Where to Look? Inside Us!

(in continuation to ‘Guns & Roses Part 2: Roses – Immobilized Khaki’) 

Mr Pravin Sheth, the eminent political analyst says, (Ahmedabad Mirror, 24 July 2008 ) nowadays people are much candid about their conduct and do not care about the behavioural ethics in public. Because of his deep insights in social issues, Mr Sheth relates two recent outrageous incidents, first is the violent consequences after protest against the death of two kids and the second is the display of currency bundles in the Lok Sabha. We know the roots and the extent of corruption and conspiracies are not easy to find. But the contemporary methods of ill-behaviour are ingenuous. So called ‘sadhaks’ of Asaram came out with weapons, got violent openly on roads and vandalized residents’ belongings. In Delhi, some MPs displayed bundles of currency notes in Lok Sabha during trust vote, not giving a single thought for dignity of the Parliament, dignity of the democracy! They colored India’s face black to the whole world and wrote a black day in Indian history. As I just previously mentioned, that I doubt if there’s any line to be crossed as I cannot even dream about worse things. But as the fact, we can see unimaginable things keep happening every other day.

More or less, we all behave analogously, be it in private or public. At times, we do not care the expressions we send across are very harmful and unfavorable to many. If we look at the example of the cyclist (Part 2: Roses – Immobilized Khaki) who did not hang back before insulting the traffic officer, did not think whether he’s in fault or not and rashly started abusing and threatening in public. Being candid would also involve that one wouldn’t even be bothered for his own decorum being grounded. Swearing, shouting, making filthy comments and gestures to women, offending others in public, bullying the weak – all these are everyday and everywhere. The vision has to be changed from eyes and to be reached to the mind. We must start looking inside ourselves. We have to start seeing others equally and understand the importance of their existence too. I am resisting the notion of ‘Kaliyug’ as I didn’t much believed in. We don’t have to act accordingly either to prove the commencement of ‘Kaliyug’. Let us preserve ourselves as humans (‘Manav’) and re-establish an undivided and complete ‘Manav Yug’.

 

Related Articles:
Guns & Roses – Part 1: Guns – Memo No. 1!
Guns & Roses – Part 2: Roses for Immobilized Khaki

Morality Declines!

Children are the real asset of the country. How much care we are taking of our national wealth? The beauty of childhood has lost over parents’ hyper-sensitive approach for their children’s success, be it in school examination or in a curriculum competition. Success at any cost! There was a time, mothers sang poems and fathers swung their children in parks. Sparing designated time to children’s study as a part of daily routine for parents. Utmost they could do is to provide extra tuitions and expecting more hard work from kids in order to reach the top results. But the appetite for success has gone beyond limits.

Students are at immense pressure and it is more than ever. They spend hours at school, go for tuitions, spend their evening at learning swimming, cricket, singing, dancing or playing piano and then piles of home work and practice. Parents do not want their child to fall second in anything. We made up our minds before some time believing that it is a competitive age with the growing population and flooding opportunities in our country. We understood the seriousness of the contest in every domain. But we are facing moral decline against achieving success. It has been observed over the years that human morality is touching grounds in some cases, where people are vulnerable to any inhuman
act. Money can buy anything and anything could be done to make money. This modern philosophy is seemingly eradicating moral values in this generation of people.

As we have seen in recent board examinations in Gujarat, how money and power tried to rule over the ethos of education system. Last few days were completely shocking which ruined the trust over education system and teachers. We are yet to come over the pain of Patan incident. Teachers are playing evils and parents train their kids how to get success at any cost. Most basic sources of learning in a human’s preliminary life are not performing pure. Provocative media, conspiracies in public life, nudity served in news papers, pushing boundaries of entertainment world, and hardcore technological life style – all these have made our children grown before time and have left them with no ethical and disciplinary education. ‘Innocence’ has been isolated from children. Being responsible entities of the society we all – parents, teachers and all of us are accountable for it. It is in our hands, what we want our kids to be. The society expects and we are to decide between raising a clean human or encouraging corrupted success.

Sneh
Ahmedabad | 19 March 2008

A Little About Lending

India is the place to be. Growing economy, developing businesses and booming employment. Survey said Indian youth seems the happiest in the World and enthusiastic as well, and obviously the reasons are mentioned. They are more financially adventurous than before. India is experiencing lending boom which is a well-known characteristic of an economically growing institution. Banking sector has gone beyond the horizons and we are having a huge number of Business entities providing loans, mortgages and credit services. It has became more easier for a common man to reach his pictured dreams of having a beautiful house in a  suburb, having an A-class car in the front patio and having all technological joy-toys. Where do all these things lead to? Recently, Britain’s Northern Rock has faced a tremendous crisis. They asked the Bank of England to cover the crisis and that means heavy money. Due to the democratic policies it is all transparent to the general public. Hundreds of people queued up to withdraw their life savings and they could not convience themselves even though the British Government assured that their money is safe.

People withdrew nearly 3 to 4 billion pounds in 3 days and more are awaited. Result, it gets worse. Northern Rocks shares are broken by 58%. The government is calling it an international crisis but it is solely a British constitution and it has nothing do with any of the international economic event. The complete blame goes to the Northern Rock management and they did not control the way it went to that stage. And in fact, over 500,000 owe more than 20,000 pounds in one or the other way. (Source: BBC News UK website).
In India, it may be just the beginning. It has happened before as well and we have seen the crowds not the queues in front of broken banks. The scene was significantly smaller. As recently read in a local newspaper, borrowing money from the banking societies and other financial bodies has been easier nowadays. You just have to providing proof of address, proof of identity and salary slips and you will get the loan by end of the day if it is not a huge amount. Financial companies are not the less to do anything to get the customers Who invest the money as well. Home loans, business loans, personal loans and car loans, we know them all. But let’s hear some more, loans for home appliances, electronics, furniture and many more. More amazingly, people are buying cooking oil and grains with the installments like ten rupees a month. People are not hesitated to borrow money for anything. It sounds a positive change if we take the availability of the resources in account, to everyone and it also leads to a standard living style for a common man, but just the external. Consequences are not foreseen yet.

We are not unaware about the outrageous national debt. It is true that we are an upcoming economy but still we don’t have enough resources to cover any huge crisis as such. Financial Companies are making most it, and there is nothing wrong but they must be sure to whom they are lending and how much they should!? Government also must have the control over financial activities around the country. We will not be able to appreciate any crisis as such but till then enjoy the credits; I call it plastic money…

Sneh Bhavsar
London, 21 September 2007