What Is Our Culture?
For thousands of years Indians have pride themselves for their culture. The culture that I should call mine as well. But, what is that culture?
- The wife needs to burn herself alive after the husband dies.
- A princess needs to be married off, and only a prince can rule a kingdom.
- Only a male child brings honour to our family.
- We are not Indians, we are Rajput, Tamils, Kannadigas, Gujaratis, Maratha, etc.
- You can wager anything in gambling, even your wife.
- Also, one woman has to be a wife of 5 princes.
- When you are angry, curse people, even though, you are a well learned Sadhu who is about to attain moksha. But no, you have no control over your anger and you can curse people. But yes, also preach peace and meditation.
- Since some Mughal kings were bad, the entire community is bad. Also, they are not Indian.
- A woman (court dancer) can fall in love with a prince, but if she does she is buried alive.
- A naughty kid can eat butter from houses, steal clothes of bathing women, do dandiya with 1600 gopiyas, should be worshipped because…. he did something good, I just can’t recall it. Yeah he was God, and he just let everything go wrong before he intervened to help fix it.
- 4000 years ago some dude said, let’s play a game, put some coins around a bull’s horn, whoever is able to get the coins, keeps them.
- Another dude said, let’s race with bulls.
- One more was like, fuck it, I will just eat those bulls, you do what you want. Humans hunt animals and eat them.
- It is totally okay to just massacre millions and then realise your mistake, later devote yourself to a peaceful religion. No uproar whatsoever.
- There were caste systems from the beginning of Indian culture. Kshatriya, Bhramin, Vaishya, Shudra. Thousands of years ago, we created a divide based on which house we are born in. Marvellous.
- A God can take form of a slutty dancer to break the concentration of a praying Yogi.
- We let a lunatic side-kick roam around heaven among Gods chanting one phrase and having a kick out of pulling legs of Gods.
- You can ask your wife to walk through fire.
- You can ask your wife to leave.
- You can love someone and marry someone else.
- Write a book about sexual pleasures.
- Use your wise brain to destroy opposition and then call it Chanakyaniti. I mean, couldn’t you have used it to make peace?
- You can spend money on building temples but not hospitals. This is also an old tradition, remember all the big temples and idols commissioned by the kings over time?
- Slavery was okay. We used to call them dasis.
- Monarchy is fine. A king’s word is final. Hmmm. Modern world calls it dictatorship. Quite an interesting culture.
- Swayamvar, a woman allowed to choose her husband. But wait, this is something we don’t follow anymore.
- Being too proud of Indian culture.
Alright I am tired of writing it down. If you get the message share this. If you do not agree with the message, share it and tell people how idiotic I am. If you do not get the message, share it and ask people to explain it to you.
But, if you think we had a great culture. Think again. This time think hard.
Peace Out.
-Naimish Sanghvi
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