The nationwide uproar against the controversial Condom Ad by Indian actress cum model Sunny Leone simply reeks of hypocrisy. In fact more such ads are needed for safe sex and population control in a nation with extremely high number of sexually transmitted diseases, including the dreaded AIDS.
Our men are quite randy and women fecund. That makes Condom is the need of the hour, not condemn of its commercials. She is not advertising Tobacco which causes cancer, nor junk food which aren't heart healthy.
We simply breed like rabbits - currently at 1.25 billion and still going strong, we are getting nowhere. Whatever economic progress we make is gobbled by this teeming, monstrous millions.
India's exploding human bomb is a major deterrent to its growth, yet hardly any politician talks about the stark necessity of controlling it. Most agonies our nation faces today can be very well be traced to this burgeoning POPULATION.
Our politicians hardly bother about it, let alone have an agenda to curb this menace. Not long ago, a Hindutva protagonist advocated Hindus to have 4 children each as if we don't have enough. Tomorrow a Mullah or an Evangelist might match this rhetoric. As the old African proverb goes - if two elephants make love or war, it is the grass which suffers. It is India which suffers due to these battle of rhetorics.
It was never too late for China to address its population issue in the late 1970s. It is said that the Middle Kingdom's population would have been 1.75 billion now instead of the current 1.35 billion, had they not implemented the one child principle then. We are not a dictatorship like China who can ruthlessly impose any such agenda on its citizens.
Only a conscious effort by the populace can bring down the growth.
Interestingly, the only politician who seriously ever tried to control this epidemic menace was Sanjay Gandhi, the maverick son of Indira Gandhi. (Another agenda of his was to keep our cities clean, free from dirty slums which were perennial eyesore).
His grandfather Nehru supposedly said "Population is the strength of India" at a time when J R D Tata, a great visionary warned the former about it. CV Raman was more blunt and said " let's stop producing like pigs". Many including educated folks knowingly go into a Repeat - Until loop (in computer programming parlance) to procure a Male Heir to carry on their linage.
It is time to put a break on it. Like certain laws of Chemistry hold good under Normal Pressure and Temperature, India would have been far better off with a population of 600 millions (half of present) under normal conditions of Corruption and Lawlessness.
Sad that in our chaotic democracy a few Netas, Mullahs and Mahants can only think parochially to achieve their political goals, rather than taking the Bull by the horn. Sunny Leone should be rewarded doing a social service, not stigmatized by the politicians - ideally it should be other way round.
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