When culture becomes vulture one has to fear for falling in love. There were reports about honour killing in villages. When the country allows gay marriage, love marriage is still forbidden in villages. A youth was lynched by villagers in one of the Haryana villages for marrying from the same gotra. They want to ostracize his family too. Some communities can marry within the family—distant relatives or cousins. Some cannot marry even from the neighboring villages if it in the same gotra. It is the height of pride and prejudice of village heads. When Panchayati Raj is still strong what is the point of having a government? The village heads have their own law and they rule according to their wish. Law should reach every nook and corner of the country. The law is too old and weak to reach the jungles or climb on to the mountains.
What kind of societal norms we keep? Honour killing, dowry deaths and female feticides all these are an example of misusing culture and tradition. If one find out a life partner of one’s own choice it is not a crime. If they kill for one’s bad moral it may make sense. Is it the end of Kaliyug? I wish a Yug, that make all human beings enlightened, had come. I ask God always when Kalki avatar will take place. I didn’t get the answer yet.
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