EQUATING THE UNEQUALS

EQUALITY- the noble cause for which revolutions have been taking place all through time and space and for reasons as grave as nation's respect , chauvinism- has been grossly understood and severely misused by most of us.
We the educated class have been so much brooded over by this concept that we cry foul whenever we "perceive" any inequality . That's good because a society that does not have the courage to speak out is already dead. But what we do next? We without a single moment of rethought go ahead and patch up this inequality and then again lull ourselves to the illusion of a perfectly equal world. My dear folks,what are you doing.In mathematical terms you have two different functions sinx and 2. Suddenly you realise that they are not equal and you simply equate them!!!
What we -the educated class- see today is what we are told by the media . Now what the media sees- media sees it all bare and naked but views it with its own pair of glasses. To the media a Christian missionary being beaten up is big piece of news but the burning of Shri Guru Granth Sahib is not enough to come on front page. The media sees tribals protesting against forced expulsion from their lands as a case of "insufficient rehabilitation package " only. They dont see that money comes here later. First the annulment of emotional and cultural bonds tied to them matters.

But why are media men to be blamed. Who are they and where are they from. They come from the same "educated " class where paisa is badkar baap, where emotions are left to Ekta Kapoor's serials and moral ethics to their chunnu's moral science exam only.

What would this society understand ? Exactly the opposite of what a really educated person would. Sadly this society happens to be the movers and shakers of the system. They make the law , make us follow it , report its " disobedience " and punish us .And now they do "sting operations" on us.

Now an example to make it clear. Do you remember who was voted the youth icon by the mtv viewers? It was ANIL AMBANI. Not because they knew him personally , his vision , his actions or anything about him but because they had seen media going gaga over his company's quarterly profits and his run in marathon. The media on its part never tried to understand the cause of the exorbitant profits - was it sheer business acumen or rather political arm twisting. We are a poor nation . Poor of ethics and poor of money. Yet we celebrate the rise of Ambanis to the elite class of world's richest. We say, India has arrived. Indian middle class celebrates it and takes another "sleeping" pill . What we dont want to see is the thousands of poor people whos occupation has been taken over by him- be it landless farmers, tribals, the middle men in food retailing and those dependent on them. We label them as selfish men hindering the nation's progress by their own squabble for money.

One more visible example is our preference for English . We may have reasonable right to demand use of English as it is a global language. But spare a thought for the poor child living in slums . Is it all too necessary for him to write his exams in English when he can perfectly express himself in his mother tongue. Take this as asking your child to give all his papers in Russian. But a strange law by the maharashtra govt says exactly the same. All teaching after 10th in English in Mumbai.
Why the hell? His parents dont speak English, his society doesnt , why then force him? They say but this is not good for him . Knowing English would help him rise up. But is this the only way to make him learn ? Is force the only solution ? Think it over and i am sure any one can find better methods.

The trouble in short comes when we try to equate our thinking with that of others and think that our ideology fits for all. Why do we have trouble in letting two people think and act differently ? Why we think every person who does not walk our road as an infidel ? Why we equate the unequals?