Indian culture and its manifestation via different traditions, patterns, customs, rituals, practices and ethos is just magnificent. The practices of Indian culture have always promoted unity and harmony among the people or we can at least say that our culture has always intended to bring harmony amongst all the Indians. Marriage is supposed to be one of the important institutions of our society and for the functioning and survival of this institution our culture has laid down a perfect structure of values. For a harmonious married life our culture advocates certain rules and patterns which should be followed well, respect, faith, trust, love, compassion, affection, care and mutual understanding are the traits advocated by the Indian culture but under the influence of western and foreigner cultures Indians seem to have lost the harmony and coordination in their married lives thus they are moving towards the western trait of Divorce. Where in the Indian culture cooperation and humanity is important the western culture has boosted Individualism among all of us, couples are now more overwhelmed by the western concepts and tend to follow them to a major extend. Indian couples are highly moved by the urban lifestyles, their aspirations are now ending, they hardly share any personal space, their communication is getting bad day by day, and self-centeredness is gradually increasing among them. Each of them is struggling with own issues without even thinking about other in such a case how would their marriage survive? it would have only one end and that is Divorce but this is not the Indian culture has tried to put in, the foremost reason of having an increased number of divorces in India is only the disinterest and disbelief in the Indian culture and it great values. If we as a couple try to imbibe the values in our married lives, certainly the rate of divorces would begin to decline. Do you agree with me in this regard?
I disagree with you here. The idea of individualism is not negative at all and it is wrong to blame it as the reason for divorces. Divorces are not happening because of a lack of respect, faith and harmony. They are happening because of values such as self-respect and the quest for happiness. In the past, whether there was harmony or not between the couples, they were told to compromise. Now, people's beliefs have changed. They do not find a reason to compromise all their lives. Therefore, I would not say that divorce is a bad thing!
