Social Stigma

Few of the life changing experiences usually are book reading, interaction with people and speeches. I came across one such speech on TED.com about the perception of success and failure. It was really fascinating to listen to it though it was a subjective perspective. As In, it was driven by what the host has seen so far in experiences with people.

Few of the phrases were catchy, such as "we are highly open to suggestions", "we are interested in the emotional rewards rather than material goods itself", "using a piece of information about a person and trying to estimate the actualy value of".

Like I said, this is one perspective the host had, and not that everyone does that for the mentioned reasons. But It was a well given speech, the format, the connecting points and the conclusion. He spoke of equality in modern society and a week later I read an article in rediff.com that listed India as one of the worst nations in terms of gender equality. In rural areas females are still ill treated, not shown the respect and lacking self esteem.

I was watching some documentary, that led to writing of this post. Not that I was not aware of these things, as I used to watch some programs in TV9, that used to expose all sorts of news. Disagreement of choice and motives could be a human instinct that could lead to a verbal expression of unhappiness. Leaving aside the gender, there could be any form of expression between individuals. But the sad thing is, there are still areas where women get beaten up.

Development is all about raising the bar. The situation in western countries or developed nations is good because self governance had come into existance about 200 years ago. India is under self governance only since 60 years. It will take time to reach such stage only with the education of a girl child. Be it the population, be it any other social evil in the context of rural India.