During the Mahabharat era, no nepotism was found and for the Pandavas and the Kauravas, it was all about fighting for their own supremacy. Similarly, even during the British raj, all the provinces of India use to fight among themselves but the positive effect of British rule was the unification of all the parts of India under one common flag.
Now, thinking about Nepotism or Bhai-Bhatijawad is never a cultural aspect of India it is just a useless thought which is a part of this current generation. All I could say is that in the name of fake nepotism where we say that our own people are bigger than anyone else and one has to think about our own sets of brothers and sisters is just a passing thought rather than a permanent way of living.
If we see the current party which is ruling at the center as BJP it is not having any particular kind of Bhai Bhatijawad and most of the elected representatives are from different backgrounds. Similar, to say about the AAM Aadmi party which has people from different walks of life but if we remember Congress (I) then it could be certainly said that it was full of fake nepotism.
The two brothers Sri Sanjay Gandhi and Sri Rajiv Gandhi did not see an eye to eye and the same could be said about Sri Varun Gandhi (BJP) and Sri Rahul Gandhi the prominent person from the current congress scenario.
One could say that life moves forward with ease when we have different kinds of people as friends, philosopher, and guide from various states, towns, and also the village of our own. Instead of having two many camaraderies within their own family, it is necessary to have a friendship from all walks of people leading to successful ways of life.
One could say that for any small thing one relies too much only upon the family when we are short on resources or knowledge. Once the mother-father does everything for us it is our own responsibility to carry the life aspect through our own ways of earnings from where one could survive easily and a husband and wife could carry the life easier to govern life.
Think about the earlier civilization like Mohenja Daro and Harappa where the family set-up was all about doing agriculture within the family system and earning through peaceful means which led to helping the people to grow in life without much of a fight within the family.
Also, coming up as a family to pressurize others is done by a weaker mindset of people who just cannot stand on their own. For me as a person, my father always insisted me to stand on my own and he helped me with only my studies expenses and for my mother, he arranged enough for making her own home. Apart from that he never ever tried me or my sister to get over him or in any case overpower him for any kind of help which was not good according to his own set of principles.
Very early in our lives, we understood the meaning of patriarchal ways of life, and my sister Sweta Srivastava and I as Mukesh Kumar rarely thought of understanding or taking Nepotism as a principle to govern our life systems.
If the thought-provoking belief is coming up nowadays it is all about the civil society discarding the concept again and first thinking about oneself rather than considering the brother or sister from different families to get most out of it. If nepotism is existing it is all about getting under various political party flags and then devoting the wholehearted time and effort to get most out of it which could lead to finding better ways of getting the most out of life. I also believe for that particular thought of mind it is not necessary to get on the honking mode of one particular name which is "Mukesh Kumar" as I cannot directly or indirectly bring any particular benefits to anyone and the same could be said for me as well as I never tried to take advantage of my father's name Sri Upendra Vidyarthi or the grand-father Sri Chitranjan Prasad to gather any momentum in life or reap some benefit out of their bigger social cauldron.
Instead of Nepotism the right word has to be "Brotherhood" as Nepotism can lead to Napoleanism and it can lead to greater fights which can destroy the mentality of the current and coming generation!
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