We are paying the price of progress.As Gautier rightly states, India is progressing economically on a fast track with culture taking a back seat. This may sound prudish, but just look at the craze for jeans, of different types and styles. Along with them are the fashion statements, page 3 type, in dress and style.One cannot stop progress, but its time we take a pause to look where we are headed. We have stopped teaching our mother tongue to our children. Tender two years old are being sent to the so called prestigious play schools, but they have no real time to play. Traditional Indian stories of the past are no longer fashionable, hence not recited.Its a mad rush for tution classes, making schools and colleges almost redundant. Success at any cost is the new mantra for the young generation,and fear of failiure adds to the stress. McDonalds, KFCs, and fast food joints are the new hangouts. You are considered queer if you do not join in with the so called hep crowd.Heck, the list is too vast. But traditional culture is not hep.
