{"id":268562,"date":"2025-03-28T05:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T05:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/sc-worried-about-rising-1-person-1-family-culture-says-unity-eroding-in-india-that-preaches-vasudhaiva-kutumbakam\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T05:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T05:06:18","slug":"sc-worried-about-rising-1-person-1-family-culture-says-unity-eroding-in-india-that-preaches-vasudhaiva-kutumbakam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/sc-worried-about-rising-1-person-1-family-culture-says-unity-eroding-in-india-that-preaches-vasudhaiva-kutumbakam\/","title":{"rendered":"SC worried about rising &#8216;1 person, 1 family&#8217; culture; says unity &#8216;eroding&#8217; in India that preaches vasudhaiva kutumbakam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"SC worried about rising &#8216;1 person, 1 family&#8217; culture; says unity &#8216;eroding&#8217; in India that preaches vasudhaiva kutumbakam\" title=\"SC worried about rising &#8216;1 person, 1 family&#8217; culture; says unity &#8216;eroding&#8217; in India that preaches vasudhaiva kutumbakam\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-brcount=\"23\">In a ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court raised alarms about the &#8220;erosion&#8221; of the institution of family, reflecting a broader societal concern. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/dynamic_link.cms?msid=107107653&subsecid=1715249553&pos=toppotime:2-->Justices Pankaj Mithal and SVN. Bhatti observed that while India has long upheld the idea of <i><a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/vasudhaiva-kutumbakam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vasudhaiva kutumbakam<\/a><\/i>\u2014meaning &#8220;the world is one family&#8221;\u2014the nation now faces challenges in maintaining unity even within the nuclear family. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In India we believe in vasudhaiva kutumbakam, i.e., the earth, as a whole, is one family. However, today we are not even able to retain the unity in the immediate family, what to say of building one family for the world,\u201d the bench said <\/p>\n<p>The justices further noted that the very concept of &#8220;family&#8221; is being weakened, leading to the emergence of a &#8220;one person, one family&#8221; model, which signifies a worrying shift away from traditional values of togetherness and communal support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe very concept of &#8216;family&#8217; is being eroded and we are on the brink of one person one family,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" data-ga-impression=\"Events_widget_$pagename#Impression#url\" class=\"liveEventMain_widget custom_ad\">\n<div class=\"topContain\">\n<div class=\"imgBox\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"logoTitle\">Live Events<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/live_events_widget.cms?pagename=articlepotime:2--><\/p>\n<h2>One nation, no family?<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>The reflection comes as a harsh reality check in the wake of India&#8217;s G20 Presidency in 2023, during which the nation championed the theme of <i>vasudhaiva kutumbakam<\/i> on the global stage. <\/p>\n<p>As the world\u2019s largest democracy and a country rich in cultural diversity, the philosophy of <i>vasudhaiva kutumbakam<\/i>\u2014the belief that the Earth is one big family\u2014has been a central pillar of Indian society. <\/p>\n<p>However, the top court\u2019s remarks echoed a troubling disconnect.<\/p>\n<p>The case that triggered these reflections involved a woman seeking to evict her eldest son from the family home, citing years of alleged abuse and disputes over property. <\/p>\n<p>The legcal battle, stemming from deeply rooted family conflicts, reflected the erosion of traditional family structures as such cases have been on the rise in the country. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(With PTI inputs)<\/em><\/strong><br \/><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:0--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/one-family-two-worlds-sc-sounds-alarm-on-erosion-of-family-values-unity-in-india\/articleshow\/119632354.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court raised alarms about the &#8220;erosion&#8221; of the institution of family, reflecting a broader societal concern. Justices Pankaj Mithal and SVN. Bhatti observed that while India has long upheld the idea of vasudhaiva kutumbakam\u2014meaning &#8220;the world is one family&#8221;\u2014the nation now faces challenges in maintaining unity even within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/118783427.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[2617,203377,206297,17,206295,206301,206296,273,206304,206300,206299,5926,206302,988,47403,206298,4331,206303,22236,3165],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268564,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268562\/revisions\/268564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}