Update: Another such incident in Calcutta, another woman injured and another death due to our apathy. Read.
A recent article in Times of India, highlights our society's apathy towards the pain and suffering around them. The print version of Times has a more graphic picture attached below, which begs to ask how can we stomach so much of pain and not react to it.
A recent article in Times of India, highlights our society's apathy towards the pain and suffering around them. The print version of Times has a more graphic picture attached below, which begs to ask how can we stomach so much of pain and not react to it.
The picture does show some youngsters who just walk past the lady who is lying down begging for water. Why does the younger generation ignore death throes and requests for water and then go and comfortably guzzle down their coke and frappes in their "cool" coffee shops?
I am not discounting older generations or their apathy, they are sometimes far worse, their thought process still rooted in ideologies of an outdated society. The younger generation with their education and facilities, abundant resources to understand and interact with world at large with internet, television and cellphones and supposedly modern outlook, why are they having so much of disconnect with the pain and need around them?
These youngsters are going to make babies in the future and bring up the next generation of citizens, will this apathy be magnified? Is this apathy in the younger generation an early warning signal of something worse that is yet to come?
I am not discounting older generations or their apathy, they are sometimes far worse, their thought process still rooted in ideologies of an outdated society. The younger generation with their education and facilities, abundant resources to understand and interact with world at large with internet, television and cellphones and supposedly modern outlook, why are they having so much of disconnect with the pain and need around them?
These youngsters are going to make babies in the future and bring up the next generation of citizens, will this apathy be magnified? Is this apathy in the younger generation an early warning signal of something worse that is yet to come?
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