I came across a note a day earlier from a forum where people felt about the shift in culture and how the younger generation do not feed into the current needs etc.
A gentleman wrote
“
> I am highly mentally affected by these new culture, hiding taali,
> wearing abnormal dresses, not taking care of children, calling
> husband by his name. Or I am getting old not fit for the
> younger generation?. Spoiling our heritage i hope never be
> woman’s liberation? “
I doubt if this can be called as culture decline as the term varies at different time lines of history. Adapting to later generation ordeals may not be classified as heritage or culture failure.
When Aandal (a devotee / assumed wife of Lord Ranganatha) can call Krishna with his name, i dont know why a woman today cannot call her husband by name.
If we consider Madisar (the sari style in which some Indian women dress) as our culture I am not sure when that joined ours since sangam age (2000 years ago).
I am not trying to be hard on the older thoughts, i am saying its easier to adapt and look at what our generation can learn from positive reinforcement to our younger generation.
Honestly, I care a rat if my child wears a churidhar or jean – i only care if she is good in her life as a human being and useful to the society and promotes good values.
Dressing and figurative speech are a part of fashion trend, to mix that with culture is a older thought that cannot stand for a longer time with the way the world lives today.
If you ask me, even marriage in the current format is a later generation infusion, male dominated for the most part.
Can you explain how the children were taken care of during vedic times ? What was the parental bonding , did the dad / mom sit and feed the kids and teach them math ?
Am positive – these all came in the past few hundred years!!!
I would even say, this parental bonding is one of the reasons for karma builds and expectation of returns from children etc.
PS: I would not go very far into women liberation etc with these petty issues,this planet… is in reality a woman’s world… all along – and most of us know it 
- R
Ravi, your article made a good reading. I liked the way you kick-started it with a brilliant quote by Mahatma Gandhi, we in India proudly call him ‘the Father of the Nation’.
Yes, that’s a good question to ask what were parents’ contribution to the development of children during Vedic times. In those days the children were taught values such as a disciple’s dependence of a guru in everyday learings. Everybody those days played a certain role in the society and the structure therefore was so strong to be shaken.
These days I find the moral values, ethics, cultural ethos etc have gone for a toss. People believe in things which is quick. A big meal in Big Mac and a train to school or college is the order of the day.
The shift in culture is unavoidable but care should be taken when kids choose to walk in the middle of the road rather than walk on the pedestrian path.
By: GK on July 14, 2010
at 7:54 am
Thanks GK
Just saw this post. You are right, people do believe in the big mac and train to school.
By: itsravi on November 28, 2010
at 12:03 am