Wearing shorts or finding a place to live

What's wrong with you Kolkata? Why don't you let people be?

I was reading today how some apartment complexes have taken issues with women wearing shorts. How medieval is that!

This is not the first time I am reading about such instances. There have been many reports of schools and colleges having issues with the attire of female students or teachers.

There are lots of other things Kolkatans need to worry about. Pollution is a great example. The loss of green cover and murder of trees across the city is a matter of serious concern but how many of us really care about it? How about the rampant burning of plastics and refuse?

But no, Kolkata residents have issues with bachelors being given rental accommodation in apartment complexes. Folks, don't you send your kids to other cities for education or jobs? Are you saying you will be okay if your beloved son has problems in finding a rental home in Bangalore or Pune?

How big hypocrites are we? It just baffles me. The sheer medievalism in attitude of my beloved city.

It does not end there. I know from some of my Muslim friends how they found it difficult to rent an apartment just because they were Muslims.

These problems are perhaps symptomatic of a much wider and deeper problem all across the country. I have heard that people from Bengal find it difficult in vegetarian Gujarat where residents have issues with Bengalis cooking fish inside their freaking homes.

We Indians love to poke our noses into other's affairs and it is just sick.

Grow up Kolkata. Grow up India. Be a little more liberal. Be a little more loving and helping. Trust me, it will make you happier and fulfilled.

Just let it be. It's okay.