OH.... I'M PREGNANT!"

Most often these words come out of a totally shattered and devastated heroine, most often the dialogue which just precedes the intermission of an Indian movie, most often the words that determine the worthiness of a women in India. I fail to understand this as to why the heroine is devastated and baffled, it's a mere case of 'cause and effect', I fail to understand the drama associated with the very dialogue for afterall child birth is statistically the most common event in India and what an amusing measure of one's worthiness, if that be it, Indian women are all truly worthy. India has 343455345345... Indians as on date, which effectively means that the same dialogue must have been uttered atleast 1763453656.... times but the fact that it still manages to stir up an emotional wave in the society is possible only with our own society. What if a person walks out of the bedroom on the nuptial night and "announces" that he/she is done with "it" and a whole lot of people gather around to congratulate him/her as a personal achievement, rejoice it and what if the whole aura takes a festive look, it is something as ridiculous as that to celebrate the birth of a child in India. I can reason out if the parents of the child are happy about the arrival and probably their own kith and kin, but why does the whole locality, the whole community, Tom, Dick, Harry, Chimman Chacha and Pummy Aunty feel the same excitement gripping them? Strange, very strange! The hype, the drama and the importance tagged onto child birth in our society can never be explained in any sane terms.

No jokes, India is so full of people. Every empty area in and around a city seems occupied. There is an astonishing number of us here. but has any one ever questioned at what cost is our population increasing by leap and bounds? We do not live out of nothing, we are slowly eating away into the environment, into the forest, the water bodies, into the habitat of the animals, but nobody seem to realize or care. We are reproducing mindlessly, endlessly. The ˜We two, ours one" policy in itself is a luxury in India, but people hardly stop with one. The affluent go ahead with more than one because "they can afford it", the middle class believe in strong family bonding and the economically lower class have much tougher issues to handle in a day and are clueless of the big picture. The Effect !!!! Mind blowing!!!!India exploding!!

The primary cause to this in my view is the attitude deeply ingrained in our minds. To become a mother is generally looked upon as the purpose of a woman's life, and to make her one is an achievement in a man's life. Barren woman is a mockery in our society. My grandmother was a proud mother of nine children and each of them added nothing less than two in the treasury. Any statistics relating to the Indian population are so full of astronomical figures, but the medal tally at the Olympics puts us down in shame. None can deny the contribution of Indian intelligence across the globe in various fields, no doubt they do us proud, but a closer look at the ratio is pretty depressing. A whole lot of us barely contribute anything to India, a very few of us even think on such lines. We don't have to be great patriots, don't have to fight the Kargil war, don't have to stick on to dothi or saree, each one just needs to do their own work to their best, India will soon be worth of its population. The effluent masses are currently more active in the nights than at daytime, because what bothers us most now is to find a heir for the family. We need to get more active at the daytime and shift the Indian image from being highly "reproductive" to being highly "productive”. If we cant do that atleast we can always ask people to apply for BPO sector or Social organization like these where night activity take a different turn all together making India proud in literal sense. Women must look forward to more than announcing "oh I’m pregnant!" in their lives and the men do better look out for other venues of achievement. Couples who don't have a kid must go ahead and adopt a kid, instead of considering themselves a failure or instead of complaining about fate, luck, God and whatever. In any species to have an offspring is natural, let’s not make it supernatural!!

The article is longish, but I blame it on the Indian population!!!!!