Nepali Culture and Social Evils

Nepal is one of the smallest countries on the world map but is very rich in its natural beauty and natural resources. Nepal is a beautiful country with verities’ of thing around it. Besides all these things, it is rich in its culture. Its cultural consist of the social customs and traditions. Nepal has a unique culture. The rich cultural heritage of Nepal has evolved over the centuries. The multi-dimensional diversities of various ethnic, tribal and social groups inhabiting different altitude and it manifests in various form, i.e. music, dance, craft, folklore, folktale, language, literature philosophy, religions, festival, Sanskars, food, and drinks. This is the beautiful country Nepal.

Culture is embedded in the high peak of Nepal traditions, its valleys and religions lie in the heart of its people. Although, there are many social evils in Nepal these social evils are the drawbacks seen of our custom and culture. These are the obstacles of our social development. The festival to someone is the social evils to other, so such festival is not to be celebrated.

Whole or part of the social and culture practices that are practiced in society in the forms of custom ,traditions, rituals, festivals, norms, and values that have negative or adverse effect on a particular gender or sex, cast or ethnic group, children, elder in both speech and action are known as social evils. Social evils in Nepal are untouchability , kamaiya system, Deuki Custom, Jhuma custom, Dowry system, Girls trafficking, Kidnapping, drug trafficking, flesh trafficking, and the most political instability and a lot more.

The social evils and superstations that have crept in the society over the centuries made social reforms imperative for the development of the society. In the 19^th century, the newly educated person increasingly revolted against rigid social conventions and outdated customs.

Among above mention social evils, the following are some highlighted issues in Nepal society. According to the Hindu religions book Vedas bramanosyamukhama sidhahu Rajanyah Kritah uritadasy Jyadbaisyah padbhyam gusudrro jayata. This mantra says that all the casts had been born by the same god Purshottam who has,sahasra siresha, sahasrakshan, saharsa patta or innumerable heads eyes and leds.

After studying this mantra, we can say that there was not any discrimation among the castes in Vedic age. But later, our ancient king classified the human beings in many races which one of our social problems. We need to abolish the social evils, untouchability, to develop our nation as well as our society.

The caste system which has its roots in religion is another cause of untouchability. Though it is not so rigid in urban areas, it is still oractice in rural areas.

Kamaiyas sustem is the problem of terai regions. The person who works in other farms/field only for getting food is called kamaiya. It is one of the terrible forms of slavery which existed in Nepal. It arises froms debt relationship. The kamaiya movement was started in 2000, 17^th July and 19^th October 2009 the Kamaiyas ware made free but it is not totally reduced in practice.

Human trafficking is another social problem which can be seen forced prostitution and the exploitation of minors is still far too prevalent within the country.

These are only the examples of social evils. All the social evils are socially generated and are promoted by the people in the society who call themselves to be superiors. It is the common responsibility to seek for their solution. We can classify in many other categories:

1.      Religions problems

2.      Language

The group of socially committed professionals like the teacher, Journalists, and social workers is fighting all the social evils since 1993 in Nepal.

Every country has its own social problems and the main cause of the social problems is the level of poverty because poverty is the keystone of all social evils. To overcome the social evils we need t develop our economics condition we need to develop the condition of education. Education is the key solutions of all social evils.  

 This was something about the social evils. Every problem definitely has the solution of the problems and this social evil has also a lot of solution. They are:

1.      Public awareness: every people should be aware of the this type of problems. And the organizational and all the educated people should create the social awareness.

2.      The strict law should be made for those who try to create the differences in the society for the religious regions.

3.      Girl’s education should be the most priority in every village and every school. The government should give proper attention for the girl’s educations.

4.      Street drama. News article, TV, and many more media are there that can change the concept of the people’s views and can bring the people to right track.

This was some common solution for the problems. There are many ways that can be implemented. But start with you and one-day social evils will end from the root.