As our office group had lunch together, we jumped from one topic of discussion to another, and soon we were talking about the favourite topic of all Indians – the politics and the poverty in India. While we all voiced our concerns, and shared real life incidents of how we had seen poverty and disease afflict our society, a colleague made an interesting observation.
To quote – “In our country, the rivers are holy, the mountains are venerated, plants are worshipped, animals are sacred, land is precious, stone idols and televised mythological serials and their actors recieve awed devotion, and even machines and tools are sanctified; its only the human being who is classified as untouchable!”
India sure is a strange country, where human life has little value.
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arunima Says:
September 12th, 2008 at 11:27 AMvery good one.
Manasa Says:
September 13th, 2008 at 11:56 PMNot only in India, there are discrimination world-wide based on complexion, rich-poor etc…
Aneesha Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 7:38 AM@Manasa, totally agree abt the worldwide perspective, but its mostly the South East Asian countries where the value of life is least sacred as compared to issues dealing from language to worship.
Nirmalya Says:
September 14th, 2008 at 11:18 PMVery true…..