Everytime we saw those awareness shows shunning caste and creed, highlighting discrimination and inequalities, there were responses that suggested your shunning of these evils too. Hence I grew up associating the same with the less educated, the less privileged living in the rural nowheres in India. You have proven me wrong.
I have grown up now to see beyond the hypocrisies of the sophisticated societies. You shun the evils and term them rural. But you kill your daughters just as well. (80% of female foeticides in India happen in cities, the rural folk just concentrat on the next one). Yours is a world shrouded in a glittering cover up. Yours is a world with dual meanings, where business meets mingle with pleasure, where five stars hotels shroud many screams, where a few pictures of Gandhiji empowers you to kill his teachings. Yours is a busy world, when you cant pause to hear beyond her "hello", when you cannot bother to know she needs anything more than the amount you send, when you donot bother to know if it gonna be good night after you have said so.
If this is civilization I rather choose to be in the jungles than such cities.
I have grown up now to see beyond the hypocrisies of the sophisticated societies. You shun the evils and term them rural. But you kill your daughters just as well. (80% of female foeticides in India happen in cities, the rural folk just concentrat on the next one). Yours is a world shrouded in a glittering cover up. Yours is a world with dual meanings, where business meets mingle with pleasure, where five stars hotels shroud many screams, where a few pictures of Gandhiji empowers you to kill his teachings. Yours is a busy world, when you cant pause to hear beyond her "hello", when you cannot bother to know she needs anything more than the amount you send, when you donot bother to know if it gonna be good night after you have said so.
If this is civilization I rather choose to be in the jungles than such cities.
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