The INDIAN Dirty Picture

Sorry Vidya, this is not about your movie. Perhaps I didn’t find it that dirty. Everything in the movie was good and true to our Indian culture from the skin show to the dialogues ‘Jab sharafat apne kapare uttarti hai to sabse jyada maza shariffon ko hi aata hai’

The reason why I am writing this is ‘The Indian Hypocrisy’. Few weeks ago there was a porn watching incident in Karnataka assembly. There was a lot of mullah about the incident and the centre point of all the talks was ‘Ministers were watching porn’. My question is ‘Is watching porn a crime?’ NO, not even in Indian law books. Media and we the Indian public should ask those ministers why they were doing anything else rather than participating or listening to the assembly debates. But the narrow minded Indian media just concentrated on the ‘PORN’ stuff. Why because it will increase their TRP. And it’s not their fault we the Indians are always interested in those masala news. In my view those ministers should be punished as much as the others, who sleep during the assembly proceedings.

Today is the Valentine Day and these are the people who will stand against this love day and those Shiv Sena and Ram Sena people will stand guard to protect the so called Indian culture. Ask those guardians of Indian culture to march to these ministers now. Why are they not saying anything now?

Not only these ministers, majority of Indian public is like this. I mean, who had not seen porn in their life? But still it is considered wrong. Ya, only the few are so audacious to watch it in public. And these Karnataka ministers are not alone on that path. There are lot many people who do the same brave stuff in office and the number of aged persons out pace the young population in that regard. Every friend of mine can count number of people in their respective office for the same and I am sure their finger tips would fell short for that.

Then why these double standards? If you enjoy sex that much….. then why to say it bad? Are we defending some culture or hypocrisy? And what culture we are talking about. The culture in which Kamasutra is considered an art, a culture of Khajuraho temples & Ajanta Elora caves, a culture where Draupadi’s polyandry is considered normal or a culture where Lord Krishna’s flirts with his gopi’s is called raslilla.

If we look at the history books, its not the Indian culture we are cribbing about it’s the culture of Mughals that we are defending now. Indian culture was very much open, that we can judge from our epic stories and historic constructions. It’s the Mughals who brought the ‘parda pratha’ in India. And now these so called culture guardians are advising girls not to wear jeans and skimpy dresses. As if the sick minded people will check the dress of the girl before raping her. It’s the mentality of the person which is responsible for his crime not the dress of the victim.

This is only one aspect of Indian hypocrisy. There are lot many issues like this, Drinking, prostitution etc. Alcohol is easily available in Gujarat, the dry state of India. Drinking for girls is considered morally wrong in a country which is among the largest consumers of alcohol in the world. Who don’t know about the GB Road in the heart of capital of great India where prostitution is illegal. Every body loves it, but still pre-marital sex is considered immoral. A boy with so many girlfriends is considered stud and a girl with two boyfriends is labeled as loose character.

So, why are we like this? When do we change or are we happy with our two face society? I am not asking this question to anybody else. We must ask this to ourselves.