Modi seriously lacks certain essential humane qualities as a leader. He has no concept of empathy.
Mamata's chief secretary (Alapan) is working tirelessly since the cyclone. He lost his brother Anjan on 16th of this month, took just one day off.
Now Modi wants him back in Delhi by 1st of June!!
He just can't accept defeat gracefully..he actually met Alapan personally but didn't tell him directly..what kind of a person does that!!??
I've never worked / came across so close to bureaucrats/ mantris etc. Most of them behave like normal people, many are very polite and humble at least in Zoom meetings. I specially like Alapan da, as he's very intelligent ( took less than a minute to make him understand vaccination options with inadequate supply) hardworking, brutally honest and doesn't talk much.
Loosing a brother ( or any family member) is not easy specially when you are under massive workload. If a PM of a country doesn't understand / care for such simple human emotions, what does a common man can expect from him?
He's trying to create a hybrid image of Tagore, Swami Vivekananda....without even going through their works. Empathy was the greatest quality in them. May be he had a traumatic childhood..how can a person be so blunt and twisted at the same time!!??
As ex student of Narendrapur Ramkrishna Mission I was introduced to Swamiji very early in life and later read his works ( all the volumes) multiple times...a simple line of his (jokhon jonmechish ekta dag rekhe ja...meaning as you're born, leave a mark) woke me up at the age of 34 from a life of safety and comfort to something borderline dangerous but meaningful.
Don't understand how Modi is influencing so many people even now...how can a Hindu with average IQ feels unsafe against Muslim invasion in India!!??
Even if a chimpanzee becomes PM tomorrow, life just can't get any worse for a common man in India.
This is the lowest of low, believe it or not, I've spent significant time in some of the worst countries in Africa. Life of a common man in eastern India is no worse.
Everyone is trying to con other just to survive.
A fruit vendor is selling us mangoes everyday at 5-6 times the price. But he's just trying to survive. That guy came upstairs to deliver, asked him...he has 3 kids, wife and mother at home. Used to earn 12-15k INR every month in 2019.
Now if lucky he makes half of that. The kids used to go to school ( twin daughters in 8th standard, the son in class 3)...since he has only one smart phone, only the boy can attend online classes. Since local train service has stopped, he with his 3-4 friends is coming to kolkata from Lakshmikantpur in some kind of a small truck ( 2500 INR everyday, which may increase further due to rise in fuel price)
What this guy can do? He's conning us just to survive...let the words sink in...conning only to SURVIVE, only to FEED the family. In my book it's no crime.
I've given him my Xiaomi phone, so that the daughters can attend classes. The man is not a thief, he will return it to my friends who will be staying back for at least 2 more months.
Can it get any worse than this...you tell me!
There are millions of Manoj like this. You expect these people to use a stupid app to apply for vaccination!!
We don't have to be leftist/rightist/ hindu/ muslim/ Christian etc.to understand the issues here and if every slightly more privileged individual helps 2-5 persons around them as duty ( not out of sympathy, but duty as a decent human) things will improve. As government won't do anything.
As tech enthusiastic people, most of us here have more than one computer, smartphone, ipads that we don't use.
Please try to find out people around you, who's kids are not being able to attend online classes, give those old phones, laptops etc.to them.
If you can't that's fine too, try to find these needy people ( domestic help, vegetable vendors, small shop owners) and hook them up with someone who can.
Atleast give it a try...let us try to use the huge population of India as the biggest asset...trust me, it's possible and not very difficult.
The number doesn't matter. Even if we manage to help just 10 needy students with their clases, we have tried.
I was one of them, if this thing happened 20 years ago, I'm sure my father would have a hard time arranging 3 devices for me and my sisters.
