When A Minister Blamed Women For Not Having Kids

“Lots of modern women in India want to stay single.” How did the Karnataka’s health minister’s speech on mental health veer off into this?

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00:00Lot of modern women in India, they want to stay single.

00:06Even if they get married, they don't want to give a birth.

00:13They want celibacy.

01:00India is a country, it is unity in diversity, is the accepted ideal of.

01:23When we were living unitedly, we lived with all religious beliefs.

01:31We lived with a large united families.

01:38But in the last two, three decades, we started competing with each other.

01:47It is a competition world. 21st century has been an extremely materialistic world.

01:56So in every profession, not just the IT clerks or people from science and technology,

02:07I know people from agriculture who are witnessing or who are really affected by competition, by stress.

02:23So this is all about stress management.

02:28How do we manage stress in our life, in everyday life?

02:34It is an art. This art we need not learn.

02:39As Indians, we need to preach the world how to handle stress.

02:45Because yoga, meditation and pranayama, these are the wonderful tools,

02:53these are the wonderful education which our ancestors thousands of years back have taught the world.

03:01Unfortunately, today we are going in a western way.

03:08We don't want our parents to live with us.

03:13Forget about grandparents being with us.

03:17And today, sorry to say this, lot of modern women in India, they want to stay single.

03:29Even if they get married, they don't want to give a birth.

03:36They want servicing.

03:39So there is a paradigm shift in our thinking, which is not good.

03:50We all know how to break the stress, how to remove stress.

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