In the name of Honor

“Rassi Jal gayi par bal nahi gaya”. Presently Haryana state completely hold true against this phrase. Since last few months senior citizen of Haryana have become eye candies for media be it Rathore convicted in Ruchika case or the Khap panchayat involved in honor killing. Although some respite felt when Rathore was sent behind the bars few days back but these “Taus” are still blowing the trumpet with their nefarious activities. Rural Haryana and Northern UP has become the epicenter of their grudge. Lovebirds are meeting a brutal end in the name of honor but the pitch of their bloodshed cry is not enough to rankle the ears of politicians. Albeit eclectic and maverick Naveen Jindal has pull up his socks against the evil but he is in a real quagmire of youth sentiments and vote bank. The quest is why he is not getting stringent against Khaps? Media brats are pinning him down on the pretext of Vote bank but the fact is Jindal himself is not justified by marriage within same gotra. In several media interview he has raised a simple question to media moguls like Vinod Dua “Will you allow marriage within the gotra in your family”. At this point media person turned either mum or laconic with a diplomatic reply. So Jindal’s only request is to put yourself in his shoes and then reply the same question with saturation of practicality.
Although we youth have turned belligerent against the Khaps and protesting against them by deliberately tying knot within the Gatra. But just think once that is this an end to the carnage? Is our stand (to marry within the gotra) against Khaps is justifiable. If we will dig a bit we would realize that the Khaps are trying to preserve our culture, our dignity and our existence. We always ask these oldies why they are chasing these values and rituals when they didn’t know who made them. Guys, I agree that these principles were not made by them, but it’s their responsibility to restore and preserve those values. These are the basis of our existence. Our ancestors have passed on these culture and values to our grandfathers and they have pampered us with those traditions. Now they want us to carry on these values to next generations but we jockeying in the mad race of modernization and westernization have denied it blatantly. We rephrase our own tradition and customs as orthodoxy and superstition. We take positives of other culture to criticize ours but forget that every religion has its own code of conduct. Religion, culture and values were made for refurbishment of human being. This is the reason why humans have been graded above animals so that they can control their instincts.
Guys don’t you think our generation is replete with opportunism up to the hilt. Whenever we compare ourselves with western world we cash our culture and tradition as trump card to show our supremacy. At one end we guys protest against caste and creed while talking about inter caste marriage but on the other hand we love to eat the icing of creamy layer, OBC, SC and ST reservation in jobs and college admission. We are quite firm about marriage within the gotra, but how many of us have taken stand against dowry which is still a blot on our society. Why we have not taken any stringent step against skewed sex ration in Punjab or Haryana? The fact is we don’t want to control or sacrifice ourselves. Selfishness and practicality has imbibed us up to the brim. We have manipulated everything according to our need and comfort giving an excuse that “Tradition can be sacrificed for human being” but not the vice versa. Undoubtedly the statement hold true for certain exceptional situation, but we have taken it for granted. As gay marriages have already being made legal in India the day is not too far when we would say “I have fallen in love with 2 girls and want to marry both” so we must add a clause of polygamy in our culture.
Friends whenever we climb a ladder to reach at the zenith one feet always remain grounded while the other ascend toward the top similarly to reach the pinnacle of humanity we must move one of our foot toward modernization but should not forget our own entity. Otherwise as we are campaigning to preserve of National Animal (Tiger) and National Sport (Hockey) we will have to run a campaign to preserve ourselves.