I
stand COMPLETELY UNHAPPY at this point of time, say at the beginning of the
year 2013!
We
began the year 2012 with much fanfare, jubilation, and greeting each other
happiness, prosperity, and good health.
But unfortunately, the end of 2012 looked as if it had the right to dash
all our wishes and happiness.
What
a turbulent and painful year it was-the year filled with all sorts of ugly,
cruel, nasty and unpleasant events! What
do these events reflect? They reflect the fact that our society is still
largely uncivilised and the minority civilised in our society collectively and
miserably failed to protect the women and vulnerable from the barbaric acts of
the uncivilised. This goes without saying that our political elites
historically failed to ‘gender sensitise people’ resulting in rapes and
violence against women.
Although
I stand completely unhappy at the beginning of 2013, I do hope and wish that
this year will be free from such barbaric acts.
Yes, I understand that the hopes and wishes attain their real meaning
only when every one of us in the society makes conscious and concerted efforts.
Now the moot question is whether we are ready to put in such efforts to make
our system free from violence and exploitation of the vulnerable! If yes, then
I will wait till the end of this year to see if I am still unhappy!
Selvam
Velangani Manickam
Our world always has been uncivilized. Misery always has loomed over humanity. But in the past 5 years (since you wrote this article), our imperfect world has become even more disastrous. It's because of the global threat of over-consumption and greed. Political, economical, and social complexities have surfaced because of our obsession with materialistic things. And on top of it, we have start to equate democracy with capitalism. Obviously dangerous social problems are going to arise.
ReplyDeleteShould we be unhappy about it.
I think we should be furious - so that we can at least think of becoming the instrument for change. It's OK if this change happens at a very small level. Individual efforts are needed for change - problem is that we want others to make changes for us.