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Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2015

Poverty alleviation requires a multi-pronged strategy

Poverty alleviation requires NGOs yes Nonchalant/ Natural ways of Generous Offering from our purse, our hearts, our minds, our societies etc not necessarily to be operated only  through funded operations- even the ones without ulterior motives- which mostly resort to  short term remedies in all situations.


Also let us remember that Peace and Harmony are defined indirectly by wanting too much of same Identity in everyone and everywhere and want of  Tolerance

1.     I think basically the issue of poverty involves lot of things which on the whole is a bit complex in structure and therefore more complicated to find any quick fix or universal or homogenized solution.

2.     It is also an issue on which no one can afford to be indifferent even for their own selfish reasons because the presence and absence of poverty obviously manifests through pleasantness or problems for life.

3.     Mere preaching and pep talks may not alleviate poverty but can at least motivate many to work towards alleviating poverty.

4.     Sensationalizing it or subduing it with catchy slogans has not and is not going to offer solutions.

5.     Starting from lack of material resources to uncontrolled population to manipulative politics -which itself involves multiple factors -need to be taken into consideration along with dealing with lobbies which try to make a living out of or make a business out of poverty and who prioritize projecting and subtly perpetuating poverty for their own survival or identity.

6.     Any proposal/project/plan of poverty alleviation has to take into consideration the following aspects as well i.e. the situation/context and the intensity or degree of poverty.

7.     So along with compassion comprehensive action plan has to be put in place without any hidden agenda or ulterior motive, the two predominant factors of most funded ventures in the name of poverty alleviation, wherein the poverty alleviation is an incidental happening to achieve a wider or larger or ultimate goal with masked intentions.


8.     Coming to the question of compassion. How can it emerge? Why it has not even surfaced adequately after centuries of preaching by various religions and many good souls. For compassion to emerge we need, in the first place, some sort of education system and then ensure that it is embedded with humane values which are manifested in our daily lives.

9.     We need to create conducive atmosphere for peace and harmony, not a mere verbal pronouncement but as a real situation. Is it possible to have that? If not why?

10.  We must ensure to minimize the negative impact of excessive emphasis on identity orientation in everything starting from religion, culture, region, language, political ideology, economic system etc and a fanatical extension of this leads to less tolerance and lack of compassion.

11.  Poverty alleviation requires NGOs yes Nonchalant/ Natural ways of  Generous Offering from our purse, our hearts, our minds, our societies etc not necessarily to be operated only through funded operations- even the ones without ulterior motives- which mostly resort to short term remedies in all situations.

12.  Recapitulating the issues raised broadly value based education system, dealing with identity without denying it, doing away with institutions and individuals who make a business out of poverty, creating an atmosphere of peace and harmony etc and most of these are inter connected or interrelated.


14.  Identity –its whole gamut


“All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. Its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally.”
― Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.” Grace Speare.

A question of identity

Reactions

Identity and reality

Identity is the result of fixations

Identity is the result of getting struck in the steps

Nothing wrong in being proud of identities and no one needs to hypocritically deny any particular identity.

But then what is reality
New Year with a New Realization of Reality

Let us be open

Peace and Harmony are defined indirectly by wanting too much of same Identity in everyone and everywhere and want of  Tolerance



Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Poverty business is very rich

Poverty business is very rich why?
Nation’s economic problems and poverty will persist because we have many vested interest groups who gain through the status quo.
1. Those who perpetuate and promote them for political gains.
2. Those who magnify and project them for propaganda, publicity and sometimes big prizes.
3. The media also likes to show these stories to sustain the victim –villain story line because it has readymade slogans, scripts and sponsors only for such stories.
4. If anyone or any institution sensibly tries to solve problems and address seriously to eradicate poverty then media starts questioning the motives and intentions; starts unleashing stories from its undisclosed ‘reliable sources’; starts discussing with its own handpicked expert panel to ensure to sabotage any serious moves etc.
5. Because media prefers sensationalism, scandals, and sabotages over sanity and solutions to issues.
6. So in fact the poverty business is very rich.

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thesiegewithin/either-we-pass-land-bill-or-brace-for-the-fury-of-the-landless/

Saturday, April 4, 2009

POVERTY


                                                                                 POVERTY
I always sit on the same pavement,

At the city center, a permanent monument,

No matter what government,

Though I always sit there

I can never relax

With a future so lax

I look in all the directions

Of course without any direction;

With the Right I am

Rattling the coins on the plate

Battling the pains of my fate;

With the Left

Darn my dirty duddy, ruddy dress

Or toss my tomentose tress.

I have been using both Right and Left

But nothing has worked right for me ;

Nor has left me any better.

I have heard a fluent speech on poverty eradication;

Usual affluent promise ; a good concept with an in-built contraceptive;

It happens from time to time;

Time neither feels for nor heals

My democratic Right to be Left begging
At the city center

In a Timocratic world.

What hurts is not the difference in wealth
But the indifference of the wealthy.