India is changing from its core, but the changes are limited to cities and big towns.
It may be due to two reasons, firstly those who are from small villages or towns want to migrate into big cities in search of work, it is also the glitterati factor that attracts people from far and near to the bigger cities.
Glitz and glare of the city atmosphere allures thousands, The general thought that material goals can only be fulfilled in the cities allure all of us due to which we are always remain city-centric, secondly the Govt wants to give more importance to the cities because cities give more tax to the govt kitty and big businesses are based in cities, hence it gives opportunities to the babus and political heroes to make name, fame and massive money.
These two reasons explain why urban development is faster than rural progress.
As all political, social and economical attentions are centered on the big places where money can be made then why should anyone try to look at the rural progress? The irony is that those who are born and brought up in smaller places and do not get a chance to make life in a big city may feel cursed, but its also a truth that they also do not try to turn their smaller towns into bigger cities as they do not rely upon the power of their entrepreneurial qualities.
Not to forget that every big city was a smaller town in the past and a rural area in the distant past.
India has not changed much socially as I feel I belong to a nation where identities are based upon the same age-old social system of caste, region, religion.
Our society and social norms make us live a double-standard life and for this we are responsible.
India is place of democracy where all the people from all religions should have all their democratic freedom but surely we all are not blessed by such freedom as this freedom gets hijacked by the powerful and corrupt.
We are differentiated as a country of majority and minority.
Our laws are meant to protect the minority community from all social odds but then why have such laws been made to protect humans from other humans.
Why some people feel threatened by other people.
If we have fought so many wars in the name of religion it is not due to some uncontrollable situations which turned into bloodshed but it's due to the situations we created out of emotional outburst or political coercion.
If we say freedom is our goal then we need to understand that without allowing freedom to others how can we live a life of freedom.
Even today some of our false social norms tell us to live a socially accepted life but under the veil of privacy people do not mind breaking all the so-called false and true social norms, without much realization they turn perverted.
They live one life at home, another at the work place and an entirely different perverted life at some other place.
Our society feels happy when we obey the rigid social norms; these norms apply also to the relation of love or even marriage preference.
Our society tells us whom should we love and who should we marry.
Let me run you through a real life example where a man loves a woman from the other caste and enter into a live-in relation and when this live-in relation was heading toward a more justifiable institution of marriage the man says no to the woman and breaks the relation within no time and eventually marries someone from his own caste and religion.
He says my parents will literally kill me if they hear about my affair from a girl of the other religion and he did not want to let his parents down, hence he marries the woman whom their parents liked, which we call arranged marriage in India as the man and woman enter into marriage with the mutual consent of their parents.
It is a highly respected social norm, almost like a tradition or a custom.
Society feels happy when the marriages are fixed by the parents and elders.
In arranged marriage love blossoms after marriage and sometimes love never happens; only compromises happen and the chemistry between two hearts most of the time takes place through a bundle of lies and falsehood.
How can we convince our society that love can not happen out of compulsions and compromises? This is the reason of failed marriages.
Without the knowledge of love how can we expect a successful marriage, without the knowledge of our inner god how can we expect god-realization.