HKN : discover your destiny

A tribute to the Mahatma may not always be on lavishing infinite praise on him or drawing parallels in history that relegate him to levels of surreality and even, disbelief.

I have come across many who scorn @ Bapu –  staunch believers of an incredible loss, deceit and conspiracy that scripted our country’s birth and plague it even today. I have spent many a lunches, dinners and uncomfortable walks debating their line of thought, without much success. Their conviction is as strong as my belief and it’s hard to find a winner.

But now I debate no more. Because its not as important as to believe in the goodness of Bapu as it is to believe in the veracity of things he stood for. As long as we continue to build a world on non violence, truth, love and human dignity, there can be no greater tribute, no truer talisman.

So give this a thought -

• close to 80% of the world today lives in countries that are ‘third world’
• death due to poverty and hunger every year is many a times more than accidents, terrorism, catastrophes, world wars and all of them put together
• diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and small pox have been eradicated from the developed world but continue to rampantly kill in Asia and Africa
• over 100 billion pounds of food is wasted in America alone every year. This would be sufficient to feed close to 700 million hungry people across the world
• the top 10 corporate tax payers in India paid close to Rs 35000 crores in 2007-08. It takes a person to earn Rs 25000 per year to be above the poverty line. Put this together, the taxes from the top 10 corporates could have brought 1.4 cr Indian families above the poverty line.

Every where we look, there is so much that needs to be done. So much of change we all wish to see. But will we ever move a muscle to create a change? When will we shun our arm chairs, look beyond ourselves and bring about a change? What have we done to make this world a better place?

Put starkly,  do we have the balls ‘to be the change we wish to see‘

One man did. He needs no intro and no ode.