Honnasiri's Catch

What's synonymous across people and cultures is that everyone always honours their tradition i.e. how they grew up. It's, after all, first response. The mistake in doing that is when it goes unchecked to become big norm. See, all our traditions may not be good, healthy or positive. Some cultures and values are steeped in things that humanity and society need not bring itself to, the first things we need to clean up if we ever start. Majority traditional Indian culture isn't an exception. It has evolved into a very serious problem: a leftover one. And our response: we happen to handle it just like we handle our garbage in real life i.e. conveniently ignore it. Find the closest obscure spot on a main road and shamelessly dump it there, as it rots and stinks in front of us as we normalise ourselves to it.  It becomes the potbelly we drum on and never care to healthily address. Since we all pus...

Modern India swears on its Constitution, taking its history in tow. A history which had been marred by what can be termed "non-assimilative" abuse by non-native cultures along with their religions, most of which came with rulers and oppressors, who did exactly that through them. State sponsored conversion, law measures like jizya and allowance of certain things that were not allowed and accepted in Hinduism include some of their methods that took the India of the time away from its original way of living. This, being done through centuries, left behind Indians who made that them (the new culture) their way of life without stepping on others'. They're root-Indian every way, except for a small portion that may include some or all of the clothes they wear, food they eat or values they allow (among other things). English speaking but live on rasam. Western fashion but will only accept marriage with their parent's blessings... there are a gazillion of se...