It is said that if you are under the age of 25 and you are not a socialist, you don’t have a heart and if you have crossed the age of 25 and you are still a socialist you don’t have a head. Maybe, India is no longer a young country and that it has started growing a head of its own; I would rather be a person with a heart than one with the head. Human values, relationships, emotional bonding, all seem to have lost their significance in this blind race for economic development
It all started when the home makers, the true foundation-stone of the family, the women folks who took care of the house and the household things were equated with the beggars in the economic surveys. As a result, we have thousands of ladies who leave behind their homes in search of a solace by the name of economic, or should we call social, worth. But, it is really worth?
We grew up as kids when our mothers used to look after our well-beings. We used to be happy to return home from our schools and colleges; we could share our experiences, our day to day happenings with someone who was ours and someone whom we always took up as our own. Today, we try to find quality time with our children, usually taking them to outings of our own likings as we hardly have time to understand the special interests and aspirations of our kids. If one is lucky enough to have the grandparents stay together, the children still get to learn a lot what we now cherish; else the economics makes it less important. Again, bringing us back to the same old question, how important is economic worth over the human worth of an individual?P.S.: I had shared an old mail through this blog on the situation of persons in Kashmir. The original mail was sent on February 12, 2003. For more, read on!
