DESTRUCTION OF CULTURE- ARE WE ON THE RIGHT PATH

I was at a predominantly children and ladies garment shop at Pondy Bazar – I don’t want to name the shop though. I was sitting with my grandson who was sleeping, on my lap waiting for my family to finish their shopping. I was just glancing through the various T shirts and other tops of ladies wear when one of them conspicuously displayed caught my eyes That was a red colour T shirt on which certain words were written in white – they were actually green [பச்சை ] in language if you ask me – which I detest to write here. They say these are brand names like FC and UK – that’s all fine but why they are clubbed with unwanted wordings on a ladies wear is the question we should mull over.
To my left side an elderly – more elderly to me – was sitting holding his grandson too, and he also, like me saw that despicable sentence embossed on the T shirt and was commenting where the girls are going in the name of westernised fashion. Scores and scores of girls were looking at it - the colour of the garment was extremely beautiful unlike the words on it – but none had the guts to buy much less to wear.
The point we were discussing is the deranged culture. He was dating his memory back to few years when the ladies at home would not even think of speaking to male members even within their family and that was cursed as ‘male chauvinism’ and slowly we limped to modern thinking and allowed our girl members to pursue higher studies with the only aim of making them self sufficient or create a sense of freedom and independence – well we have achieved this to a greater extent today.
The way things are going are a growing concern to all of us where the most respectable Indian culture is tarnished –BPO was a major contributor to this tarnish. The point I am making is borne out of my own experience when I was at Hyderabad. The girls working at Google were puffing cigarettes gleefully whereas the boys hesitate to.
Slowly we are giving into western culture and make us guilty of providing freedom and independence to girls – a point of discussion today. I am not advocating girls to be dependent or such thing, but there need to be checks and balances for we parents to adopt.
As a responsible citizen of India where culture is adored and as a responsible parents interested in the well being of our daughters do we give into these sort of deranged culture – A POINT TO DEBATE AT LENGTH PERHAPS!!!!!!!!