Westernisation: Impact over Indian culture

             

                    We all live in a modern world. Our lifestyle has been drastically modified. Everything we do must surely have to show our status symbol. Everything has become modern even the humans with stylish haircut, outlook, dresses and even our attitude. We like to talk in English and love to make fun of our very own mother tongue. Here "we" denotes the teenagers like us. Our Indian culture is not slowly eradicating but it was mostly eradicated by teenagers like us but only in metropolitan cities and it has been eradicating in other parts of country too which is a sad news. Why we changed from our identity? why we don't care about our culture and tradition? The answer is "We all wish to impress people,attract them whether we know or don't know others, we would like to dress cool and look good and we wish some heads turn around to see us". This answer may be irrelevant to many of the readers but trust me, this is what is the basic reason for our change. We believe that priorities are calculated based on our looks.

              The term westernisation not only defines the changes that took place in clothing but also changes happens in industry, technology, law, politics, economics, lifestyle, diet, language, alphabet, religion, philosophy and values. Westernisation traces it roots back to Ancient Greece, the birth place of western culture. And whenever we talk about westernisation, modernization will be compared and debate happens. But there is a big difference between modernization and westernisation. People wearing Jeans, T-shirts, Girls wearing short skirts, tops, jeans etc.. and feel that they are modern; this is pure westernisation - copying what people are doing there in western countries. This is not modernization. 

                  It is so hard to see a teenage girl visiting temple early morning wearing our traditional saree or a teenage guy visiting a temple with his family in dhoti and shirt. Because, we're much busy in late night parties, hangouts.The sad thing is that we feel ashamed touching the feet of our elders or going to temple but we love to visit bars and late night parties. "We live in India. We invented Zero. We created Vedas. We spoke worlds oldest language-TAMIL. Our ancestors predicted whole lot things which gonna happen 100 years later. We initiated everything. Am I right?" But why we being attracted to those cultures which won't suit here in India. Remember that our parents or grandparents or great grandparents were once farmers. But we act like born american. Great!

                 

               Adopting western culture, is not a criminal offence. But instead of just adopting we are just forgetting our culture and are totally influenced by the western culture as we fell like more attractive. Westernisation also paved way for the mass giants like KFC, McDonalds, Pepsi, Coke, Burger King and lots and lots of western brands having their strong market here. Result bad health, new diseases, early age signs of strokes, cancer, diabetes and the consequences list goes on. There is no way out because our mentality is totally changed which brings out the evil things out.

                   Also there is no doubt in saying that by adapting the western culture our teenagers are becoming more independent, confident and self-dependent which is extremely good for the society. But once a wise man said "Too much of anything is never good". The enthusiasm to learn things of other nations is not wrong, but they should not be at the expense of our traditions and culture.

                   

                    But I have lots of trust over the foreigners who came over to our nation under tourist visa. To see them wearing our traditional dress makes me feel proud and make me think how much they love our culture and traditions. Those traditional western cultured people are in fond over our culture and tradition but we Indians are running behind their western culture. It's time to wake up. Our country India is like a tree whose roots are culture, tradition. harmony and brotherhood. Hope we all unite together to save our culture and make the foreigners to say "Incredible India!" by seeing our culture and tradition.

Jai Hind! 

Politicians meetings in TN : Adverse impacts over enviroinment

We all know that in Tamil Nadu elections are conducted every five years to elect the State assembly and its share of members to the Lok Sabha.

 

There are 234 assembly constituencies and 39 Lok Sabha constituencies. The state has conducted 14 assembly elections and 15 Lok Sabha elections since independence. And this year (2016) election is going to be conducted and every political parties are very busy in campaigns and public meetings to face the 2016 election. The factor now becoming a huge threat is that the plastic and non-plastic waste management during a public meeting and after a meeting being done. Not only the waste management but also many factors being reported by public and media against the politicians meetings but the main factor now which becoming huge threat is there is no proper plastic waste management after the completion of meetings by the political parties which conduct the open area meetings or the by the Government corporation.

Survey conducted in USA on 2014

Based on a survey conducted in USA on 2014, it has been found that more than 12% of total soil

deposition is plastics. The percentage of plastic deposition is more than the wood and mineral depositions in the soil. The fact to mention here is that this survey was taken only on area where proper waste management was being done. Then there is no survey needed to show how much plastics deposition will be in our country where no proper plastic waste management is being done. We are living beneath the soil which has plastic depositions like a sea.

The current Scenario in TN is very worse to mention regarding plastic waste management. It can be explained if we see what happened in a meeting which was conducted by a political party on 27th of Feb in Chennai. The first thing is that the political party members and their supporters are being crowded to the meeting place from all over Tamilnadu. Huge traffic jams due to enormous amount of vehicles to the meeting caused the public to struggle for the whole day on their time of commute. The second thing to mention is the banners and plastic cut-outs being placed every 100 meters in the way throughout the meeting place. It was so horrible that these cut-outs and banners are being made just for one day meeting and all these will not be re-used and the impacts of these cut-outs directly affect our ecosystem. The third thing to mention is the scenario after the meeting is over. The whole area is filled with plastic garbage's and wastes. In one day and by hundreds of thousands people, the whole area is polluted. And there is no single step taken by the political party to clean the garbage's who promises that they will keep the surroundings clean and hygienic if they are elected by public. 

The only way to minimize these kind of unwanted pollutions is to make strict conditions when permission is granted for a political party to make public meetings. The condition should include ban for cut-outs and banners and also only acceptable usage of recyclable plastics and proper plastic waste management done by the respective political parties conducting meetings. Our government blames us and prohibit us to pollute the surroundings but these kind of political pollutions are seems to be unaware by the government. A government should be a example in plastic waste management and hope that we Indians should wake up and keep our surroundings clean only for our future earth to be a heaven to live.

Jai hind!