PRIVACY PART I: IT’S ORIGINS, AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT IN INDIA TILL 2011
HISTORY OF PRIVACY IN THE WESTERN WORLD Privacy as we understand it today, is merely no more than 500 years old. Traditionally, hunter gatherer communities lived in such close proximity that privacy wasn’t a concern. Sex, breastfeeding, bathing, grooming, etc. were all familial and tribal activities without walls for privacy. Housing was merely a shelter of rocks and caves, with many cramped up, close by, to weather the cold, and/or keep safe from wild animals around fires at night, while the morning brought sunlight for all to see the so called ‘private’ acts. Agrarian communities later developed, and huts or some semblance of walls slowly emerged to provide privacy from ‘others’ – a concept that came about simultaneously with those walls to provide a distinction between family and tribe, relatives and neighbours. Homes still did not have internal walls that create rooms. Like their tribal ancestors, the Greeks displayed some preference for privacy. Us...