Undemocracy in a democratic world

05Feb09

We call India as the largest democracy in the world. A secular socialist democratic republic which does not discriminate in the name of caste, creed, religion or sex. But is it really so. Are we really following the codes of justice and equality in our personal day to day life? Are we ready to sacrifice our personal comfort so that our friends and fellow beings have an equal share of priviledges? Are we really able to accept people of different caste, creed, language and religion in our family and let our sons and daughters marry a person of different community?  Are we ready to non-cooperate child labour by not accepting a child servant in our house? Are we able to become enough broad minded to avoid racial prejudice by not discriminating a prospective bride on the basis of the color of her skin? Are we really able to curtail our desire to have a male child rather than a female child so that we do not indulge in gender  discrimination? Are we able to avoid competing in small matters in life with our peers when we talk of socialism? Do each one of us in our household share equal responsibility of work and reap equal profit like the socialistic concept?Even though we support equal opportunity employment in companies, are we really able to avoid discriminating people on the basis of their appearance,  class, bank-balance, status in the society, etc in our personal matters of lives like choosing a life partner. Are we liberal enough to avoid defining gender roles in our families?  These things are not easy and we need to be enough broad-minded to practice it in our individual lives. Until and unless, we in our individual lives practice democracy, how can we call our nation the largest democracy? Constitution can only give us freedom. But responsibility has to be acquired through practice.  Earlier in the name of religion, culture and tradition we had been able to incorporate a lot of  such things in our lives like practicing  joint family structure, taking care of parents in oldage and stable family life through unbreakable marital bonds. Even though blind obedience to culture has its own drawbacks, with the new wake of our liberal outlook our freedom has been unable to endow us with responsibilities,-  responsibility to analysis the impact of our actions in lives of others and the society, responsibity to choose to follow a better stardard of living which makes the world a better and progressive place conducsive to peace and prosperity rather than a chaotic world of indulgence. As such today we still need a culture, a rational and logical culture ( not a blind one) which teaches people to be responsible in a liberated world.

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