...Of life and death
…..Of Life and Death
In a world of advancement, education, technology, and competition, it is tragic to see the worth of everything being assessed in time and money. The fact that is appalling is that we humans –Gods so called Greatest Creations have started to include life and death in this genre.
Gone are the days when a birth was celebrated with happiness and the beginning of new life cherished by all or when the loss of someone set holocaust of sadness and trauma over all. Its’ money and probably power that speaks today. Well if you are rich and powerful and have got those thick crispy notes at your disposal, hallelujahs! Coz you don’t need to worry about your life –it’ll stick to you, but if you barely survive on some scrums of food that’s just too bad for you ….or shall we say that fate favors the rich and the powerful too!
And why not? After all who would want to see gruesome reality in its complete nakedness of downtrodden, hunger and poverty bitten helpless people when you have the fancies and the glitters of your riches?
Is this what we term as a “Progressing World?” I surely hope not! Coz no nation can claim its progress where the poor become poorer and the rich richer. In India where our present political leaders have foreign doctors and medical facilities at their disposal, we don’t even have proper and basic health and hygiene amenities for the poor.
Where the poor have an obscure significance of their mere existence and are only given attention around the election time of the year by our political leaders who are nothing more than a bunch of necromancies feeding on the masses. Do we still consider ourselves to be progressing towards a better future and a better tomorrow? If yes! Well then I and many few like me need to update our vocabulary on this new meaning of progress, but if not so, then, the question that remains still unanswered is: how many lives more would it take to satisfy ‘their’ hunger pangs? Can ‘WE’ stop it before it’s too late?
-Sakshi
In a world of advancement, education, technology, and competition, it is tragic to see the worth of everything being assessed in time and money. The fact that is appalling is that we humans –Gods so called Greatest Creations have started to include life and death in this genre.
Gone are the days when a birth was celebrated with happiness and the beginning of new life cherished by all or when the loss of someone set holocaust of sadness and trauma over all. Its’ money and probably power that speaks today. Well if you are rich and powerful and have got those thick crispy notes at your disposal, hallelujahs! Coz you don’t need to worry about your life –it’ll stick to you, but if you barely survive on some scrums of food that’s just too bad for you ….or shall we say that fate favors the rich and the powerful too!
And why not? After all who would want to see gruesome reality in its complete nakedness of downtrodden, hunger and poverty bitten helpless people when you have the fancies and the glitters of your riches?
Is this what we term as a “Progressing World?” I surely hope not! Coz no nation can claim its progress where the poor become poorer and the rich richer. In India where our present political leaders have foreign doctors and medical facilities at their disposal, we don’t even have proper and basic health and hygiene amenities for the poor.
Where the poor have an obscure significance of their mere existence and are only given attention around the election time of the year by our political leaders who are nothing more than a bunch of necromancies feeding on the masses. Do we still consider ourselves to be progressing towards a better future and a better tomorrow? If yes! Well then I and many few like me need to update our vocabulary on this new meaning of progress, but if not so, then, the question that remains still unanswered is: how many lives more would it take to satisfy ‘their’ hunger pangs? Can ‘WE’ stop it before it’s too late?
-Sakshi
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