This is the article in New York Time that helped me pen this blog.
The inspiration for this blog?...my observations during my most recent trip to India.
I have been in the US for 6 years now and this is my 6th trip to India. Never ever have I been so conscious of the disparity in India now. I don't know why. Whatever the reason, this disparity saddens me to the core.
It is just like the author Anand Giridharadas says, "India may be changing at a disorienting pace, but one thing remains stubbornly the same: a tendency to treat the hired help like chattel, to behave as though some humans were born to serve and others to be served. "
That is so true...where is the dignity of labor? Why do we treat hired help as if they were born to serve? I can't help but compare India to the US (which is the only other country I have lived in), where everyone is treated with a certain amount of respect. When will people in India realize that in a society, especially in Indian society, where so much of work is done by hired help, it is very very important to have treat people with a certain respect because they are doing their job whatever it might be.
Now I don't mean to say every single person in India is guilty of this. But a majority of the Indian population is guilty and it is not because they don't know that their behaviour is wrong. But it is because that is what they are used to and they can get away with it.
And the sadness I see in the eyes of the ill treated people...I can never ever forget it. Like I said in one my previous posts, it feels like people are just surviving. They are not living life. I know many will not agree with me. But unless I see it for myself that they are living life, I cannot accept it.
