Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Social Liberalism

Well its usually seen in India that when it comes to economic liberalism, we Indians are fine with it. But when it comes to social liberalism we are not so comfortable. I don't understand why is it so? Is that we are reluctant to the change in the society or is it our mindset (build by the same society) which does not allow us to treat the other human being as equal to us? 
Its surprising to know that there are still places in India where people are ill treated just because they belong to a particular caste. They are forced to do stuff like manual scavenging etc because they are born in a section of society where this task has been performed by the people of a particular caste from generations together. These people does not even have the right to move out of this profession and take up something else. And even if they try to do that somehow, the so called upper caste people wont let it happen.
The amazing part of the story is that we all still believe that India is rising.Its shining. How can a country develop and boast about itself when majority of the people living in there are subjected to such partiality and social bias? If we really want our country to progress we all have to fight against such issues. We all have to take the initiative and curb these practices. And we can do so by first implementing all this to ourselves and then spreading awareness among others.




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