Where are we heading II

Am back !!

Don't want to touch upon why I din't blog for quite sometime. I really don't know whether I have anymore audience left :(

Still, let me write this just for the sake of it.

This is the Part II of the previous blog....

India as a country, especially Indian women, has come a long way from being very traditional and conservative. This was something that many social actvists of yesteryears were striving for. But I feel the whole thing has been overdone. I am definitely not taking a male chavunistic approach, nor am I trying to say that we should return to the older society. I just
want to throw some light on where we stand.

If I compare a male teenager of say 1990 with someone now, I would say the "growth" is linear but with the fairer sex "it" is exponential. As the culture of a society at large is defined by the female part of it, our "Boldness Quotience" on the whole has increased phenomenally. Men even now are men they were while the women have broken their shackles and come out and have
done so emphatically. The current Indian cinema is a show case of this phenomena. While the costumes of men have remained the same, those of women have "come down" drastically and is tending to nothing and the women are "ok" with this.

Not long ago, a woman smoking is a rare spectacle and such an incident will be watched with different reactions by on lookers or rather you can count the number of women who dare smoke outside (if at all). Drinking women? You must be joking. Live in relationships? Are you crazy? Gone are those days I feel.

Now what do we see? Women smoke as much as men do, if not more. Pubs and Discos are brimming with women. And a lot more which I dare not write here. For someone like me, who has got a slap from my mother once for rolling a piece of paper and faking as though I am smoking, these things fall as thunderbolts. Well I don't blame women alone of course. I'm writing about the Indian youth at large.

These changes are attributed to the "Western influence". Outsourcing gave us financial independence, luxurious lives, economic boom and what not, but all at the cost of what we have boasted of, all through our history - culture and tradition. At this rate, these two words will have to be preserved in a museum. There are still some people who are conservative (because of their values or fear!!) and are still not sure which way to take and confused over how to bring up their children.

Let's wait and watch what kind of India our future genrations will be seeing :-)