Not all the Glitter is Gold ---2 For a country with population as big as 1.2 billion Although my heart sinks to say this, but our past, present and a sure state of a bleak future is not a day dream, it is a reality. Technology bringing down the poverty certainly is a MYTH. India became the first Asian nation to reach Mars, and the first in the world t do so on its first attempt. India couldn’t have celebrated much and then a comic depicts a poor Indian farmer in traditional garb, accompanied by a bored-looking cow, eagerly knocking on the door of Elite Space Club flashed in NewYork Times, and created enough huff in the nation to make it to many News paper’s headlines. The elite people or more correctly the aware nation through Facebook registered their commotion, enough for the editor in chief to publish an apology. Leave behind the editor or the cartoonist’s attention seeking stint but if we try to understand and make our own logic it certainly bring lot many things into day light and the foremost point is before such missions isn’t it our first moral responsibility to devise plans using technological consciousness to remove rooted problems such as illiteracy, poverty, medical facilities for poor and many. Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi surly was the happiest person and at one time compared its success with the countries heart throb sport Cricket. Mars Mission, and several space related researches obviously will take country’s name to new heights but it is only the name not its people. The more technical uplift nation is registering the more the majority of its subjects, average, below average and poor people are moving altogether on a different tangent. These innovations and missions doesn’t bring mouthful of rice on their platter, leave behind education and other basic amenities. On another connotation it seems technology is paving the path of the terrorist for all its anti social and anti human activities. 95 percent teaching aspirants in the country have flunked the all-India Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) meant to assess their knowledge and instruction abilities. Imagine that. The country collectively cant prepare the aspiring teachers, but has millions to spend on the Mars project. Ever since I have started understanding history and the country’s fate, one question has always got lucky to escape unanswered and that is how to eradicate poverty. Technology in its all colourful feathers kept on creating gadgets and producing them in mass giving wings to our imagination and so called creativity. But could it produce enough food for all the children living under the malnutrition stage in most of the Asian countries. Could A chief minister’s distributing laptops after the election gave birth to employment. No question on technical advancements in science and inventions. But how far our agriculture has been benefited, I am quite sure people have otherwise opinion about it. The rag pickers in small cities, the ever increasing number of kids in non kids suitable work environment, the crime rate and the Admin’s weakness of not being able to stop it even with the latest technical advancements seems paralyzed. Technology certainly has proved its faithfulness to riches but what about the other side of the coin, I won’t be surprised if one day I witness mobiles and SIM cards are being sold in kilos but I will surely be the happiest person when I will see the technological boom brings a smile of contentment on a child’s face because she ate well and is happy to acknowledge, from the next day she will attend school, her father will come to home every day with a smile and he now would spend some quality time with her. For me technology is not a solar rechargeable , 1800 terabyte capable of producing touch output to handle. For me chips is a better option which can feed empty stomachs and brings smile capable of producing a glow enough to lighten up your day.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 02:15:05 +0000
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