Marriage symbolizes the legal union of two people and does not require a purohit (priest) to sanctify it. The only reason that such marriages are common in India and all over the world is because of our faith and belief that this method symbolizes the blessings of our forefathers, the Devas and all the deities who preside over the function.
The current request by the DMK chief to the speaker of the parliament to let Hindus wed with no rituals will work best for people who do not believe in the above system. Definitely not a bad idea but I feel the necessity to question the move, especially because it has been raised by Dr. M. Karunanidhi, who is known more for his subverting of tradition than for his promoting healthy opposition.
It would be more pertinent at this stage and age to ensure that crimes against women are controlled and various laws pertaining to dowry, child-marriages, abuse, are ensured. It would be a waste to create a new law for marriages without rituals, when we have been proven time and again that laws are meant to be broken and are done so more by the people who are entrusted to guard the same – Prime examples are our politicians (law-makers) and our police (law-enforcement) personnel.
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your questioning the move is very valid Ramya, and yes i agree that the priorities are misplaced.
This will only tilt the Ununiform civil code further.
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Chaos and confusion in Indian Laws.
India is a demographically and culturally diverse country. It also has the maximum variety of spoken languages. There are so many States and Union Territories and each has a completely different culture, tradition, language, demography etc. This implies that one Law/rules does not reasonably be applicable to the whole country. It would be applicable to one or more states but not all.
Indian Government would enact/amend a particular law on the basis of various statistical reports and the concerned committee would decide on the appropriate solution. Most of the laws are much older which perhaps would not be appropriate in the post-liberalisation and globalisation period. Having such discrepencies in Laws that does not have the same or similar effects in all the states requires considerable overhaul in the legal structure of the country. There have been countless incidents where laws have fallen short of achieving justice and equality in the country. The changing circumtsances after the liberalisation process are not been taken into consideration which is probably the main cause of such a legal disorder in the country.
Cases:-
Rajasthan being primarily a backward, under-developed state of the country vis-a-vis other states like Maharashtra; the culture, lifestyle and tradition needs to be kept in mind. Presently the most popular issue is the women's liberation and empowerment. It would be unreasonable to believe that the efforts to bring about women's liberation and empowerment in a state like Rajasthan would be same in other states like Maharashtra or Andhra Pradesh. Most of the North Indian states are yet to imbibe the concept of women's empowerment. North Indian states like Haryana, Rajasthan, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh etc are yet to comprehend the benefits of giving equal status to women. On the other hand, States like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat have been successfully reaping the benefits of equality.
However, in order to bring equality in the North Indian states, Indian Laws have been enacted in a way to severely prosecute the people who are responsible for hindering equality. People been uneducated in those states are the driving force for disrupting the country's social balance. Laws have been enacted/amended that would brutally punish people who are committing crime against women. However, such draconian laws have not proved to be beneficial in the states where women holds an equal status in the society. Indian Laws have failed to consider the possible loopholes in the laws that could be misused. A particular offence could be punishable in the court of law under a particular section of IPC but it does not ensure prohibition of misuse of those laws. In order to bring crime against women under control by enacting/amending laws that unconditionally believes men to be the culprit and women to be the victim, the other state's crime have increased where men are becoming the victim of misuse of these hard rules by women.
There are innumerable incidents of crime against women in poorer states where people lack modern education, and lifestyle are prone to commit offence against women. For example, dowry harassment which had become a major issue in the 80's and 90's have been still alive in those under-developed states. The laws are getting more stringent and enforceable only to curb the crime against women in those states which is causing the social instrastructure of other developed states to collapse. At one place women are being harassed for dowry and their husband is arrested and punished. At another place women are filing false complain against their husband for dowry and the husband and his entire family is arrested and punished. The simple reason is that the law has no provision that prohibits the misuse of it.
Innumerable women are being harassed by men in some under-developed states. Innumerable men are being harassed by women in some developed states. In both the cases, the laws remain the same. How the Indian Government seek to achieve a perfect well-balanced legal structure with such grave discrepencies ?
There is an urgent need to amend the laws that would prohibit the misuse as well as increasing the educational quality in those under-developed states which will assure better lifestyle and healthy living.
The current laws that is causing the collapse of family structure because more and more women are misusing it and people are forced to believe that the whole concept of women empowerment is infact of a revengeful nature. In no way it seeks to achieve a balanced society if such laws are in force. The idea of Equality in a country like India is not to make men defenseless with such laws but to put both the gender on equal footing in the society and economy. Such laws perhaps be appropriate in those under-developed states but it proves to be biased in a developed states. Therefore, Criminal Procedures needs to be amended State-wise. The Indian Penal Code too needs to be amended as per the current post-liberation and globalisation phase of the country.
When time changes, Laws too must change. However, India suffering from a political disorder, such reasonable changes in faulty laws appear to be nearly impossible. Perhaps the collapse of Indian society is inevitable unless someone CHOOSES to stop this destruction.
It is your choice.
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