MEMO FROM NARA...

Well-to-do people tell us to dress well, eat well and enjoy well. They way to live and the way to behave are being taught to us by them. But unfortunately such people are not many in the country. The world they live in is very different from the one many others live. The disparity between these people and the common people is very much. The gap is not closing up by any means. The attitude and general behavior of the well-to-dos are highly sophisticated. They look for quality life. They spend lot of money to achieve such quality. They follow a particular style to suit their convenience. In general, they do not respect the poor. They invariably expect that the poor to do service to them. I know some of these kind of people who least care for others. Most of them are good, but highly selfish. Kindness, generosity, and politeness are the characters we rarely find in some of these people. Everything they do will be significantly different from others do. Thus they stand aloof, creating a world of their own. A welfare state should have well-to-do people, but a country like India cannot have such a luxury because of the billions plus people of all kinds – below poverty, above poverty and mid-level poverty population – can not be homogenized to bring a welfare state. However, the democratic policy of each country is trying its best to bring some kind of uniformity and economic stability creating facilities to train and employ the ever enhancing population number. Health care, education, skill development, food security, infrastructure facilities and opportunities for employment are some of the welfare measures to the grass root level are very slow. Moreover, reaching these measures to the voiceless lot who live in remote regions of the country is one of the difficult tasks. The officials responsible to implement such measures are mostly corrupt. The harassment they cause to the illiterate and poor people are countless. Under such conditions who will be able to establish a welfare state in this world? I do not know. What about you? Do you have a solution? However, day by day people are getting benefited one way or other. Opportunities are plenty. Only thing is the initiative one has to take for making use of these golden opportunities instead of crying always that the government is not doing enough to the people. Slow and steady win the race! We can’t live like the people in America. But we can certainly live comfortably in our own country like most of the well-to-do people.