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Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India:

YOU say that our Government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.
YOU say that the System is corrupt. In such a dealing, Someone Gives, the Other Takes, both are to equally blame.

YOU say, say and say.

What is Your Role? And what do YOU do about it?

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Monday, August 10, 2009

‘The Idea of Injustice’

(This Posting has been inspired by an Article, ‘Fueled by Injustice’, in The Economic Times today, ET NOW) .

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen in his book, ‘The Idea of Justice’ which took him 25 years to write, explains Natural Justice. He says ‘Our First Sentiment is One of Injustice Rather than Justice’ as a Natural Sense. He could have named his book ‘The Idea of Injustice’ as well. Knowing what Injustice means, we can then easily move to Justice. It is when we know our ‘weaknesses’, only then we can move to eradicate them and make them our ‘strengths’.

Philosophically speaking, all living beings thrive on ‘The Idea of Injustice’ right from the Womb to Tomb. They develop expertise to live on others, or by marginalizing others in whatever manner. Their energies are directed to unleash their ‘destructive power’, whereas they should be applying it to generate their ‘constructive power’. ‘That makes You What You Are in the Real Sense; physically, mentally, emotionally & spiritually’.

Looking after the less endowed, bothering for concerns of the others, creating ‘right vibes’ in the System, seeing things dispassionately, mitigating ‘self-interest’ to an extent, with a view to optimize delivery to the System are some of the attributes we need to cultivate. It is only then that we are a useful member of the Social System. Mind You, all this pays You directly.

Amartya Sen views that ‘all our policies relate to injustice because none of our policies, even ones like the Employment Guarantee Scheme, will make the world perfectly just, it will only make the world a little unjust’.

We have our Role cut, Friends!

Sukhwindar

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