While everywhere in the world progress has marked the passage of time, we in India unfortunately have been frozen in the Victorian framework of hypocrisy where spontaneous behaviour was considered indecent by the British since the last century, The British were hypocrites but excellent businessmen, they allowed Hindus their religious rites but only when blanketed inside a rigid code of so-called decency. Fortunately for the British in Britain, they have moved along with the times even overdoing their uninhibited style of life as we see from news reports.
Our religions are based on a lot of superstitious belief that was necessary to preserve morality, hygiene, respect for the elderly and the weaker sex as women were then thought to be. Today much of these superstitions and rituals can be easily discarded as education has taught us that cleanliness is possible without mixing up religion/rituals and women are as capable as men in the working world. But not having a spiritual leader, or to put it more correctly, having several (too many) spiritual leaders who are versed in the Vedic / Koranic teachings but without a sense of modern hygiene or cleanliness and equality of the sexes, their way of doing things is to repeat blindly what the Victorian age forced upon us. Before then India or Bharat was full of invention, artistic creativity and without sexual hypocrisy. Did not the Persian Muslims introduce wine into India? Did not the courtesans live a decent if unequal life? History confirms this and more.
We know now that it is scientifically proven that every human being irrespective of his caste, birth or religion or sex is made up of the same organic matter, can get the same diseases, laugh, enjoy, suffer, respect and pray with exactly the same passion the Divine Being be this called God, Allah, Christ etc;. Castes were created centuries ago to divide the workers as per their tasks. Now we know that brains are not exclusive to Brahmins, Dalits, Hindus, Muslims or Christians, it is an anachronism and makes no sense today.
Why should we then continue to divide our country like this in a totally illogical manner? If we are all taught cleanliness, we can all clean our toilets ourselves since we are the ones to dirty it, wash ourselves like the rest of the world does, without servants from other castes and still go to college, work or create. One human being cannot poison water for another%u2019s consumption by merely touching it! If we do not give water to wash with, to cook with and sewage systems to the poor whose fault is it if they are dirty and spread germs? Now ask yourself why the government and politicians when voted into power do not give the masses, their biggest vote pool even the most basic necessities and keep them ignorant?
Simple- to gain power and wealth for themselves at the expense of the people! And you poor fools who turn every issue into a Hindu-Muslim tussle are doing nothing but falling into the trap set by our leaders who divide to conquer and rule. It is high time that we use our common sense and reasoning to keep religion near our hearts between ourselves and God/Allah/Christ, and live our lives outside the house with civic responsibility united with our fellow countrymen to see that EVERY class (that must be casteless), is uplifted so that the entire country progresses and can take it's position as a world power. We should be proud of each other not ashamed to be Bharatiya or Indians..
