Being Better Citizens

This is something very close to my heart.

How can we Indians restore and build  up a fractured society and leave behind an endearing legacy for our future generations.

Yes we have a corrupt government but so do most countries around the world. Yet in most countries there is a sense of belonging to the place where one resides. Unfortunately this is not the case in India.

We strive to keep our kitchens and living room clean but would not blink an eye lid if our child throws garbage on the streets. At the same time complaining how dirty the streets are.

Community groups in most countries would gang up to clean neighborhood  parks,water bodies  and plant trees. They would sacrifice their weekends to restore old structure, paint the local library or clean up the already clean streets.In India Community groups (apartment society groups) are more inclined to get busy during festival dates to create noise pollution and go about ringing doorbells asking for donations.Why not also ask people to work together to clean up the local park and collect fund to renovate the Government school library next door?

I have nothing against enjoying festivities but the same time and money can used for the betterment of our society the fruits of which we all will savor in the future.

In the UK there is a concept of community gardening,local government provide plots to citizens to allow them to grow their own vegetable,flowers and fruits on government land.If we so want to ape the west why not we have our own version of a community garden within apartment complex’s most of us reside in?

We talk about racism being a western phenomenon yet we Indians blatantly abuse a North Indian residing in South India. Although I admit this is mostly in the case of autorickshaw drivers who are the scum of society ,a necessary evil so to speak.

There are many more things that we as Indians should be doing to protect our fragile society all ready under attack by politicians, bureacrats, corrupt police.But lets make a start on the issues which I have written about as above.

We owe this much to our great country and our future generation!