C RAVI
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Shri Ravi,
I think swimming pools, gated communities, farm houses and all such things usually represent, even today in India, the very upper crust of the society. But on the roads, we have a huge crowd of people, including males from the middle to the lowest strata of the society. Hence what is normal and allowed in those exclusive clubs of the rich and the super-rich cannot be practised right on the streets of India. But a situation seems to be fast coming in which our younger women think that their empowerment, emancipation and so on must be practisable anywhere in India. This was the important message in some of the placards at the Nirbhaya incident in Delhi. (one placard said : "I will go naked on the road, but I should not be troubled" or something to the same effect.
The problem, according to me, is that we have a government which has little awareness of this country and these people are ruling. And, mostly, the government's efforts are to bring in everything from the west here and they think, in their utter foolishness, that India will become another US overnight by this method. That is the bane of this country.
Our government should know our people and their strengths, weaknesses, beliefs and so on and govern the country so that the maximum benefits reach the maximum number of people. But this is sadly, not happening. Saudi Arabia, though an autocratic country seems to be better on this count, at least to me.
Precisely!!!