CHANGE MAKERS

When it comes to elucidate divides in India, I really find myself too lean and inadequate since there is too much in its history and barrage of trails in the present. Should I start with the social divide in post ancient India arising the concept of caste which was originally based on profession but afterwards turned into a conventional loathsome practice boring deep roots in the democracy as well. Or should I mortalise the bitter fact once again that religious divide in India still has the efficacy to rip off and burn all the developments and achievements of a nation into dross and ashes of anguish and disputations. Believe it or not India has always been divided at one point of time which multiplies in each period. And every disparity, be it social, economical, religious or self borne has done no good to us as a nation.

If as a noble, conscious and responsible citizen we offer ourselves in dwindling anyone of theses divides to an extent of ecstasy, we might consider ourselves change-makers.

What a spiritual or a moral guru says about self-practices to improve the quality of life of self and then of people who make societies and nation is something like start the charity from your own home and effects will be dispelled outside. The national movements which take on social evils as their target to eradicate and cobble, demand the participation of the nation to make them most effective and fruitful. The protests in different manners for socio-economic good led by gritty people who are truly unbiased and apolitical may be referred as one of the most courageous steps towards budging for a perfect world they often envision. People like Binayak Sen emerge time to time to fight for the mass which is powerless and bogged down under the weight of liabilities and radicalised mindsets throwing an open thought in the air that we really need change: change in our fossilised thinking, change in the approach towards attending simplest problems, change in the purpose. But unfortunately such people many times fail to make any difference and even after getting dilapidated and subjugated become a forgotten case.

To avoid sudden freak, changes may be done starting from the datum level. It is an irony that India definitely has many levels of that kind and at each level we can find number of cankers still stealing the soul of the nation. Exemplifying, a sugar coated term for the exchange of gifts among the alliances in lieu of exchange of faith and beliefs also popularly known as dowry, where self respect that something we earn, dies, still dwells fearlessly in Indian society. In name of carrying on the legacy of the ancestors that divided themselves on the basis of colours of the skins and their legacies, caste system has still its roots deep in the minds of dogged people. When everyone having the primary education mugs by heart that violence and aggressiveness is not from our cultural hierarchy and still we cry upon foeticide and domestic violence, we are the most dangerous species of mankind holding a mask on the face with a demon inside. The intricacies of such evils can be diluted by having a self consciousness among ourselves on behalf of young generation that what we do, what we intend to do and what we may do has an impact on the world around us. A life without a stain is not impossible to have. Everyone can do at least things towards every little thing they think should change the way it is and these changes will prove that we care for humanity and the glory of human being. With a little immunity towards insult and humiliation, we can empower ourselves in rationalising the thoughts and cleaning the dust over the skin of our own surrounding where tomorrow next generation will move on the trails left behind.

Parenting for illustration is a kind of movement when we fight for the good of someone we truly love and care. Children are the blind followers with least idea at the beginning of the logics and reasoning. But the inputs to them not only come from the family but from the society in the most effective manner. So if they are lying, deviating, ‘changing’ then it is totally us culpable of distorting the shape of our own future. Youth of every age is the force of desire and needs a direction from the leaders of the society. Creating examples and principled benchmarks by paying off the value of our education at personal and social levels induces a hope that perfection is on its way and the change would be seen when we start assessing the potential in everyone to fight against every injustice or abuse or activities that pollutes the ambience.

Not every time we get a chance to correct our lives because life is a boomerang; everything comes back. Sometimes despite of hard efforts mistakes are never compromised and are done at the stake of moral loss.

“Words strike till they are being read but deeds strike to make a hole in the heart forever.”