There are two issues here. Aadhunikta and social values.
Aadhunikta is just being in sync with today. Sending emails and SMS to announce birth of your child instead of sending letters by post, using computers in place of type writers, driving cars ipo bail-gaadi, using plates ipo pattals, using piped gas ipo gobar ke uple etc is being modern. These are aadhunik cheezen. Use them and be contemporary or don’t use them and be out of sync with today’s world.
And social values are Kaal-Desh specific. One social value may not be relevant at a different place at the same time or at the same place at different times. And in society one may choose to be one with social values or at confrontation with the same.
As far as kissing one’s wife in public is concerned I feel it has got nothing to do with modernity or aadhunikta. It is more a matter of social values. Some societies have adopted it in their values as neatly highlighted by Sachinji others have not. Today our society does not permit it. One has to stop somewhere. From not even walking together in public to just moving together to holding hands in public to kissing in public to… what next…. Members of the society set their limits. I love my wife… I need not make it a matter of public display… yet I am ready to kiss her in public.. Is my samaj ready to accept it? Are you ready?
25 April 2011
I feel modernity is just a change or departure from recent past. It is comparative by means of time and progress not necessarily by means of thoughts. I consider it different from open-ness of
mind. Do we mean that the society has been most open and forward looking today than it was 2 years ago, 200 years ago or 2000 years ago. I refuse to accept that society as depicted in Shakuntalam, in Ramayan and Mahabharat, in various other books of past was comparatively narrow minded than it is today.I feel it was as open or perhaps more open to new ideas then than it is now. Being traditional ie not being modern does not necessarily mean being less open-minded. Bhai I would still walk a mile to eat a chulhe ki roti and I can vouch for it some of them living in far flung villages away from electricity and cell phones are more open minded in their approach than most of us living in our so called modern cities.
25 April 2011
Aadhunikta is just being in sync with today. Sending emails and SMS to announce birth of your child instead of sending letters by post, using computers in place of type writers, driving cars ipo bail-gaadi, using plates ipo pattals, using piped gas ipo gobar ke uple etc is being modern. These are aadhunik cheezen. Use them and be contemporary or don’t use them and be out of sync with today’s world.
And social values are Kaal-Desh specific. One social value may not be relevant at a different place at the same time or at the same place at different times. And in society one may choose to be one with social values or at confrontation with the same.
As far as kissing one’s wife in public is concerned I feel it has got nothing to do with modernity or aadhunikta. It is more a matter of social values. Some societies have adopted it in their values as neatly highlighted by Sachinji others have not. Today our society does not permit it. One has to stop somewhere. From not even walking together in public to just moving together to holding hands in public to kissing in public to… what next…. Members of the society set their limits. I love my wife… I need not make it a matter of public display… yet I am ready to kiss her in public.. Is my samaj ready to accept it? Are you ready?
25 April 2011
I feel modernity is just a change or departure from recent past. It is comparative by means of time and progress not necessarily by means of thoughts. I consider it different from open-ness of
mind. Do we mean that the society has been most open and forward looking today than it was 2 years ago, 200 years ago or 2000 years ago. I refuse to accept that society as depicted in Shakuntalam, in Ramayan and Mahabharat, in various other books of past was comparatively narrow minded than it is today.I feel it was as open or perhaps more open to new ideas then than it is now. Being traditional ie not being modern does not necessarily mean being less open-minded. Bhai I would still walk a mile to eat a chulhe ki roti and I can vouch for it some of them living in far flung villages away from electricity and cell phones are more open minded in their approach than most of us living in our so called modern cities.
25 April 2011
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