Sir,
I don't know what happens in elite families that are settled in US/UK and other advanced countries. I belong to Middle class Hindu family. More than 75% of the Indian population either belongs to poor or middle class societies that are governed by values and traditions of our country that have been existing since times immemorial.
We don't treat Car and Wife at par, because if we don't like a Car we will throw it away and purchase another one. We cannot give the same treatment to wife. Our culture does not allow relationships to depend on the whims and fancies of the people involved, say, he does not know how to dance in parties, I will give divorce to him...that kind of Bindaas and Reckless attitude we do not encourage in our culture.
It is not only in relationship between wife and husband, in many other human relationships you find some kinds of inconvenience. Say in a relationship between father and son, mother and daughter, father and daughter...in so many other relationships also we find conflicts and inconvenience. Do we throw away our mothers and fathers like we throw away our children and wives giving divorce?
Marriage is not for promoting 'material interests' in India, it is for practising spirituality and Satva (goodness).
Dharmecha, Arthecha, Kamecha, Mokshecha Aham Evam Naati Charami.
I shall remain your life partner in pursuit of Dharma (Justice), Artha (Money), Kaama (Desire) and Moksha (Heaven or Liberation)....
We cannot get rid of relationships so easily as they happen in Western countries. We have to accept good and bad of our life partner, and strive to achieve the spiritual goals. That is why people still have strong emotional bonds in India.
I can understand what you are saying. The guy is encouraged to have live-in relationships by their parents under the influence of West. So he expects that all girls are alike. Or like character of Preiti Jeinta in film, Dil Se (Manirathnam), who will sit with this guy and ask, "Are you a virgin".
There is no question of asking the guy or guy asking such questions to girl. In fact, we view it as an insult to our self-respect to be asked such questions. No girl who respects herself can tolerate such questions. It is all based on trust and goodness the relationship gets fructified.
Suppose you have this kind of guy who thinks, "Because I am bad, everybody else in the world would be like me", then he is bound to make a mistake when he interacts with our Indian girls who belong to middle class families. Of course elite society girls are used to this culture, we know they go to pubs, take hot drinks, discuss hot matters etc.
There are instances of this kind of guys, who married very innocent and soft natured women brought up in good and decent Hindu families and harrassed them mentally "Why don't you come to pubs and discoes?", "Why don't you dance with my friends?", "Why don't you sexually please my friend..."..."You tell me about your past sexual fantasies....on whom you had crush?"...."Why don't you booze?" ... "Why do you behave like Sati Savithri?"...etc. Because they want to remain in "hot mood" always.
If their wives say, we don't do all that we were not taught that kind of culture at home, they blame them for "making an attempt to assume very high moral ground" or blaming them for "being hypocritic" and all.
We have also seen what kind of impact this kind of guys are making on our society. We are making our best efforts to prevent our girls from falling victim to that kind of trends.
"If I don't accept I am as 'bad' as he is, will he lable me a hypocrite? I might be truly an innocent woman? How can he force me to accept for such acts that I was never a party to?", asked a girl who is harrassed by one Hifi NRI.
What shall we do with these crooks?
Western lifestyle goes with the notion, "Everybody in the world is bad, I shall not trust anyone for his goodness and depend on anyone except my own money". Indian lifestyle goes with the notion, "Everyone in the world is good like me, if I keep practising goodness and doing good to people, everybody else will do the same for me".
What kind of society you like as a person? How nice if we all can trust in each other's goodness? How peacefully we all can live if we all can trust in each other's goodness? What kind of Hell one's mind becomes if he cannot trust the very person with whom he shared a sexual relationship, you know seeing the guy who started this topic in this forum.
Our culture, values and traditions are not so easy to understand Sir. It is true our culture has to change with times, but simulteneously we should not forget to preserve and explore what purpose the old values, traditions and customs serve.
----------------- Regards,
Chandrasekhar
Legal Consultant,
Hyderabad
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