Surpassing all thoughtful but now monotonic topics like Reservation issue,
India Cricket future, etc I would like to make debut with a simple movie “Pitaah” which I saw yesterday.

Featuring Sanjay Dutt, Nandita Das and Om Puri, movie depicts the plight of poor, down trodden villagers who still had to live under the mercy of village Thakur in our Independent India. The chaos Raaj of Thakur is so dark that no one is open to raise his protest even when the influential and all powerful Thakur’s sons gang rape a  9 year old minor girl .The movie ends with the killing of the culprits by the victim’s father Sanjay Dutt. In between we can see how the village doctor aptly fixes the price for comprising his Hippocratic Oath and how the whole judiciary can be used to serve you if you have the money.

The incidents of the movie may look exaggerated but certainly depicts the very attitude of Indians towards life and society and the value system within us. Please note that I am not here to blast Indian society, tradition and culture. Most of us have heard it many times and perhaps also given example to others also that Indian value system and culture is the best in world. I agree that many of the values like family bonding and more cohesive lifestyle cannot be seen in other societies, but somehow we silently ignore many demerits of our society. When I say society I mean each and every one of us is a culprit and there are  serious problems with our value system  itself . We tend to act very selfish most of the times.

I will give a very simple example. European countries like
France,Germany, etc are voted and considered as rude countries and we always take pride while comparing our culture with theirs. It may be true that some unacceptable (subjective) things are part of their culture but certainly in many contexts their behavior is far better than ours, even when we talk about mutual cohesiveness or discrimination. In
India how many people have patience to abide by the simple traffic light or say allowing giving priority to walkers? InEurope you can see almost always people patiently waiting for signals, allowing walking people to go first and follow all basic rules. And believe me in following all these day to day rules , they do not discriminate on color or country.

What I mean to say is until and unless we change ourselves and have patience and give some room to others and have left the thinking that things can be mended ,manipulated anytime with power and money, our society can never be acceptable ,atleast to me.

I know we are developing nation and have certain limitations in terms of money and technology, but does it restricts us from following certain basic rules which will not make others life easier but yours also?