Monday, February 27, 2006

Which society we are living in?

Today I was startled by a picture published in Deccan chronicle..It was not a pretty picture of display of affection of a baby and pet dog which it could have otherwise been.

One-year-old Shivani , daughter of Diku Mai Munda, 30, was married to a stray dog at Mundadhowra village in Jharkhand on Friday. this strange inhumane ritual was performed on February 22 to ward off evil, as part of tribal beliefs. Shivani’s teeth first appeared on the upper jaw which, according to the tribal tradition, is extremely inauspicious (Source: Deccan Chronicle)
Which society we are living in, I am writing all this a day before the "National science day" and being a part of scientific community , feel ashamed at the sorry state of affairs. What could be the reasons for the continuation if not prevalence of the medieval practice of superstitions?Just on Friday as a regular idiot box fan, we were watching a TV serial on Star one" Mano Ya na mano" which showed a Lord Hanuman devotee , prating for kids who are incarnations of Hanuman, and his prayers frutifying as three of his kids out of seven showed clear resemblances to apes. These kids can not talk , have low IQ, and are dependent on their step mothers for performing even day to day activities. And to top it all, they are worshipped at places, are invited for religious processions.Anchor was questioning what are they? Aadimanav, Lord Hanuman incarnation , or a link between man and devils.This is the stupidity what we are served on these channels . Is it not promoting the vey superstitions they talk about warding off? These were clear cases of
atavism , a phenomena in which ancestral characters reappear in the offspring . It may be some vestigeal organ like pointed canines, more hair, tail.and this practice is not new, remember Tulsidas, who wrote "Rama charit Manas" was abandoned by his parents bcoz he was born with teeth.
How long the people will be tortured in the name of superstions? Lets join hands in spreading a word against thes superstitions and to impart scientific knowledge.

Posted by Neelima Arora :: 12:21 AM :: 10 Comments:

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