WE RESPECT OUR ELDERS. or do we?
I don't know what great Indian culture we love to flaunt. Read with horror in The Hindustan Times on Thursday, how a 75-year-old paralytic lady was thrown -- by her daughter and grandchildren -- into a garbage bin in Tamil Nadu. Follows another story about this guy who left his mother to die in a car in Navi Mumbai.
Are these guys human beings or what? Throwing senior citizens out into the street or into an old-age home, or even tossing them from home to home isn't uncommon; but throwing someone into a garbage bin, for Chrissake? How dehumanising can it get? And do it to a grandmother? The most adorable, cuddlesome and compassionate of all living creatures?
1 comment:
Can we generalise on Indian culture and values on the basis of a few cruel instances? I still am proud of Indian culture of joint family systems. It creates a loving atmosphere in the family as you have rightly pointed to the love that the elderly persons shower on the younger generation.
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