Listen up Indians: Advice Adda's #NotAHypocrite campaign sends a strong message

Stereotyping India is becoming a regular affair these days.  While a German professor   recently denied an internship to an Indian student because his country had a “rape problem”, filmmaker Leslee Udwin from BBC made a documentary (India’s Daughter) about India’s patriarchal society where men think women need to be taught a lesson if they do not ‘recognise their boundaries’.  And let’s not forget double standards. We have politicians and netas who will dub a comedy show , which tried to do something new, as “filthy” while the same netas were caught watching a porn clip  when the Assembly was in session. But is that all India is? Do these politicians define and make India. Not anymore. A  bunch of Indians  are now breaking these stereotypes not only in India but across the world. These are the youngsters who do not mind discussing sex openly, who understand the importance of safe sex and don’t have a problem buying a condom in  broad daylight. There are Indian men who are willing to cook for their wives everyday and there are also daughters who would not mind having a drink with their fathers. These are the new Indians who are making the Indian society more open, adaptive, inclusive and healthy. Taking the same idea forward, a social campaign by the name #NotAHypocrite was initiated by adviceadda.com. Advice Adda invited people to come forward and uninhibitedly break these stereotypes. The campaign aims at telling people that life is  simpler and better when one does not hide behind hypocrisy. “If we Indians were not Hypocrites, we could have been living in a society which was more transparent, adaptive, inclusive and open towards issues that we hide within ourselves and make it worse,” Adviceadda says on its website. Firstpost favourited a few stereotypes which Indians are breaking everyday. [caption id=“attachment_2156145” align=“aligncenter” width=“825”]  You shouldn’t be blaming your stomach aches on something that you ate last night. Boys know what periods mean.[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_2156147” align=“aligncenter” width=“825”]  It is so cool when you can kickback and discuss politics with your dad at the end of the day over a drink.[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_2156149” align=“aligncenter” width=“825”]  Virginity is overrated and if that’s a criteria for your marriage, stay single![/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_2156151” align=“aligncenter” width=“825”]  It is not a big deal. Really![/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_2156153” align=“aligncenter” width=“825”]  If a guy can marry a woman younger to him, why can’t women do the same? End this hypocrisy.[/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_2156155” align=“aligncenter” width=“825”]  You should be able to eat whatever you want to whenever you want to![/caption]   [caption id=“attachment_2156157” align=“aligncenter” width=“825”]  This has been stressed so many times but looks like it makes hardly any impression on the white-skinned obsessed Indian mentality![/caption]