We, 'The Best of Worlds', stumbled in our success stories, forget that the thousands of acres of thriving and breath taking campuses equipped with world class facilities where we study or the economic zones or areas where the companies we will go or are funding our departments are setup, are actually built on the lands taken forcibly from some less powered people who fell victim of the changing power dynamics.
We, diving in the glory of our brilliance, in the blind faith that the facilities or comforts, we are enjoying are well earned results of our own hard works, always remain ignorant of the price paid by people nearby.
Don't forget that the place where we live or where we will go one day, once belonged to some less fortunate families of the ages who used to grow their food here and feed their little ones. The land, taken away from them in the exchange of a mere job promise which neither can build their capacity for a world of expensive food processed in the companies set up on their own lands nor can provide them any alternative to feed their child.
I wasn't aware of the fact that you write so well...a pleasant surprise!
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly do you wish to pinpoint in the post? What is the solution that you suggest for this? Or is it simply aimed at making the fellow IITians humble?
carry on,dude......good beginning....exactly wat i was expectin out of ur first post.....actually we do need to sometimes stop thinkin of ourselves as the centre of d entire world....if not for d world,atleast for our own good........lookin frwrd to more incisive and soul searching stuff from the swaminathan aiyar of technocracy
ReplyDelete@Nikhil: Well its not some internal torment. Its a well analysed contemprary problem, one of the eight millenium development goals, adressed to a targeted audience capable enough of solving it, just presented in a different manner in order to attract its target audience in best possible manner.
ReplyDelete@Prachi: thanks!! ya i do have a solution in mind, which i am hoping to present in next blog.
@Gaurav: thanks!!! those words are really encouraging
Then I would more enjoy reading the next blog.
ReplyDeleteSorry but I did not understand the meaning of what you wanted to depict.Surely you wrote nice but it would have been great if you could have also mentioned where then IITK should have been made.Is there a place which is near a city(for many reasons necessary) and which would not involve the problem you mentioned here.I feel that this problem will always be there untill the poor can buy their own land and not live in any abandoned place and inhabit it so large that people call it as a village which actually is still unsold by government.So government does reserve the right to evacuate them away and it is morally too sufficient to promise a job.
We should get away from the habit of pointing mistakes of someone who is trying and making mistakes and see problems where nothing is done.At least a job is promised here there would be many places where they are just removed and they get nothing.
I did not want to hurt your sentiments and surely you would have an explanation as I must have misunderstood something.Waiting for your reply(and more importantly some solution(real and not on words)).
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Our fate weaved by deeds of our own parents has bought us to a place where we stand today. However not everyone is so lucky enough to be gifted with such compatible or favourable conditions. We can't change their fates but what we can change are the conditions. We need to give them a proper share of their lands or their parental properties in the form of stake in the profits generated. We should devise such policies so that companies will develop such ecosystems which will took care of young generations of natives of that place. So that young faces of tomorrow can bring a new fate to their families and their people.
ReplyDeleteThis will be beneficial for the entire nation