Why does it hurt so much when you think about India's current state? There are other nations which are in a much worse state. It is because when you read about how great a nation India was, you realize how much India has slipped. We were the nation which was the richest! Both in terms of monetory and cultural wealth. Now our women are raped, our downtrodden are stamped further and the diparity keeps growing. When you walk the roads, you can bear the stench of garbage, you can bear the stench of the sewers but one thing you cannot bear is the stench of selfishness. When you park a car in front of somebody else's gate, when you throw the garbage on the road, when you jump a traffic signal and block the whole traffic; have you ever thought how selfish it is? How difficult it could be for an old man walking to maneuver around the grabge thrown on the road, how difficult it is for a woman who will now reach office late because you blocked traffic? Somebody once did tell that only the mantra is 'Survival of the fittest', but we can only survive and develop as a whole, as one whole society.
I always wonder what makes a nation "developed". Do the people look more beautiful? Do the roads look cleaner? Do the cars look shinier? I do not know, but I seem to have found an answer in a child's smile. I was walking to office the other day in Sydney and I noticed a group of mentally challenged children walking. It was an amazing in itself that these special children were going to school on their own, but what happened next is what is worth writing about. There were a group of construction workers working at a site in the same raod, and they were all busy in their work. As soon as they saw these kids, they shouted "Hey! Good Morning", and stopped the traffic for them to cross. The faces of those kids suddenly had these huge smiles and in those smiles you could really see what a little "care" means to the people who really need our love and affection. Children are too innocent to fake emotions and in those smiles one could understand how the needy and the weak in our country should be treated.
The downtrodden sections of the society don't need more reservations, they dont need more leaders and more schemes; instead, they need some love, affection and genuine care. Maybe this is the what defines a Nation's development : maturity. Not money, not roads, not cars; but instead how our weakest are treated. That in itself shows how much a nation has developed, and we know India has long way to go. But we will get there, I know it.
I always wonder what makes a nation "developed". Do the people look more beautiful? Do the roads look cleaner? Do the cars look shinier? I do not know, but I seem to have found an answer in a child's smile. I was walking to office the other day in Sydney and I noticed a group of mentally challenged children walking. It was an amazing in itself that these special children were going to school on their own, but what happened next is what is worth writing about. There were a group of construction workers working at a site in the same raod, and they were all busy in their work. As soon as they saw these kids, they shouted "Hey! Good Morning", and stopped the traffic for them to cross. The faces of those kids suddenly had these huge smiles and in those smiles you could really see what a little "care" means to the people who really need our love and affection. Children are too innocent to fake emotions and in those smiles one could understand how the needy and the weak in our country should be treated.
The downtrodden sections of the society don't need more reservations, they dont need more leaders and more schemes; instead, they need some love, affection and genuine care. Maybe this is the what defines a Nation's development : maturity. Not money, not roads, not cars; but instead how our weakest are treated. That in itself shows how much a nation has developed, and we know India has long way to go. But we will get there, I know it.
