We call ourselves human and are living into groups so that we can be together, help and serve each other. So we have formed this Society and called ourselves Civilized.
There are many norms and rules made by so called 'Society', which underneath the sheet of communal betterment has led many lives to crush their identity into nothing less then non-living objects.
Here are few of the instances;
JOGTA/I- who Serve the god suffering their lives..
Jogta or a jogtini. They are forced by the society to give up everything and serve God. A jogta has to give up the fact of being a man and suppress all his desires. A jogtini is expected to give up herself, she cannot get married, have children or have a life of her own.A jogta is a man once chosen is stripped of his masculinity and has to dress and accessorize himself as a woman, let alone giving up on his physical needs and has no choice. If the jogta revolts, he is stripped of his masculinity physically.
This tradition was followed in the rural areas in the ancient times and like any tradition was flexible enough for those in power to misuse it as Jogtas and jogtis are treated as sex slaves and viewed with a mixture of semi-respect and disdain. It is known to be still followed in some villages in Karnataka, to please goddess Yellamma.
DOLPHIN HUNTING TO PROVE MASCULINITY.. A total of 13,080 cetaceans were killed throughout Japan in 2007
very year, in Denmark, specifically the Faroe Islands, innocent and helpless Calderon Dolphins are slaughtered brutally by the Danes. Why you may ask, and the stupid answer is that its a ridiculous right of passage to manhood.
What points is there in killing another living being just to prove you have "evolved", you have transcended. There is simply no need.
This poor dolphins are stabbed a number of times, but as if that weren't enough, they bleed to death, probably in excruciating pain while the whole town watches.
Its so brutal that the coast line turns red with the blood.
Needles to say, that killing a defenseless animal is no prove of anybody's manhood.
Schools are also given holiday to watch out the hunting's, followed by celebration.
DEVDASI- worship the God being sex objects of men. Devadasi originally described a Hindu religious practice in which girls were "married" and dedicated to a deity. In addition to taking care of the temple and performing rituals, they learned and practiced Bharatanatyam and other classical Indian arts traditions and enjoyed a high social status.
Following the demise of the great Hindu kingdoms the practice degenerated. Pressure from the British colonial reform movement led to suppression of the practice. Adherents of this movement considered devadasis immoral since they engaged in sex outside of the traditional concept of marriage, and described them as prostitutes.Since devdasis were left to God and temples, the high priest started exploiting them and women feared them. Also slowly people stated looking them with disgrace eventually forcing them into physical sex. As these Devadasis had no one to complain and grieve to, in this dreadful jungle called society, they left everything to fate by turning into prostitutes.
Though, Sati Act was passed in 1934, it is still been practiced under the black sky of this dark society.
WIDOW -endowed with burdenWidow is a woman whose spouse has died. But in India, widowhood isn't so simple.
Once the husband dies, it seems as if the life of woman has died.Though she is sad and lonely, the society will now look upon her with a lustful eye.
Though widow remarriage is legal, the act was passed in India after a long struggle in 1856.However, widows are considered unlucky in the traditional society. Widows face challenges of child support, finance, social stigma, security and remarriage.
Men will always look upon a widow, to someone who has no security and is helpless.
to society the life of a widow is meaningless. We may live in urban cities, but India is yet rural at its heart bound in such traditions.
WITCH HUNTING -beastly avatar of manMany people might be unaware of this term, but if you are then its very sad, that we are still unintelligent or rather never made aware of such issue. Witch Hunting is a practised belived to be common in Europe in the 19th Century, where a woman doubted on a insane thought to be practicing sorcery, magic and having connections with Satan is killed brutally.
Witch Hunt is a barbarous practice, though sounds unbelievable yet is a part of rural India, where media never reaches and no wonder to note that the Government is snoring loud and busy sleeping .
But the crux is that for a man to label any woman a witch is very simple on meaningless grounds. in order to settle scores or even to punish her for turning down sexual advances. Cases have also come up where a strong-willed woman is targeted because she is assertive and is seen as a threat.
Most often rich lonely woman are targeted, so that their property and riches can be taken over.
In a majority of the cases, it is difficult for the accused woman to reach out for help and she is forced to either abandon her home and family, commit suicide or is brutally murdered.
The most recent publicized case in India spread international uproar was in October 2009 when five Muslim women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India's Jharkhand state. The incident was only made public after a cellphone video surfaced of the event. Many national research agencies contend events such as these happen daily around the world, without any reports to the police out of fear of retribution.
We do live in barbaric times!
EUNUCH'S -Existing But not LivingOften people laugh at them, think of them to be weird creatures. All because we have been brought up in such a traditional closed society. Eunuch is a hermaphrodite or a person who basically looks like a half woman yet posses man sexual organs as well female.When they are born, they may be termed male or female. It's a creation of God, then how does the Society decides about being male or female. The universe, nature everything is filled with differences and unique in themselves. Eunuch are such like us. But are kept away from society and treated with disrespect.Once upon a time they were treated with respect and dignity in the Ramayana. Eunuchs were frequently employed in Imperial Indian palaces as servants for female royalty, and often attained high-status positions in Indian society in Muslim community and served the queens. But today they are begging on the streets,the government has no option for eunuch as a gender, and they have remained where they are because no one educated them. So has the Society evolved or rather Deteriorated?
A heart wrenching incidents exposes the hypocrisies and exploitations of an oppressed society harrowed by archaic traditions and plagued by superstitions in our society. Can we call this Society evolved, civilized,progressed? It isn't anyone to blame. But to blame those rich's and high class people who manipulated the religious text according to their benefit. Traditions are made and not come from the divine. We fail to recognize Traditions as man-made and consider them divine or religious. And why educated people like us are also quiet? Education should liberate one from bondage, this is because no one thinks of this issues seriously only because they are not a part of it, but not to forget you live in a society which you're a part of, and so are all these issues and hundred other false traditions.
Traditions Causes bondage,Religion binds, but Spirituality liberates.
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