Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The twisted Indian morality

Now days a show called "Sach ka Saamna" is going on , on starplus. It is the Indian version of the US show "Moment of Truth". I had seen some episodes of this US show when Indian counterpart was not there. At that time I use to think that this show can never come to India, as India is a country of hypocrites and timid people, so no one will come to say the dark truths about his life. Moreover if it comes to India it will certainly be opposed and banned by our moral leaders.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the Indian show "Sach ka Saamna" and people revealing there secrets. I was very happy that there are courageous and truthful people in India. But I also felt very bad when my second doubt came true. Few days back in our parliament, some of our MPs(Member of Parliament) raised the issue of this show and demanded to ban it. They said the questions being asked in the show are against Indian morality. Congress party minister Ambika Soni immediately obliged the MPs by sending a notice to the TV channel. Thankfully the TV show is not banned but they display a warning message during the show, and now its timing have been changed from 10:30 pm to 11 pm in the night. But what are the questions which our MPs think are against our morality. The media reports did not elaborate on that but it is very easy to figure out that the question regarding physical relations and other sex related questions are the culprits.
Now my question is what is a bigger crime adultery or robbery. According to Indian mentality and our parliamentarians metality adultery is a bigger crime than robbery. Thats why I am calling it twisted morality. Now I will prove my point that our MPs are more worried about adultery than robbery. Now days there is a commercial of Bajaj bike going on, in which the hero with the bike easily robs a Bank and gets away in his bike. Now why our MPs did not bother about this TV commercial. This is trying to teach our youngsters that with this new bike you can easily do a robbery. Its simple, because they think that this is not as serious a crime as talking about sex or doing adultery. And if a women commits adultery then that is limit. There is no bigger crime than this, even murder is small in comparison to this. Every now and then we get news that a family killed its daughter because she ran away with some guy. Recently this type of news came from a village in Haryana. Then our MPs give lecture in the parliament that people should not take law into their own hands.
The conclusion is that there is no difference between the mentality of people who are killing their daughters and sisters for adultery and these MPs who are raising opposition to the TV show "Sach ka Saamna". And the most sad part about it is that there was no other MP to oppose this third class mentality. (atleast I did not see any media report about that.)