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In 1947 we were only 33 crores today we are 120 crores or 25 crores four times
over in 70 years is irresponsible reproduction once there is such a load
people will keep their humanity in the attic and go about brutally the child
who comes and knocks on your traffic space
in 1997 Satoru I was in NDTV there was a story which came out a reporter called
somewhat Mahapatra called me and he said that there is a story I want to go and
report and we needed approval from the headquarters to send the reporter down
some put went there and he said there's a village where people are dying we sent
him there when he went there he said that there was an entire village which
which was dying and the reason for that was horrifying
there was complete starvation in that village there was a drought there was no
health facilities there was not a grain of rice so the people of this area which
is the kbk Callaghan B belong Kira Cora put a belt in Orissa started taking the
seeds of mangoes putting it into muddy water and making a soup of it that
because it was so hot started becoming rotten and so it was a rotten mango
gruel that was prepared and because they were so hungry and no mother can see her
child staff they were poisoning themselves to death because they were so
hungry they had to eat something in my life I remember at that time as a
reporter I stood outside gate number one of parliament I was so angry and I
confronted the then food minister who said to me that is buried Ishmael
Beasties look Margit a Ibaka patent Granada and I was shocked and horrified
circle till this date I feel and people say to me why do you scream so much I
say because in this country you don't yell you don't scream nobody gives a
damn I still do believe that in this country we believe in that child I
attitude because we think everything's ok with us why should we care about the
rest of the world we are growing but the chasm in our country is also growing
between the rich and the poor between the haves and the have-nots between
those who have everything and those who don't have any shelter and yet we feel
happy enough to cut ourselves off from it is it true
we spend a large amount of our time cutting ourselves up from our own
country is this not one of the greatest problems of India today that we the
privileged sections of India have cut ourselves off from the rest of India and
is there a solution for it so the question is not about the disconnect
between the well-to-do and not so well to do or the improvised regions of our
nation we are we have not invested enough in the fundamental nature of our
humanity we become many things other than being human if you sit here as just
a human being it would be very natural for you that your heart beats for
everything around you but now you become so many things starting from gender
language culture religion race ethnicity in many ways we have identified
ourselves because of these identities these all these identities give you a
certain sense that you can undermine your humanity you cannot undermine your
humanity if you did not have these identities or if you did not give it too
much priority you all of us have those identities at a certain level cultural
identities are their language identities are there but they are not fundamental
to us our fundamental nature is that we're life if you set here as life you
would reverberate with every life nobody had to tell you you would be that way
but that is not happened that is because we are a moral country we've never had
codes of morality in this nation we have always managed populations because in
every generation they were enlightened beings
hundreds of them and so we managed human consciousness in a certain way by making
people conscious we managed situations in a beautiful way
wherever those people did not come or not enough were there there anarchie
happen chaos happened because we have never had a set of morality because
morality makes you act but doesn't transform you for example
I'm sorry I'm not commenting on the theme of the club for example the word
service leaving the theme of this see it's like this if you let's say there is
a child start out on the street if you pick up the child and feed this child
and take care of this child you think it is service but if you pick up your own
child and do that you don't think it is service
what is the difference I'm asking for one your heart is beating for the other
it is not so the barrenness of heart is the basis of all this we are always
trying to do good you don't have to do goo any good you just have to become a
full-fledged human being a full-fledged human being means and natural conscious
responds to everything and what best you could do you could do and that's all a
man can do that you are at your best always to everybody and everything are
you doing the greatest maybe not but I am doing my best if every human being
does their best in every sphere of life with every life that they come in touch
with something will happen but above all this is a more large-scale problem that
there is lack of planning lot of lack of policy lack of Corrections and
irresponsible population explosion in 1947 we were only 33 crores today we are
120 crores or 25 crores four times over in 70 years is irresponsible
reproduction this is not because we have over reproduced we must understand this
in 1947 the average life expectancy of an Indian was only 28 years today we are
reaching somewhere 63 64 which is a great achievement we
should further push it but on an average a woman used to go into pregnancy when
she was 14 15 or 16 today we pushed it to something like 19 20 is the average
when they're getting pregnant so by the time she's 65 or 70 there are four
generations behind her or three generations behind her and one or two
generations ahead of her that means right now in many families there are
five generations living this is not good this is very brutal what I am saying I
know but at any time there is space only for three generations
your parents yourself and your children there can't be five generations living
that's what is happening right now in this country and in many of the places
especially in this country five generations are living so there is no
space once there is such a load people will keep their humanity in the Attic
and go about brutally the child who comes and knocks on your traffic space I
would cry at one time now I'm trying to look down because every time I don't
have money to pull out most of the time I don't have I have to ask the driver
who's driving please give me some money so I try to look down so you're trying
to put down your humanity for some time but it would be natural for me to pull
out whatever I have and give it to him but now you can't do it because it is
everywhere it's too much of a problem for you to address individually wherever
you can do whatever you can do you do but you're not able to address
everything slowly you try to insulate your humanity this is what is happening
it is not that people have become brutal it's not the people have becoming
inhuman because the problem is so pervasive
you're not able to address it as hate increased after Trump has hate increased
after Trump it is not increased it is just that it's little emboldened it's
not increased I spend substantial time in
it states in and out it was always there now it is finding expression but I think
that's a temporary upset I think it'll control itself law law enforcement will
take charge after some time they'll pick up a few people I am that but hate
crimes have been happening all the time in America
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