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MORAL CRISIS AND INDIAN SOCIETY By Dr. Benjamin Khan
ABSTRACT
If we believe that our daily newspapers are the index of events that take place in our society, we will then find that they mirrorise in a very big way, that in every walks of our social, political, economic and judicial life, we are becoming morally corrupt. These newspapers are running commentary on our moral bankruptcy. They picturise our gradual moral decadence.
Every day there are some serious news about some Ghotalas, some officials have taken a large sum of money as bribe, a woman has been gang raped, there is child abuse, a couple has been murdered in their flat in Delhi, a gold chain was snatched near the bus stand, a fake police officer duped a shop keeper, a fake C.I.D. officer asked for a bribe from an industrialist, false issue of educational degrees by some fake Educational Institutions even by a recognised university the growth of unrecognized medical and engineering colleges, Frauds, deceits,duplicate items, adulteration of food, adulteration of medicine. Justice is sold to the higher bidders, unethical medical practices, child girls given in marriages in Rajasthan, innocent wives burnt to death for the sake of dowry, the temple prostitution, sex scandals in our religious Ashrams, the death giving sale of brown sugar and many other scores of crimes for the sake of silver coins. And if I loudly pronounce that our public and private morals are plagued by false economic considerations it would not be an exegeration.
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