Yesterday I was walking by a flyover and I saw a girl who was sleeping on a footpath,it was raining heavily and she only had a thin blanket to protect herself yet she still slept, I looked the other side and a BMW went past. Growth is the BMW, whereas development will be when you and I rise to bridge the gap between the two India's that exist today. One which we try out best to shun and ignore, hoping it would suddenly disappear someday soon,and the other which we all are or aspire to be in.
Does the Capitalism in our economy prevent the eradication of poverty?! I think to some extent it does as the economy in India is largely based on the availability of poor & cheap labor and we need this tool to grow,such growth will not bring about development but is definitely showing us the need for development.When we read the papers the figures of Inflation,Poverty and Unemployment are just figures to us as they hardly have an effect on us but for millions out their it is the story of their life in one figure.
A very popular saying goes as follows ' Ignorance is Bliss ' is that true or just something a lazy man invented to hide his shortcomings.I have been through times where i used this to support my behavior and at times I would cringe seeing some one else's ignorance,so when i say this it does not mean I am ignorant, truth is we all are,we just choose to remember and see what suits us and would want to see what we like to see.Sometimes we need to look inside ourselves and see beyond. As the Beatles said
''When you look beyond yourself
You may just find,
Peace of mind is waiting there''
We are just a drop of paint,
yet sometimes the whole painting
Amen.
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