newspaper articles with focus on 2 topics...

While on travel from one place to another, to observe and learn about ecologically friendly life styles is a rewarding experience, but lack of internet connectivity and difficulty in getting English newspapers can be bothersome at times.  However, the change in daily routine of glancing through a national newspaper gets replaced by detailed reading of newspaper with great curiosity is an advantage. 

Recently I read through a newspaper on Sunday and found multiple articles related to 2 major topics.  Few articles focused on marriage as an institution and monogamy related to it.  Increasing divorce rates as an indicator of crumbling of culture was focus on one article.  Another one was on whether monogamy required in marriages have biological basis or not.  A third one stated the need for lifelong companionship as a human requirement, which was personal viewpoint of the writer and differed drastically in style with the scientific view of the other article. 

The second topic written about in more than one article was about banning of a book on Hinduism in India by Penguin publishers, with more arguments in support of the ban as it hurts religious sentiments of a large majority. 

What connected these 2 topics was the lack of balanced view and discrimination against minority groups, who would have contrasting beliefs / opinion or lifestyle. 

A minority population, who would be non-believers or atheists, might not agree with the ban.  What if these non-believers wanted a ban on all religious books, as they are an insult to their belief/opinion / lifestyle?

There was an interview of a starlet, which was not directly connected to the marriage articles, but she had stated that, she might not get married at all, as she had not seen in her life of about 30 years, even one single married couple, who inspire her to get married.  Which provoked a similar probe for me as well…  but let’s keep my opinion aside first, and as a reader, do a similar analysis yourself.  How many happy marriages have you observed in your life so far and how much have they inspired you to be pro-marriage as well?  What is the % of happy married couple v/s unhappily married couples from your analysis? 

The problem is that – discrimination against minorities gets neglected and majority as righteous seem to gather strength, as it’s the easy way out. 

And being part of any minority belief / opinion / lifestyle has more than one disadvantage.  Not only you are legally and socially enforced to follow the majority one, but also get mocked and given advice by self-righteous and un-aware majority at every turn.  A recent example would be, how LGBT supporters in India would be feeling after Supreme Court rule in 2013 against them.

Every one of us has minority beliefs / opinions / lifestyle…  How do we feel when they are opposed?