Tag: society
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From FOMO (Fear of missing out) to COSO (Courage of standing out)
FOMO i.e. Fear of missing out, is not a new phenomenon in the history of human civilization. It was present in earlier times as well, but has become much more pronounced in today’s age of social media. The culture of “show-off” has reached exorbitant proportions in this era of consumerism, where there is a mad…
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Are you abiding the law- as a matter of convenience, obligation or duty OR not at all?
If you stand at any general traffic signal in any typical city of India (apart from the major big traffic signals), you can observe following different of behaviours with respect to compliance of traffic laws and rules: First, is the category of people, who only follow traffic rules when there is traffic police to monitor…
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A “reactive” society waiting for disasters to happen!
Take a few man-made disaster incidents: A 50-year old building collapsed in a city resulting into deaths of children A fire incident in a hotel, with no emergency exits, resulting into deaths A bridge collapsed suddenly due to poor build quality or improper maintenance Roads turned into ponds during monsoons causing inconvenience to all These…
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Is language the correct and only marker of one’s intelligence and wisdom?
Once we were a group of probationers having a good time in the swimming pool in Jamshedpur GT Hostel 1. We were from engineering side (B.Tech. graduates) and there were a few others who were from commercial side (MBA grads). There was one MBA chap who was flaunting his English skills even inside the pool,…
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Expecting solution to common person’s problems from the elites- are you living in a fool’s errand?
The world as we see it is not the same for different classes of people. Every class of people, on the basis of income levels, level of education, access to money, resources and opportunity, and proximity of power, has different problems facing them. Although, the basic problems plaguing a particular society, of which every class…
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Everything in the name of honour- even death?
A historical perspective of Johar If you haven’t been totally cut-off from the history of India, then you must have heard about the practice of “Johar” or “जौहर प्रथा” practiced in the medieval times by women of some communities, particularly in the Mewar region (now a part of Rajasthan). It was a practice of self-immolation…
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The missing “safety culture” in our society- Who is to blame?
The recent tragic cruise capsizing incident in Bargi dam, Jabalpur, again raises some very pertinent questions about the safety culture in our society. We cannot control the vagaries of the nature like storms, cyclones etc., but certainly we can be better prepared to face such incidents in case they happen. In this particular incident, from…
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When will there be an end to political untouchability among large masses?
When I was in college, one day I was discussing with my good friend about the future career prospects. The moment I told him that I wanted to join Civil Services, he snapped at me saying that he could never work under the uneducated and dumb politicians, so Civil Services is out of the question…
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The downsides of worshipping hero as God!
In the recent past, I saw some videos which provoked me to think about the prevalent culture of hero worship in India and also abroad. First one was of a lady in the United Kingdom who was asked by a reporter that “आपने मोदी जी को देखा (Did you see Modi ji)?”. She got emotional…
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What is true freedom- chaos or orderliness?
When the universe started expanding after the big bang explosion about 13.8 billion years ago, expectedly there should have been an utter chaos! A small super-high density mass at one place exploded into smaller fragments (similar to a bomb explosion), yet there was a beauty in this chaos. It was not any usual explosion- it…
