When i was a bit more young, whenever i used to see pictures of USA, it was easy for me to spot the differences. The beggars where different. They were richer and fewer than ours. The roads were clean. Stray dogs, cats were few than ours. It made me think. I was never good in those financial/social theories and never understood them well. Much later, one day i realized that one thing which happens there and does not happen here! It snows over there!
What will happen if it suddenly snows in Kolkata? Or India at large? The beggars will die. They will freeze to death. The positive thing is that they will die white! White as dead fishes. The poverty line will no more ashame us. Population in turn will reduce. Alcohol consumption will increase and give people a pinkish tone. The sun wont burn as brown anymore. We may even turn white!
Now come to the political canvas. We will have young politicians in the lead. Like that we see abroad. The cold will slowly but surely reduce the number of aged politicians. They also wont have to take all the trouble to wear national dresses in parliaments. As that surely wont kill the cold. They can wear western clothes, develop India like the western countries. They wont need to give stupid excuses as they give now, to bring foreign aristocracies. Young politicians, with relatively less days in politics, will naturally have a better resume, with less crime records.
That snowfall may cover the India we knew. It may be there preserved under the ice like dead fishes. At least it wont decompose. What we are seeing know, is it not worse than that? They are making the progress slow. Taking the steps in a way so that there wont be any return. Not even in children s' story books. Because they, along with the progress are also changing the people to accept it. Forcing them to think that "this" is natural. But how can we blame them? Its not there fault that "nature" is very much there in the word natural.
What will happen if it suddenly snows in Kolkata? Or India at large? The beggars will die. They will freeze to death. The positive thing is that they will die white! White as dead fishes. The poverty line will no more ashame us. Population in turn will reduce. Alcohol consumption will increase and give people a pinkish tone. The sun wont burn as brown anymore. We may even turn white!
Now come to the political canvas. We will have young politicians in the lead. Like that we see abroad. The cold will slowly but surely reduce the number of aged politicians. They also wont have to take all the trouble to wear national dresses in parliaments. As that surely wont kill the cold. They can wear western clothes, develop India like the western countries. They wont need to give stupid excuses as they give now, to bring foreign aristocracies. Young politicians, with relatively less days in politics, will naturally have a better resume, with less crime records.
That snowfall may cover the India we knew. It may be there preserved under the ice like dead fishes. At least it wont decompose. What we are seeing know, is it not worse than that? They are making the progress slow. Taking the steps in a way so that there wont be any return. Not even in children s' story books. Because they, along with the progress are also changing the people to accept it. Forcing them to think that "this" is natural. But how can we blame them? Its not there fault that "nature" is very much there in the word natural.
3 comments:
Too easy a solution!
In Canada, you've instances of poor people freezing during winter in the parks or in abandoned buildings without heating facilities. Migrant poor from East Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, makes up most of the poor in that country, who survive each winter, and have their numbers multiplied.
In some northern and north-eastern states of India,too, many poor people die, but there are more who survive the snowfalls.
In case of a massive and continual snow fall, there will be panic, but life will go on as usual.
The problems you list go much deeper...
Sorry for my lack of research. I apologize. It is also true that I wrote it in a way of a person who have no resources other than some pictures of the two places. It was just a thought from a child, who just flips through the pages of the newspapers and is yet to grow interest in reading the columns. As example I was considering only one country. I think the fault was there. As a child its common to consider USA as "the abroad". I should have kept in mind that when something changes, it can change into anything.
Still i think i have some points related to the post and your comment, which we can discuss upon.
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