Every day, I see countless people on bikes and cars driving through red lights. So how we behave according to our gender, or our religious and caste identities, is influenced by a set of social rules, some explicit and many implicit. Living in society is then largely a matter of following these rules, stopping at the ‘social red lights’ as required. We have come to this point only because those who are supposed to do the job of creating meaningful social rules have abdicated their responsibility. One of the first signs that the system has failed is when the unelected start dictating the society with their definition of what social rules mean instead of democratically negotiating these rules.

Source: The Hindu February 21, 2017 18:33 UTC