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Saying NO to tradition: Indian couples breaking caste taboos
Published: 26 August, 2010, 07:30
Edited: 29 October, 2010, 05:32
In India, society has been socially divided for generations. However, young people try to break traditions and caste taboos in their private life.
This is a step par excellence. I am amongst the one working with Mr. Dubey on social issues, environmental issues. A casteless society can think globally and become socially and economically more powerful. Caste is deeply rooted in Indian society to the extent that a lower caste person cannot dare to sit on a chair with his upper caster peers. We are in to it, and we vow to eliminate this curse from our society. We are also working on a society which should concentrate more on humanism than religion. Religion again stands as another barrier towards bettter progression of a society.
I think that the society which having big difference between the classes always would face economical challenges more than any open minded society. The rules which rich impose on the poor often delaying the economical and democtratical developments in the country, forcing people from the lower background to "stick" with their life of poverty "script" and not seek better life and therefore - dalaying the development of the different type of markets whithin the country (for an one small example: the possesion of the mobile phone - using, topping up, getting a new better one). Maria