i am still a little clueless abt what to write...what is development??, how is it different from progress and growth??what is it that we want want to do??....these were some of the questions that were raised in class ...n obviously we got some very interesting answers...
u knw ..we always talk(includes me as well) abt development, bringing change, n even quote famous people and give other people's examples...and when nothing changes we blame it on the government and a million other people..!!
its a fact that no matter how much we talk abt growth in the national income..and we say that our country is 'developing' when almost half of our population lives below the poverty line...and is denied basic human rights...i feel..a country cannot develop unless the mind set of the people changes.
we say the political leaders are corrupt...and there is not enough money to fun all the schemes..but what i think is that governments will only change when the people themselves, one by one, decide to honor the rights of everyone around them. one of the first steps towards bringing that change can be by appreciating individuality in others. i just read these lines by Dr. Daisaku Ikeda that i wud like to quote here: " unless we build a society that regards human beings not as means to a goal but as goal itself, we will remain forever deadlocked in inequality, unhappiness and violence. "
but i guess as abhay sir rightly said...it all depends on the choices we make...what we plan to do..!!
i'll jus leave it at that for now...m sorry that m posting so late but a lot of things happened so couldn't finish on time. but yea the next one wont be so preachy...lolzz..!!
