Hi,
Here I want to share an incident that made me to write this. I was at a family gathering with my brother and other elderly male members of our community.
I knew that I belong to a very diverse country with so many religions, so many castes, so many traditions, so many cultures. And somewhere I loved it, that with this much diversity we still are united as a nation. But a conversation between two of the uncles there made me thinking, are we truly UNITED?
We as a stupid mortal being categorize everything, differentiate things, tag them for our convenience. That's what these uncles were doing. We belong to a particular religion, then to a particular caste, and this caste also was divided in two categories. And they were quoting the differences between these two categories in our caste. They were appreciating the category they belong to and how they are superior to the other category.
It was shocking as well as disappointing for me. I may belong to a religion, to a caste, since my birth. But, If I had given a choice, I would choose Humanity as my religion as I would never categorize or judge other human beings on the basis of their nationality, caste, religion, gender or color. Because it is not in our hands to choose the caste, the religion, the country to which we belong or don't want to belong, our birth decides that for us from the start.
What in our hands is how we treat others? Do we help our fellows or put an obstacle in their path? Do we prefer truth over a lie or vise-versa. The choices in our lives make us what we are today. And it's not your religion, caste, gender that defines you in the end, its these choices that distinguishes you from other human beings and makes you unique.
Back to the point, my brother and I were there listening all this jive. I knew that he and I were on the same page at that time. We both wanted to make them understand that this judgmental thinking is not what our world needs. But the thing is, what would we have said that would not make them remind us that we are children, we don't know anything, we don't have experience so we sat there without expressing our opinion on their views.
In between these bunkum talks my brother told me that the first Prime Minister of our country was planning to eradicate this problem of religion and caste by introducing a Uniform Civil Code. Here is a link which might help you to understand UCC "https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-India-have-a-uniform-civil-code" I didn't know that. I asked him why it was not implemented? He said that our Prime Minister died before he could execute this plan. At that time our country was establishing itself, was new with the freedom, it would have accepted the change but now it is next to impossible.
I don't know if is he right or wrong. I am an ordinary being with not so much knowledge and experience. I just wish that we don't judge or categories people on the basis of their nationality, caste, religion, gender or color (the things which no one can control) rather we should appreciate each other for what we are, where we come from and help our fellow beings in this journey called LIFE :)
BTW HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY (It has been approx seven decades of our freedom and independence, but we are still not close to the secular nation which our freedom fighter dreamed of. I just hope we will get there soon.)
Thank you for your precious time, have a Great Day :)
Here I want to share an incident that made me to write this. I was at a family gathering with my brother and other elderly male members of our community.
I knew that I belong to a very diverse country with so many religions, so many castes, so many traditions, so many cultures. And somewhere I loved it, that with this much diversity we still are united as a nation. But a conversation between two of the uncles there made me thinking, are we truly UNITED?
We as a stupid mortal being categorize everything, differentiate things, tag them for our convenience. That's what these uncles were doing. We belong to a particular religion, then to a particular caste, and this caste also was divided in two categories. And they were quoting the differences between these two categories in our caste. They were appreciating the category they belong to and how they are superior to the other category.
It was shocking as well as disappointing for me. I may belong to a religion, to a caste, since my birth. But, If I had given a choice, I would choose Humanity as my religion as I would never categorize or judge other human beings on the basis of their nationality, caste, religion, gender or color. Because it is not in our hands to choose the caste, the religion, the country to which we belong or don't want to belong, our birth decides that for us from the start.
What in our hands is how we treat others? Do we help our fellows or put an obstacle in their path? Do we prefer truth over a lie or vise-versa. The choices in our lives make us what we are today. And it's not your religion, caste, gender that defines you in the end, its these choices that distinguishes you from other human beings and makes you unique.
Back to the point, my brother and I were there listening all this jive. I knew that he and I were on the same page at that time. We both wanted to make them understand that this judgmental thinking is not what our world needs. But the thing is, what would we have said that would not make them remind us that we are children, we don't know anything, we don't have experience so we sat there without expressing our opinion on their views.
In between these bunkum talks my brother told me that the first Prime Minister of our country was planning to eradicate this problem of religion and caste by introducing a Uniform Civil Code. Here is a link which might help you to understand UCC "https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-India-have-a-uniform-civil-code" I didn't know that. I asked him why it was not implemented? He said that our Prime Minister died before he could execute this plan. At that time our country was establishing itself, was new with the freedom, it would have accepted the change but now it is next to impossible.
I don't know if is he right or wrong. I am an ordinary being with not so much knowledge and experience. I just wish that we don't judge or categories people on the basis of their nationality, caste, religion, gender or color (the things which no one can control) rather we should appreciate each other for what we are, where we come from and help our fellow beings in this journey called LIFE :)
BTW HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY (It has been approx seven decades of our freedom and independence, but we are still not close to the secular nation which our freedom fighter dreamed of. I just hope we will get there soon.)
Thank you for your precious time, have a Great Day :)
