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FROM DINGY CELLS TO DAYLIGHT ... A DREAM far from REALITY

" The day everyone in India gets a toilet, I shall know that our country has reached the pinnacle of progress," famously said Jawaharlal Nehru; a dream that is yet to be fulfilled by a nation which celebrated 70 glorious years of its Independence in 2017.      On 7th September, India's Parliament passed a law prohibiting the employment of individuals as manual scavengers by prescribing stringent punishment including imprisonment upto 5 years.      Manual scavenging, a job that is considered worst and wretched in India, still prevails in its soil which serves as a source of livelihood to many of its citizens. It refers to the practice of manually cleaning, carrying and disposing or handling, in any manner human excreta from dry latrines and sewers. Manual scavenging are amongst the most disadvantaged communities in India and us evident in the parts of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Moreover, the lives of the pit workers are outrage...
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Those Big Fat Indian Weddings  !!     India is a land known for its extravaganza and its cultural and political diversities. It's equally renowned for its "Big fat weddings" with splurges.          As I was standing in the mid of the opulent hall, i could see some youngsters gyrating synchronously to the loud and peppy Bollywood tunes. Along with, on my left were some men in suits and 'Sherwanis' boisterously drawing certain premise of the political strategies, then. Contiguous to it, was a multi cuisine spread where all the womenfolk congregated bejewelled in their best, gossipping. Struggling to find a familiar face, I made an attempt to take a meticulous glance at the arriving bride, all decked up in embroidered 'lehenga' and coruscating jewellery, which was, a real feast to my eyes. Chased by the army of photographers and videographers and the entourage behind her, she made her way to the stage which was embellished with love seats. ...

Indianisation of Western World

    India is a land where uniqueness lays the foundation of its existence ; the serenity lies in the vast snow capped mountains ; the myriad of flavours drool one's mouth, the land of seven geographical sisters, a country whose beauty is latent under the nature's bounty; a land of variety of languages, whose art and literature is to be well remarked ; In short, a land of mosaic of multiplicities.   But, in spite of such highly promising and conspicuous realms of India, the sad part is that Indians are less bothered about preserving such highly oriented culture and heritage. Moreover, the people who get involved into preserving the heritage of the nation are, apparently, the nonnatives of India and contrarily, that's the most interesting part.    Well, now a days, we could find that people arrive in India in order to explore more about the dance forms such as Kathakali, Bharathnatyam, Odissi etc and to incur more knowledge in that sphere. Some of them are eve...