Empowerment is the real solution......!

At first I would like to thanks the proposer of this wonderful idea for the topic of Indi spire, and yes I would like to express my thoughts on such a good social issue. 

We live in the world, cruel, harsh world, most of the people are busy in running, getting things done as soon as possible, trying to accumulate money, power and all worldly things in life. May be you or me too are included in such category of people. But its not your or mine fault. In such fast changing world, the person who doesn’t put his effort for his own development, will be left behind in the rat race.

You might be thinking, I have deviated from the topic. Have patience. I m not.

My point is if a man is busy in fulfilling his own wishes, what difference between him and animals is. They are even better, as they think for their whole herd. So every person should look back, look below ours, there are lots of ppl may be who are unable to eat two time meal, unable to find two pairs of clothes, unable to find a roof over their head. Doesn’t it our collective responsibility, or doesn’t it the responsibility of the society to uplift the poor or underprivileged class present between us???

Yes it is…..is should be….!

The next question comes how???

The fast ready made solution that comes in our mind, if we feel pity for them, and decided to do something for them, is to make donation to NGOs or do charity like give some donation in temples, give money, clothes and other valuables to beggars or very poor people. 

The second option, not so cheesy one is do empower such people, do something that will enhance their skill sets so that they would be able to make their living with dignity.

The first one seems so easy, and may be donor will quite satisfaction and proud to just distribute it, 
I am not against it, may be some persons would be so needy and unable to do their work, that they may not survive, for such type of people, helping directly is fine, but what about people, who are capable of doing their work. It may increase the habit of begging and depending upon the charity. If a person is habituated to see towards others for help, maybe he is capable, he just need particular skills,  what good he will do for him or society, he will be only become burden on all. My point is it will create more and more beggars. Another example of donation is to give it to some NGO, but the point is , are they using the money in correct way? Most of them are doing the same fast readymade solution. Distributing to people. 
But how many times you can feed a person? Again he will be hungry. How many time you will cover a person, some day he will again need clothes, how many time you will give a person shelter, again he will need another one.

So the first solution can’t be a permanent one, and it may do more bad than good. 

So the steady and slow but effective solution is the second one. Empowerment, skill development. If you teach a poor person a skill that helps him to earn bread for him and his family, he will not need to beg or you will not need to give him again some donation. It will not only solve the problem of poverty, it will add a sense of self respect in that person also. And off course a working person adds his contribution not only in his own development, his family development but overall in country development. If every person tries to do his work according to his skill, that will change the face of the country. Help a child to get education, help an adult to get some professional skills, help a women to understand importance of family education, these works will not give immediate result, but when they give, that will be permanent. 

Even I see, most of the government schemes these days are of same nature, giving money or other things directly, instead of that, if the government plan to enhance the skill sets of every persons, it will help the country achieve new height.    

So instead of giving direct donation, we would try to help a person to gain some good skills or try to empower him/her that may change him not only financially, but also emotionally and socially.  

  

Basic needs of a typical indian...!!!

I remember some lines of an unknown poet: “Subah hoti hai , saam hoti h; Jindai yu hi tamam hoti”.

I never thought deeply about the meaning of those lines, why someone wrote like this. But now in this transition phase of life, I think I begin to understand meaning of those. Going to office and coming back and don’t know how whole day passes so quickly. Even week passes so fast and I only remember one day that is Sunday. It’s my day, when I can do what I want. Sometime whole Sunday I sleep, even I don’t go to take breakfast or lunch. Sometime whole day I spent time on my laptop, watching movies. Sometime I don’t even know, how to kill Sunday.

“Interesting, satisfying, good Job”

It’s very unrelated and manipulative term: Good Job.

People say: No one like his/her job. No job is exciting and challenging enough to keep you engaged for a long time. Sometime I think I have become cut-off from the fast dynamic running world.  Spending your life in some remote village type area, where networks of most reliable companies doesn’t guarantee you that you will have undisrupted call, forget about getting good internet broadband connection. Even how much time you will spent on internet and laptop. Life has become so dull, where you can’t get even basic facilities of life, don’t get confused about basic facilities.

You are right “ROTI, KAPDA AUR MAKAN”. That’s it.

ROTI:

Eating food in a mess, that prepares really messy food, it’s hard to recognise, which vegetable is in the curry and which are not. And taste, after eating food at mess from previous 2-3 years, I think my taste buds have forgot their functioning. They just sleep somewhere, when I eat. There is not their fault. Any day, any time the taste of food is same, going to mess to have food is included in duty. A forced ascetic life, away from all worldly pleasures. Sometime I feel, I am very hungry but as soon as I go to mess, and eat one or two bite, the kind of food they prepare, I feel I can’t eat anymore. There is also no any chance to have any alternatives. Outside living area, at the distance of 1 km, lies a very small market, where you can get only samosas, fried in oil that is how many days old, even shopkeeper can’t tell you. In college days, I used to think, money can buy anything, but It’s wrong. When you are staying at a very remote place, even you can’t buy a good food, no to think about other luxury.

KAPDA:

2-3 shops of clothes, and they don’t have any branded materials. It’s again no choice. Either go to some nearby town 4-5 hrs away and buy from there. Again my sense of clothing has declined. It’s like I wear anything just to fulfil the requirement of body for clothes.

MAKAN:

Buildings are old but how much old, don’t know. Plasters of walls fall any day any time, from walls, from roof top.  Damp rooms, moist racks. It fulfils only purpose of having a roof above your head, and people are fighting for those also, as there is scarcity of those quarters also.

Was this I aspired for?? No..never, but I think in positive way and then I get amused at my thought. Atleast I have basics: “Roti, Kapda aur Makan” in India, where most of junta spent their life in pursuit of these things only, forget about other needs and taste of life. I am quite better than those people. I am fortunate enough. Then I sarcastically laugh at my new found truth and begin to pen down these realities of my life.

Transition state…!

Transition state…! 

Whenever anything, may be living or non-living undergoes in transition phase…it is unstable and critical stage of his life time..... In case of human being, do you know the most critical and transition time? It is in the age of 25-30 years. When you have spent 4-5 years away from your graduation…..but still you relish your college life……you undergo pressure from everyone to get settled in life……marriage, money, property, work……it seems life is running faster than ever…

4 years of graduation seems like an era….a life time, and now, how 4 years spent so fast, it’s like yesterday I joined my job, but it doesn’t excite me anymore. College life was much better than this life. At that time may be I didn’t have much money to buy high range branded accessories, and I dreamt of time when I will have job and buy what I want, but now this things seem very unimportant, invaluable,. I am fed up with myself. This f**king Job. This f**king place.

is it i aspired for??? and i am still searching the answers....!!