When I hear of the hardship of the poor and experience at first-hand their economic privation, I feel that we as a nation ought to live a more frugal life to help these less fortunate ones survive the ordeal of all-encompassing poverty that afflicts them, reducing them to mere beasts of burden. All wastage of effort, energy and resources must be assiduously avoided if we are to collectively rise as a nation whose citizens are happily provided for with the basic means for healthy living.
Imagine living perennially on the borderline of destitution and, in contrast, contemplate as well the abominable wastage of wealth by the rich and the upper middle classes in the pursuit of their pleasures of life. Could we not do something about it, each one of us, to ameliorate the privation of the poor, these divinities whose labour produces the wealth of the world but who are deprived ever of their fair share of the fruits of their labour? Of what avail is piety if it be not productive in human terms, if it be indifferent to the tyranny of the times when capital rules conscience out of the human equation?
Those that pride themselves in being labelled devotees must take up cudgels now to redress the situation that is going noxious by the day as billions get ground to the dust by the increasing number of billionaires who care not for the tears of the tormented that suffer the yoke of servitude to humour the leisure of their merciless masters. It is time now to act and no more merely analyse and interpret and delay action thereof. If tears must flow, let them flow from our eyes in sympathy and in love for our hapless brethren so that we may assume responsibility for their befallen fate and take effective action to wipe out their tears and bring a smile on their faces.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : The glorious children of the Master who dared destitution to immerse themselves in the mass of humanity and deliver them unto freedom.
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