A Photo Post on International Day of Families
Today is International Family Day. But how do you define a family?
In India, it's famously defined as Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam (whole world is my family).
India had a culture of large joint families living together including great grand parents, grand parents and their siblings, parents & their siblings, their cousins, children and grand children and more. My ancestral family house was like a whole colony in itself.
Even today, on the occasion of marriage ceremonies over 1000 people are invited to the function. But with time, large families are being reduced to ultra-nuclear families.
I've gathered up some family photographs from various sources to represent this change over a period of last century or so:
If we keep weakening our family bonding, how can we ever accomplish the concept of Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam?
[All images are sourced from copyright-free websites and / or linked to their original sources]
अब परिवार का मतलब केवल मियां बीबी और बच्चे हो गया है। बाकी सारे रिश्ते खत्म से हो रहे हैं। मां बाप दोनों काम रहे हैं और बच्चे क्रेच या प्ले स्कूल में डाल रखे हैं। उनको मोबाइल थमा दिए हैं। बस ऐसे ही आजकल के परिवार हैं।
वाकई, ये बड़ा ही खेद का विषय है कि बच्चों के लालन-पालन के लिए उन्हें शैशव अवस्था से ही परिवार-जनों का बहुमूल्य समय, प्रेम और सौहार्द नहीं मिल पाता! इससे अधिक निर्धन मानवता कभी नहीं रही!
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