Tuesday 17 January 2012

FEELINGS FOR YOUR CITIZENS

        "IS THIS YOUR FEELINGS FOR YOUR CITIZENS??"


   "India has always been a poor country!!"    A foreign couple standing beside a beggar was heard stating thus.The shivering beggar's eye glimmered with hope of getting a hansom buck from the couple. How ever, she was unexpectedly being wrapped up in an expensive shawl that the foreign woman wore on herself- and they left! 
             Passers-by stood staring at the beggar!-sorry-the shawl! Some one came and touched the shawl to detect its quality to the beggar's hopeful eyes of getting a buck! "Wow! They gave away a shawl? They are so rich!", comments passed. No one took notice of the homeless, starving, disabled pauper looked down upon by the society.They went on with their own business the rest of the day....
The poverty stricken face which failed to attract human sympathy
               His poverty stricken face never attracted the human sympathy ever, rather the shawl draped around him by the generous 'NOT INDIAN' couple gathered attention. The generous couple were praised to their shame, though that was beyond their realization. It never dawned on anyone that the mendicant was residing in 'their' country, under 'their' vision, wanting a little bit of help from 'them' so that he can also be called a fellow same as 'them', instead he is being looked down upon as an outcast under 'their' mercy! It never appeared to anyone that we are all humans and that the pauper has a body to survive as a human being. 

'Indians! Is this what you feel for your fellow citizens??'

1 comment:

  1. Good you have nose for news..you are a news maker,may the people come out their cocoons and help those in need instead of looking down upon those we should help as in the case of the beggar,this reminds me of the story in the Holy Bible of the Good Samaritan.

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