So much bad is happening in India that I feel guilty to be leading a life with no discomfort. My fight is limited to not being able to use the resources bestowed on me to the fullest. I realise the irony, I wish I hadn't.
On Sundays at the airport there is usually a crowd of couples, families, friends who come to see the planes fly. They haven't sat in one. Their contentment; their ambition; their surrender, do I realise? I wish I hadn't.
There are very less things which I wouldn't be able to do in this life. A large part of my demography wouldn't know what those are. They have basics to take care of.
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| India's Maslow's Pyramid : A stagnant bottom |
In the current India, the bottom is stagnant, and the other's have a slower than gradual progress. Only some part of India is progressing and jumping stages, the other part being ignored, the population being humongous. A vivid co-relation lies in the fact that in India Infrastructural Development is limited to the vicinities of the capital region of every state. Opportunities force the millions of Indians, (including me) to come to the metropolitans. That is where Self-Actualisation is understood to be.
Our national channels do not have OB Vans, studios, journalists, in regions beyond the capitals, they rely on stringers. The rest of the nation then succumbs to the believably prejudiced watchdogs, the partner in crime spokespersons and the well fed influencers. We are given selective information to form selective perceptions.
The bottom of the pyramid completely ignored lies stagnant merely crawling from A to B, while the nation having become the Animal Farm of George Orwell.
I agree that such is happening to Egypt, Israel, Greece, Sri Lanka and many other nations and this does not pacify me. I focus and subscribe to the idea of Charity beginning at Home.