Enable to Ennoble

The International Transparency Perception Index brings to our notice that more than 50% of the people had firsthand experience of paying bribe or peddling influence to get a job done in a public office. The Washington Post reported that nearly a fourth of the 540 Indian Parliament members faced criminal charges, "including human trafficking, rape, embezzlement and even murder”. Prurient men masturbate in the presence of young girls. We just don't itch from our seats if a senior denizen needs rest, we let the taps running and the banana peels on the road. Be it in the corporate circle, among politicians or the stupid common man, sordidness prevails.

Most of the people who are involved in these acts are literates then what happens to our salubrious mind. What happens to our sound intellect? Students compete with such toil for their entrance exams be it for engineering, medical, management or the civil services, put in so much of effort during the years of pedagogy. I would like to oppugn here because the reality flummoxes me, as at the end they join the same league. Maybe our moral science lessons where much fruitful and imbibing in the junior classes which told us the importance of truth, generosity and tolerance. When our parents put in so much effort through those bed time stories just to make it clear that how good it was to be good. ‘Character’, yes they were all trying to build our character.

Gandhiji himself believed that literary education is of no value if it is not able to build a sound character.

Why do we need Anti-Corruption Bureau and various other disciplinary committees? We can work better with human acts rather than multitudinous legislative acts.Chalres Darwin did talk of survival of the fittest but was he really talking in respect to the blasphemous acts which we get involved in against the humanity just for the sake our otiose egos.

Let’s just go deep inside just to check what is it that makes us blind? If you get an answer do join hands in the Character Literacy to make an inviolable and ennobling Nation.