Aatmanirbhar Bharat: Overcoming Gender, Caste and Ethnic biases

Aatmanirbhar Bharat: Overcoming Gender, Caste and Ethnic biases

Aatmanirbhar Bharat (Translation:“Self-Reliant India ”) is the vision of the Prime-Minister of India,to make India a self reliant Nation. India has been independent for seventy-three years. We have progressed in these years because of our diversity, but it has also been the reason that has pulled us down. Diversity here refers to discrimination on the basis of Gender, Caste and Ethnics. An Aatmanirbhar India can only be achieved if we see everyone with “The eyes of Fraternity”

India is a country where Social evils have prevailed from a long time such as Sati, Dowry, Caste-system, Untouchability, Child marriage and racial discrimination.

Women were subjugated to all kinds of indignities and social isolation like not having the right to education or the right to express her opinion. In absolute terms, the child sex ratio in India stands at 927 girl children per 1,000 boy children during 1947, due to practices such female feticide.

Another curse that India suffers from is the caste system. India has 1208 scheduled castes presently. They have been through discrimination and been victims of untouchability in the past. India has been fighting against this evil for decades.

India is home to about two thousand Ethnic groups. This adds to the diversity of Indian culture and traditions. Discrimination on the basis of Ethnicity has been cause of massacre of millions of people in the past. It has also been standing in the way of progress and world peace forever.

India has come a long way leaving behind many social evils which made women and minorities vulnerable. The constitution of India now tries to protect each citizen from these social evil practices. Each individual now can legally press charges against a person who is discriminating against anyone on any basis.

Discrimination produces immense effects in the psychological, social, political, and economic domains. Whether intended or not, the effects are compounded by the loss of self-worth, a sense of alienation from the wider society, political disempowerment, and economic inequalities. Prejudice and ethnic hostilities constitute a major danger to peace both within a nation and among nations.” As a consequence, the emergence of a new global moral order increasingly provides a leverage point to counter the effects of prejudice and discrimination. While many agree that the various international instruments to protect people against prejudice and discrimination are still not universally followed or even implemented, it is clear that a new international consciousness is indeed emerging and is, in fact, intensifying. The effects of discrimination in society are reflecting on race, religion, and disable discrimination. One of the main reasons causing violence is race discrimination. In addition religion discrimination can endanger the world peace. Different religions have different gods and the numbers of believers are huge. Discrimination is about exclusion and subordination and it effectively conveys an explicit message of differentness and inferiority of the victim – Humiliation. Studies carried out in the field of racial discrimination provide also direct proof of this humiliating nature of discrimination, as it has been found that experiences of racism and racial discrimination have a direct bearing to the psychological well-being of persons    who have suffered ethnic discrimination: such experiences were found to increase symptoms related to anxiety and depression. 

Discrimination not only forms a menace to the society, but also to the individual who is subjected to such an adverse treatment.The consequences of discrimination match the severity of the offence, a causal link to alienation, exclusion and decreasing psychological well-being.

I suggest that India  can become a self-reliant country by overcoming gender,caste and ethnic biasness by eradicating discrimination against  women or minorities which can only happen if we consider ourselves the citizens of India as a nation.If we make sure that all women and minorities are free from all biasness in houses and in public and making sure that their opinion matters as much as ours, to make this happen we need to educate people about how biasness is a road block on our path to progress. Children should study in an healthy environment where there is no existence of discrimination because they will grow up and propagate the message that discrimination has only caused us harm and we can become self-reliant without these prevailing cultures.  

India has come to a point where we have almost eradicated discrimination; we have been able to give women their basic rights, treat each caste as equals and give everyone the right to educate themselves and destroy apartheid but the fight still continues. We will be the Aatmanirbhar Bharat the day we consider each one the same even when during the hardest scenario we have to go through.

The day we eradicate this evil,                                          

“That remarkable day will be on the golden pages of Indian history”