to strong western influence.

India is a country of festivals, majorly, Diwali, Holi, and a lot more, these are been celebrated from long before but now there is a gradual decline in the celebration of Indian festival and much more importance is given to western festivals like New Year, Halloween, Christmas, valentines day and much more.

India is famous for its spices and traditional food, but due to the introduction of pizza, burger, hot dogs etc, our Indian food is steadily becoming the second choice of the majority of Indians. 

Our country is also renowned for the way we wear clothes but it is also gradually getting replaced by western wears.

Among all points mentioned above most important point is that people are largely accepting nuclear family rather than the joint family. people are feeling free in living in a nuclear family and leaving their parents behind and moving on in their lives.

I am not against westernisation but not at the cost of losing the precious valuable Indian culture!

Is the progress of women a myth?

In the past decade, woman empowerment has unquestionably elevated. Ample women in India have stable working jobs, sufficient income and independency. However, is this really enough?

Unfortunately, in advance society such as nowadays women are still mistreated and considered inferior and as a liability. Women in India still endure acts such as rape, acid throwing, dowry killings, and the forced prostitution of young girls. Women from are very young age have been expected to aspire to marriage, to make life choices keeping in mind that marriage is most important and a vital priority, why do we not teach boys the same thing? Women are often raised to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishment but for the attention of men.

As of the past, a couple of years, rape and sexual harassment is something that women face on a daily basis, in fact, 24,923 rape cases were reported across India in 2012, and these one are the one who was reported,  there must be several other rapes that happen that don’t get reported just to protect the reputation of the family. So is the women really empowering? Why should women be fearful and cautious when they step out onto the streets, why do women have to worry about what they wear and how they act in public? Instead of teaching your daughter to be appropriate when they are out in public why not teach our sons to BEHAVE and to have respect to the people around them. Why do we praise the birth of a son yet grieve the birth of a daughter? Why should women be oppressed and looked down upon? Why is a woman who is out partying with her friends considering a vulgar girl? Why women are denied the privilege of education? Does anyone have an answer to these questions? Until any man or woman can come up with a reasonable answer to any of these questions. We need to continue our fight for women; we need to teach societies if a man can get an education so can a woman. We need to realise the value of our mothers, daughter, sisters and wives and biggest remedy to this situation is education, with the education we can nourish the mind of this country, with education will come disciple and respect. Education is not a privilege it is a right which every child in India should have access to. Only the power of education can transform society’s narrow and misogynist mind.

Some great examples of successful woman are, Malala your fair, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, Hillary Clinton , Chandana Kochar and our most recent ‘ the daughter of India’

In conclusion, we must spread the word of feminism around India because the empowerment of women will be the empowerment of the nation.