“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.” Jane Austen said and argued “ I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” Perhaps most Indians similar relationship with our diverse culture and would do everything in power to defend it.
Over the past decades, I have been living outside the country, I met many people who have left the country temporarily or permanently and echoes the same sentiment. One thing that unites us all is the our culture no matter how diverse we are in our thoughts, beliefs, language or appearance.
Yes we are still culturally diverse although many of our festivals and values are now intertwined across the subcultures. But retaining this trait for a country of India's complexity and volume withstanding resistance from people who quite often spew venom in the social media is quite a commendable achievement.
I once listened to an interview and one statement made about our country said it all. India being so large and diverse, something needs to be kept into consideration while drawing an inference on any particular cause or issue. What one inferred could be true but the irony is that the opposite could be equally true.
As an example one might infer that the Indian society at large is becoming intolerant towards each other's religious beliefs, but the opposite of this is probably the greater truth. We see the same when it comes to #girl child, #respect for women, #social division, #dowry, #respect for National language, #celebrating other festivals #freedom of speech, and the list goes on.
Without going into the details of people and culture as a management subject, it won’t be incorrect to state that only cultural identity that Indian diaspora has are those related to back home. One may think otherwise but the world out there begs to differ and tag us all with the Indian culture.
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