What has happened to our
India...? Rather, what is happening to our India...? Whatever is happening
around us is making us the witness knowingly or unknowingly... This suits you
most if you are an IT professional... more if you have done an MBA and landed
at a place most commonly referred to as STP/SEZ (See through people/ some
economic zombie zone). Places around
these so called STP's are crowded with skyscrapers that are supposed to be
residential complexes. I prefer to call them residential complexes for
families, as most of these exhibit a board on the main gate saying dogs are welcome... and you know who is
not... (Bachelors).
This started the day I woke up
with a noisy bang on my apartment door. An appeasing Sunday morning, supposed
to carry the hangover of last nights workouts, turned belligerent. The same
neighbors who used to ask their children to shake hands with me and say
'Namaste', turned hostile to my being there. Not only me but all of those who hone
the tag of being a bachelor were under
threat of being treated an outcast. So let us get back to the Sunday; 10
people aged between 35- eternity, standing at my apartment door.
Before I tell you the story
further, I have a few questions left unanswered… Let me try them with you… Why
only some of the people are the torchbearers in our society..? Why are only a
few who think that India is a land of culture (Culture definition not clear)
and the culture needs to be preserved? Why isn’t technology an inherent part of
this culture..? Why the same people, fighting for the so called culture are
found to be the biggest deterrents to a nation’s development..? Why at an age
of 27 I feel strangled at the hands of these naysayers to believe in my own
culture..? Why do these people refer to us as being influenced by the western culture
when their own lives have been impacted by the penetration of technology that
took birth in the west? We want to develop at one hand, safeguard the culture
and the economy on the other, but why do we want to carry over the burden of
blindfolding beliefs that were never the part of our culture anyway…
So the Sunday morning with that
bang on the door, I open it with about a handful of my friends lying on my
apartment floor. Nearly 20 eyes were rolling on the outside to get a glimpse of
what has happened on the inside overnight. To their surprise, every one of my
friends were fast asleep not knowing the happenings on the outside. I am
treated like a stranger and told that the “society” has forbidden bachelors to
stay in the premises. But why..? Don’t I pay rents..? I didn’t go to anyone’s
house and disturbed their sleep. This is rather a trend in all these zombie
zones that the residential accommodation is offered to bachelors during the
initial period and suddenly the welfare association decides to turn “family
friendly”. So what am I supposed to do… get married… increase the rent… hunt
for another house… but why…?? I leave the rest to you to decipher…
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