With over 2500 rupees in the fund that I’ve been collecting, I’m really happy today. By the way wishing all of you a very happy and prosperous and a memorable Diwali. Today is Bhaubij. The day for the brothers and sisters all over the world. Anyway I’m not here to talk about that. My topic for today being, poverty and employment.
You know. today my dad and I were at a sweet shop to pick up some sweets for the last day of Diwali, and one of those gypsies who hit themselves with that hideous belt and play that weird drum, came up to us and asked for money. Frankly speaking I’ve always been a little afraid of them. So she kept on insisting us for money, till my dad had overcome with pity and shoved a 10Rs note in her hand. In general, the percentage of people suffering from poverty is very high in India. On every street, outside temples and public places, near crowds, etc, there are a lot of beggars to be seen. I think that instead of just asking people for alms ad money, these people should try to earn their bread and butter. But no, these people have gotten too lazy.
Today when I was at my aunt’s place, my dad and my uncle were discussing about the small but money-earning jobs in India. These jobs like providing food in offices, selling flowers, washing vehicles, babysitting household jobs, gardening, cleaning, helping, etc do not need much of labour and skill. Yet these jobs can provide a satisfactory income to the needy. But lack of willpower to work has immuned this people to working.
Also you know you read in newspapers or watch on television about rackets where these people send innocent children and women to beg, and ten collect money in wrong ways. They come together in groups, assign areas for themselves and collect huge amounts of money in a very very wrong way. And due to this we don’t even know, whom to believe in such cases. Today people have to think more than twice before reaching for their wallets to give money to the poor. I think this has had a huge impact on the social-service-ness of people and their caring attitude. We cannot simply tell the difference between the genuine and the fake ones. A pitiful condition indeed.
-Aparna
5.11.13
Save Ourselves 