After decades of fighting in the name of Hinduism and Islam, India has found a religion, which will be accepted by majority without any resistance, just before 69th Independence Day: Hypocrisy. Let me help you understand our new religion.
Hypocrisy / n /
the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.
That’s how dictionary describes hypocrisy, and if you still don’t get the meaning of the word, let me give you some examples.
Hypocrisy is questioning government’s strength in fighting terrorism, while crying foul over hanging of a terrorist.
Hypocrisy is creating furore over harassment by police, while sidelining the news of police officers sacrificing their lives fighting criminals.
Hypocrisy is fighting against Gadhimai (cow slaughtering festival) to save thousands of animals, while criticizing government for beef ban.
So, basically hypocrisy is in everything we are fighting against government and government officials these days. It is in hue and cry against porn ban, while we still demean film industry for objectifying women in movies. Women are just used for body show in movies, we say; and what exactly are they treated like in porn? We claim porn doesn't encourage or cause rapes, then how can we state that porn ban can cause rapes?
We demand gender equality by providing reservation based on gender. How can we claim equality by giving a particular gender an added benefit? Even if one can justify that, we look down upon caste-based reservation. That's hypocrisy.
We blame society of stereotyping women as homemakers, and don't bat an eye for stereotyping men as money earners. We look down upon men earning less than his wife, while sneer at men being paid more. That's hypocrisy.
We condemn child labor and discuss falling literacy rate while the chotu of the tea stall hands us hot glasses. We blame the government for not taking any action handing him a tip.
We celebrate Feminism with male-bashing. We have no objection over people peeing in public, but with the government not letting us make love in public. On one hand we are shit scared of even confessing about our relationship with the parents, and we want right to kiss in public.
We rightfully criticize and often make objectionable comments in PM and highest office of India, and get away with that; however we also cry about losing our right to expression over porn ban. That's hypocrisy.
We offer bribe, and then complain government of encouraging corruption. We enjoy politicians using un-parliamentary language against each other, and then we complain about their cheap and illiterate behavior. That's hypocrisy.
We trash traditions calling them blind beliefs, while we look up at the skies when we're badly screwed up.
We blame everything on society and the government conveniently forgetting that we are society and we formed the government. That's hypocrisy.
We turn patriotic only on three occasions - independence day, Republic Day and that day when some Indian(no matter how remotely connected to India) makes the nation proud with his own hard work and vigor, which we shamelessly take credit of. That's hypocrisy,and no matter how much we deny and overlook the fact - is true that we are hypocrites.
Happy Independence Day!
