Whenever I sit and think things may not be that bad in India,why I always get proved wrong.
We like to live on the false presumption of being the next super power. We blabber about how well are we advancing and go on citing our so called heritage and culture to be proud of.We do like to blabber and boast a lot...but the reality is exactly opposite...
Our society is no less than a Talibanized society...where caste has penetrated so deeply into our lives that we just can't get it out of us. Caste is a matter of honour for most of us here.Infront of it there can't exist the emotion of love,brotherhood...we all stand divided on the basis of it..
The recent increase in the number of honour killings makes me ponder about the kind of society we are living in. Couples are killed by their own families for committing the so called blunder of falling in love with someone outside their caste..
The barbaric way of killing your kin..no remorse even after killing your loved ones makes me shudder at the thought of how honour and caste supersedes everything else and turns us into savages. Added to that the meekness and lack of iron will from our elected leaders to fight against these social evils just makes the matter worse...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10334529.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10316249.stm

One just wonders when will we become humans who learn to respect and value life...