How to save the Indian tradition an culture
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India's languages, religions, dance, music, architecture, food, and customs differs from place to place within the country., often labeled as an amalgamation of several cultures, spans across the Indian subcontinent and has been influenced by a history that is several millennia old.
★To upgrade/modify the Indian Culture with time!
That is the only possible way to keep it relevant.
Rabindranath Tagore once wrote - (English Translation folllows)
‘যে নদী হারায়ে স্রোত চলিতে না পারে
সহস্র শৈবালদাম বাঁধি আসে তারে
যে জাতি জীবনহারা অচল অসার
পদে পদে বাঁধে তারে জীর্ণ লোকাচার’
Which loosely translates to
(please bear with my terrible, terrible translation)
To speak of the river that has lost its flow
Messy and mossy it is, losing its glow
A culture, never-changing, old, and rigid,
Is not a culture, but blind rituals indeed
In a single sentence, - ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss’. And if your cultural identity opposes the notion of ‘rolling’ (i.e. if your cultural identity is way too rigid to change), it is as good as gone.
★The answer requires some specific examples at this point. So, here you go-
•There was a time, when crossing the ocean was considered ‘against religion’ for most Indians.
But today, we have thousands, if not millions Indians, working,travelling,studying overseas. Indians did not abide by those ritualistic religious norms, instead they modified those practices for good.
Just ask yourself, Where would we be today (in global politics and economy), if we denied ‘crossing the sea’ forever?
•Our forefathers had multiple underage girls as wives, and those girls were thrown into fire when the MEN died !
Would we be considered civilized if those rituals were still into practice ? More importantly, with the changing times, don’t you think- practices like those would have made our ‘culture’ barbaric and inappropriate/‘irrelevant’ ? We have outgrown those rituals (thanks to a few social reformers in the early 19th century), and that is how we moved ‘forward’.
•Women, were almost never sent to schools. And that was practiced even a hundred years back.
But things changed in the last 100 years. It is still far from being perfect, but now most of the girls get ‘some’ education. What would have happened if we kept on following our social ‘norms’ and continued to keep all girls out of schools (apart from the fact that the girls were being denied the basic human rights/ or half of the population is being discriminated against)?
We don’t have to imagine a hypothetical scenario here. Remember the story of Malala ? And how her story shook the planet, much to the discomfort of Pakistan. Globally, they became a uncivilized barbaric country who treats their women like dirt. Arab countries are also seen the similar way by the rest of the world (except the fact that they are rich, because they have oil).
If, we had kept our girls out of schools, we would have been seen as the same by the rest of the world.
What I mean to say is, in a civilized world, societal norms from a medieval world do not work and must not work. But, like all cultures, Indian culture also originates from old times.
In order to keep it relevant, in order to protect and conserve it, there is only one way -
★Change it, when necessary!
There are some simple steps by which you can do your bit -
•Be open to criticisms about the societal norms you tend to follow.
•Question the ‘ways’ in your own religion.
•Take ‘basic human rights’ into consideration when you give your opinion about anything.
•Don’t reject the ‘cultural perceptions/preferences’ from the west, just because they are ‘from the west’. [Don’t accept their ways blindly as well]
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★To upgrade/modify the Indian Culture with time!
That is the only possible way to keep it relevant.
Rabindranath Tagore once wrote - (English Translation folllows)
‘যে নদী হারায়ে স্রোত চলিতে না পারে
সহস্র শৈবালদাম বাঁধি আসে তারে
যে জাতি জীবনহারা অচল অসার
পদে পদে বাঁধে তারে জীর্ণ লোকাচার’
Which loosely translates to
(please bear with my terrible, terrible translation)
To speak of the river that has lost its flow
Messy and mossy it is, losing its glow
A culture, never-changing, old, and rigid,
Is not a culture, but blind rituals indeed
In a single sentence, - ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss’. And if your cultural identity opposes the notion of ‘rolling’ (i.e. if your cultural identity is way too rigid to change), it is as good as gone.
★The answer requires some specific examples at this point. So, here you go-
•There was a time, when crossing the ocean was considered ‘against religion’ for most Indians.
But today, we have thousands, if not millions Indians, working,travelling,studying overseas. Indians did not abide by those ritualistic religious norms, instead they modified those practices for good.
Just ask yourself, Where would we be today (in global politics and economy), if we denied ‘crossing the sea’ forever?
•Our forefathers had multiple underage girls as wives, and those girls were thrown into fire when the MEN died !
Would we be considered civilized if those rituals were still into practice ? More importantly, with the changing times, don’t you think- practices like those would have made our ‘culture’ barbaric and inappropriate/‘irrelevant’ ? We have outgrown those rituals (thanks to a few social reformers in the early 19th century), and that is how we moved ‘forward’.
•Women, were almost never sent to schools. And that was practiced even a hundred years back.
But things changed in the last 100 years. It is still far from being perfect, but now most of the girls get ‘some’ education. What would have happened if we kept on following our social ‘norms’ and continued to keep all girls out of schools (apart from the fact that the girls were being denied the basic human rights/ or half of the population is being discriminated against)?
We don’t have to imagine a hypothetical scenario here. Remember the story of Malala ? And how her story shook the planet, much to the discomfort of Pakistan. Globally, they became a uncivilized barbaric country who treats their women like dirt. Arab countries are also seen the similar way by the rest of the world (except the fact that they are rich, because they have oil).
If, we had kept our girls out of schools, we would have been seen as the same by the rest of the world.
What I mean to say is, in a civilized world, societal norms from a medieval world do not work and must not work. But, like all cultures, Indian culture also originates from old times.
In order to keep it relevant, in order to protect and conserve it, there is only one way -
★Change it, when necessary!
There are some simple steps by which you can do your bit -
•Be open to criticisms about the societal norms you tend to follow.
•Question the ‘ways’ in your own religion.
•Take ‘basic human rights’ into consideration when you give your opinion about anything.
•Don’t reject the ‘cultural perceptions/preferences’ from the west, just because they are ‘from the west’. [Don’t accept their ways blindly as well]
MAY THIS HELP U MY FRND!!!!
MAY YOU LIKED MY ANS!!!!
PLZ MARK IT BRAINLIEST!!!!
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