GUILT OF THE CONSCIENCE

Once Mother Theresa brought an old man who was left in a garbage bin along with dogs and rats. He was almost dead, haven't eaten for days and half his body was decaying. The foul smell from his decaying body made it difficult for anybody to even help him. YET, Mother brought this man to her home, nursed his wounds, fed him and bathed him. After two months of care this man was able to sit, eat, walk, talk etc. That night there was a loud bang on the convent's door. When Mother opened the door...there stood 5 to 10 people with knives, daggers, sticks, rods, cycle chain etc. One of them shouted "You wretched lady, give back our brother".  Mother politely asked "Who are you talking about?". Then their leader shouted again " You wretched creature, we are talking about our brother Ram Prasad, you picked him from a street. We need him back because you are trying to convert him to a christian". 

This is the kind of Hindutva people we have in India EVEN TODAY. Will anybody try to solve these kind of problems(caring for homeless etc) EVEN if they interested in it?? A BIG NO.

To explain what I said:

a). Ours is a caste based society which is a product of Hindutva but in reality it is also a money based society. So, if some person loose their battle in life then the chances of they getting pushed to the street is very high. That means their children too are pushed to the street. There aren't many organizations who can interfere.

b). There are plenty of non hindu NGOs working in this field especially christian missionaries. Number of such genuine NGOs are getting reduced because of violence against them by Hindutva people.

c). There seems to be some kind of business going on using these children,like begging, rag picking etc etc. So, they will not allow these kids to get out of this

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According to me the true state of a society is reflected by what the majority of the people in that society follow. The majority in India are the Hindus and this is what they want.

This is my personal view - My view is that the root cause of this problem is (I don't care whether people agree with me), ....based on my observation, my view is that this problem in India is due to Hindutva.

exactly, Mr. Ramchand. but that is the very big question- "why is the problem growing by each passing day? (despite so many NGO'S, DESPITE SO MUCH OF VOLUNTARY HELP, DESPITEso many govt. schemes and social services.)"

I appreciate your valuable comment.

Good one. Yes, Muralidharan is right "....but the number is only increasing day by day.  Without the State support, we have no solution....". If we want then we can do a bit but that is like adding a molecular drop in an ocean. There are plenty of people and NGOs working on this and yet this problem just gets bigger and bigger.

Yes Mr. Muralidharan, I agree with you. And, specifically i like the first sentence of your input because it portrays THE HYPOCRISY of our times.

Thanks for your valuable comment.

Seeing this apathy, a film maker came from abroad, portrayed them as they were, made millions of dollars and Oscars.  More often than not, each one of us feel the "guilt of the conscience", as we pass them.  Many, we tried in the past to redeem them, but the number is only increasing day by day.  Without the State support, we have no solution to this continuing menace.   Thanks Mr. Haq for this mind-stirring post.