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The glitterati are too busy making money as are the corrupt politicians. The MEDIA is soulless, purposeless, principleless People are content with their pay packets & mega serials. Too much indifference in society to sensitive issues. Utter selfishness stands in the way of true progress of the country & the eradication of social evils.
More than globalisation its the degradation of our own society tat is to be blamed! The kind of things ppl. r ready to do for money! :evil:Quote:
I too read this news with a heavy heart. The price India is paying for globalisation is skyrocketing!
Also I fear this is, to put it in Churchill's words: "not the beginning of the end but merely the end of the beginning"! :(
Very solid point! And I thot Kerala was such a pristine place for tourism, considering all those ads they show....! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by ssanjinika
The craze for the pleasures of the flesh & the power of MONEY are reaching a peak all over the world. The result of consumerism-promotion tendency.
Story of GREET and LUST
They were called the 'holiday brides', but they never had anywhere to go. Now, even their children have nowhere to go as entire generations grow fatherless.
At 32, Balwinder Kaur of Sherpur Pucca village is a bitter woman. Not many men have been welcomed to her house after she got into a 'holiday marriage' with US NRI. Mahender Badwal. The moment she was pregnant and asked him when he would take her to America, the land of her dreams, he abandoned her. "These days, I just live for my son," says Balwinder, the years of futile struggle showing on her face like creases. Balwinder is one of the thousands of hapless victims who were used by NRIs to have a good time while on a holiday in India.
The promises were fake, so were the addresses. Often, the person was a fake. News had reached foreign shores that farmers in Punjab were desperate to get their daughters married to NRI grooms and get a green card in the land they saw as paradise. From there on, it was easy to trap families and use the gullible women as little more than escorts. Narrating her harrowing experience, Balwinder explains how her parents found her an NRI husband and spent all their hard-earned money on the marriage and dowry. "Mahender spent a month with me in 1990 and went back. He did return in 1992, got me pregnant and left. He came to India in 1999 and got married to someone else," she says. There are countless others like her. In nearby Dhade village, Fateh Singh says he doesn't want his daughter's name to be published. "My daughter was discarded by an NRI groom from England. Dowry and more dowry was what they wanted. I just wanted my daughter to be happy," he cries.
Parents, though, are not without fault. "Parents have at times used NRI grooms for reasons of social mobility. Of course, they have paid a price too heavy for their mistake," says Balwant Singh Ramoowalia, former MP and chief of the Lok Bhalai Party.
He is one of the few politicians championing the cause of such victims, many of them from Doaba region. "I'm appalled at how 117 legislators and 13 MPs have been napping over a phenomenon that has ruined the lives of 15,000-20,000 Punjabi girls," Ramoowalia fumes.
Also very TRUE!! These foolish parents who unnec'ly get illusioned w/ a bed of roses abroad 'promised' to them by NRI guys & more or less r ready to sell their daughters to them r also to blame! :evil:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sandeep
Its ironically not only uneducated, poor parents like these but even educated parents in cities here who r reasonably well-off willingly walk into this bait! Many of them hav their own selfishness behind it; if they get their daughters to marry NRIs & settle abroad, they can go around telling 10 ppl. abt it to boost their status!
Altho I may sound too crude sayin this, incidents like this shud serve them rite for their greed & shud (hopefully) open their eyes!!
It will be good if such foolish, greedy mistakes are not repeated, if people learn lessons!
Lambretta,
Are you sure you are only 24? You seems go wise and mature in all your post :D
Please bring back the Amitab avatar :D . I think Querida misses it too.
:lol: Me wise & mature?? W/out experience in life as yet? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by goodsense
Hmm......maybe now I wudn't think it disturbing tat I've begun to get grey hair already!
Aah......one more request for AB & counting......! :DQuote:
Please bring back the Amitab avatar Very Happy . I think Querida misses it too.
Will need a few more to call it 'popular demand'.....! :wink:
I've read in another forum tat the local news revealed details of "friendship clubs" in andhra. I donno if other states hav them.....
Surprisingly, turns out tat even small towns in AP hav got many members in these clubs.
I don't know how exactly it works but its said for acquiring membership in these clubs, u need to pay a sum to the office at Delhi. But ther r girls who r said to be using this to enter into prostitution in these clubs! :evil:
It sounds like the Delhi office takes the money from members willing to join, for this reason!
In case ne of u comes across a similar club in ur city/state or neone who's joined sucha club, I'd advise u to be careful & verify the details of such places/persons fully b4 deciding to hav nething to do w. them!
yes lambretta...you seem to be mature for your age...