blog 5: Religion

For this weeks blog I decided to use Mrs. Jarrett's article. In the article, it talks about how religion is conflicting with some of the new scientific advances of the country. Hinduism has been around for so long and many people believe in it but there is reason to believe that some of the work that Biotech does such as stem cell research and ‘cloning’ would not have been okay with Gandhi, the father of the Indian nation. As we have read in Nectar in a Sieve, a female child is considered a burden in the Indian religion. Many women have been getting ultrasound scans to abort female fetuses, and is that wrong? Gandhi believed that people should block out the “wants” of life and replace them with peace. Many people of India are now coming to the conclusion that maybe new technical advances will make their civilization easier and more functional although it is not the ways of their religion.

Mishra, Pankaj. “How India Reconciles Hindu Values and Biotech.” New York Times. 21 August 2005. 16 February 2009. <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/weekinreview/21mishra.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2>