Somebody once told me that small businessmen in villages or towns who thought they were influential, who were once rich by their own right and arrogant because of their wealth, are fading away because now nobody cares for their wealth. I find this applies to zamindars too. I have seen once-rich-and-feared zamindars losing their teeth like old, frail tigers because nobody cares for their wealth or fears them anymore in their own villages. I have seen the poor who once worked as slaves under the zamindars, now openly defy them. This is the natural course of globalisation and commercialisation, you don't need naxalism for this. The landlords are being slowly replaced by these two factors. I wish to know your opinions on this.
'Caught in a strange land in a net with other butterflies, I'm a caterpillar yet undecided to remain a caterpillar and perish or turn into a beautiful butterfly and live a life full of joy.' Readers don't laugh. But I came up with this one night recently when I was travelling in a train. I tossed and turned, not being able to sleep, upset over unexplainable things and frustrated over events not in my control. Then it occurred to me that our life and its usefulness depends on our decisions -- whether to remain a crawling caterpillar whose existence otherwise is either ignored by all and sundry or who is cursed for just being there and thrown out with a stick, or to develop wings of life and metamorphose into a beautiful butterfly whom everybody adores for its beauty and colour, for its flitting liveliness, for its service to the flower's pollination... I thought that I should be a butterfly, of service to others, but then again I thought, anyway, who really cares?
Yes, can summarise that in one sentence- power of free market.
ReplyDeleteOur socialists politicians never seem to understand it, thats why we still don't have perfect free market. What we have is regulations, conditions, protections and licences (for them to make money). Not qualified enough to talk about naxals present agenda.