Mass illiteracy

Political Science was one of my subjects up to graduation, my last landmark in traditional studies. After that my studies were limited to the vocational fields or fields of personal interest.

I was quite intrigued to know that Indian constitution have been borrowed from the constitution of UK and USA, two greatest landmarks of democracy. Then the next question immediately popped up, why are we such a failure in their comparison then? It opened a window of search in my mind. This forever searches and improves itself.

We can’t deny one thing that we have achieved a lot, but still we are failing in some grounds. Especially in the ground of human rights. My search window says the main reason behind this failure is most of Indians are not aware of their own human rights. So it’s easy to steal it from them. If someone left me a box of jewels without telling me its mine I will not care much if someone steals it. But if I knew that they are mine I will take care of it and most probably protect it too.

It somehow again points the fingers back to ourselves, the minority people of India who are educated and politically aware. The majority of Indians who live under poverty level and are illiterate/semiliterate act as a man handcuffed with us, who have rock tied around their neck, rock of illiteracy, poverty As a result we both sink together.

We will never be able to swim unless we free them from that rock called poverty and illiteracy. We will have to swim together to reach the shores.

Either we will have to ensure that they receive the necessary knowledge or we will have to share that knowledge with them. Living as a social animal is not a very easy thing to do. We have a collective responsibility towards each other. If we stand for each other we walk together for a greater future, if we fail each other we both fall together.

Making reservations under quota is hardly the solution. Giving money and power to a person who cant handle it is the worst mistake a society can make. If you want to give a person money and power you should first make him capable of digesting it. We can see that history has proved its authenticity through communism.

If we take a bird out of cage and set it free it will perish, because it will never be able to adjust itself to the immense responsibility that comes with liberty.

This is a lesson we can learn from our own society if we introspect seriously.