Little Push,2016 to 2017

This is my last Blog of this year 2016, as we are going to enter the year 2017

A year which brought so many changes and opened doors of so many opportunities.

For me the whole year was both positive and a little bit of negative.As everything in this world have

two factors that is negative as well as positive.

But it depends upon us,which side we lean.Look even here when I was talking about negativity

I used the word "Little bit", We always want to Be POSITIVE

This what human nature is,we find difficulties ,sometimes we feel so passively that we are not in a

situation to go forward.

But even a small push,make us to do such which we have never thought of doing even in the dreams.

The only requirement is that little push ,that little effort

Took the example from "Ramayana" the Hindu Epic ,where "Hanuman" forgets about his powers

but a little effort of others, made him realize about his hidden potential.

We all have that same Potential equally embedded by the creator

"This world is full of sorrows" What Buddha has said..Life is too short ,look at Syria and what the

world is facing today.Everywhere there is misery,

But there is a solution to every problem. Just a support system needs to be strong.

One can become support system of other and that person can become support system of other.

This way the life can become Beautiful,Just fill the GAP

May this Year Brings more happiness, more success and most important thing more Fun.

I remember the poem of Harivanshrai Bachchan

Lehron se dar kar nauka paar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti

Nanhi cheenti jab daana lekar chalti hai

chadhti deewaron par sau baar fisalti hai

Mann ka vishwas ragon mein saahas banta hai

chadh kar girna, gir kar chadhna na akharta hai

Akhir uski mehnat bekar nahi hoti

koshish karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti…

Dubkiyan sindhu mein gota khor lagaata hai

ja ja kar khaali haath laut aata hai

Milte na sahaj hi moti paani mein

badta doogna utsaah issi hairaani mein

Mutthi uski khaali har baar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti…

Asafalta ek chunauti hai sweekar karo

kya kami reh gayi dekho aur sudhaar karo

Jab tak na safal ho neend chain ki tyago tum

sangharshon ka maidaan chhodh mat bhago tum

Kuch kiye bina he jai jai kaar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti

Smile Please :)

Do you ever wonder what people are feeling when they smile? Do they smile because they're happy or do they smile because they want people to believe they're happy? Maybe they smile because they want you to smile and be happy.

A smile can touch a person's life in ways you can never imagine. It's infectious and can cause a chain reaction. It can be memorable to someone you pass on the street or the mall or driving... and it only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet... to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. Maybe I should smile more often.

"Smile a while ,while you smile 

others will smile

while others will be smile,

there will be miles of smile"

"Tu haqiqt hai ya koi fasana,
Tu roshni hai ya andhera,
Tu jo bhi hai,
 hai to meri Sanso me bassi"

Running For The Destiny

Life can feel empty when you have no idea what your destiny is. You have a

feeling that there is something important, significant, and worthwhile that you were
born to do, but do not know what. Through the trappings of materialism many
people envisage their calling as being some kind of mega rich.

Your true calling is something that you have to put together piece by piece; it's not
something that arrives already assembled as a gift. You construct your destiny
from your instincts about the things that just feel right. Instinct is the closest thing
to destiny and we must rely on our feelings to guide us to the things that are natural
for us and develop our potential fully from there.

Running is one basic part of your destiny. When you run there are times that it just
feels instinctively right. There is a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that you can
reach in running, which happens every time you work on a part of your true
calling. Running may not be glamorous or unique but for everyone, it is part of
your destiny.

When you were a baby, your first mission in life was to stand up but that is never
enough. Every baby knows they have to learn to run. Infants run everywhere, by
instinct, and you can see the joy they get when they are doing what is natural; they
know running is their destiny.
Once you master the art of running, it lays down one cornerstone of your true self,
one part of your calling. As children, we should keep strengthening this
cornerstone of our destiny through our love of games and running. As we grow up
and enter the adult world, life becomes more diverse and there are many
distractions that call us away from our true path.

Running is easy to neglect with demands on our time such as studying, making
money, family, and the appeal of easy pleasures. Once running has slipped out of
your life it takes a conscious effort to get back into enjoying it. "I just don't have
time," is a common excuse, but people who run know that it gives them more
energy and they do more in the same time because they work more effectively.
Without running your life feels stagnant and lacking vigor. One of the many
advantages of hitting the track is that it actually improves brain power by
delivering more oxygen in the blood to your brain. It has been shown that running
helps people make clear decisions, concentrate longer, and recall information
faster.

Running activates the instinctual parts of your brain that help you find the other
parts of what make you who you really are. When you run you attain one part of
your destiny. But to find your true self, you need all the pieces together. Like a
puzzle, you have to put all the pieces in the right place to get the complete picture
of who you are. Running is one essential step to take you towards finding the other
parts of your true self.

During a run when you are mentally sharp, feeling good, and inspiration is there,
you can identify clearly other aspects of what is important in your life. Running
increases your creativity to find how to attain your destiny, increases your will
power to keep on towards your true calling, and ideas become crystal clear after
taking them out on a run.

We should use the parts of our life that instinct leads us to, such as running, to
stand higher, to get closer to reaching who we really are. Make running a key part
of your lifestyle to be instinctively sharp and use the boosted brainpower to help
you attain your true calling.

To THE LIFE

To love. 

To be loved. 

To never forget your own insignificance. 

To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. 

To seek joy in the saddest places. 

To pursue beauty to its lair. 

To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. 

To respect strength, never power. 

Above all, to watch. 

To try and understand. 

To never look away. And never, never, to forget.

The Turn of the Tortoise: The Challenge and Promise of India’s Future

"Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true" - Joan Robinson

In early 2000s, an Indian diplomat serving in Nepal visited the Kosi barrage, built across the unstable river whose water volume increases fatally in times of monsoon. He was stunned to see the dredgers, whose work was to regularly clear the river of silt,were lying unused as they were under repair. The diplomat immediately contacted the Bihar government for immediate action but nothing ensued. As it happens ,in 2008, the Kosi floods happened leaving lakhs of people adrift and homeless. Later, it was known that the satellite maps of the river were not being accessed by water resources ministry . The sensors that provide data on water flows had stopped functioning long back. And thus even as the waters of Kosi surged ahead bursting banks, the government had no clue about the state of the river. It was a complete breakdown of government machinery. Snafu.

By narrating this incident , T.N.Ninan, in his book "The turn of the turtoise" underlines how scarily non-existent the government can be. But in the next page, he points out government's efficiency in mission-mode events like elections or Kumbh melas .Thus, in these two pages, the author sets the tone of his book . Despair and hope. This balance is what makes the book stand out from various other tomes which either take the tone of a "Mother India" or an " India : Emerging power".

T.N.Ninan is a veteran journalist who started his career in India Today. He specialised in matters of economy and this experience led him to take up the editorship of Business Standard, a champion of free markets, in 1993. In 2010, he took over as the chairman of the paper. His Saturday column in the paper has a dedicated following among policymakers and general readers alike. For such a career involving prolific writing and keeping weekend deadlines, it is a surprise that it has taken so long for him to write his first book. Or it may be precisely because he was caught in the unrelenting storm of journalism that it took him so long.

This book comes at a significant juncture in the post-independence trajectory of India when we have the first single majority government at the helm since 1984 and our country is trying to reclaim the high growth path which it had once traced in mid-2000s. The book does not focus on a single domain as such but covers multiple aspects which need to be addressed and discussed for India to march ahead. An interesting observation is that we have had our country compared to many animals - be it a tiger or an elephant or even a dragon. But Tinan takes the curious analogy of a slumbering tortoise but it's not all pessimistic as he clearly says that it is the tortoise's turn now.

The book is divided into five sections. In the first section of the book, the author lays a platform of numbers for the ideas to follow in the rest of the chapters. He argues how the 1991 reforms were not deep enough as they touched only the product markets and left the factor markets unreformed. Ninan reminds that our failures have been mainly related to government because it tried to bite more than it can chew -right from running watch factories to making failing airlines stay afloat.

In another sharply written chapter, Ninan reels out numbers like how China's income grew at a rate of over 10 percent in the decades straddling the year 2000,how it's foreign exchange reserves are twice India's GDP and how China has trumped illiteracy and poverty effectively to show that clubbing India and China together is a exercise in imbecility. Even as our priority sectors for manufacturing are basic ones like electronics and garments, China has moved on to loftier aims in high-end numerically controlled machine tools and ocean engineering equipment etc.

In the second section, the author covers manufacturing and private sector. In recent times, there is a huge focus on manufacturing through the "Make in India" campaign. The author stresses that India's cost advantage in sectors like garments in times of China's slowdown is not enough as there are other cheaper options available (Bangladesh, for instance). Thus , we need a wholesale reorientation of our hitherto rigid labour laws, focus on increasing the productivity of workers and undertake urgent large scale investments in infrastructure and above all, ease the process of doing business.

There is a separate section on the Indian state's curious mixture of overreach and under-performance. Ninan feels that government's noble intentions get scuttled by being blind to market realities. The anti-market mindset which we have inherited wrongly from Nehruvian days has made governments interfere with functioning of the marketplace through price controls, import controls and suboptimal public sector enterprises. Corruption is taken up in an inter-country comparison with USA's "Gilded age" when prosperity and corruption were bedfellows. The solution to corruption ,the author concludes, lies in stronger institutions, technology and more transparency in political/electoral funding. When it comes to poverty,  a decent case is made for direct cash transfers as it is less taxing on the governmental capacity to deliver. But the author wants more focus on delivery of merit goods like education and health without which mere cash transfers will amount to zilch.

In the section on Indian society, the author classifies Indian citizenry into four broad types based on expenditure per month per family. These are : Middle- class rich, aspiring neo-middle class, vulnerable no-poor and poor. He underlines how more and more vulnerable non-poor are climbing into the upper echelons in recent years. He believes the median family income will grow from Rs.22500 to Rs.40000 in ten years.

There is a separate section on how India deals with strategic issues like defence and foreign policy. Again,Ninan comes back to economics saying rapid economic growth remains the best foreign policy. In the climate change talks, Ninan faults India for clubbing itself with China i 2009 when China's per capita emission is much higher compared to India's. He also calls for emission caps to be based on emission intensity - emissions measured with respect to a unit of GDP.

In the concluding chapter, Ninan outlines three major trends that will be evident in times to come : huge spurt in growth of middle class, retreat of state from economy and devolution of powers from Delhi to state capitals.Some minor quibbles need to be mentioned as well. The focus on agriculture, education and health is kept to a bare minimum. Also, such a long book on economy could have spent more print ink on the interplay of politics and economy and how economically sound market policies which end up benefiting the downtrodden are not electorally viable. India is at a tantalising crossroad and the steps it takes now will have historical repercussions. Some of those steps can be learned from T.N.Ninan's book so that the tortoise ensures that it's turn counts.

The Turn of the Tortoise: The Challenge and Promise of India’s Future

By TN Ninan

Making my choice

                                                                                        

 Many of our choices are conscious. 

They are the simple choices such as; "I prefer a pizza to a burger, so I am buying the pizza."
Many of our choices are unconscious. They represent those areas of our lives where we feel disappointed, empty, frustrated, and unfulfilled. Our heads may tell us one thing, such as: "I have to stay in this job to pay my bills" when in reality, we dread facing our workday each morning.
Other areas of unconscious choices lie in the area of unfulfilled relationships. The kind of people we share our time with. The type of romantic relationships we have.

There is only one way to tell if it is your conscious mind, or unconscious beliefs, that created these choices for you:
Ask yourself how deeply fulfilled you feel with those people.

Do you feel supported, nurtured, respected, valued, honored, cared for and loved? Or do you feel drained, taken for granted, hurt, depleted, disrespected and used?

Your greatest truth lies in your heart. You KNOW the answer. That answer creates the dawn of your opportunity to replace an unfulfilled life with a fulfilled one. It creates a tremendous growth opportunity. The growth opportunity of your life!

Who you are, who surrounds you, what you have, what you would prefer to have, and most importantly what you deserve, are all chosen by YOU.

It takes tremendous courage to face your deepest truth. For most people, myself included, it takes a paradigm shift.

Your paradigm is your general view of something.

If you think certain people who comprise a certain portion of the population are not good, your paradigm will shift when you meet someone of that exact group of people who shows you that they are not ALL that way.

THAT is a paradigm shift.

What about how YOU are? What is your general view of you?

For me, it took untold heartache, countless hours of therapy, and deep self questioning before I found the inner courage to align my conscious thoughts (I deserve the best) with my unconscious belief that I was not worth much at all.

Guess which belief was running the show? It was the unconscious one. The belief that I was not worth that much brought me the circumstances that showed me what I was tolerating, relative to what I could have.

Once your unconscious beliefs are brought to light, or come up to the surface, they dissipate. When that happens, a deep and positive inner shift takes place. You have grown.

No longer will you live any area of your life where you feel you are treated like dirt. You will only work in the type of job you absolutely love. You will only be in a relationship where you are treated beautifully. You will also feel worthy enough to extend yourself to others with an open heart, without having a fear that you will be hurt.

You will feel strong, confident and much more of the REAL you. The real you is relative to those parts of your life that do not feel like they truly belong.

What kind of company do you keep? Do you hang out with criminals or people who help uplift humanity? Which do you really prefer deep within?

Do you have a spouse or lover who adores you, or one who treats you like garbage? Which do you prefer?

This is the relativity of your life. All of our choices, both conscious and unconscious, lie in our self worth.

Look at your life and you will find the indicator of your self worth. It is a deep, transformative process to uproot the unconscious beliefs that have created pain in our lives.

As your beliefs about yourself change, so too will your life change. It is all relative to what lies within.

You will know when you have grown. Your outer life will mirror your inner life in a healthier, more positive and life enhancing way.

It may be scary, however, choosing the best will show you the real truth: that you ARE the best. Relative to the old you, the changes in your life will be profound. It will feel like a whole new life. The life you DESERVE to live.

Children of Tomorrow

“Child is the father of man” Wordsworth rightly said….but is this implemented?Every year on 14 November when there is birth anniversary of our first prime minister Pt. Nehru ,children day is celebrated across the country.I during my childhood was very fond of this day because there was a big celebration a function in which I always participated. I realize that why only children day the day of children ,why not all the days for children?Is children day only for namesake because the somewhere we are lacking still towards our children’s education ,their growth….the statistics are quite worst…

I changed my school after high school this was the school was in in the east corner of Delhi and the area totally acquired by the refugees of Bangladesh and here even today the situations are very worst.What may be reason,only political dreams are shown to the people living there,these people have an Aadhar card and they are now Indian Citizens.There is lot to talk about them but that is later

So as a student of class xi full of enthusiasm .I also used bunk my school usually ,it was  a evening school..once we,I was having a company of 3 more person were roaming there near the silampur we were sitting in a park and we were staring at a person who must be around 70 plus,his name was “tahir aamir” children over there used to call him tahir chacha..same as what nehru is famous as chacha nehru he was also very famous there,he was teaching the ragpickers the black board was only for namesake black,it was very much faded may be indicating the poverty of that area.The strength of children was around 15 and after we all four started criticizing the government ,the system…

system” this is the first thing that we criticize the most.we have a habit of criticizing the most despite of knowing at we all are comprised of system

we started visiting there on daily basis but some how  for four days that routine was brocken, we were to complete our work which we left.

But when we went there after four days we found that there was no..”tahir chacha” there were no any children.

We investigated and found that he died 3 days ago..we were deeply hurt as somewhere were emotionally bonded with "tahir chacha" after 2-3 days we  decided to teach those children,we talked to them and they also agreed

On the same board I was teaching and there was a tornado of feelings going inside me and I was thinking that what is the difference between them and me?

Is the difference is only that I took birth in a family which is some more economically good than those..

Why this all inequality?They are not having food to eat ,they don’t have clothes to wear,they are picking up rags.There are lot of crimes against children,if i come on describing whole space blog will finish,it is pathetic. 

Is this India of 21^st century?

After few days I was rolling somewhere in Delhi..there was a program which was going on.it was organized by a team of “Bachapan Bachao Andolan” a NGO run by Mr. Kailash Satyarthi the nobel laureate who got Nobel Peace Prize in 2014,

That time(2010)  he was not so famous in India though he was very much famed in other countries,and in India People do more recognize the filmstars and cricketers more than their family members..  

He was working for children from more than last 3 decades..yes ‘THE SEEKER OF TRUTH” what his name symbolizes . A person full of determination,a person who gave his life for children ,saved their life.

I wanted to meet him.But that day I not got a chance to meet him but I returned back and talked to my friend about what was going inside me and decided to do something…I went to Principle and talked about him about the situation of the children of daily wage workers I talked him about the education of those children,he promised me to support,I requested him to take admission of few children in the school..and he did so,we gave this step a name as “LIGHT MY LIFE” (LML) and it turned into a NGO. I and my friends made 20 children to have admission in the school.

We went to meet Kailash Satyarthi who was in delhi in headoffice of “Bachapan Bachao Andolan” and finally we met them.

A place in kalkaji,Delhi, a place which is heaven in itself, I cant describe here you can only feel it only by visiting there.

“Kailash” as what his name symbolizes ,so decent and down to earth nature....talked to us for around 30 minutes and this meet I cannot forget for life.

His efforts were recognized by Nobel Prize for Peace

We need to change this one “Kailash” cannot bring change..we all have to work together and bring a change

A small step can bring a big change.Even each one of us take pledge to make possible the dream of schooling of any child.I think no will left illiterate.

And yes if this illiteracy once eliminated,every one will be educated,there will no unemployment ,no poverty.

This country will become a superpower.

"Mitti ke bane unn khilono ki mahak 

le na chahta hun

Khilkhilati dhoop me udna chahta hun

wo barsaat ke mousam ki tap-tap padti boonde

Maa ke hathon ki roti

Or School ka maidan

Jeena chahat hun 

Udna chahta hun"

Poem Dedicated to Every Child 

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CASTE vs CASTICISM

Caste system is a phenomenon related to Hinduism in particular. Its origin, evolution and existence are peculiar to India. Caste system is a system much like western concept of racism where people are discriminated against due to their skin colour; similarly, in caste system, discrimination is done on the basis of birth i.e. a person’s social status is defined on the basis of his/her caste in which he/she took birth and that is the sole criterion of establishing his/her social status. In other words, on the basis of caste, it is fixed at the time of a person’s birth that whether she/he would have higher or lower status in social hierarchy.

It’s a big shame that even in a 21st century and in this age and time when human society has so progressed scientifically that people are planning to buy lands on planet Mars, Indian society believes in a system as archaic as the caste system.
There have been various social movements and notable social reformers who have all through their lives worked to abolish this discriminatory system solely based on birth. However, not much has happened on the ground. Indian Constitution also provides several provisions to secure rights of socially backward persons and there are laws too in this regard but there is lot to be done still.
In this article, we would try to understand and explore caste system in its different dimensions such as its meaning; meaning of caste; origin of Varna system; it’s bad effects; constitutional safeguards and present scenario.
Caste which is also known as Varna or Jati can be understood as an identification on the basis of birth. It’s like a designation given to you without your asking for it. It is a hereditary system; thus, a child gets the caste of his father on its birth. According to Hindu shastras, there are mainly four hereditary castes or Varnas into which the Hindu society is divided viz. Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaisya and Sudra.
Caste or Varna System is a purely Indian phenomenon and especially it is practiced among Hindus, though with time, as far as India is considered, other religions such as Islam, Sikhism, Christianity etc. also adopted some trappings of it.
As already been explained it is much like the western concept of racism, it can also be compared with the Class System of European continent. Class system is also a discriminatory system. Class system is based on many different factors such as wealth, power, prestige, ancestry or birth, religion, and occupation. Generally, class is not hereditary while caste is. But similar to the caste system, class system also differentiates or stratifies different social groups on the basis of their standing in the society.
Caste system is a unique type of class system in which the social ordering is done on the basis of birth. This type of system exists in Indian subcontinent only. Unlike class system, cast system does not allow any person to move from one caste to another. There is strict restriction on inter-dining and inter-marriage among people belonging to different castes. One of the main characteristics of caste system is Endogamy i.e. marrying into their own caste. It is very formal, rigid and well defined system.
That is why Varnas or castes are known as closed classes. It is a closed system of stratification in which almost all children end up in the same section of society as their fathers.
There is no certain date when the caste system came into existence in India. But according to the Manusmriti, the caste system in India was, in the beginning, a system of prescribing codes of conduct for people to suit the requirements of their occupation. Thus, it was based on their occupation. But gradually the occupation of people became hereditary and the caste system also changed from occupation to birth and heredity. Now caste of a person got fixed at the time of his/her birth and so was his/her social status.
As far as theory of origin of caste system is concerned, the religious theory explains that according the Rig Veda, which is one of the most sacred religious texts of Hindus, different Varnas were created from different parts of the primal Purusha’s (the First Person) body; the Brahmans were created from his head, the Kshatrias from his hands, the Vaishias from his thighs and the Sudras from his feet. Some theories also believe that the primal Purusha was nothing but the God Brahma himself. So according to them, different Varnas originated from lord Brahma
Castes were first classified according to their occupation. But due to access to wealth, power, and privilege, two of the upper castes viz Brahmins and Kshatriyas started to use religious sanctions to monopolize their position. History tells us the same that the dominant position in society was monopolized by two main upper castes.
More or less, the situation is still the same. These two upper castes are considered as superior to the lower castes. And the sanction or validity to this superiority was provided by various religious writings so that no one should question this position. Such people in position of power like to perpetuate their strategic position by means of force or ritualistic customs.
As far as social stratification is concerned, the Brahmins, generally priests and scholars, are at the top. Next strata consist of the Kshatriyas, the ruling class and soldiers. Usually, the Kshatriyas collaborated with the Brahmins as they governed over their empire. A Kshatriya is branded by physical and martial strength.
Next in the hierarchy are the Vaishyas, or merchant class. It was the duty of the Vaishyas to ensure the community’s prosperity through agriculture, cattle rearing, trade and business. The Vaishyas were considered to be weak in comparison. And they were exploited for by their rulers. The luxurious lifestyle of the ruling class and wars etc were maintained on the cost of Vaishyas.
Then there were Shudras, the lowest in four Varnas. They are labourers, peasants, artisans, and servants. Shudras were believed to not have any special abilities and were considered only capable of serving as slaves to the upper three classes. They were having no rights or privileges, and were not permitted to perform any sacrifices or homa, read or learn the Vedas or recite the mantras. They were also not allowed even to enter into the temples and to participate in any religious rituals.
These discriminatory practices against so-called Sudras are still prevalent in our society in large measure.
Apart from these four Varnas, another section was there which was considered lowest of them all. They were ‘untouchables’, the outcastes; because they were not considered part of any of the said four Varnas. These ‘untouchables’ were there to perform such occupations that were considered unclean and polluting, such as scavenging and skinning dead animals. These were the most discriminated and exploited ones; all the four Varnas maintained distance from them. And it was considered as sin even if a shadow of an outcaste lied on anonymous
Social stratification on the basis of caste is the main reason behind various types of exploitation against so-called lower castes, especially those described as Sudras and Untouchables.
From the beginning of this system, sudras and untouchables were treated as slaves by so-called upper castes. They were allowed only to do menial works and all the lowly works but they were given no powers or privileges. All the privileges were for Brahmanas and Kshatriyas. All the leadership position in religion, polity, economy or society was assumed and taken hold off by two of the so-called upper castes; their political or social influence was always minimal.
However there were various social reformers such as Raja Ram Mohan Roy who devoted their lives for the upliftment of these downtrodden people, various reform movements were there to abolish the caste system. But it was so ingrained in our social fabric that it was next to impossible to change the situation on ground.
Thus, when India got independence and the Constitution was being framed, our founding fathers were of the opinion that such provisions should be added in the text which would lessen the ills of caste system and bring about equality in social field. Social justice was one of the main objectives of our Constitution.
First of all the Preamble to the Constitution envisions India as a nation where socio-economic and political justice is there; where there will be equality of status and opportunity and where dignity of the individual is secured.
The Constitution guarantees equality before law (Art. 14), and enjoins upon the State not to discriminate against any citizen on grounds of caste (Art. 15 (1)).
Untouchablity is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden (Art. 17). The Constitution mandates that no citizen shall, on grounds only of caste or race, be subjected to any disability and restriction (Art. 15 (2)).
It empowers the State to make provisions for reservation in educational institutions (Art. 15 (4) and (5)), and in appointments for posts in favour of SCs (Art. 16 (4), 16(4A), 16(4B) and Art. 335). Reservation of seats for SCs in the Lok Sabha is provided under Article 330, in the State Assemblies under Article 332 and in the Local Self-Governments bodies under Articles 243D and 340T.
Further, the Constitution guarantees protection from social injustice and all forms of exploitation (Art.46)
Caste system in India is so rigidly deep-rooted in its socio-cultural and religious life that it now almost has God-given approval behind it. And anything against or in opposition of this system is considered to be a sin or disrespectful to God.
But in reality it is no God-send virtue to be followed by the people. It has had several exploitative and discriminatory effects on our social order throughout the ages. As a by-product, caste system has given several other social ills to the society such as Untouchability.
The system is still continuing in India as a well-established and sacred customary rule and is followed by almost everyone regardless of their economic or social status. Though the younger generation is discarding such social norms but still the system is well-entrenched in our socio-religious beliefs. India cannot become a truly modern country in the 21st century, if it fails to abolish this discriminatory practice based on caste.
The biggest problem in abolishing and removing this menace from the society is the in general social acceptability of the same. Until and unless this changes no hope is there. Because law can provide protection from exploitation but it cannot bring attitudinal change in so-called upper castes. The young and modern generation is perhaps the only hope in bringing about the real meaning of social justice in our country.

MARTIAL RAPE IN INDIA

 

 Rape is the most heinous crime committed against women. It not only destroys a 

victim physically  but also psychologically. It affects body as well as soul; the act of 

using and abusing a women’s body for sexual pleasure without her express or implied 

consent is violative of not only individual’s dignity but also of the society as a whole.

  Its revolting to one’s thought that your body is being used 

forcefully for someone’s sexual pleasure.We have stringent laws in place to protect 

women from the crime of rape and serious punishment has been provided therein for the offender. 

But the rate of commission of such crime is still very high and in fact it’s on the rise in our society.

Apart from rape in general, marital rape or forceful sexual intercourse by a man with 

his own wife is a bitter reality of 

our society. Though the general consciousness of the society might consider marital 

rape as a morally and ethically wrongful act but it does not regard it as a serious crime; 

and in fact, directly or indirectly gives it a social sanction in the name matrimonial necessity. 

The worst part is that the law 

of the land also, till now, has failed to recognize marital rape as an offence and in a 

sense gives it a legal sanction also.

If Rape is the genus, the Marital rape is one of its species. It can be defined as 

unwanted sexual 

intercourse by a man with his own wife without her express or implied consent, 

either forcefully or by 

the use of threat or coercion of physical harm

The essential feature of marital rape is the relationship of husband and wife between the

 man and woman; 

this makes the issue more socially relevant. Like in rape, in marital rape also there is no 

consent of the women and there is use of force by the man for sexual intercourse.

Though society as a whole considers rape as very serious crime and law also gives great 

importance in punishing the rapists, but, rape laws do not give any protection to married 

women in case their husbands forcefully have sexual intercourse on them. Society as a 

whole also does not consider marital rape as an issue of any significance and gives full 

immunity to husbands.

Married women who are subjected to this kind of sexual violence by their own husbands 

have no place to go; they cannot complain this to their family due to societal pressure and also 

they cannot go to police because law does not recognize marital rape as crime. Thus, victims of 

marital rape are condemned to bear the pain silently and have no remedy in sight.

The reasons of marital rape can be many such as sexual perversion of husband; desire to assert

  superiority of men over women; petty domestic issues; attempt of women to demand her right in

  marital relationship etc.

Thus, in essence, the main reason of this marital menace is wide spread gender

 inequality prevailing in our society. It is another aspect of our patriarchal and 

male-dominated system of social norms where women either married or un-married 

do not have equal rights in any which way. It is another weapon in the hands of man 

to exploit and subjugate women.

Also, one of the reasons is the role traditionally assigned to married women in 

our society. The role as defined by society to married women is of pati-vratastri

means pure, faithful and obliging women. Thus, a married woman is supposed to 

follow her husband’s directions fully and fulfill all his demands without any questioning. 

So the notion of ‘good wife’ is not good for women but for men only. 

Sexual relationship has been considered as an important part of married woman’s 

duty towards her husband and she is not supposed to deny that to him. 

Her role must be of submission and surrender.

Economic dependence over her husband and in-laws is also one of the reasons that

 married women are unable to protect themselves from frequent practice of marital rape 

and are bound to bear the violence.

Another reason is the absence of legal provisions recognizing marital rape as an offence; 

which encourages the man to continue with his behavior and leaves the wife with no remedy.

The biggest disappointment in dealing with the ill of marital rape is that it is not an 

offence in the eyes of law in India. Neither the Indian Penal Code, 1860 nor any other 

specialized legislation such as the Domestic Violence Act, 2005 specifically recognizes 

marital rape as a crime.

Though marital rape is one of the most humiliating and degrading experience for a woman 

but our legislatures did not yet find it appropriate to amend existing penal 

Acts or to enact a new specialized legislation to protect married women from this continuing violence.

Section 375 of IPC defines rape. It lists acts which shall be considered as the offence of rape; 

it also provides conditions fulfillment of which will bring acts as defined in the purview of rape.

But the definition does not recognize forceful intercourse by a husband with his wife as rape. 

In other words, Section 375 excludes marital rape from its purview.

One of the provisions (sixthly of section 375) provides that sexual intercourse by 

a man with a girl under 18 years of age is rape, either with or without her consent. 

But, in the same section, it is provided that (as per Exception attached to Section 375), 

sexual intercourse by the husband with his own wife and wife not being under 15 years of age is 

not considered as rape. Thus, if a girl is married and her husband commits forceful sexual act 

upon her it is not rape even if she is below 18 years of age but not below 15.

The irony or double standard in law is obvious here, for a married woman above the age of 

15 there is no remedy against her husband’s sexual perversion. This provision imparts a great 

injustice to married women because it helps the perverted husbands to perpetuate their wrongful act.

 And it provides no remedy to the wife if she is above 15 years of age.

Furthermore, even recognition of sexual relationship as rape in case of wife being below 15 is 

not because law considers it as marital rape but the consideration is only that of age of the wife.

Thus, the IPC does not give recognition to marital rape at all. Even the much talked about recent 

criminal law amendment i.e. the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013 did not make any provision 

regarding marital rape.

Further, Section 376B provides that sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife without her 

consent during judicial separation is an offense punishable with imprisonment up to 2 years and 

fine also. But here also the provision does not recognize the said offence as rape. And in this case 

the married couple is living separately under a decree of judicial separation. 

Thus, here too marital rape did not find any mention.

Perhaps only if we take a broader view, marital rape may be considered as a form of ‘cruelty’ as 

defined under section 498A, because cruelty includes any type of harm both mental as well as 

physical. But strictly speaking it is going too far with the provision and also 

it will only be taken as cruelty not marital rape.