I believe the Socialist Republics of the world failed because they gave too much importance to the lazy poor, not the poor people who worked hard and yet failed to earn enough to sustain themselves. I see the same thing happening here in India. I see mobiles with fancy ringtones and wallpapers, tight jeans and even bikes with young men of the poorer class. And the government gives out rice at Re. 1/kg for them, allowing them to spend the rest Rs. 99 on luxury rather than necessity. They work for a day, earn enough to tide them through the next few days of non-working, loitering around in tea shops and then go to work only when that money runs out. They neither save for the future nor worry about it. Why don't our youth have a commitment towards work and its ethics?
Guess I am out of touch with everything right now, so no blog entry for many days. From many days, a question is bothering me. I haven't found a satisfactory answer yet. So I'll write it down here. Maybe anybody who reads this may know the answer. "Just because we are journalists, writers, opinion creators and thinkers, do we have the right to judge others? Either personally or professionally?" I think we don't have the right to judge a person, even if we are right. But as writers, we would have to judge others whether we like it or not. And it's very difficult forcing people to think, but that's what we are doing or pretending to be doing right? Another question: "How come life is so simple if you just let it live by itself without bothering much and so complicated if you try to manipulate it or even understand it?" Blessed are the ignorant. We who can understand everything, try not to let anything go by without understanding and thus miss the b
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