The world keeps rotating around its own axis everyday, oblivion to the things happening in this crazy cosmos of ours.

Destinies are being fulfilled, Wars are being fought, and History is being written.

All by the same man.

All this till the day the earth finally stops. Till we all just disappear behind a great white light.

Till then, we have to get on with out lives. We have to continue getting up each morning for a cup of chai and a quick dash to the bathroom.

But as we turn on that shower, we become who we really are. We are then, in the true sense, living in our own skin. It is then we are actually the homo sapien sapien  we are meant to be.

We haven’t really changed much since the time we discovered metal and starting walking without a hunchback.

Ok, maybe we have developed a communication system by now and become more civilized and hygienic. But, we still have those animal instincts in us when circumstances demand it. We still always have the hunger in us to discover. We still smile when it starts raining after a very sunny and a very humid day.

Maybe we have modern medicine as a part of our lives and things like the human genome project being undertaken successfully. But we’re still like our forefathers who would munch on tulsi leaves during cough and cold, when that medicine your doctor prescribed wouldn’t work. We still use neem when our teeth ache gets beyond bearable despite the fact that there are probably a thousand other medicines in the market for the same cause which any dentist would swear on. We still apply Aloe Vera on our hair to improve its condition, just like our housebound great great grandmothers would.

Maybe we have modern age mothers wearing denim jeans and a pair of sunglasses while driving cars and picking up their kids after school, and a few woman CEO’s and directors of major MNC’s. But how much ever you’d argue, ours is still a male dominated society like it was during and after our independence.

No matter which cell phone you might carry in your pocket, or which video you might upload on you i-pod or whichever flight you book to wherever in the globe , when you get out of the shower in the morning and put on your clothes  all that matters in how big your back account is. Which college you pass out from. Which company you work in. What kind of clothes you wear in public. What language you use. What your background is. Which caste you are in. Which gender you are. All of that.

Some people might scream by saying that this is how we have to behave to survive in a society; this is how our society works... We can’t let a thing called “globalization” and “modernization” destroy the roots of our country. But I beg to differ. Excuse me if I think saying “Namaste” to an aunty ,who doesn’t even acknowledge my existence, a disgrace. Forgive me if I think that looking at people beyond their qualifications, skin and the “society’s” outlook on them, the true sense of humanity. Pardon me if I think that our yearly puja’s have lost their true meaning behind a truckload of nonsense called politics which our very respectable elders label “loyalty” and “pride”.

How much ever people hate admitting it, our country is in doomsville.

There is still at least one case of domestic violence occurring in each and every society. There is still the concept of “dowry” which Indians just can’t do without. HIV virus is still working it way through along with typhoid and others. Men still get away with anything under their belt. Women are given no second chance to pursue their dreams and discover their true potential. Instead, they are married “off” to a “good boy” while everyone around is happy that her life is “settled”. Corruption has gone deep enough to our genes. There are 90 year old politicians refusing to listen or understand our voice and opinion while the babble off about the “India’s future lies in her children” speech at the UN.

With my due respect to the generation above us, but we actually believe that our generation are the catalysts of change.

We want to change and make the world a better place to survive in.

We want a better society, better mindsets, better humans.

But that’s the sad irony,

They don’t change.

They just won’t change.