Since time immemorial we have not been leaving any oppurtunity to eulogize our so called rich cultural heritage, handed down to us by our fore-father. It would have been rich had it carried the values required to have a society based on love, affection for elder ones and brother hood. Those were days when the words father and mother made us filled with love and compassion. The story of Shravan Kumar used to appeal our emotions. For anything and everything we owed to our parents. We well realized the sacrifice and pain our mother undergoes while begetting and to enable us to survive in the brutal world. This was gelling factor and the strongest thread of of our social fabrication.But what happened to those feelings. How did we become numb to these sentiments? Why did we become morally anaemic? How did the idea of Old Age Home come in our mind? A home which houses unfortumate father and mother, who are compelled to stay there when their own house, telling untold story of their suffering they bear to build, become too small to accomodate them and their son and daughter who are indebted to them for their every breath become alien.The mercurising number of Old Age Home is the culminating popint of Occidentalism, which has gnawed our culture and pushed it in its nadir. It has made us hollow in spirituality and got the theory of utility settled down in our mind which believes in usefulness of the thing or in other words materialism. This is why before a father or mother reaches their superannuation and they fetch salary or some material gain they get place in their own home. But after that things become unbearable. They have to hear poison ladden words. This continues for some days and ends in an Old Age Home.Isn't it a moment to take a pause and think and try to restore our lost love, sffection and compassion for our parents so that the stigma of Old Age Home may be removed from country. And this is only possible if we go back to our religious sculptures understand and implement the Do's and Dont's on our life. As every religion advocates for the highest love and affection for parents. Abdur Rehman DHAROHAR
