Today India is celebrating its 60th birthday. Now India is poised to take the world to the next level of growth, this is the rhetoric given by our leaders from across the board. But if we agree that numbers never belie the truth then when I always spell India then I always reminds ‘Irony’. And this cynicism always preludes all discussion about India’s growth rather the ‘inclusive growth’ ensuring equitable distribution of wealth.
In my previous blog while reviewing the book of Mr Edward Luce I could feel the strong undercurrent of emotion he hatched for India and its people. He could realize that on one hand if the fire to conquer the world is growing in intensity inside the stomach of Indian `Business Entrepreneurs` our `Social Entrepreneurs `have similar urge to extinguish it. When, I talk about `Social Entrepreneurs` I talk about the group who have a mandate to ensure equitable distribution of social assets.
As per majority of studies at present India has more than 40 million kids in the age bracket of 6-14 are out of schools. You can find them across your car window, bus side pan, traffic lights, housing societies, road side eateries and every where your eye can rummage them. You can find them as sellers of such merchandize never to be used by them, provider of such cuisine never to assay how it tastes, showing some tricks of summersault never to enjoy how they appear from a distance. This is what I call as irony?
Sometimes I wonder are not they be feeling jealous for their `extra ordinary` siblings peeping at them from the car window warming their heads in the lap of their parents? What about their own dreams and aspirations? Are those still alive at some corner of their heart or that been reduced to ashes the moment they open their eyes in the filthy squatters of their known or unknown parents.
When I think how they will accept the society or vice-versa when they will grow up is a question which always raise goose bumps inside out in my heart and brain. Today I am working with a public sector company earning a good amount of money by spending only a reasonable time of my daily routine still I am not happy considering the fact that what about tomorrow if the company will be in red but what about the hapless citizens I am discussing they do not even know whether whole of their day long activity will earn them a decent square meal or not!
This is the problem part what is the solution then? Of course the solution is not at a swipe of magical wand of Harry Potter. The path is long and difficult and it is in our hand. Each of us if can take care of a half a child's need I think we can change the world for majority of them. But the important fact is who will begin?
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