Should the global New Year Resolution focus on finding the ‘real culprits’ of the Wuhan virus ? Should not the human race ponder why ‘terrorism’ wins, kills and thrives; and then expects the world to be paying the ‘price’ also so as to save a so-called humanitarian crisis?
It’s symptomatic of the human mind that a human being thinks generally in first person or at best in terms of his family – kids, a wife, and sometimes girl friends and boy friends when it comes to occasions like New Year Resolutions.
Surveys not surprisingly reveal that over 42 per cent of those questioned say they want to stay healthy and lose weight in the new year 2022.
The weight related ‘resolve’ will not change perhaps in the next few years. Perhaps the same ‘weight factor’ ruled the roost even a decade back when being slim had already become the fashion statement.
Young girl children especially gave up drinking milk, and this had resulted in anemia in a number of advanced states in India including Gujarat.
The same crowd did little to discourage Pizza or other such fast-food items.
Delhi is famous for calorie intakes. Some of the influence comes from dishes like ‘butter chicken’ or ‘butter paneer’ and some from Haryanvi influence – ‘Chhore ne doodh peela bhai (Give the boy a few glasses of milk)’.
But New Year is a time for new beginnings and so a time to relax, introspect and hence time to shed the bitterness of the year gone by. These are easier said than done.
Politics in India like life and the media’s fascination for Left-liberal inspired ‘sickularism’ follow a predictable script.
The 2021 was the worst of its kind.
Narendra Modi was the favourite punching bag of this lot, and just as the year drew close to an end they discovered ‘farmers’ stir’ Hungama has melted in the heat wave of Indian politics.
The fact of life is no ‘hate wave’ can survive beyond a point — and hence the good old lobbyists are back in games.
One funny demand is Sainthoood for a Christian ‘social activist’ whom the law and order enforcing agencies kept behind bars for some anti-national involvement.
The bail is no judgement. And to die in custodial death does not wash off the ‘sins’ if one has committed.
There are several such episodes both in our country and overseas.
At the global stage, the world finds itself unable to resolve most of its pressing problems – terrorism to Wuhan virus.
RSS leader Indresh Kumar says – “Look at the audacity, China has even not offered an apology saying perhaps some mistakes led to the creation of Corona virus”.
Should the global New Year Resolution not focus on finding the ‘real culprits’ of Covid19 or Wuhan virus ?
New Year Resolution in India should also focus on getting at the roots of those who conspired to discover a phrase called ‘Hindu Terror’.
Malegaon blast case probe and court proceedings show the entire narrative was forced to change following a high-level conspiracy. Who’ll now bell the cat ?
The country has several challenges but the country is hardly united in a singular purpose to resolve them.
The hitherto ‘assured’ lot in this country are today nervous as things are slipping out of their grip.
This writer is a resident of Mayur Vihar area of East Delhi. I know a number of young boys and girls from the ‘poorer segments’ and deprived castes and communities are now coming up the ladder.
Fish-wallah’s children are becoming engineers and doctors. Vegetable vendors’ sons are ambitious to join the medical course and a few housemaids’ sons and daughters are pursuing education in all seriousness, throwing challenges to their counterparts in so-called established and well-maintained societies.
One housemaid in the locality once handed over her ‘monthly earning’ to a housewife in East Delhi saying they needed to be kept ‘safe’ as her alcoholic husband would otherwise finish this up.
Now that scenario is changing and most public sector banks handle a huge rush of these segments of customers and their Jan Dhan accounts in the first week of every month.
India is changing and this is ‘New India’. You do not need a special day for adopting ‘Resolution’.
You have to focus on delivery. This is what PM Narendra Modi has pledged in his New Year tweet on Jan 1, 2022.
“May we keep scaling new heights of progress and prosperity, and work even harder….”
