Two faces of India

Recently I read a piece of news which was about the interiors

 of Rajasthan.A remote village, nowhere to be seen on the map,

was in the news because of the natives accustomed to age old 

tradition of 'satitva-test'. The news was shocking and depressing

 as the test was aimed to find whether a female is 

disloyal to her husband or not. 

Satitva being the true test of her being pristine, as all the villagers 

believed was practised by dipping the test-taker's hand in a bowl

 of hot boiling oil.If her hand gets burnt, she is not considered to 

be loyal. If it doesnt, she is loyal.Later disloyal female was beaten

black and blue by villagers by hot iron-rods and thenwas thorwn

at her doorsteps. The family later beat her up and left her stranded.

Reading the story left me shivered. Thinking about the plight of the

woman a feeling of distress and disturbance ran through me. It made 

me think whether we, as a country, are really progressing as a whole 

or is therea great void being created between the urban and rural India.

I think India currently has two faces. 

Customs and traditions are an integral part of indian culture but the 

traditions designed by the chauvinistic male society on thier terms 

and conditions and suited to their fantasies should be abolished 

and such acts need to be punished severily.

India is preogressing, prospering and growing. But is this the real growth. 

Growth has tobe uniform in a ll aspects. Growth is not only in financial 

position or production or education. Is the thinking process of the society 

actually growing? Are we thinking aboutthe upliftment of ideologies? 

These questions are, i think, tough nuts to crack and needs 

a deep thought and analysis.