Why VHP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena keep harping on Hindus and Hinduism? They target MNCs, McDonald’s, Pizza Hutts, KFCs, Valentines, MF Hussains, Fires, Waters, Earths ……
Why not they give a closer look to any hep and mod crowd. Be it models, film stars, industrywallahs, socialites. They all adhere strictly to the norms of Hinduism. You will never hear: this ultra mod model fought with her Mom and Dad over the tradition of “Kanyadaan”. Instead, you will read later in her interview, “I kept weeping, and Dad kept handling me tissues, quietly. *sob* sob* sob*” Like Subhadra Kumai Chauhan (anybody care to remember her poem “Jhansi ki Rani?”) no one even shows the guts. She refused to “donate” her daughter, like an inanimate object, on the altar of marriage. So protectors of Hinduism, one of your glorious and greatest traditions is alive and kicking.
Watch any program on sociological changes. Read any social survey, a clear majority will say, they will go for an arranged marriage and won’t marry their girlfriends/ boyfriends. Long live the tradition of Hinduism.
By any chance, if these love marriages, are arranged, they are completed in arranged mode with all the décor and dowry intact. So another custom is safe in the custody of Yo Dudes and Yo Dudesses.
If you work in the office, just try to keep quiet during lunch hour for one day. Listen to the talks of the females. They will tell you, O! I can not take food today. I am keeping fast on these “Sawan ke Somwar.” You ask the reason for this, and pat come the reply
“You will end up getting a good husband.” She will impart this knowledge adjusting her sleeveless top, and tossing back her colored manes, at the same time, balancing her frame on stilettos. So this disguised Behenji will carry forward all the customs of fasts and “Karva Chauth” of Hinduism on her able shoulders.
I don’t know what bothers the proponents and protectors of Hinduism? Why don’t they ask this government for better employment opportunities?
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