India : Modernity Vs Tradition
Par Ramy • 8 Octobre 2018 • 759 Mots (4 Pages) • 536 Vues
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Another worrying aspect challenging the modern aspect of India is that this country is an increasingly male-dominated society because some traditions remain like the dowry (certain amount of money the bride's family had to give to the groom's). So poor destitute families abandon their baby-girl, hence the number of missing girls in India. Those who can afford the ultra-sound scan resort to sex-selective abortion. My personal document, which is the script of the first episode of a tv series called "Good Karma Hospital", emphasizes that phenomenon (third paragraph) when a father says, after the birth his baby girl : "You told me my wife was carrying a son [...] You knew if the baby had been a girl we'd have..."
He explains then that he already has 3 daughters that need to be married, and that he can't afford a fourth one.
This document also shows the lack of financial means of public hospitals in India: in the last paragraph, 2 patients need surgery urgently but the hospital only have one operating theatre. The doctors have to ask themselves questions like "Which one? Who goes first?". Furthermore, the second paragraph shows that since there are only a few doctors, they have to be polyvalent "I'm not really a surgeon", "Whatever it is, we deal with it. Surgery, Medical, Dental."
To conclude,
India is changing and becoming a more modern country. As Giridharadas says "trickle down is slow", meaning that the changes are taking time to impact the countryside. If in France, we can notice the difference between cities and villages (said to be more old-fashioned), we can imagine what it is like in India, since it is 6 times bigger than France.
We can say that India is on the right track but life isn't "great" there yet, especially in villages. Still, the India poverty ratio fell from 38.2% to 29.5% between 2009-2010 and 2011-2012, lifting 91 millions of people out of poverty.
So maybe we can definitely imagine that eventually, in a few years, or decades, India will be a modern country, both culturally and economically.
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